Original Instructions are instructions for living as Human Beings who exist with, and from Earth. The Original Instructions School of Traditional Medicine and Practical Skills has gathered holistic and traditional practitioners from around the world to provide you with accessible education in areas of study that support, exemplify, and preserve ways of human life which are in alignment with the Original Instructions - without culturally appropriating.
All Original Instructions School educational offerings are rooted in indigenous perspectives, which are inseperable from the knowing that Earth is a living and sentient being to whom we belong.
Original Instructions School of Traditional Medicine and Practical Skills offers classes, workshops, and certification programs online and in person.
Our Original Instructions certification programs are all committed to providing our students with an impeccable education while keeping the Original Instructions for humanity and ancestral wisdom as our guiding force. The Original Instructions certification training curriculums are structured in a dynamic way that bridges evidence-based learning with the longstanding wisdom of Indigenous human beings.
Begin your journey as an Original Instructions practitioner through our certification training programs.
Click here to learn more, or see certification programs below During this Advanced Clinical & Field Herbalism certification training we have the privledge of learning about and practicing clinical Herbalism through a truly Indigenous lens with the Amazon Basin. This is a 10 day, 9 night reatreat style certification training.
-> A certification training in the arts of womb and abdominal massage plus traditional herbal well womb care, rooted in the wisdom of the Quechua Nation of Cusco, Peru.
This is an in-person 10 day, 9 night Skills Immersion Retreat and CT.
-> A Full Spectrum Doula certification training for those who support childbearing women and their families.
-> A live online certification training for people who may give birth via cesarean section, and for care providers who serve them. Throughout this CT we cover physical, emotional, ceremonial, and advocacy support for the Cesearn Section process.
-> The Advocacy and Herbalism CT for those who heal, and facilitate healing, within altered states of conciousness. This certification training is offered online in HYBRID (self-paced), and LIVE cohorts.
Why is Herbalism such an integral portion of our Full Spectrum Doula currículum?
Pregnancy is a time in a woman's life when she must take up all of her strength, count her blessings, and go to battle in order to bring back her child(ren). She must be willing, just as a warrior .......
At Original Instructions School are persistently dedicated to the quality and truly holistic education of our students. We understand that the basic knowledge of how to recognize, interact with, and benefit from nutritive herbal medicine and foods that are readily available in your area is not the intellectual property of anyone but belongs to all Human Begins.
In order for Doulas to act as a true resource and advocate for mothers and their families we believe that they require at least a basic understanding of how to nourish, support and cleanse the female body in the same way our foremothers have for generations;
with the help of medicinal foods, teas, steams, and baths.
Our deseos will always
be with you,
praying for you
con cada respiro....
trusting that it worked when we
put our prayers in fire ashes,
and the ashes in your umligo.
Always remeber, MiHija
to not only feed,
but to truly nourish,
your Benevolent Ancestors
with the impeccable fulfillment
of your Soul's purpose.