Working with Us
Our Culture
Medicine of the Red Road is an Indigenous organization. We know that there is no 'Indigenous culture'; each region, each nation, and each individual carries unique practices and protocols. We understand the harms of pan-Indigenization and would never claim to speak for all Indigenous peoples. Though there is such diversity throughout Turtle Island, we all hold the values of Indigenous ways of knowing and being. At Medicine of the Red Road, this is what we lean into.
At Medicine of the Red Road, our culture is built upon the ancestry, teachings, and life experiences that our Founder, Ryan, brings into the space. Though it would be easier to say that we're rooted in Métis culture, that would not be telling the whole truth. As a two-spirit Métis woman, Ryan brings a mix of ancestral knowledge from both Turtle Island and Europe. As someone who is passionate about learning, exploring, and travelling, Ryan carries the lessons she's received from across Turtle Island and around the world.
Ryan is not and would never claim to be an Elder or Shaman and does not share sacred Indigenous knowledge or ceremony that is not hers to share. We all carry medicine, this knowing is the foundation that Medicine of the Red Road was built off of. Ryan's formal teachers, those who taught her Reiki, Shamanic Medicine, and Spinal Energetics, were not Indigenous. From these teachers, Ryan learned what she needed to lean into her own medicine. The medicine Ryan carries and ceremony she shares integrate her culture and lived experience with the modality, a bundle unique to her.
Our Commitment
Medicine of the Red Road understands that the colonial and capitalist systems we operate within continue to keep Indigenous peoples disconnected, disenfranchised, and disempowered. We fully commit to upholding Indigenous sovereignty and safeguarding Indigenous ways of knowing and being by fully adopting UNDRIP protocols, the TRC Calls to Action, and the Calls to Justice set forth in the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Our commitment to not only our Indigenous relatives, but all our relatives, is to provide trauma-informed, culturally safe, inclusive and wholistic services and spaces for every-body.
Energetic Exchanges
We, at Medicine of the Red Road, know that money is just one way to honour the exchange of energy that takes place when holding space or providing a service. We also know that money is not necessarily the most accessible form of energy exchange. We love to de-colonize our spaces and revitalize traditional systems of trade and gift-giving. We value reciprocity in many different forms including...
Service for Service
Are you a tattoo artist, hair stylist, massage therapist, contractor or another kind of service provider? Let's swap services!
Barter and Trade
Are you an artist, a farmer, a baker, or another kind of grower or maker? Let's trade!
Collaborations
One of the key aspects of Medicine of the Red Road is uplifting others. We want to share our space and our platform so that others can lean in and share their medicine too.
We're always looking for ways to highlight the beautiful works of our friends, especially when their medicine is in alignment with ours.
Have something else in mind? We're always looking to expand our circle and build our networks. If you have some magick in mind and would like to collaborate, please reach out! We'd love to hear your ideas.
Let’s Work Together
Reach out with your ideas!
