Restoring our roots, embracing our souls, healing the heart, mind, and body.
Who We Are
Ancient Wisdom Today is a holistic health and educational organization that provides natural approaches to healing, discovering our true nature, and reaching our full human potential.
Founded by Melanie Ryan & Andy Steigmeier who bring over 50 years of experience combined to those who seek to learn and heal. They have dedicated their lives to helping others reach their full potential and restore a connection with the natural world.
Ancient Wisdom Today provides opportunities to learn from experts in the field of health, healing, spiritual development, leadership, and wilderness skills.
Spiritual Teacher
Psychotherapist
Wilderness Skills Educator
Melanie Ryan is an author and founder of The Golden Shadow Method. She is renowned Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist.
Pain Specialist
Concierge Rehabilitation
Wilderness Skills Educator
Andy Steigmeier is the founder of Moving Beyond Pain. He is an expert in physical rehabilitation, strength and conditioning programs, and natural pain relief methods.
What We Offer
Healing Sessions
Recorded Webinars
Retreats
Calendar of Events
The Golden Shadow Method
The Golden Shadow Method founded by Melanie Ryan, is a path of awakening your full human potential. It holds the belief that you are inherently good, wise, loving and creative. Golden Shadow trainings bring out the best of you. Using ancient wisdom traditions, you are guided to your own sources of wisdom and intuition, while unlocking your ability to heal and achieve higher states of consciousness. We assist you in letting go of the emotional, mental, and physical toxins, that block you. The method purifies negative energies hidden in the unconscious that cause disease. Golden Shadow trainings are inspired by Jungian psychology, eastern philosophy, metaphysics, and the ancestral wisdom of native people around the world.
Moving Beyond Pain
Moving Beyond Pain, founded by Andy Steigmeier, is an integrative approach for treating acute and chronic pain. It refers to a state of life beyond the limitations and challenges imposed by pain, focusing on strategies and natural approaches to help individuals find relief, gain control, become stronger, and live a pain-free meaningful life without the need for drugs or surgery. Andy provides gentle hands on therapeutic bodywork techniques with strength and conditioning exercises to bring your body back into balance. He treats a wide range of people and teaches natural ways to heal and move beyond pain.
Wilderness Skills
It is vital for our health and happiness that we return to nature and become caretakers of the Earth. All sentient beings are interconnected and share a life force that is sacred. When we disconnect from the web of life, and our true nature, disease will manifest. Andy and Melanie provide classes for adults, families and children. We offer nature-based programs that share the wisdom of our ancestors. These include: fire-making, shelter building, tracking, awareness, archery, philosophy, sweat lodge, ceremonies, vision questing, plant ID, herbalism, and organic gardening.
Our Mission
Our Mission is to create quality education and healing opportunities that restore a healthy and positive connection to community, nature, human virtues, and consciousness.
Our vision is to share ancient wisdom for healing our modern world so that future generations may be free and healthy.
Melanie Ryan and Andy Steigmeier collaborate with many skilled professionals who share this same Vision. If you would like to bring your expertise to our community, please contact us.
Our Devotion
The meaning and expression of our devotion is for those who touched our lives and brought us to our own authenticity and deep connection with the Earth. We dedicate the work of Ancient Wisdom Today to the memory of our son Justin Bodhi Steigmeier, and all the wise ancestors of Earth and Sky who exist in the highest realms of love and light.
Justin Bodhi
Sunshine Club
A Scholarship Fund
In Memory of Justin Bodhi Steigmeier
June 30, 2008 – December 19, 2023
Justin was the only child of Melanie and Andy. He was 15 years old when he passed away suddenly of an aneurysm, a shocking event that sent Melanie and Andy on a spiritual journey beyond their imagination. Melanie and Andy were devoted homeschooling parents who shaped Justin into a well-respected leader. Justin was a 2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo, a two-time gold medalist, state champion and Taekwondo instructor. He was an Eagle Scout Candidate and a Teen Leader in his wilderness survival school. Justin was well accomplished in many areas, yet he was humble. He was a wise old soul and, in many ways, a spiritual teacher for Melanie and Andy.
During the final two years of his life, Justin wrote an autobiography. His book will be launched in April 2025.
If you would like to help make it possible for others of lesser means to attend our programs, please contribute to the Justin Steigmeier Sunshine Club. These funds are strictly used to give aid to those who do not have the means to afford our programs. You may apply for full or partial scholarship to our programs by emailing info@ancientwisdomtoday.com
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