Sas Carey

Sas Carey
Occupation Director/producer
Author
Teacher
Nurse
Healer
Website http://www.lifenergyheal.com

Sas Carey (born 1945) is an American film director, author, teacher, holistic nurse and spiritual healer. She is best known for the film Gobi Women's Song and for founding the non-profit Nomadicare, which provides health services to nomadic herders in Mongolia.[1]

Personal life

Carey was born in the state of Washington, United States, at the end of World War II. She later moved to the Northeastern United States, where she pursued a degree in education at Western Connecticut State University and Keene State College. She also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1983) and Master of Education degree from the University of Vermont. She has lived in Mongolia, France, Sweden, China and Denmark, and currently lives and works in Middlebury, Vermont. Carey was married and has two children and two grandchildren.[2][3]

Career

Holistic Nursing and Prevention

After teaching second grade and working as a professional clay sculptor, Carey became a Registered Nurse and started a private practice in holistic nursing. She also founded the Alternatives for Teens program, which promotes teens' discussion of issues important to them and sets up group events as alternatives to drug and alcohol use. In 1990, the program received one of ten Exemplary Prevention Programs Awards given nationally from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. In 1999, she was hired as an Office of Safe and Healthy Students consultant for the state of Vermont.

Study and Work in Mongolia

In 1994, Carey traveled to China and Mongolia as an American Holistic Nurses Association delegate with the People to People Student Ambassador Program. In 1995, she returned to Mongolia under a grant to study Traditional Mongolian medicine (TMM) with Dr. B. Boldsaikhan at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Ulaanbaatar. She became one of the first two Americans to receive a certificate of Physician of Traditional Mongolian Medicine, an experience documented in the film Steppe Herbs, Mare's Milk, and Jelly Jars.

Following her study of TMM, she continued to work in Mongolia as a Health Education Training Specialist with the World Bank/UN Development Programme, consulting for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education Programme for the 21st Century.

While working in Mongolia, Carey became familiar with nomadic herders living a traditional lifestyle in the Gobi Desert. In 2001-2004, she conducted a study of health practices in Manlai, South Gobi, interviewing doctors, nurses, bonesetters, administrators, and nomadic women. The study became the basis of her 2006 documentary Gobi Women's Song, of which a Mongolian ambassador has stated, "This is the real life of the people living in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. I am from this place. I was born and grew up there".[4]

Following the study in the Gobi, Carey conducted a seven-year assessment of the health of the Dukha reindeer herders in northern Mongolia.

From this study, the NGO Nomadicare provided training for all rural (sum) clinic/hospitals in South Gobi and Khovsgol Provinces in 2010 and 2012. Eighty doctors and health practitioners were trained in either traditional Mongolian medicine or in Laboratory Safety Techniques and Testing, impacting the health care options for a population of 175,000.

Nomadicare and Life Energy Healing School

After returning from Mongolia, Carey founded the Life Energy Healing School to teach students energy healing and health and prevention techniques using Traditional Mongolian Medicine integrated with modern health practices. The school is based out of Middlebury, and includes a correspondence and study-abroad curriculum, requiring prerequisites in western health sciences.

Carey also continued her work in the Gobi by founding the non-profit NGO Nomadicare, which supports the sustainability and cultural survival of nomadic peoples in Mongolia by harmonizing traditional and modern medicine and documenting nomadic ways. She has traveled in rural Mongolia nearly every year for two decades.[5] In 2003, Carey extended Nomadicare's work to include the Dukha reindeer herders of the Mongolian Taiga. One traveler in the Taiga described Carey: "in her mid-60s and a reluctant horsewoman, but she has spent the past seven summers riding round the 44 nomadic families in East Taiga to collect data".[6] Today, Nomadicare provides traditional Mongolian medicine training, laboratory supplies and general training to rural Gobi and northern Mongolia's rural health centers' health professionals.[7][8][9] It also helps American and Mongolian life sciences students to study with nomadic peoples[10][11]

In addition to Steppe Herbs, Mare's Milk, and Jelly Jars and Gobi Women's Song, Carey has produced a number of short films about the Dukha herders. Her films have been presented at the Rubin Museum of Art, Green Mountain Film Festival, Vermont International Film Festival, and the Woodstock Film Festival.[12][13][14][15][16][17]

She actively promotes knowledge of and assistance for Mongolian nomads through talks and seminars[18][19][20]

Filmography

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Staff (2004–2012). "Profile". Nafella Beta : The Smart Way. Nafella LLC. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  2. ↑ Unknown. "About The Founder". Life Energy Healing. Life Energy Healing. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Staff (31 October 2006). "Mongolia Film Premiere: Gobi Women's Song". Mongolia-Web. Mongolia-Web. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  4. ↑ Documentary on women of Mongolia on tour of US. Mongolia-Web, 2007-08-27. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  5. ↑ James, M. Sas Carey returning to Mongolia, Addison County Independent, 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  6. ↑ Richard and the shaman show, Wild Frontiers, 2010-02-07. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  7. ↑ Altankhuyag, A. U.S. nurse organizing Buddhist medical training for Mongolian doctors The Buddhist Channel, 2007-06-27. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  8. ↑ Nomadicare Rural Health Project, Virtual Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  9. ↑ Nomadicare: Harmonizing traditional and modern medicine for the health and cultural survival of the nomads of Mongolia, ChangeMakers.com, 2011. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  10. ↑ J-Term 2012 Internship at Nomadicare, NGO, Middlebury College, 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  11. ↑ AMCS Fellowship Recipients 2008. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  12. ↑ Harvard Central-Eurasia-L Announcement Archive. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  13. ↑ UVM 2006 Asian Studies Events. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  14. ↑ Goviin busguin aylguu, photoblog of Indiana U. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  15. ↑ Mongolia-Web: Mongolia Film Premiere. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  16. ↑ Green Mountain Film Festival 2007. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  17. ↑ Woodstock Film Festival 2007. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  18. ↑ A Nomad's Life. Denpubs news, 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  19. ↑ Mongolia Society/YMPA Fundraiser, Mongol Survey: A Publication of the Mongolian Society, 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  20. ↑ Autism & Shamanism, Rubin Museum of Art, 2009-11-08. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
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