About
The Institute
Earth Medicine Institute Taos is a 501c3 charitable foundation born from the need to understand health and medicine through a different lens. Advancements in physics, technology and biology in the past 30 years have overturned the basic science and premises upon which Western allopathic medicine was founded, begging us to reconsider our approaches to resolving illness, trauma and imbalance.
The institute brings together great minds across the globe to exchange ideas, new science and health practices that advance understanding in the field of health and wellness. Through collaboration, partnerships and outreach we create breakthroughs in how we understand and practice medicine today.
Our Founder
Merrill Page is a lifelong student of Alternative Medicine and brings a deep love of metaphor, culture, nature, and scientific philosophy to her understanding of how we heal. Drawing from her diverse background in Literature and Language (BA Stanford 1997), pre-medicine studies (George Washington University 1999), Health and Healing (MA Saybrook University 2006) and 20 years as a practitioner of Ayurveda, 5 element theory and Craniosacral therapy, she unites diverse frameworks for understanding health and medicine under a common umbrella she calls Earth Medicine. Her new book, EARTH MEDICINE : A FIELD GUIDE illuminates how, by surrendering to the natural cycles and stages of life, we reclaim health on not just a personal level, but communally and globally as well. Find book: https://www.merrillpage.com/field-guide
Speaking Engagements
Looking to WOW! your audience with a fresh take on Alternative Medicine and Self-help?
Look no further.
Our founder, Merrill Page blends her poetic nature with decades of experience and practice in multiple forms of mindbody medicine to deliver talks that delight and deepen her audience all at once. She draws from her background in women’s health, indigenous studies, literature, alternative medicine, and motherhood to serve up menus carefully tailored to her guests. Her goal: to inspire, empower and shift the landscapes of the lives she touches, leaving all who meet her wanting more.
Topics include
Daily ritual: shifting the mind from discipline to delight
Everyday Magic: Your power to change the world around you through focusing on your SELF
Purpose and Passion- Unleashing your heart and why that matters in health
Somatic therapy? What is it and why is it called the expressway to feeling good again?
Women’s Health- how honoring your cyclical nature transforms the world.
Chakras and the endocrine system. A mysterious connection and the modern mind.
For schools, businesses, organizations, parenting groups, reunions, women’s groups, health/recovery centers, midwives + doulas
contact Institute for dates and rates
“Do not risk injuring what is important for the sake of what is not important.”
— I Ching