Health & Healing

In the Wise Woman Tradition, we focus on the patient, not the problem. The more we focus on disease, even disease prevention, the less likely we are to know how to nourish health-wholeness-holiness.

Water retention, mood swings, sore breasts, and indigestion are problems experienced by many women in the week preceding menstruation. Here are a few tips from Susun Weed's best-selling book, "NEW Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way (Alternatives for Women 30-90)" to help ease these discomforts.

Read reknown herbalist Susun Weed's wise words of wisdom to prevent the flu in your family or lesson its effects. "Preventing colds and the flu can be summed up in three words: Wash your hands. The viruses that cause colds and the flu most readily enter our bodies by means of our hands. Wash your hands after shopping. Remind your children to wash their hands as soon as they come home from school. A little "hysterical hygiene" goes a long way to keeping colds at bay."

Explore the relationships between the nervous system, emotions, and the immune system; elucidating the links between our states of mind and our states of health.

"Convinced that I could turn the cancer around, I found a doctor who said he'd give me three months time while I used only natural remedies. Six months later, I was cancer-free."

When China annexed Tibet in the '50s, it outlawed Tibetan medicine, imprisoning and executing the practitioners in the process. Yet Tibetan medicine lives -- worldwide!

Vedic astrology is a spiritual science that derives knowledge from the study of the microcosm and the macrocosm.

Damazhon are Spirits that typically flit about around those places we recognize as being sacred: springs, caves, vortices and the like. A Shaman creates a Damazhon Mojo to help recipients find their path in life, for vitality, clarity, health, or spiritual protection.

"We Inkan people have a prophecy that when the Eagle of the North joins with the Condor of the South when the Inti Stone casts no shadow, then is the time to reveal the Teachings held secret by the Inkas for the last 500 years. The prophecy is now fulfilled!"

Upon death the Spirit remains in the earthly plane for three days, seeking release from attachment to people, places and things of its former life experience.

Myth is the reality of the Soul, just as History is the reality of the day-to-day linear world. Mythos is the topography, or cosmology, of the Soul.

A person who has suffered abuse tends to either become a perpetrator of further abuse or become self-destructive. Why? Shamanism provides clear answers and effective treatment.