Living Medicine
uncover your genius and share it with the world
Welcome
The Living Medicine Project has been in quiet gestation for a long time. We’ve wrestled with how to understand it, define it, communicate it—and build it. We’ve listened, patiently, for what wants to emerge.
We’ve been enlivened by our growing circle of support. We’ve learned that to truly know Living Medicine, we must live it. We’ve discovered it is a touchstone—a way to imagine, remember, and reawaken purpose. And we are clearer than ever that we can only do this in community.
The medicine is within us. Each of us walks a unique path and holds a piece of the puzzle. There is no roadmap for the transformative times we’re living in. So we ask: How do we create a new reality for ourselves and our relationships? How can we best serve a world that needs each of us—now more than ever?
Please join us in weaving a web of people and initiatives so that together we can each uncover our genius and share it with the world.
We are so glad you’re here!
An Introduction
We are Amy Phillips and John Stoddart. We figure we must have come into this world with some kind of soul contract that neither of us could have crafted with mere imagination. We’ve known each other for almost fifty years, through numerous relationships and unpredictable twists and turns.
We each have a lifelong dedication to health and wellbeing. We both love to leave things better than we find them. And we take great joy in sharing what we’ve learned with others.
Working together under the umbrella of Living Medicine—an initiative that is much larger than ourselves—provides both a focus and a kind of contract through which to unite our personal expressions.
Our centre offers a hub of connection where many come together to share knowledge, wisdom and skills. We do our best to embody the basic tenet that it is only through doing our own healing work that we can help heal the world.
The Centre for Living Medicine
The Centre for Living Medicine is a small—but mighty—healing centre in a tranquil neighbourhood of Vancouver, Canada. It’s also our home. For eighteen years we’ve carefully crafted a sacred space to support our journeys through trauma and illness to lasting health. We were both in deep distress when we arrived here and this hundred year old house mirrored our malaise—so we set about to restore it to vibrant health. As the house and gardens healed we healed.
An Invitation
How Do We…uncover our genius and share it with the world?
We heal. We explore. We remember. We release. We resolve.
We find our genius along side our gifts, within our broken parts and our shadows. We are all a work in progress.
We are all our own healers. We all need the support of our fellow adventurers on this path to love, forgiveness and wellbeing.
Work with us
Stay with us
Support the Centre
Living Medicine is the recognition that something lives us,
and that something is always on our side, even when we don’t think that it is.
That something—that’s always on our side—is love. We live in a vast universe of LOVE