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Course Program Descriptions Sahaptan Carrier Track Course Prerequisites MM101, MM102, Adopted Nemenhah Member, Sahaptan Program Guide Module. In MM101, you were introduced to the concept of the Medicine Wheel and the Descriptions Sacred Medicine Bundle. You created your own, personal Bundle and Ceremony. Nemenhah Core The Sahaptan Carrier Track is dedicated to many of the Ceremonial aspects of Curriculum Native American Holistic Healing. Healing to the Native American (Available at Nemenhah.org) Medicine Man or Woman, and Native American Practitioner, is Emergence from a condition of sickness into a condition of wellness. The Ceremonies Medicine Man/Woman of the Sacred Sahaptan Way are discussed and opportunities are given to MM101 Intro to Ceremonial Healing gain application in your Healing Introduction to the Sacred Medicine Ministry. Wheel, Phillip Cloudpiler Landis, Acteon publishing, available online. The formation and functioning of the Lodge and Community Council are also covered. Sahaptan Guide This Track is essential to the mechanics Prerequisites MM101 and MM102 of the Nemenhah Program and we desire you must have completed these two all of our ministers to complete these courses before you may proceed to the courses. Good luck on your journey! Guide Track. You are an Adopted C-2101 Unipi Ceremony – Sacred Nemenhah Medicine Man or Medicine Smoke in Smudging and Public Woman and you have completed the Ceremonies, Phillip Cloudpiler Landis, prerequisites. available online; 5 Hrs. You are now on a journey to learn the C-2101P Unipi Ceremony Practicum – Sahaptan Guide module. This portion of Hands-on practicum. You arrange for the Core Curriculum is designed to give Cloudpiler or other Mentor to come to you a basic understanding of the your Lodge to complete this practicum; Anatomy and Physiology of the Human 6 Hrs. Body and of Nutrition. An Understanding of these basic Principles C-2102 Sacred Pipe Ceremony – The is absolutely necessary in your Healing Pipe and Its Meaning, Phillip Cloudpiler Ministry. Landis, available online; 5 Hrs. C-2102P Sacred Pipe Practicum – Hands-on practicum. You arrange for Cloudpiler or other Mentor to come to 1 your Lodge to complete this practicum; The Sahaptan Carriers are those 6 Hrs. Practitioners upon whom the EPMC will call to become mentors in the Seminary C-2103 Sacred Breath – Sacred Smoke Program. They must have a working in Healing Ceremonies, Phillip knowledge in the fundamentals of the Cloudpiler Landis, available online; 5 Sacred Sahaptan Healing Way and Hrs. confidence in carrying out the purpose of the Church. C-2103P Sacred Breath Practicum – Hands-on practicum. You arrange for The Sahaptan Shirts, or those whom the Cloudpiler or other Mentor to come to EPMC designates „Active Sahaptan your Lodge to complete this practicum; Shirts,‟ are the only persons who may be 6 Hrs. called upon to act as Talking Feathers in the Councils. The Sahaptan Shirt, then, C-2104a Itsipi – The Purification are the Ministers who carry out the Ceremony and Sweatlodge, Phillip purposes and the functions of the Band Cloudpiler Landis, available online; 5 and Seminary. Hrs. Much of this Ministry will be focused on the creation of Lodges and Communities C2104P – Itsipi Practicum – Hands-on of the Nemenhah throughout the country practicum. You arrange for Cloudpiler or and the world. They are responsible for other Mentor to come to your Lodge to the in-service instruction upon which the complete this practicum. 6 Hrs. success of the local units will depend. C2104B Itsipi Facilitator Training – Hands-on practicum. You arrange for S3102 Principles of Nemenhah Constitution – The Constitution and Cloudpiler or other Mentor to come to Declaration of Good Faith and Practice your Lodge to complete this practicum. of the Nemenhah Band and Native 30 Hrs. (This practicum is not complete American Traditional Organization unit you have facilitated in four Itsipi (NAC), the Great Council of 2006 Ceremonies). (available online), Commentary, Phillip C2105 Fundamentals of Council Cloudpiler Landis, (available online); 10 System – Excerpts from Shi Tugohah, Hrs. Mentinah Archives, Mentinah S3103 The Governing Laws – The Publishing, (available online); Excerpts Native American Free Exercise of from Pa Natan, Ancient Law Maker, Religion Act of 1993, United States Mentinah Archives, Mentinah Congress,; The Utah Naturopathic Publishing, (available online); Stone Physician Practice Act, Utah State Carrier Manual, Phillip Cloudpiler Legislature; (Additional modules are in Landis, Nemenhah Press, (available construction now and will be available online). 40 Hrs. soon.) You may arrange for practicum Sahaptan Shirt Track instruction by contacting the Honorable Benjamin Zvenia to come to your (Native American Practitioner) Lodge; 10 Hrs. Prerequisites MM101, MM102, Adopted Nemenhah Member, Sahaptan Guide Module, Sahaptan Carrier Module. 