Traditional healing
What is traditional healing?
Based on ancestral knowledge passed down through thousands of years of living, dreaming, and engaging with the world and its natural cycles, Traditional Healing offers deep and lasting life-balance, healing and beneficial transformation. Traditional healing systems are dynamic, rising out of the knowledge, wisdom, skills, experiences, and practices of indigenous cultures who have utilized their benefits for centuries and continue to do so to this day. These systems are used throughout the world to maintain health and prevent, diagnose, and remedy physical, mental, and spiritual issues.
Traditional healing may involve rituals, prayers, petitions, counseling, plant medicines, dreams, ceremony, divination, hands-on healing, ritual cleansing, sacred songs, and other natural, earth-based interventions.
While Traditional Healing systems are diverse and composed of different practices, they each emphasize a holistic approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of a person’s body, mind, and spirit and their relationship to the living world around them. In traditional understanding, true healing is brought about by directly addressing the root causes of illness and restoring balance.
Traditional healers
Who are traditional healers?
The work of traditional healers has its origins and foundation in the mysterious ritual dialogue between human specialists and Divine.
As human beings, we need support from others in order to bring back balance and harmony when disease, misfortune, and other challenges shake up our lives. Over millennia, through intimate communion with the living world, indigenous societies developed time-honored practices to bring healing for these uniquely human concerns.
A traditional healer is someone who has been born with a natural gift for healing others, has received a calling by Spirit to the healing path, and has undergone years of apprenticeship, training, and initiation by an elder in an ancient lineage. Though they each have their own special gifts and medicines, all traditional healers work with helping spirits and other sacred healing forces to bring physical, mental, and spiritual balance to those who receive their healing.