Native American Healing

Native American Traditional Healing offered at OGL

Healing Circle—

   A traditional Healing or Spiritual Circle is offered to patients while in attendance at Olalla Guest Lodge. The Circle is facilitated by a Native American, in recovery from addictions, who is an Elder member of the Lakota Tribe in North Dakota.

The Eagle feather, traditional Native American music and smudging with sage and sweet grass is an integral part of this ceremony. Patients bring “prayer ties” (that they have created with tobacco, cotton cloth and thread) which are offered along with personal thoughts towards specific intentions.

Patients also are offered a class that incorporates the Medicine Wheel, a Native American traditional teaching. This teaching involves seeing the whole person—body, mind, spirit and emotions as an integrated part of all creation. Patients are shown how addiction involves the whole person and that recovery must also involve the whole person.

A “burning” also takes place once a week whereby patients are offered the opportunity to “let go of the past” by burning written material and to be smudged (blessed) with an Eagle feather and sweet grass or sage.

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