2 Anyana Kai Medicine Weatherford, Fawcett Columbine, ISBN 0-449-90496-2; A Magic Dwells, Sheila Man/Woman Core Moon, Guild for Psychological Studies Curriculum Publishing House, ISBN 0-917479-06-8; 15 Hrs. AK206 Fundamentals of Native AK200 Wyakin Lecture American Herbalogy – Indian Available online; Equivalent-Wyakin Herbalogy of North America, Alma R. series, Part 1 DVD, Acteon publishing Hutchings, Shamabala Press, ISBN 0- through Nemenhah; 20 Hrs. 87773-639-1; American Indian Medicine, Virgil J. Vogel, University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-2293-5; AK201 Fundamentals of Anatomy – Earth Medicine Earth Food, Michael A. Anatomy Coloring Book (you purchase), Weiner, Fawcett Columbine, ISBN 0- Wynn Kapit / Lawrence M. Elsen, 449-90589-6. (you purchase all). 60 Hrs. Addison/Wesley, ISBN 0-06-455016-8; 20 Hrs. AK207 Death and Dying – The Tibetan Book of the Living and the Dead, Sogyal AK202 Fundamentals of Physiology – Rinpoche, Harper, ISBN 0-06-250834-2; Physiology Coloring Book (you On Death and Dying,Elisabeth Kubler- purchase), Wynn Kapit / Roger I. Macey Ross, McMillan Publishing, ISBN 0-02- / Esmail Meisami, Harper-Collins 089130-7; Questions and Answers on Publishing, ISBN 0-06-043479-1; 10 Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler- Hrs. Ross, McMillan Publishing, ISBN 0- 684-83937-7 (you purchase all). AK203 Practical Anatomy / Physiology – Essentials of Human AK208 Sacred Medicine – Native Anatomy and Physiology Fifth Edition, Health Radio with Cloudpiler and Glenn Elaine N. Marieb, Benjamin Cummings Brooks, Vibrant Living Network. Publishing, ISBN 0-8053-4185-4. (you purchase); 20 Hrs. AK 204 Fundamentals of Nutrition – The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book, Sheri Lieberman PhD, Avery Press, The Native American ISBN 0-89529-769-8. The Essential Practitioner Track Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, Elizabeth Somer, Health Media of 1020 Hours Core Curriculuim America, ISBN 0-06-273345-1. Nutritional Herbalogy, Mark Peterson, 100 Hours of Clinical Whitman Books, ISBN 1-85653-07-7. (you purchase all). 70 Hrs. Practicum AK205 Cultural Healing – The 100 Hours of case studies Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry, Sierra Club Books, ISBN 0-87156-877- Prerequisites MM101 and MM102; 2; Gaviotas, Alan Weisman, Chelsea Adopted Nemenhah Member; Green, ISBN 189013228-4; Dirt – The Completion of Sahaptan Guide Track, Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, William Carrier Track and Shirt Track. Bryant Logan, RiverHead Books, ISBN 1-57322-004-3; Indian Givers, Jack N4101 Pharmacognacy – Native American Dispensatory Volumes A 3 through Z (available online), The Scientific Validation of Herbal N4104PA Elats Kowat Practicum – 20 Medicine, Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D., Case Studies. 120 Hrs. Keats Publishing, ISBN 0-87983-534-6; Encyclopedia of Herbs, Deni Brown, N4104PB Massage Practicum – 20 Covent Garden Books, ISBN 0-7566- Case Studies. 120 Hrs. 1348-5; Practical Herb Garden, by Jessica Howdret, Hermes House, ISBN N4104PC Orthobionomy Practicum – 0-681-96591-6. (you purchase all). 120 20 Case Studies. 120 Hrs. Hrs. N4104PD Reflexology Practicum – 20 N4101P Pharmacognacy Practicum – Case Studies. 120 Hrs. 20 Remedies for 20 Ailments, Phillip Cloudpiler Landis, Nemenhah Press, (available online). 120 hrs. Anyana-Kai Naturopathic N4102 Introduction to Chinese Curriculum Medicine – Chinese Herbal Medicine, 1200 Core Curriculum Daniel P. Ried, Shamala Press, ISBN 0- 100 Hours Clinical practicum 8777-398-8; Chinese Natural Cures, 100 Hours case study and a Thesis Henry C. Lu; Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, ISBN 1-57912-056-3, (you purchase all). 20 Hrs. Prerequisites MM101 and MM102; Adopted Nemenhah Member. N4102P Chinese Medicine Practicum. 20 Case Studies. 120 hrs. Required reference text: N4103 Fundamentals of Traditional Materia Medica, with Repertory, Homeopathy – Required text: The th Complete Guide to Homeopathy, Drs. 9 Edition; by William Boericke, Andrew Locke and Nicola Geddes, DK M.D.; ISBN 8120811232 Publishing; Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Remedy Guide; by Homeopathic Material Medica and Robin Murphy, N.D.; ISBN Repertory (or an appropriate equivalent), 0963576402 W. Boericke, M.D., Jain Publishes. (you The Twelve Tissue Remedies of purchase all). 20 Hrs. Schussler; by Boericke & Dewey; ISBN 8170210356 N4104 Massage and Bodywork – Yasgur‟s Homeopathic Fundamentals of Elats Kowat Native Dictionary and Holistic Health th Required text: American Body Reference, 4 Edition; by Jay Balancing (available online); The Yasgur, R.Ph; ISBN 1886149046 Complete Book of Massage, Clare Detoxify or Die; by Sherry A. Maxwell-Hudson, Random House, ISBN Rogers, M.D.; ISBN 0-394-75975-3; Trailguide to the Body, 1887202048 Andrew Biel, Consolidated Press,
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