Teachings In The Air

Today's episode of Teachings In The Air is called Healing For The Family, Gerry shares a conversation with his guests Denise Findlay and Marla Klyne Kolomaya. Healing for the family focuses on traditional and modern healing for Indigenous families. Healing is a continuous journey with many different paths - helping and building bonds with others can strengthen families, community and ourselves. Ge...

“Movement is Medicine..” – Gerry Oldman Gerry shares stories and teachings about the ways running and movement have helped him physically, mentally, and spiritually. Gerry starts at the beginning before he was actively running for healing and freedom. This episode is about Gerry's life long healing journey.

“That’s what I see resilience as, we shall bend but not break” – Gerry Oldman In today’s episode of Teachings In The Air, Gerry hosts the Xpey’ Wellness Team: Larissa Coser, Beangka Elliot, Harlee McArthur and Marco Caffiero. Xpey’ Wellness Team started on Vancouver Island as in-person health and wellness promoters, which currently due to the 2020 pandemic has adjusted to the digital demands of ho...

“The way that I release pain is my responsibility.” – Marilyn Jensen In today’s episode of Teachings In The Air, Gerry Oldman and guest Marilyn Jensen share a conversation about “Lateral Kindness”. Marilyn talks about her journey leading up to her work involving lateral violence. Through Lateral Kindness and story-telling, they are trying to inform and help communities move forward, away from all...

On this special episode* of Teaching In The Air, Gerry hosts a conversation with special guest Sam Alec. Their conversation reveals teachings about healing and returning to circle.​ *Content Note: Teachings In The Air periodically introduces content that may impact the wellbeing of individuals who have experienced corresponding traumas in their own lives. Such individuals are encouraged to have ne...

Season 4 of Teachings in the Air premieres with Gerry sharing his vision of the new season and introducing "Indigenous Is". Indigenous Is will be a series that honours what it means to be Indigenous.

“And I realized that Gerry needs a transformation.” In this Season 3 finale episode of Teachings In The Air, Gerry talks about the influences that help shape and transform us on our paths to wellness. Heroes, Transformers, and Tricksters is about the influences we find throughout our lives, Gerry shares personal stories and stories that have been shared with him.

S3 - E10 Worrier to Warrior by BC PHSA

"We must come together. We must become one and make noise with the intention of creating change." Listen to Gerry's stories on lessons on what is happening today on this special episode of Teachings in the Air. #teachingstuesday

Ceremony at a Distance is a conversation with Cole Daley, recorded live for a webinar hosted by UBC Learning Circle on March 21st, 2020. Gerry discusses physical, emotional and spiritual wellness during quarantine. Ceremony is an important part of Gerry says it is important to center ceremony in our lives despite the current limitations. This is Part 2 of Ceremony At A Distance series. During part...

It is National Nurses Week and Indigenous Nurses Day! Thank you to the frontline heroes who show up everyday to keep us safe. Kustkum'ckcuw stucum-wi7 (Thank you, stay alert/stay well)

Ceremony at a Distance is a conversation with Cole Daley, recorded live for a webinar hosted by UBC Learning Circle on March 21st, 2020. Gerry discusses physical, emotional and spiritual wellness during quarantine. Ceremony is an important part of Gerry’s life and he shares how it helps him through difficult experiences. He says it is important to center ceremony in our lives despite the current l...

Gerry encourages us to make our home a "paradise"; to stay home and stay safe during our current global crisis.

Gerry talks about his relationship to Ceremonial Life. Ceremony refers to a spiritual or public occasion - Gerry didn't know or couldn't understand what ceremonies were for until a little later in life. Tune in and listen as he shares what he's learned about living a life in ceremony.

“It is time to warrior up - we need to beat this virus, we need to work together.” Gerry addresses #covid-19 in another special episode of Teachings in the Air. "Warrior Up" is a call to action to keep our families and communities safe during this unique time. Learn how and subscribe now.

Addressing Covid-19 - Answering The Call. by BC PHSA

Once again we get to listen in as Gerry addresses health care professionals as a keynote speaker! As Gerry shares his teachings, he acknowledges the significance of Indigenous ceremonies and language and using these as a means of connection. Non-Indigenous peoples can use traditional language and participation in ceremonies as a means of connection to Indigenous people; while Indigenous peoples ca...

In episode four of Teachings In The Air season 3 we get to sit in on one of Gerry’s keynote speeches: Gerry addresses the Canadian Association of Practical Nurse Educators (CAPNE) in Manitoba at a conference on Inclusivity, emphasizing the importance of inner healing and holistic health as a means to address bias and stereotypes and promote inclusivity.

In this podcast titled “Harms Way” Gerry shares teachings on the principles that kept our Indigenous ancestors out of harm’s way. Gerry’s experiences with his elders taught him the profound yet easy to remember ways in which our people avoided unnecessary situations that caused harm. Listen as Gerry teaches how we all can live in a good way and how the ways of our people can lead to a long and hea...

Gerry joins us from a meeting with the Sacred Circles organization. While sitting fireside with his crew Gerry tells us what a sacred circle is to him and how we can "go home" to our traditional ways using such sacred circles. So Gerry aptly named this podcast "Going Home" in hopes to inspire listeners to return to traditional ways that we might once again have healthy communities, and families, a...

In this first episode of our latest season, Gerry shares about our Indigenous National Treasures; our elders! For thousands of years every generation of elders has been considered the treasure of our communities and culture. Being a traditional elder himself, Gerry teaches us how to spot these treasures and treat them as such! So tune in and learn something new from an ancient way of being.

This is the final episode of Teachings In The Air season 2! So let's celebrate! In this episode entitled "Celebration" Gerry celebrates "the beauty way of life". Our people always saught out and greatly appreciated the beauty in life. So Gerry shares some the beautiful things in our Indigenous culture that we need to celebrate; beauty like our art and artists, musicians, carver's, weavers, storyte...

In this episode of Teachings In The Air Gerry teaches about Kwazantchut; train yourself! Gerry shares stories and methods of how our Indigenous ancestors trained for everything in their lives. This training applied to everything from to hunting to ceremonies. "Kwazantchut was a way of life. Not just for athletes. It was for everyone, everyday." Gerry says. Through Kwazantchut (training) we can ove...

Today’s podcast is called 24/7 Indigenous, because at times, we get negative. The goal of this podcast is to bring a light to listeners about the negative and harmful habits of the colonizers manifesting themselves in our lives in a detrimental way to ourselves as individuals, to our families and communities, and ultimately, to our mother the earth.

This podcast is for all of the students out there - from kindergarten to post-secondary.