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The Society for Indigenous and Ancestral Wisdom and Healing

We offer an annual conference on shamanism, healing and transformation.

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The Annual International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing was founded in 1984 by Dr. Ruth-Inge Heinze. The Society for Indigenous and Ancestral Wisdom and Healing is dedicated to offer public education in shamanism, contemporary disciplines and healing modalities for enhancing the wellbeing of individuals, humanity and planet earth. This provides a forum in which a deeper dialogue may take place about healing, transformation of consciousness and wholeness on a personal, communal and planetary level. The Annual Conference invites indigenous Shamans from diverse cultures and traditions to share their practices, and honors healers and Shamans from various traditions including the scientific and visual and performing arts. We intend to educate the public about the importance of Shamanism and healing in today’s societies and to explore new ways of healing that are emerging in the 21st Century. The Society also supports and endorses friendships and collaboration of healers across a wide spectrum of society. Our non-profit also publishes ReVision, a journal highlighting healing practices and healers from various traditions.

07/06/2022

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Please join us for our upcoming Virtual Retreat on Labor Day Weekend, September 3-5, 2022:

Reaching Into Our Wells of Memory: Healing Separations & Losses.

To Register, or to see the full schedule with list of presenters and their bios please visit our webpage: http://shamanismconference.org/

05/21/2021

Help us preserve an ancient Sacred Site in the Himalayas from colonial destruction – the indigenous Bonpo healer Shrine (Noba La Ghang).

DONATE HERE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=3FTN3a7KDqYahFhY-QRvSJWrjobG6bXpq7A9QAJtbIj1wYj5IWbsNbpwn0HllcC9uz3R-OqU1XRgD1Md&fromUL=true

Dear Friends,

This proposal seeks financial support from people who are called to preserve an ancient Bonpo sacred site in the Himalayas that is in jeopardy of being destroyed. Building a Shrine on this site will ensure the preservation and maintenance of knowledge from the ancient pre Buddhist healing systems of the Bonpos (indigenous healers).

Introduction and Background

The Bonpo practice is an ancient indigenous Himalayan healing system. The method draws its healing power directly from higher spirits and from the natural world to promote total wellbeing (mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, social), and to protect and preserve all life forms. This spiritual practice predates all organized religions, including Buddhism, and all modern hospital systems of health.

The Problem

In recent decades, the Bonpo healing system has come under attack. The government is converting ancient Bonpo shrines of the high Himalayas into tourist destinations. The government has launched mass-media campaigns against the healing system. They portray the Bonpos as backward, uneducated, and illiterate mountain tribes who function as remote cults, removed from the modern world.

The Need

This particular shrine, Noba La Ghang, is in a great danger of being totally destroyed. For thousands of years, this sacred place, which sits on a high mountain top, where the living spirit resides, has served as the most sacred site among the Bonpo shrines. Special meditation is held twice a year, in July and November. There is no other place like this in the entire Himalayas for the Bonpo practice.

The Bonpos wish to protect the sacredness of this place by building a sanctuary in front of the shrine. At this site, they can continue revitalizing the age-old tradition of training a new generation of people who wish to become Bonpo healers.

Toward realization of this goal, the Bonpos are asking for your financial, spiritual and moral support. They urgently require a minimum of $10,000 (ten thousand dollars) to secure the spot on the mountain top, by July 15th 2021, where they wish to build a Bonpo sanctuary (pictured above) the government won’t be able to privatize the land and sell it to commercial entities. If the Bonpos cannot secure this place within the next few months, it will be a terrible loss to the thousands of years of Bonpo traditional healing culture.

On behalf of the Himalayan Bonpo healers, we humbly ask for your kindness and compassion in helping to restore and preserve indigenous rights by supporting the education of future Bonpo healers. Please support this intervention that contributes to this effort.

The land will be held in a trust overseen by the Elders of the Bonpo Community.

Legal advice is appreciated.

All funds raised will go directly to the Bonpo education project.

Thank you and deep gratitude and respect for your support!

How to Support:

Tax deductible donations can be made to the Bonpo Education & Preservation Project through the fiscal support of the( Society of Indigenous and Ancestral Healing).. The Society is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation, 501(c)(3), and registered Charitable Trust.

