About
ORIGINAL MEDICINE
The vision is to create a practice that supports both personal and collective growth, providing a safe space for people of all backgrounds to explore, heal, and transform. Whether you’re seeking a therapeutic ally on your journey or a creative, healing community to explore new dimensions of self, Original Medicine is here to support you.
Creativity as Ancient Medicine
In every culture, across time and place, the arts have been more than decoration or entertainment — they have been central to healing, belonging, and connection. Rhythm, song, movement, image, and story have long been used as medicine: to mark transitions, to release grief, to restore balance, to call forth courage, and to re-knit the bonds between individuals, communities, and the sacred web of life.
“The arts have always been the language of the soul — a way to give voice to what words cannot touch.”
At Original Medicine Experiences, we honor these ancient cross-cultural traditions while bringing them into dialogue with the present. We do not replicate specific cultural practices; we listen to the timeless human need for creative expression and belonging and find fresh, authentic ways to meet that need together. In an age marked by disconnection and a growing loneliness epidemic, we create gatherings where people co-create the experience — spaces where the original medicine of collective creativity can be felt again.
What Modern Research Confirms
Today, science affirms what ancient cultures have always known: creative, embodied, and expressive practices — especially in community — support well-being. Research in music, arts, dance/movement, and expressive arts shows that these practices can:
Strengthen social bonds, empathy, and a felt sense of belonging
Reduce stress and anxiety by supporting nervous-system regulation
Improve mood, resilience, and authentic emotional expression
Support trauma recovery by integrating body, mind, and feeling
Foster neuroplasticity — helping the brain form new, adaptive connections
“Artistic expression, particularly in a group setting, is among the most powerful ways to process trauma, cultivate resilience, and restore hope.” — Journal of the American Art Therapy Association
“Music, rhythm, and movement have measurable effects on emotional regulation and social connection, key factors in psychological health.” — Frontiers in Psychology
While our gatherings are not clinical therapy, their benefits align with this growing body of research — and are amplified when we create and connect together.
Why This Matters
We live in a world that often fragments us — separating mind from body, self from other, art from life. Belonging is a health need. Original Medicine offers a way back.
Our experiences are designed to:
Bypass the limits of words and awaken deeper self-awareness
Create welcoming, co-created spaces where body, heart, and spirit can participate
Transform pain, grief, and disconnection into shared meaning and possibility
Help individuals and communities remember their creative power to connect
Here, you are not a passive recipient of help. You are a co-creator — an active participant in the medicine we make together.
Through music, rhythm, movement, ritual, and collaborative artistry, we create spaces where the ancient and the modern meet — where belonging is felt, meaning deepens, and what is most alive within you can be remembered, expressed, and shared.