Do Indians consider this a form of exploitation? ? I would imagine so but then I guess this can get to be a sticky situation with some people being legit healers with tribal affiliations working to make what they do available to the masses via mass market strategy.
http://www.earthly-origins.com/healingmassage.htm""To Book a consultation & healing session and/or Workshops information - contact Carolyne directWhat does - Native American Indian healing involve?
Native American Indian healing combines spirituality and herbal medicine to treat illness, where massage is introduced to stimulate the oxygen flow into the blood stream. Before massage is initiated, the healer stresses the importance of balance and harmony between the body and spirit in order to maintain good health, including deep breathing and a good positive relationship with the community, which provides for social interaction with the external World.
The Native American Indian belief is that illness results from spiritual imbalances both within the individual and between the individual and the community. Therefore, a strong adherence to and dependence on medicine men and women, or shamanic healers, is practiced in order to fight illness and disease. Constant contact with one's spirit guides and reverence to the Great Spirit for healing and well-being are a fundamental way of life.
Native American Indian tradition focuses on four elements of healing:
1. Symbolic ritual: the use of drums and chanting to enlist the aid of the spiritual world.
2. Shamanic healers: chanting and saging for purification.
3. Restoration of the body and spirit: deep breathing, drinking of teas and fasting to rid the body of impurities and restore a spiritually pure state.
4. Use of herbs with massage: herbs within a fermented rubbing solution are introduced via massage with the placement of stones on the body for the concentration and promotion of healing.
How does Native American Indian methodology treat symptoms of illness or control pain where conventional treatments have failed?
Spiritual communication, meditation and deep breathing may reduce stress and anxiety, bring about peace of mind and produce a sense of wholeness among patients. Native American Indian knowledge of herbs is extensive. Meditation, deep breathing and herbs can relieve pain faster and avoid the side effects caused by prescription drugs or other conventional treatments.
Is the purest form of Native American Indian Methodology of healing.
This method is the only one to be utilised in the UK - And, has qualified teachers that have been taught by a Shaman of the United States.
Native American Indian Massage and healing allows the body to come into balance with itself by helping it heal itself through massage.
This particular type of massage is particularly ideal for sports related injuries. Why?
During a sports activity the body is pushed to its maximum ability. When the body sustains an injury the injured area goes into trauma. The treatment relieves the shock of injury and allows the injured area to come into one with the body. Within 10 minutes of the massage there will be a substantial difference.
Carolyne qualified under Gloria Alkozer of ‘The International Belandu Institute of cultures & Customs’2005""