Indigenous Medicine FAQs
What is Indigenous Medicine?
In this context Indigenous Medicine here is defined as:
the knowledge, materials, methodology, processes, skills, tools, actions, protocols, qualities and values used by the original peoples of an original land, and their descendants, to create, maintain and sustain balance in all life – within individuals; between individuals and all the living systems of the land; and between individuals, the living systems of the land and all levels of existence.
It is important to understand that every culture has their own words to represent life, to represent Divine source energy, and their different types of traditional Indigenous Medicine people. Medicine people are male, female, two-spirited and non-gender defined. Medicine itself exists on a spectrum. The many types of Medicine people reflecting the many types of medicine in all the Indigenous Medicine ways. This is very similar to the many types of therapies, complementary and allopathic medicine categories which now exist in the world.
I am a mixed blood, mixed culture ‘all-purpose’ Indigenous Medicine Person. If I lived in my Traditional cultures, I may be referred to as a Noaidi or Strega/Strie, (ancient Etruscan and Mithraic connections) . I would not name myself – my community would name me. I have sometimes been referred to as ‘bush doctor’ or ‘witch doctor’ or ‘healer’ or ‘shaman’. I refer to myself as Sandi. I use the language of Indigenous Medicine practitioner because it is, for me, at this time in human history, an honoring of my Ancestors, Elders, Ancient Ones. It is the words they have given me to use, an honoring of the lineage of Medicine people from which I descend and rise.
I do refute the title ‘shaman’ placed on me. If you would like to know more about this, read my article in the Fourth World Journal entitled: “Taking an Edgewalker’s View”, 2005.
Click here to read the article
Why ‘all-purpose’?
This means that through my lifetime I must learn all the Indigenous Medicine Ways, of the varying Traditional Medicine systems of my lineage. I am designed to serve all people (including human) – individuals (including other Medicine People), partners, families, communities, societies, global and universal realms.
The Indigenous Medicine service I offer is a synthesis of all the information from the Ancestores, Elders and Ancient Ones I have trained with – physically and spiritually. It is important to understand that Indigenous Medicine is based in universal principle, meaning it works with the laws of the structure, origin, and operation of nature, of the universe.
How do I participate in/request Indigenous Medicine Services?
Sandi’s Indigenous Medicine practices, teachings and services are woven into the very fabric of her being. She is a living example of all the teachings she walks with. Thus, there is no specific Indigenous Medicine session at this point in time. Rather, her teachings are woven into her Integrative Medicine sessions.
Sandi is also available, as needed, to assist individuals, partners, family, or communities to develop and enact personal and/or multicultural ceremony. She is also available for creating workshops specifically for community needs.
For instance, she is a regular guest lecturer in high schools where she shares Indigenous (spiralist}thought and global Indigenous viewpoint.
All of Sandi’s courses also contain global Indigenous views and universal principles in information shared.
NOTE: if you are contacting Sandi because of a spiritual illness or ‘malocchio’/’mal ojo’, proceed to booking an Integrative Medicine session ensuring you inform Sandi of the spiritual illness on your intake form.
You may reach Sandi through the contact section to request more information or assistance with spiritual illness or with personal or multicultural ritual and ceremony.
A Reminder: Indigenous medicine sessions do not provide medical diagnosis, nor do they replace medical (allopathic) treatment. They are adjunctive, or work well with/alongside other medical and therapeutic treatments.
Mentoring
This journey is for entrepreneurs, health practitioners and traditional Indigenous Medicine Practitioners. This is ‘old-style’ mentoring – operating from interconnected reality and unity. It will be a combination of discussion, sharing of teachings and actively applying teachings into your life. You will learn processes and principles you do not currently have.
Who appeals to this service:
- you are looking for traditional teachings and do not have Elders you have connected with in your area
- you are mixed blood, having some of the same lineage or trying to find a way to merge teachings from all your lineage
- you are interested in understanding processes you may have been introduced to in a ‘new age’ or western perspective, and do not fully comprehend or apply
- you are interested in being solid in your ‘intuitive’ abilities – your ability to communicate
- you are looking to upgrade your service to others
- you are starting out in the health field and just developing how you want to serve
- you are a new health practitioner and did not have ethics teachings, or teachings on how to operate a business
- you are encountering things you don’t understand in your practice
- you are looking to operate in a fully balanced way – balancing self, life demands, growth and service
- you are finding that you are drained and exhausted at the end of a day of service
- you find yourself blaming others for your exhaustion or your fatigue, or blaming others for ‘taking’ your energy
Charging Money, Personal Investment and Options
I have had some people say to me “you should not be charging for what you do”, and then share their perspective that a true medicine person should never be paid. When this occurs, I smile, and recognize where they are in their consciousness.
In the teachings I descend from and rise with, a person would never show up on a Medicine person’s ‘doorstep’ asking for help, without bringing an offer in hand to exchange for what will be received. The reason for this is, there is a knowing that balance must occur, if energy is received, energy also must be given – in a balanced manner – to sustain life.
Sometimes, even, the person making the request would be sent away with one or more things they must collect, to provide to the Medicine person, before their request would be fulfilled. There usually was also a learning occurring within the process of the action(s).
Today’s commodity of exchange is financial. If you require financial consideration, Sandi does have a co-creative payment plan she offers.