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How to maintain traditional practices away from home

My grandmother taught me our traditional counseling methods but I live in a city now and I don't know how to practice them without the land and community they come from.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Indigenous healing methods developed in specific cultural and geographical contexts lose essential elements when practiced in isolation from their originating communities.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous restorative traditions?”

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