Personalized and Confidential
Individual and Group Services
Remembrance of True Identity
The educational services described below are available only via Zoom unless part of a corporate or organizational package.
Although they may prove therapeutic, they are not a form of therapy.
Be Where Your Feet Are
These Indigenous-healing groups require an 8-week commitment that focuses on teaching, exploring, and practicing mindfulness and expressive meditation, plant and stone medicine, guided visualizations and journeys, breathing exercises, biofeedback, storytelling, movement, and journaling. The activities enhance brainwave activity, heart rate variability, and neurotransmitter chemical levels to boost mood and sleep, reduce anxiety and pain, and foster cultural and community support systems. These groups are open to the public and particularly helpful for Tribal behavioral health, social service, education, and other staff members and caregivers. For more information, see The Center for Mind-Body Medicine at https://cmbm.org/
Women’s Water Circles
These medicine circles use rituals and ceremony to understand our relationship with water, encouraging us to be present in the moment through the feminine medicine of water. Seeking to understand ourselves as part of, rather than separate from nature, we may explore the snow and frozen water, swamp water, lake and river water, rainwater, well water, spring water, ocean water, and the water within ourselves as healing catalysts. Each session will include time for sharing, a ritual and processing, a breathing or mindfulness exercise, and an optional homework activity. These groups are open to the public and particularly helpful for Tribal behavioral health, social service, education, and other staff members and caregivers.
“You do not have to be a fire for every mountain blocking you. You could be water and soft river your way to freedom too” - options
Nature-based Constellation Sessions
These sessions can be individual, group, or family meetings. They include transformational education and healing processes to deepen one’s understanding of historical trauma and strengths, reestablish connections with the land, lineage, and ancestral stories, and address generational wounds. These sessions can be compelling in addressing lateral violence in the workplace. Available only as part of an individual leadership skill-building, organizational development, or a corporate retreat package. For more information, see Francesca Mason-Borings’ work at https://allmyrelationsconstellations.com/
Somatic Archaeology (c)
These educational sessions utilize an Indigenous-based (Lakota) exploration model emphasizing Earth-based healing and somatic storytelling. Sessions may include breath-work, sound healing, engagement with plant and stone relatives, energy movement, bodily communication, and ancestral connection to heal intergenerational patterns and enhance culturally specific strengths. Available only as part of an individual leadership skill-building, organizational development, or a corporate retreat package. For more information, see Dr. Ruby Gibson’s Somatic Archaeology (c) work at https://www.somaticarchaeology.com/
Indigenous Bodywork Sessions
Individual sessions incorporate a variety of traditional Cherokee methods to “read the body” and work with it through deep tissue pressure, rocking, shaking, visualization, and dialogue to establish health and vitality. With two bodywork practitioners, the use of family, support persons, and community when available, this method is strikingly effective in addressing physical and emotional pain. This method is available only as part of an individual leadership skill-building, organizational development, or a corporate retreat package.