Restoring our roots, embracing our souls, healing the heart, mind, and body.
Awakening Health, Healing, and Human Potential
Ancient Wisdom Today is a holistic health and educational organization devoted to natural approaches to healing, self-discovery, and the realization of our full human potential.
Founded by Melanie Ryan and Andy Steigmeier, who together bring over five decades of combined experience, Ancient Wisdom Today serves as a sanctuary for those seeking to learn, grow, and heal. Their shared vision is to build community, help others reconnect with the wisdom of nature, awaken their innate gifts, and live with greater balance, and purpose.
Through courses, workshops, and immersive experiences, Ancient Wisdom Today offers opportunities to learn from leading experts in holistic health, spiritual development, leadership, and wilderness skills. Blending ancient teachings with modern understanding, these programs guide individuals on a journey toward wholeness — restoring harmony between mind, body, spirit, and the natural world.
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
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.
The Golden Shadow Method
Awakening the Light Within
The Golden Shadow Method is a path of remembrance—a return to the radiant truth of who you are. Rooted in the wisdom of ancient mystics, philosophers, Buddhists, and shamans, it invites you to journey into both light and dark areas of the unconscious to reclaim your innate power, love, and clarity. Through deep inner work, sacred practices, and embodied wisdom, these teachings awaken the heart and illuminate the soul.
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.
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.
We are committed to bringing our service to everyone. See the Justin Bodhi Sunshine Fund page for more information.
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