Healing Garden - The Truth and Reconciliation with in Canada, focusses, partly, on healing the tragic truths of the past. The garden is designed to bring awareness of indigenous understandings and attempts to capture some of the knowledge and vegetation important to the indigenous way of life.

Medicine Wheel and the Seasons

There are many different ways that Elders and traditional teachers have expressed the four directions: the four teachings, the four winds, the four cardinal directions, and many other relationships that can be expressed in sets of four.

Within Medicine Wheels there are many “rings” of teachings that exist. A ring of teaching is created by considering a part of the teaching from each of the four directions. These rings of teachings have significant meaning independently but are all the more powerful when understood as a collective of interdependent knowledge teachings and practices. Some of these rings include: seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter), times of day (morning, afternoon, evening, night), stages of life (infant, youth, adult, elder), and life givers (earth, sun, water, air).

Indigenous knowledge embraced by Medicine Wheels can be defined as wholeness, interrelationships, interconnections, and balance/respect.

Plant Identification and Medicinal Usage

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