Posts tagged Healing
13 Reasons to attend Madre Luna Women’s Healing Retreat April 2-6, 2026

Join us April 2–6, 2026 for Madre Luna, an oceanfront women’s healing retreat in Paamul, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Hosted by Indigenous, South Asian, and Mexican facilitators, this 4‑day experience weaves yoga, ceremony, breathwork, womb healing, and land‑based wellness. Designed for Indigenous women, women of colour, and supportive allies, this retreat offers deep rest, cultural connection, and transformational sisterhood. Only 15 spaces. Early Bird pricing ends November 4, 2025.

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Unpacking Trauma and trauma-theory through an Indigenous lens

Recently I learned from a Nuu-chah-nulth Elder and medicine man, Dave Frank, who marveled at how our brains are intelligent by design, by stating “Our brains are so smart. Our brains can block out trauma and repress the memories - but our body, our organs and our skin hold the memory of that trauma. That trauma memory lives in the cells until we release it” (oral communication, October, 2020). Trauma reorganizes the brain and how it manages perceptions and cognition by altering how we think, what we think about, and even the ability to think (Bessel van der Kolk, 2015).

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