Cynthia New Holy is a South Dakota State certified elementary teacher at Isna Wica Owayawa (Loneman school) in Oglala, SD on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She is the wife of enrolled member Dorian New Holy of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and mother to their 5 children Kiyon, Aurora, Nora, Brandy, and Liam and is of Scottish Irish descent. She is a domestic violence survivor from a previous relationship and has turned her trauma into healing she says thanks to the Creator, family, ceremony and the Mind Body Medicine program. She is a certified practitioner of mind-body medicine and helps women to heal through The Center for Mind-Body Medicine program founded by Dr. Jim Gordon.
She created “Oglala Women’s Healing Circle: Mind-Body Medicine.” They have met since April of 2019 in person originally in Oglala, SD (a community on the Pine Ridge Reservation), and then converted online when the pandemic hit. It has now grown nationwide and internationally connecting Indigenous women from all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico to connect to healing from trauma. It has also included men and women’s groups and women in the jail.
She enjoys making inspirational videos on social media using her intuitive writing that started as poetry and short stories when she was a young girl. Cynthia uses her intuitive and channeled wisdom to help inspire others. It is her vision that the healing she found in her life helps other women to also find healing in themself. “The negative cycles end with our own healing and when our women heal the nation heals.”