Tag: navajo medicine
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Choosing the Path of Wholeness
Navajo medicine-person Patricia Anne Davis talks about how to choose the path of healing/wholeness and escape the destructive/separation path. As a Navajo wisdom-keeper, she has been initiated to help people to walk the path of wholeness according to the natural order. Learn more and read the transcript of this recording at her website, Native American…
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Patricia Anne Davis, Navajo Wisdom Keeper, in the “Spirit of Ma’at July 2011”
Hozhooji — Living the Loving Way: Awakening to the Natural Order with the Ceremonial Change Process By Patricia Anne Davis, MA Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh Edited by Carol Hiltner and Karah Pino Published in the Spirit of Ma’at July 2011 An excerpt is below, click title for entire article: Carol Hiltner has been working with, and appreciating the…
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The Five Major Navajo/Dineh Ceremonies
The Blessingway by Patricia Anne Davis Blessingway—hozhooji: a ceremony to awaken one to natural order (hozho); choosing constructive and life-affirming choices; healing from intentions and decisions that destroy oneself and others. Navajo ceremonies do not require a conversion process of taking away the precious child within the natural order, and replacing this spiritual SELF-identity with a…