Workshops on Indigenous Healing Practices
Empowering Growth and Connection Through Traditional Indigenous Healing Workshops Across British Columbia
Discover the power of traditional Indigenous healing practices through Louise Snowdon’s transformative workshops, offered across British Columbia. Rooted in ancestral wisdom and cultural teachings, these workshops provide a safe and supportive space for individuals, families, and communities to reconnect with the land, embrace holistic healing, and learn time-honored techniques for emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. Whether exploring the use of medicinal plants, engaging in traditional crafting, or participating in land-based ceremonies, each workshop is designed to foster personal growth, cultural understanding, and deep healing in a way that honors Indigenous traditions and respects every participant’s unique journey.
The Benefits of Workshops
on Indigenous Healing
Participating in workshops on Indigenous healing practices offers a unique opportunity to reconnect with traditional wisdom, foster personal growth, and deepen your understanding of cultural teachings. These workshops provide a safe space for emotional, spiritual, and physical healing, while promoting self-awareness, resilience, and a stronger connection to the land. Through hands-on learning and meaningful experiences, participants gain practical tools for well-being while honoring the rich traditions of Indigenous knowledge and holistic care.
Reconnection with Cultural Traditions
These workshops offer participants the chance to rediscover and honor Indigenous knowledge passed down through generations. By engaging in traditional practices such as crafting, storytelling, and land-based healing, individuals build a deeper connection to cultural identity, heritage, and community.
Holistic Emotional and Spiritual Healing
Indigenous healing practices address the mind, body, spirit, and emotions as interconnected elements of well-being. Participants learn techniques like somatic experiencing, plant medicine use, and ceremonial rituals that help release trauma, foster resilience, and restore inner balance.
Strengthened Connection to Nature
Land-based healing experiences encourage participants to reconnect with the natural world and its profound role in emotional and spiritual well-being. By harvesting medicinal plants, practicing smudging, and engaging in outdoor ceremonies, individuals cultivate a sense of peace, grounding, and spiritual clarity that supports long-term healing.
Educational Group Sessions
Healing is not just about addressing symptoms—it’s about nurturing the mind, body, spirit, and emotions as interconnected parts of the whole self. Louise Snowdon’s approach combines holistic methods with Indigenous perspectives, honoring traditional teachings while incorporating modern therapeutic practices. This integrated approach supports individuals on a deeper level, fostering self-awareness, resilience, and balance. By blending cultural wisdom, spiritual connection, and trauma-informed care, Louise creates a space for meaningful transformation and personal growth.
Creating Culturally Safe Spaces and Empowering Present-Moment Experiences
Louise’s workshops focus on fostering culturally safe spaces where individuals feel respected, heard, and empowered to engage with their healing journey. Through mindfulness, grounding techniques, and touch therapy, participants are encouraged to focus on the present moment, promoting emotional regulation and helping to release trauma stored in the body.
These sessions also incorporate art-based activities such as vision boarding, collage-making, and medicine wheel exercises that allow individuals to express their personal stories in a safe and creative way. Group exercises help participants integrate cultural and traditional healing methods, sparking meaningful change and promoting a shared sense of community healing.
Raising Awareness of Indigenous History and Traditional Healing
A core element of Louise’s workshops involves raising awareness of Indigenous history by exploring how Indigenous people lived pre-European contact and the devastating effects of colonialism on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being of Indigenous communities.
Participants gain practical knowledge of traditional healing practices, such as adopting a hunter-gatherer diet for nutritional well-being and learning about the medicinal properties of plants like stinging nettle. The workshops also include education on the nervous system’s role in trauma, along with exercises focused on settling techniques, mindfulness, and grounding to help release stored trauma. Each session concludes with an invitation for participants to reflect on their experiences, share insights, and explore how they can continue their personal healing journey beyond the group.
Workshops & Groups
Groups: Land-based spirit driven connecting with resources in nature to bring about healing and harmony.
Devils Club workshops include:
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Learn the medicinal benefits of the sacred plant called devils
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Learn the indigenous/ spiritual uses that devils club is used for.
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Learn how to use devils club to overcome ailments
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Learn how to make Salve out of devils club
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Learn how to make beads and make necklaces and or keychains out of the devils club stems
Stinging nettle plant:
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Learn the medicinal benefits of this plant and how to use it to overcome seasonal allergies
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Learn how to dry the plant for future uses
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Learn how to cook and make tea from the stinging nettle plant
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Learn the indigenous historical uses for stinging nettle to overcome inflammation
These workshops can be ½ day or full day and range from $350 to $500 for groups of 3 to 8 people.
Somatic Experiencing Healing Groups
These groups are for people that want to process thoughts, emotions, sensations and visions. For people who want to learn more of how the nervous system works and how to tap into the wisdom of the body.
Who would want to attend these groups?
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Men, women and youth who committed to healing the unprocessed material in the body.
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Understand how your body tells its own story and is capable of healing
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Understand how to develop of felt sense and describe bodily sensations rather than trying to figure things out by coming from your thinking mind.
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Learn how to orient to your environment through sight, sound, touch, taste and smell and learn which of the five senses is the dominate one.
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Learn why wild animals don’t experience trauma from a nervous system approach.
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Learn why we stay stuck in unhealthy relationships because of our instinctual need to belong.
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Learn how to settle the nervous system through proven techniques that utilize your voice, body movements, breath and visualization.
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Learn why our survival responses like fight, flight, freeze, fawn and fit in get us into trouble with destructive behaviours, habits, and addictions and how we can slowly learn new healthy coping strategies to learn a new behaviour and repair our nervous system.
Group bookings are for group of 5 to 15 people.
Once or twice a week for 4 to 6 weeks are recommended for groups.
Groups run for 2 to 4 hours depending on number of group members.
Follow-up is included
Group members must be in recovery from Alcohol and drugs.
Group members are encouraged to be working with a counselor
Fee for group is $90 per group member.