PayPal link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=3FTN3a7KDqYahFhY-QRvSJWrjobG6bXpq7A9QAJtbIj1wYj5IWbsNbpwn0HllcC9uz3R-OqU1XRgD1Md&fromUL=true

Checks: Make out to “SIAH” (Society of Indigenous and Ancestral Healing). Please make sure to indicate in the Memo line: “Bonpo Education & Preservation.”

Mail checks to: PO Box 1855, Sebastopol, Ca 95473

For more information, you can contact,
gyanagyalbo@gmail.com

Thank you.
With deep gratitude and respect for your support,

Gyanesh Lama

03/12/2021

The Modern Alchemy of Western Medicine and Indigenous Healing

(The Indigenous Wisdom Series – What is Healing?)
Offering cross-cultural perspectives in Health and Well Being.

Date & Time: Sunday, April 11th 2021, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM PDT
Location: Held Online via Zoom
Register here: https://www.berkeleyherbalcenter.org/cartflows_step/checkout-page/?add-to-cart=6389

Is Healing Possible at the End of Life?

In this presentation David Steinhorn, MD and Jana Din will share their work providing healing support to critically ill patients and their family members at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA.

Their successful, integrative medicine partnership as a Western physician and a shamanic healer, began in 2013. Their collaboration and indigenous approach to healing continues nationwide, and was featured in a nationally broadcast television show, Healing Quest, in a segment titled “Shamans in the ICU.” Dr. Steinhorn and Ms. Din will share compelling stories of the profound healing wisdom that the youngest patients can offer at the end of life. Attendees will experience this indigenous healing approach through a guided shamanic journeying process while led by a calming drum beat.

For more in-depth information about their healing and teaching collaboration, and to access the guided journeys they developed to alleviate feelings of separation, loss, grief, anxiety, and stress, see their website https://www.healingjourneys.life/

Teachers: Jana Din and David Steinhorn, MD

Jana Din is co-founder and director of the Tao Center for Healing in Sacramento, CA, and a shamanic healer since 2000, teacher and national speaker. Since 2013, she has provided over 100 volunteer healing services for critically ill children, their families, and the clinicians who care for them, in an extensive collaboration across the country with David M. Steinhorn, M.D. It is Ms. Din’s privilege to provide shamanic healing in hospitals, hospices and across the nation, to help patients, families and healthcare providers discover the deeper spiritual meaning in the challenges and suffering a person faces when seriously or terminally ill

Dr. Steinhorn is an academic pediatrician who practices intensive care and hospice medicine for children. He led the Judith Nan Joy Integrative Medicine Research Initiative at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago from 2002-2010 and founded palliative care programs at major children’s hospitals. He is currently developing children’s hospice programs in Washington, DC and San Diego. Dr. Steinhorn has additional training in energy medicine, yoga, meditation, and shamanism, studying with teachers from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, the Four Winds Society, and Dr. Carl Greer. Dr. Steinhorn has brought shamanic healing approaches to his critical care practice in children’s hospitals across the country. His passion is to find ways of alleviating suffering wherever it may occur and to help patients, families and healthcare providers discover meaning in all of life’s experiences.

12/30/2020

This year Winter Solstice coincides with a ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn, the closest they will be seen in 800-year. The last time the two planets were this close was in 1226. Contemplate them in the western sky an hour after sunset and open the doors of introspection.

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The Society of Indigenous and Ancestral Wisdom and Healing is dedicated to offer public education in shamanism, contemporary disciplines and healing modalities for enhancing the wellbeing of individuals, humanity and planet earth. We offer an annual conference on shamanism, healing and transformation. This provides a forum in which a deeper dialogue may take place about healing, transformation of consciousness and wholeness on a personal, communal and planetary level. The Annual Conference invites indigenous Shamans from diverse cultures and traditions to share their practices, and honors healers and Shamans from various traditions including the scientific and visual and performing arts. We intend to educate the public about the importance of Shamanism and healing in today’s societies and to explore new ways of healing that are emerging in the 21st Century. The Society also supports and endorses friendships and collaboration of healers across a wide spectrum of society. Our non-profit also publishes ReVision, a journal highlighting healing practices and healers from various traditions.