Medicine Wheel Native American Teachings Explained?

The Medicine Wheel Native American Teachings is of a circle, a symbol, which is filled with many of the teachings and wisdom past down from generation to generation in the First Nations culture.

These teachings, protocols, and wisdom vary from tribe to tribe, elder to elder, person to person. So come along with us and let’s explore just some of the teachings of the medicine wheel.

Jeff Ward, From Membertou, First Nation teaches us some lessons about the Medicine Wheel.

The Medicine Wheel depending on who taught you or where you come from can be stones that are in a circle, around a fire, around a sweat lodge or the inside of a hand drum is a medicine wheel but much of the teachings are still the same

Why is Everything in Four?

The number 4 is very sacred in the First Nations Peoples culture. The number could be found 4 time in everything all around us whether its the life cycle, the seasons, or the four directions everything is in 4 so thats why in a-lot of ceremonies elders will actually pray in four parts or four directions because of the protocols or beliefs that has been passed down onto them, so with that let us explore a little more deeper in this ancient knowledge.

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