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EcoDharma Exploration

Healing and Transformation

Weaving Ancestral Wisdom with Contemporary Healing Modalities

Dr. Patricia June Vickers led this EcoDharma Exploration on March 22, 2026. We welcome your support for this program. A recording is available below.

Our EcoDharma Explorations are co-created with Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as part of a new initiative, the EcoDharma & Transformational Culture Program. We at One Earth Sangha are honored and excited to collaborate with our partners on EcoDharma Explorations and beyond.

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The Tsm’syen peoples of the Northwest Coast of British Columbia live by the Ayaawx (ancestral law), a living system of teachings expressed through social process, sacred stories, protocol, and relationship between human, land, to Supernatural and most powerfully experienced in Potlatch.

This offers an overview of Ayaawx as guidance for daily living, including cleansing practices and teachings on soul loss and soul retrieval. It weaves ancestral wisdom with contemporary healing modalities such as neurofeedback, Deep Brain Reorienting, and Somatic Experiencing for addressing PTSD, and includes practical self-regulation exercises that cultivate internal calm and embodied resilience.

Rooted in the Ayaawx. The ancestral law of the Tsm’syen peoples of the Northwest Coast. This offering explores sacred protocol, story, and the right relationship between human beings, the land, and the Supernatural. Teachings on cleansing, soul loss, and soul retrieval are woven with contemporary healing approaches including neurofeedback, Deep Brain Reorienting, and Somatic Experiencing for PTSD. Participants will also learn practical self-regulation practices that support internal calm and embodied balance.

This offering included:

  • An overview of the Ayaawx for daily living in relationships of human to human, humans and the land and humans and the Supernatural, cleansing ways and teachings of soul loss and soul retrieval.
  • Healing Methods from Neurofeedback, Deep Brain Reorienting and Somatic Experiencing combined with ancestral teachings for healing PTSD.
  • Practical self-regulating exercises that support internal calm and embodied balance
Patricia June Vickers

Dr. Patricia June Vickers is an internationally respected leader in the field of trauma research and programming, specifically for Indigenous peoples. She is a teacher, artist, psychotherapist and spiritual director. Her approach to all services comes from the Northwest Coast Feast Hall, Buddhist teachings, and the teachings of Christ and is founded on relationship with self, the Supernatural and others. Her methodology is grounded in the primary need to be heard and understood without judgement–respect for others and self. Vickers’ cultural heritage weaves ancestry from the United Kingdom, Ts’msyen and Heiltsuk nations. She belongs to the Eagle clan from the village of Gitxaala, British Columbia and carries two feast hall names from her village and from the Nuxalk in Bella Coola, British Columbia. She continues her studies of spiritual transformation, healing trauma, awakening, forgiveness and unearthing layers to find the authentic self.

Patricia June Vickers, PhD was born into the Eagle Clan with Indigenous – Haida, Heiltsuk, and Ts’msyen – and British ancestry. Her scholar­ship and healing path have been shaped by the influences and echoes of both worlds. Patricia lives in Coast Salish territory–North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is the owner of Indigenous Mental Health healing services, Raven’s Call (Enterprises) Canada Inc.

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This Exploration is part of a short series in collaboration with Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock’s ecoDharma & Transformational Culture Program and One Earth Sangha. We’re honored and excited to work with our new partners.

 

This program is donation-based, with no required registration fee. We welcome your contributions to support this program and the work of Braided Wisdom and One Earth Sangha.

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One Earth Sangha, together with our partners at Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as well as our featured speakers offer these explorations on a donation basis, with no required registration fee. We invite you to participate in the tradition of offering dana, or generosity. Your support makes these gatherings possible, and any amount offered is greatly appreciated.

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