We are a network of Indigenous traditional practitioners and collaborators guided by the teaching that healing is unconditional love.
Uut Uustukyuu Healing Services.
What We Do.
Our network of Uuštukyuu provide medicine, ceremony and healing services across Vancouver Island and onto the Mainland. We are honoured to work in both reserve and urban communities.
Our healers may be requested by name, but we always worker together, as a team. We are here to facilitate and to witness healing, but it is the Creator who does the work.
Our activities include:
Ceremony from inception to transition, including helping pregnant women prepare for birth, and attending to those crossing over
Healing & support for families who have lost loved ones to addiction or violence
Support for survivors of the residential schools, and for staff doing research into the IRSS
Providing medicine to those with chronic illness, including cancer and arthritis
Brushings & ceremony in hospitals facilities across Vancouver Island
Crisis response for families and those in pain, both at home and in clinical settings
Supporting programs such as language revitalization,
Supporting alcohol & drug addiction programs, including ceremonies to appease the hungry spirit
Our Priorities.
Uut Uuštukyuu Society is leading the way in connecting Indigenous healers to the broader world of standard health care. We believe that Indigenous ceremony and healing are medicine, and its practitioners should be respected. Supporting traditional Indigenous healers means integrating our notions of wellness into standard reporting protocols, strategic planning, and resource allocation.
Uustukyuu are committed to educating western practitioners about respectful healing protocol, and committed to collaborating with them to deliver increasingly culturally safe healing.
Demand for our services from often exceeds our capacity as a formal entity. Traditional healing law is such that requests for healing from Ahusma (those requiring healing) must be met.
We prioritize working with children and youth, and the transmission of culture and knowledge. Uuštukyuu take each request as it comes and healers are able to connect individually through phone or online.