Holistic Healing Village: Where Food Is Medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-70
Author(s):  
Ann Holaday
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Healing

Unspoken Grammar of Place: Anti-Blackness as a Spatial Imaginary in Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 105268462199276
Author(s):  
DeMarcus A. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
School Leaders ◽  
School Community ◽  
Holistic Healing ◽  
Music Preferences ◽  
Spatial Logic ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Black Populations ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Black Language

This article builds from scholarship on anti-Blackness in education and spatial imaginaries in geography to theorize an anti-Black spatial imaginary as the prevailing spatial logic that has shaped the configuration and character of American social intuitions, including K-12 schools. As a spatial imaginary, anti-Blackness is circulated through discourses, images, and texts that tell a story of Blackness as a problem, non-human, and placeless. Anchored by the assumption that Black populations are spatially illegitimate, the anti-Black spatial imaginary marks Black bodies as undesirable and therefore extractable from spaces and places that have been envisioned for their exclusion. I consider schools as sites spatialized terror where the exhibitions of terror consist of forcing students to observe other Black bodies being forcibly removed from the classroom and school community; constant rejection of Black language, traditions, music preferences, and other cultural forms of expression; the obliteration of Black names and identities. I offer ways that school leaders can unsettle the anti-Black spatial imaginary to transform schools as sites of holistic healing and possibilities.

scholarly journals Eye-tunes: role of music in ophthalmology and vision sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 251584142110408
Author(s):  
Shruti Muralidharan ◽  
Parul Ichhpujani ◽  
Shibal Bhartiya ◽  
Rohan Bir Singh
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Procedures ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Holistic Healing ◽  
Operation Theatre ◽  
Healing Effect ◽  
Theatre Staff

Although the healing effect of music has been recognized since time immemorial, there has been a renewed interest in its use in modern medicine. This can be attributed to the increasing focus on holistic healing and on the subjective and objective aspects of well-being. In ophthalmology, this has ranged from using music for patients undergoing diagnostic procedures and surgery, as well as for doctors and the operation theatre staff during surgical procedures. Music has proven to be a potent nonpharmacological sedative and anxiolytic, allaying both the pain and stress of surgery. This review aims to explore the available evidence about the role of music as an adjunct for diagnostic and surgical procedures in current ophthalmic practices.

‘We're Hands-On People’: Healing Diabetes in the Absence of Traditional Healers in an Aboriginal Community in Northern Territory, Australia.

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashleigh Elizabeth Mitchell ◽  
Trisia Farrelly ◽  
Robyn Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Holistic Healing ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Biomedical Treatment

This study of a remote Aboriginal community in Australia’s Northern Territory in 2014 sought to understand diabetes from a local Aboriginal perspective. Participants drew on a variety of holistic healing methods in the absence of an individual or individuals identified as holding a healing role in the community. The study offers an alternative to the common assumption that all communities can identify specific individuals as Aboriginal healers who are central to maintaining Aboriginal beliefs and wellbeing who contribute to holistic health (Clarke 2008; Maher 1999; McDonald 2006; Seathre 2013; Williams 2011). This research found the seven adult Aboriginal diabetes patients participating in the longitudinal ethnographic study actively engaged in self-healing strategies. Moreover, diabetes clinicians could combine local remedies and biomedical treatment to heal diabetes within the clinic, as well as actively engaging the patient in their own treatment, effective to reduce the symptoms and prevalence of diabetes in Aboriginal populations.

An Anthropological Perspective in Holistic Healing

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
David Goldberg ◽  
Matthew Hodes
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Healing ◽  
Anthropological Perspective

scholarly journals Seekership, Spirituality and Self-Discovery: Ayurveda Trainees in Britain

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Warrier
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Holistic Healing ◽  
The West ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThis paper examines the backgrounds and motivations of persons trained or training as Ayurvedic practitioners at two London-based institutions offering Ayurveda programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It draws upon in-depth interviews with individuals at various stages of their training and practice in order to examine the paths that bring them to Ayurveda, their motivations for undergoing training, and the ways in which they apply their knowledge of Ayurveda during and after their training period. The findings here corroborate what other scholars have demonstrated in the case of Asian traditions like Yoga and Ayurveda in the West. These traditions have inevitably undergone shifts in meaning by virtue of their assimilation into the Western, in this case British, holistic health milieu. Most significant in Ayurveda’s case is the shift away from a preoccupation with remedial medicine (the bedrock of mainstream Ayurveda in modern South Asia), to a focus on self-knowledge and self-empowerment as a path to ‘holistic healing’ (understood to address mental and spiritual, not just physical, well-being). Even though the Ayurvedic curriculum transmitted at the educational institutions in London is based largely on that taught at Ayurveda colleges in India, the completely different orientations and dispositions of students in Britain (as compared to their South Asian counterparts) ensures that the Ayurveda they go on to apply and practise is radically different—this is ‘spiritualised’ Ayurveda, in radical contrast to the ‘biomedicalised’ version obtaining in modern mainstream South Asian contexts.

Yoga and Mental Health: Children and Adolescents Make Space in the System for Deeper Practices

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Tate
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Mental Health Program ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Holistic Healing ◽  
Yoga Therapy ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Radical Reconstruction

The popularity of Hatha-Yoga practice in mainstream American culture has opened many doors of healing for adults and children with a variety of physical and emotional illnesses. Indeed, the physical aspects of Yoga are undeniably beneficial for people of all ages. Invariably,those who take on a serious practice of âsana eventually move into the deeper practices of Yoga. In the American mental health system Yoga has been embraced as a physical practice to relieve stress, anxiety, and depression, much as any physical exercise has been touted to do the same. With this article, I intend to argue that Yoga therapy, founded in deliberate examination and holistic healing of self on each level of the fivekoshas, can be integrated into a mainstream inpatient mental health program for children and adolescents with a variety of emotional and psychological disorders. By focusing on all levels of the person—physical, psychological,energetic, and spiritual—Yoga therapists and other health care workers can provide a foundation of healing by which children and adolescents can be empowered to act on their own behalf within a system that is currently under radical reconstruction.

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