A little bit about me…
I’m Sandra Jones (most folks call me Sandy). I am a white cis female and I use she/her/hers pronouns. I’ve been in the business of helping folks address and heal all kinds of trauma/pain (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual) for over thirty years. My healing journey was fueled by my own experience of suffering from developmental childhood trauma and it’s impact. I am a survivor of the destructive effects of diet-culture/fat phobia. These traumas were limiting and keeping my life small and individual. I felt hopeless that I would ever be able to thrive and engage in building a just society, so I went looking for a trauma-informed way to radically shift experiences of health and vitality.
I couldn’t find the right alchemy of medicines so I decided to become that medicine – A holistic, relational, drug free approach to pain relief best described as Functional Wellness. I’ve been dedicated to learning and teaching others how to get out of pain ever since by incorporating my skills as a trauma-informed NARM practitioner, a bodyworker and a practitioner of Natural Therapies including homeopathy and bio-individual
lized functional nutrition. I know that healing complex trauma is a vehicle for transformation on a personal and collective level.
My formal training includes a certification from the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration (RISI) in Boulder, CO and a certification as a Professional Structural Integrator from the International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI). I have also studied other complimentary modalities including visceral manipulation, DNM (dermo-neural modulating), craniosacral therapies and Rolf movement.
My healing path also led me to use and subsequently study Homeopathy. I graduated from the prestigious four-year program in classical homeopathy at the Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the spring of 2009.
I also studied with Misha Norland of the Devon School of Homeopathy, Jayesh Shah from the “Bombay School,” and I received certification as a Master Clinician after four years attending the Luminos Homeopathic Courses taught by Lou Klein. I hold a national certification by the Council for Homeopathic Certification and I am a member is good standing of NASH, North American Society of Homeopaths (NASH) and The National Center for Homeopathy (NCH).
In 2010 I joined The Minnesota Homeopathic Association (MHA), one of the only professional organizations for homeopaths in North American. I served as Membership Director and also for three years as President.
In 2015 I became a Nutritional Therapies Practitioner, certified by the NTA, Nutritional Therapies Association, and in 2016 I began my studies with RWS, Restorative Wellness Solutions. I utilize a functional medicine approach, and I ground my work in focusing on the health and vitality of the microbiome.
I come from a healing justice framework. “Healing justice” is both a term and movement, first coined by the Atlanta-based Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective in 2007, that aims to address widespread generational trauma from systemic violence and oppression by reviving ancestral healing practices and building new, more inclusive ones.
I understand my work to be about decolonization. First of myself, and also the health and wellness field. As an abolitionist, I focus on root causes with a healing justice framework. When I’m not in my south Minneapolis office, you can find me walking my husky mix, Marzipan; marveling at the interplay of science and divinity while in my gardens, or conjuring deep care and justice in my local communities.