10th Native Women & Men's Wellness .pdf - American Indian Institute

Session 3 – Monday, March 28, 2011
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Alvarado A • Special Session for Elders' Room
Autonomic Body Therapy (ABT): Rediscover the Power of Touch*
Michael Austin, D.C., FIAMA
Doctor of Chiropractic - Rainbow Bridge Healing Arts Center
Contract Health Care Provider - Pascua Yaqui Nation &
Tohono O'odham Nation
Before vaccinations and pills, plants were medicine. Before scanners and computers, we looked and listened
to our patients. In this technology driven society, traditional medicine has been placed behind the back
burner. Even the simple act of human touch is scoffed at as being, at best, placebo. Dr. Michael Austin has
spent the past eight years developing his therapy called Autonomic Body Therapy (ABT). ABT is a touchbased
therapy. It is the synthesis of Meridian, Bowen, and Mind Body Therapies. Please join Dr. Austin in a
discussion of these therapies and their merger into the single treatment modality, Autonomic Body Therapy.
*If you can't make the presentation, come to the ABT Wellness Activity (Tuesday, March 29, 2011, Alvarado
C, from 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM) *repeated: Session 4, Alvarado G
Alvarado B • Information on the 21 Service to Science (STS) Intervention
Programs
Rose David (Ojibway)
Training and Technical Assistance Program Manager - Kauffman & Associates, Native American
Center for Excellence
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Native American Center for Excellence (NACE) Native
American Service to Science approach recognizes the science in many American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/
AN) traditional practices. This workshop will provide insight into this collaborative approach and describe
how AI/AN prevention programs have been able to enhance their evaluation capacity and document their
effectiveness.
Alvarado C • From the Badlands to Alcatraz Revisited - A Documentary
and Discussion*
Nancy Iverson, M.D.
Executive Director - PATHSTAR
Chrystal White Eyes (Oglala Lakota)
PATHSTAR Swimmer & Retail/Gathering Tribes
During the 2004 Native Women & Men's Wellness Conference, Richard Iron Cloud (Pine Ridge Reservation)
and Dr. Nancy Iverson (San Francisco) presented a pilot project, developed through PATHSTAR, encouraging
healthy lifestyle and nutrition practices among Native Americans. Including a whole-foods based diet,
daily exercise, and exploration of San Francisco community programs, the PATHSTAR San Francisco week
culminated in September 2003 in an Alcatraz swim, an impressive feat with spiritual, historical, and cultural
relevance, requiring conditioning, teamwork, bravery, fortitude, and commitment. Now an annual event, the
program is chronicled in the documentary "From the Badlands to Alcatraz". Following the showing of the
film, 2010 Lakota Alcatraz swimmers will share learnings, challenges, and triumphs they experienced as they
participated in the PATHSTAR Alcatraz swim program.
*Repeated: Session 6, Alvarado H & Session 9, Alvarado C
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