Native American Healing

Drumming and Chanting

Bringing oneself balance with self, others, and the world

Smudging

Cleansing and purifying process using smoke from burning sacred herbs, usually sweet grass, sage, cedar or tobacco

Medicine Wheel

Conceptual scheme and major ceremonial

What is the central aspect?

Gratitude

Peyote

Hallucinogenic herb. Use it as a sacrament and provides a connection to the sacred world

Sing

Healing ceremony that lasts from 2-9 days and nights

How do they gather herbs?

Herbs are gathered with prayers, cut or dug at a correct time and prepared properly to restore a person from illness to health

Sun Dance

Includes the sweat lodge, pipe ceremony, monthly prayer rituals, and a yearly ceremony

Herbs

Maintain health and treat disease. Botanical remedies are supplemental with ceremony and prayer during the healing process

Healing

Medicine men and women see themselves as channels through with the Great Power helps others achieve well-being

Pipe ceremony

Most sacred medicine objects and represents the universe to Native Americans

Sweat Lodge

Purifying ceremony- ritual to cleanse the body, mind, heart, spirit

Circle

Represents the cycle of life (no beginning, end, time element)

What is very important?

Sacred spaces

what are inseparable?

Spirituality and medicine

The number 4

The number of completeness

Healing Touch/Acupuncture

They believe the creator touches patient and transfers power to them through the medicine people who are healing instruments

Vision Quest

Traditionally a time of fasting, praying, isolation, and exposure to the elements, all of which contribute to a mystic experience with the goal of understanding self and communicating with the Great Spirit