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Nature Dreamweaver...My Story
What a year it’s been! Healing, healing, and more healing. Lyme disease is the worst and best thing that has ever happened to me. I’m going to focus on the best parts, but it’s important for people to know the worst.
Lyme is an epidemic. People need to know the signs, symptoms, and most importantly, how to help people heal and cure their disease. There is so much misinformation about how Lyme is incurable, but the reality is, that there are many ways to heal and cure Lyme without having to use hardcore antibiotics.
I’m not opposed to western medicine. I was on antibiotics for 3 weeks when I first contracted Lyme and I thought I had gotten rid of it. So I went back to my normal diet and started eating sugar again. Then, the day after my birthday, my symptoms came back. I went back on antibiotics for ten days and tried to get another prescription from a doctor, but they wouldn’t give them to me saying the most up to date medical information stated the community wasn’t sure if another round of antibiotics would help.
I took this as a sign and I went the alternative route. After posting on Facebook, my friends at Effective Wellness in Crestone, CO contacted me and put me on an all-herbal supplement protocol, that we believe has worked. I haven’t had a blood test, but their tests showed that it’s gone….for now. I’m currently on another supplement regimen to rebuild and rebalance my entire system. I’m feeling better every day.
Unfortunately, there is no health insurance that will cover my supplements. I had saved enough money from my tour this year to cover the first couple rounds and I’ve created a crowd sourcing campaign to raise the rest of the money. A good friend in the festival community just donated $3000 to cover the cost of supplements and doctor visits. To do a blood test, I’ll have to raise more. I’m staying positive and optimistic. This process demands and requires that I stay seriously committed and consume high doses of humor, happiness, and JOY!
Lyme is an epidemic. People need to know the signs, symptoms, and most importantly, how to help people heal and cure their disease. There is so much misinformation about how Lyme is incurable, but the reality is, that there are many ways to heal and cure Lyme without having to use hardcore antibiotics.
I’m not opposed to western medicine. I was on antibiotics for 3 weeks when I first contracted Lyme and I thought I had gotten rid of it. So I went back to my normal diet and started eating sugar again. Then, the day after my birthday, my symptoms came back. I went back on antibiotics for ten days and tried to get another prescription from a doctor, but they wouldn’t give them to me saying the most up to date medical information stated the community wasn’t sure if another round of antibiotics would help.
I took this as a sign and I went the alternative route. After posting on Facebook, my friends at Effective Wellness in Crestone, CO contacted me and put me on an all-herbal supplement protocol, that we believe has worked. I haven’t had a blood test, but their tests showed that it’s gone….for now. I’m currently on another supplement regimen to rebuild and rebalance my entire system. I’m feeling better every day.
Unfortunately, there is no health insurance that will cover my supplements. I had saved enough money from my tour this year to cover the first couple rounds and I’ve created a crowd sourcing campaign to raise the rest of the money. A good friend in the festival community just donated $3000 to cover the cost of supplements and doctor visits. To do a blood test, I’ll have to raise more. I’m staying positive and optimistic. This process demands and requires that I stay seriously committed and consume high doses of humor, happiness, and JOY!
Since I ended my art tour last fall, I’ve been in Denver, CO at Vital Yoga Studio focusing on my healing and my yoga teacher training. I finally have enough energy and clarity in my brain to start working again and creating art, the ultimate healing tool.
My art is a healing art and all I want is to be able to continue to share my love and gifts with the world through art, music, performance, yoga, comedy, and now, medicine.
This whole process has inspired me to go back to school to study Creative Integrative Medicine at Quantum University, a school that focuses on natural and integrative medicine rooted in quantum physics. The current health care crisis combined with my health crisis has inspired me to do everything I can to change the system and progress towards universal health care so that everyone has access to the help they need to be healthy. There is enough abundance for everyone and we as humanity need to share this abundance and take care of each other. Health is not something that should just be afforded to the rich and wealthy.
Anyway, I digress. I don’t want to rant and rave and expound upon how I feel about the politics surrounding our health care system and all of humanity’s problems. The solutions remain painfully simple and everyone can contribute their energy towards a happier, holier, and healthier humanity.
It really doesn’t take that much if we all participate. Many hands make light work and it can even be fun and joyful. That’s why I love comedy, because I believe that it is the best medicine. These are serious issues and problems, but if we take it all too seriously, then it all just becomes heavy and depressing.
My art is a healing art and all I want is to be able to continue to share my love and gifts with the world through art, music, performance, yoga, comedy, and now, medicine.
This whole process has inspired me to go back to school to study Creative Integrative Medicine at Quantum University, a school that focuses on natural and integrative medicine rooted in quantum physics. The current health care crisis combined with my health crisis has inspired me to do everything I can to change the system and progress towards universal health care so that everyone has access to the help they need to be healthy. There is enough abundance for everyone and we as humanity need to share this abundance and take care of each other. Health is not something that should just be afforded to the rich and wealthy.
Anyway, I digress. I don’t want to rant and rave and expound upon how I feel about the politics surrounding our health care system and all of humanity’s problems. The solutions remain painfully simple and everyone can contribute their energy towards a happier, holier, and healthier humanity.
