For those who have loved, lost, felt ecstatic joy, and profound suffering.
For those who exist in perpetual states of liminality belonging nowhere and everywhere.
For those who are nursing wounds and loving those who have wounded them.
For those who believe that God, love, and transformation are literal.
For those who live their wildness unapologetically and at times are terrified of their own reflections.
For those who have really wanted to live and those who were not afraid to die.
For those that have known yearning and believe that freedom like breath sustains life.
This is an Invitation
Commitment
Because freedom demands the courage to give and accept love while loving demands the courage to heal…
Sacred Edge is a wholeistic healing and community building journey focusing on physical, mental, and spiritual health through the study and implementation of nature-based healing practices. It is a movement toward individual and collective actualization and works to ease suffering, manifest healing, and invoke transformation rooted in the doctrine of love using the practices of therapeutic storywork, advocacy, and education.
About Me
My name is Hermon. I am a devoted practitioner of faith and an ardent student of transformation. Over the last 25 years I have formally and informally studied various medicinal technologies but am constitutionally a student of Spirit, the natural world, the people I work with, my own body, being, joy, pain, and living.
My Approach
Sacred Edge as a healing and creative practice is most deeply informed by the wisdom of indigenous medicinal traditions, Ayurveda, storywork, and the healing power of freedom praxis. I use terms like art therapy, somatics, allopathic medicine, plant spirit/elemental medicine, body work, yoga, meditation, birth work, and death work to communicate accessibly some of the tools in my medicine bag but he truth is I have no actual words for the essence of the medicine I work with…other than sacred… I just know it is my responsibility to be in service of it. I do so with deep gratitude to Spirit, my ancestors, teachers of the lineages I study, medicine beings and story keepers from around the world/throughout time, and fellow seekers who trust me with their stories
The foundation of my work is deep listening…to Creation, Spirit, and You. I believe that each one of us has our own natural patterns that guide our processes…a unique blueprint that architects our relationship with the movement of change informing how we absorb, release, and transform energy. That is why acupuncture might be a highly effective tool for one individual and not for another. Why some swear by massage therapy while others cringe at the thought of it.
There are stories buried beyond our conscious memories that tell the tale of how we are who we are reminding us that we are all apothecaries. This is my starting point. Listening. Then…we walk the sacred edge. Together.
OFFERINGS
I have found that the greatest change requires the subtlest of movements. It is not the grandness of the motion that makes for profound impact but the consciousness, consistency, and deliberacy with which it is executed.
THERAPUTIC STORYWORK
Therapeutic Storywork is the process of excavating and activating the medicine that lives in the depths of our being by unearthing stories etched into our spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional bodies.
HEALTHCARE ADVOCACY
As a healthcare advocate I put my 15 years of experience working in conventional medicine as a medic, healthcare educator, and clinical administrator to use by providing support to people navigating the allopathic healthcare system
ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING
Much like people, institutions not only have stories but also play a massive role in shaping our individual and collective stories. With this in mind, our offerings include: Assitance in developing holistic institutional structures, mission development, working with healthcare institutions, training on race, gender, sexuality, immigration and trauma competency. For healthcare and non-healthcare organizations committed to cultivating balanced, generative, wellness centered, just, and equitable community/work culture
THE ANTIDOTE
The Antidote is a cypher, learning space, and an opportunity for authentic exchange of ideas. It is a commitment to decolonizing healthcare through education, resource sharing, the honoring of nature-based healing practices and the wisdom of our ancestors.
This offering is for all those who seek.
STORY
SE Story is an homage to storytelling and honors the practice as the oldest, most accessible, and impactful healing tool available. It is a commitment to exploring stories rooted in liminality…people, places, experiences, realities that live in the state of “in between” …On the threshold between two existential plains…on the sacred edge