Some Indigenous practitioners are working to protect the wellness industry's use of smudging from cultural appropriation, while also respecting that the practice of meditation originated outside Turtle Island.
Activities like smudging and mindfulness meditation are popular in the wellness industry; smudging, or what's often called "saging," has been rapidly gaining traction in the Western world in recent years. Today, people like Johnson are working to respect these practices' roots and protect them from cultural appropriation, while also respecting that the practice of meditation originated outside Turtle Island.
"People are paying [this instructor] to teach them yoga and she's giving them a sort of watered-down [version] of Indigenous spirituality and it just, overall … was an icky feeling," Johnson said.Michael Yellow Bird began his mindfulness practice in 1975, when he was an undergraduate student, and found that it was a powerful, healing approach to help calm and centre him.
Regular mindfulness practice will, over time, increase white matter in the brain and improvise grey matter, Yellow Bird said. White matter helps with connectivity and grey matter protects important parts of the brain, he noted.
"He listened very carefully … [and] he said, 'Keep it up,'" Yellow Bird remembered. "He said that meditation is really a part of all Indian ceremony."
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