Hi, I’m Mandy.

I’m the founder of Old Ways Wisdom.

I love the power of story and there are many ways to tell mine. Here you’ll find just a few. Feel free to jump around if you like.

You’ll find stories about Old Ways Wisdom, and about my story and how I got started down this path. And of course, for the nitty gritty of my training and credentials simply jump to the bottom.

 
 
 
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My influences & Teachers

  • Indigenous ways of these lands (Lakhota lineage)

  • Immersive projects and connections with Indigenous communities in Tanzania (Hadzabe), Uganda (Karamojong), Mexico (P’urhépecha), Spain (Gitanos)

  • Martín Prechtel

  • Earth-Based Institute

  • Peter Levine

  • Richard Schwartz

  • Melissa Michaels

  • Nature and my own healing journey

About Old Ways Wisdom

 
 

Old Ways Wisdom was created as a way to weave together my passions and my purpose. It is a living prayer—continually informed by my own journey of healing from trauma, the stories of the people I work with, and always listening for where Nature and Spirit are guiding us.

The heart of my intention at Old Ways Wisdom is to tend to the wild and indigenous soul in each one of us:  to re-establish the relationship we have with the land and our own bodies;  to remember the old ways;  and to heal what holds us back and separate so that we can bring our true gifts—our own unique medicine—to each other and the planet.

Through the doorways of nature-based mentorship, ritual art, ancestral skills, and Storywork, we orient towards deep and sustainable healing and growth, working with our own complicated and sometimes painful stories, asking the sacred questions, and finding our way home to our true, authentic selves.

We believe that the way forward is intimately connected to the ways of our ancestors and our relationship with the land.  We look back in order to move forward in an intact way.  Our work is about connecting with the land to integrate our traumas, transform our stories, and bring our medicine to the world.