It really doesn’t take that much if we all participate. Many hands make light work and it can even be fun and joyful. That’s why I love comedy, because I believe that it is the best medicine. These are serious issues and problems, but if we take it all too seriously, then it all just becomes heavy and depressing.
A good sense of humor builds a strong foundation for healing. Otherwise, what’s the point, really? We want to be healthy, so we can be happy and we want to be happy so we can be healthy. It goes both ways. If everything and all of us are truly interconnected, then we need to be able act like it.
My health is your health is our health.
Art and creativity are integral parts of this process because we as individuals are accountable for creating our health. Our healing process is an art project.
Creating balanced homeostasis in order for all of our systems to function optimally together is a daily practice of proper nutrition, meditation, prayer, yoga, etc. It’s the alchemy of our mind, body, and spirit working together towards our own personal evolution. This disease is not my enemy but my teacher making me a better person.
All of the ideas, inspirations, and teachings that I’ve learned from Lyme disease I hope to publish one day. Every story matters because stories create our reality. Maybe if we all start telling better stories and acting them out, then we will finally see a more balanced, peaceful, loving, and healthy world.
My health is your health is our health.
Art and creativity are integral parts of this process because we as individuals are accountable for creating our health. Our healing process is an art project.
Creating balanced homeostasis in order for all of our systems to function optimally together is a daily practice of proper nutrition, meditation, prayer, yoga, etc. It’s the alchemy of our mind, body, and spirit working together towards our own personal evolution. This disease is not my enemy but my teacher making me a better person.
All of the ideas, inspirations, and teachings that I’ve learned from Lyme disease I hope to publish one day. Every story matters because stories create our reality. Maybe if we all start telling better stories and acting them out, then we will finally see a more balanced, peaceful, loving, and healthy world.
Gallery
Nature's Dreams is the story of Nate Hogen's transformative journey toward becoming the installation artist Nature Dreamweaver. Watch the trailer of the film below. For more info and to contribute to the budget of this film, visit the website HERE.
Sacred Spaces
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Artist Bio
For over the past ten years, Nature Dreamweaver aka Nate Hogen has been relentless been pursing his dreams to create heaven and healing through the arts.
Initially inspired by awakening through meditation and shamanic ceremonies, Nature found his tribe and niche on the dance floor amongst many other visionaries, artists, healers, musicians, performers, designers, permaculturists, and all those actively involved in creating a more peaceful, just, sustainable, and loving world. After studying creative writing and performance art at the Evergreen State College, a place known for it's activism, Nature found himself in Portland, OR participating in promoting conscious underground dance parties and volunteering with City Repair, a non-profit dedicated to place-making and urban permaculture.
After 2 years, Nature was back on the road at festivals pursuing art full time creating sacred spaces in the form, of altars, earth mandalas, and his signature human-sized N.E.S.T.s (New Earth Sacred Temples). More and more each year, Nature realized that these spaces were magical and having a deep and profound effect on people. Stories and myths began to circulate. After building a NEST at Alex and Allyson Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in upstate New York,
Nature decided it was his mission and purpose to build these NESTs all over the world as a way to not only bridge spirit with matter, but communities and culture.
They are places for gardening, ceremony, ritual, yoga, meditation, and connection to the earth. They are a reminder that the entire world is an altar, temple, and celestial garden to be respected and revered.
Presently and forever more Nature is studying, practicing, and training to become a yoga teacher, shaman, priest, permaculturist, and natural doctor through Quantum University.
He also loves to perform comedy since laughter is STILL the best medicine.
Initially inspired by awakening through meditation and shamanic ceremonies, Nature found his tribe and niche on the dance floor amongst many other visionaries, artists, healers, musicians, performers, designers, permaculturists, and all those actively involved in creating a more peaceful, just, sustainable, and loving world. After studying creative writing and performance art at the Evergreen State College, a place known for it's activism, Nature found himself in Portland, OR participating in promoting conscious underground dance parties and volunteering with City Repair, a non-profit dedicated to place-making and urban permaculture.
After 2 years, Nature was back on the road at festivals pursuing art full time creating sacred spaces in the form, of altars, earth mandalas, and his signature human-sized N.E.S.T.s (New Earth Sacred Temples). More and more each year, Nature realized that these spaces were magical and having a deep and profound effect on people. Stories and myths began to circulate. After building a NEST at Alex and Allyson Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in upstate New York,
Nature decided it was his mission and purpose to build these NESTs all over the world as a way to not only bridge spirit with matter, but communities and culture.
They are places for gardening, ceremony, ritual, yoga, meditation, and connection to the earth. They are a reminder that the entire world is an altar, temple, and celestial garden to be respected and revered.
Presently and forever more Nature is studying, practicing, and training to become a yoga teacher, shaman, priest, permaculturist, and natural doctor through Quantum University.
He also loves to perform comedy since laughter is STILL the best medicine.
Support and Contact Nature
Support NatureSupport Nature along his journey! View more of his work on his website, visit his Facebook page and give it a "like" and help him spread his inspiring message in the contact section. He has a Go Fund Me page that you can donate to as well. Contact him, it is always nice to hear encouraging words! |
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