Original Medicine 4-Part Series with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal - Saturday, January 31, 2026

Original Medicine 4-Part Series

Story Medicine: Sky Woman’s Wisdom — Embodying the Land and Its Medicine

with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal

Saturday, January 31, 2026 

10:00 - 11:30 am PST

Online via Zoom

About the Session

This session invites you to experience story as medicine, connecting ancestral teachings with your own inner landscape. Through embodied practices, the land, the story, and your body become allies in your personal growth, guiding you toward clarity and gratitude. 

About Original Medicine 4-Part Series

Original Medicine 4-Part Series is a platform for Indigenous elders, teachers, and healers from all four corners of the world to come and share their wisdom. This series seeks to illuminate the often overlooked and unheard voices of Indigenous people. These sessions offer a psycho-spiritual and cross-cultural approach that may include teachings from the Buddha-Dharma, Indigenous Wisdom, and other contemplative and earth-based traditions. We work with each Season as a teacher, featuring a different guest speaker every Season, so that we may be in an intentional practice of connecting ourselves with the natural world.

In Indigenous societies, there are long-standing practices of honoring the sacred, cultivating stillness, embracing silences, and forming a relationship to deep listening; these practices open our hearts to the mysteries of life. They are the messengers that guide us back to the wisdom of our precious hearts. Join our sessions to explore these ancient ways of being with ourselves and the earth. 

We invite you to join any of our sessions to explore the possibilities that lay within, allowing authenticity to emerge as Original Medicine. Prior participation in previous Original Medicine 4-Part Sessions or Original Medicine Yearlong Program is not required to attend.

Reciprocity Contribution

We gratefully welcome donations of any amount that feels meaningful to you. Your support is appreciated, and everyone is welcome, regardless of ability to contribute. 

Setting the Container

We request participants attend the whole program and arrive on time to respect the container of the session and our guest teacher. 

At Braided Wisdom, we strive to cultivate an online space that supports connection, presence, and collective care. While we invite participants to have their cameras on to help nurture a sense of community, we wholeheartedly honor that there are many reasons someone may choose otherwise. We encourage you to meet yourself where you are, and if any needs arise around this, you’re warmly invited to reach out to us at info@braidedwisdom.org.

About Dr. Madrigal

Renda Dionne Madrigal, Ph.D., is a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, TA/Advisor for the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Mindfulness Awareness Research Center Teacher Training Program, certified with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Stanford Certified Applied Mindfulness Compassion Educator/Consultant, Registered Drama Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.  She was featured on the cover of the February 2018 edition of Mindful Magazine and is featured as a 2022 Powerful Woman of Mindfulness (August edition). She is faculty at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles and California Indian Nations College, President of Mindful Practice Inc., and is getting her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Dr. Dionne Madrigal specializes in embodied mindfulness practices and Story Medicine. She has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist for over twenty-five years. She combines mindfulness, somatic (body-based) therapies, and story in her collaborative coaching programs. She is involved in healing theatre and has appeared in indigenous plays written by her daughters, Menil and Her Heart and Wildflower: Indigenous Spirit. In her spare time, she enjoys writing fiction featuring Indigenous female protagonists who save the world. Her book The Mindful Family Guidebook  is available through Parallax Press and Penguin Random House and was listed as a Best Book of Mindfulness 2021 by Mindful Magazine. She is currently working on her next book Story Medicine. Learn more at https://mindfulpracticeinc.com/.

Zoom Link

An email with the Zoom Link will be sent to you the day before at 1:37 pm PST, the morning of at 8:00 am PST, and five minutes prior to the program. Please search for info@braidedwisdom.org and check your spam folder if you do not see our email with the Zoom Link.

This program registration is for Original Medicine 4-Part Series: Story Medicine: Sky Woman's Wisdom — Embodying the Land and Its Medicine with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal on Saturday, January 31, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am PST.

If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.