Original Medicine 4-Part Series - Tradition & Story with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal - October 8, 2022

Tradition and Story Medicine 

This workshop will focus on my work with Traditional Story Medicine. You live in a story whether you know it or not and that story shapes your physical health and wellbeing into the future. Colonized stories are   antithetical to health. They make us sick. Traditional, land connected and origin stories has keys to liberation.  

Story Medicine is necessary in a world where people are disconnected from themselves, other people, and the larger world. We see this disconnection manifested in what the World Health Organization declares as leading health problems in the world:  Depression, anxiety, and a loneliness epidemic throughout the world.  In a world such as this, what possibly can an old story have to offer? 

The answer…Everything.  

As Native Storyteller Leslie Marmon Silko has said, “I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”  

A Story Medicine Quest is a journey that begins with tapping into ancestral and archetypal strengths so you can begin to find an orientation to yourself, important others, and the world that’s more rooted and aligned with your essential self (who you really are). As you connect with that which is essential to your being, you develop a more meaningful life and become more intentional about the story you live. 

For this workshop, we will focus on land connected stories, recognizing key archetypal energies working in our lives and how they can inform and support our journey. It is here we will meet something essential to our authentic self. 

About The Original Medicine 4-Part Series

This program is a psycho-spiritual cross-cultural mindfulness approach to the teachings that weave together Indigenous Wisdom, Mindfulness, and Earth-based practices in order to integrate seasons and the transitions between the seasons as cross-cultural mindfulness tools. In Indigenous societies, there are long-standing practices of honoring the sacred, cultivating stillness, embracing silence, being in nature, and conducting rituals to acknowledge the coming changes in the world around them and within themselves.  

Prior participation in previous OM Sessions not required.

This event registration is for the Original Medicine 4-Part Series - Autumn Season on Saturday, October 8 from 4:00 - 6:30pm (Pacific Time).

A Zoom Link will be sent on Thursday, October 6th and Saturday, October 8th prior to the event.