Returning to the Earth: How Boundless Warrior Is Reframing Healing and Rebuilding Community
According to Myranda Pretty Owl, founder of Boundless Warrior and a member of the Lakota Tribe, the evolution of modern wellness often overlooks the truth that healing becomes possible when people remember where they come from. That understanding sits at the heart of Myranda’s work with Boundless Warrior, a wellness sanctuary shaped by tradition, lived experience and a profound commitment to restoring both people and land.
Her practice combines counseling with earth-based modalities, offering a path she believes reconnects individuals to ancestral ways that strengthen mental, emotional, physical and communal well-being. “I help people go back to the ancestral ways of healing,” she says. “My focus is on decolonizing our practices, health systems, psychological systems and community systems that are embedded within the community.”
Boundless Warrior is the culmination of 15 years of healing work and four years of stewarding a ranch in southeastern Colorado. Myranda highlights that the ranch, once a long-running cattle operation, has been restored to its original plant and water systems, and stands at the center of her mission to guide people back to essential, sustainable practices.
“I follow the Lakota tradition, which I share with my people. I teach my clients how to be traditional with their own traditions, with their own ways of connection with the earth, plants and animals,” Myranda shares. “I’m helping individuals rediscover the earth-based teachings of their own lineages.”
Her service incorporates a six-month or year-long mentorship program built around customized healing roadmaps. Each client begins with a detailed consultation that explores vision, goals and barriers through the lens of the medicine wheel. She believes that healing must address the full spectrum of life, mental, physical, emotional and spiritual; and rejects the one-size-fits-all trends.
Every roadmap is shaped around a person’s gifts, challenges and cultural roots. Monthly meetings introduce earth-based and ancestral healing modalities, shadow work and reconnection practices, gradually expanding into the client’s greater purpose of community service.
Her approach dismantles extractive models of spirituality by nurturing future leaders who carry their teachings forward. According to Myranda, many of her clients have become healers and teachers within their own communities, offering modalities aimed at strengthening collective well-being. She works with individuals, families and community leaders, creating personalized support structures aligned with each person’s vision for service.
Twice a year, Myranda hosts intensive weekends. “I think of them as life-changing weekends where people come to understand all societal impact through an Indigenous lens and gain healing modalities,” she explains. They take place in the restored range.
As part of the broader vision, she and her partner are working to introduce Buffalo Restoration, where she intends to bring back the buffalo to the land, after the species was targeted by colonial settlers. “We want to bring them back to serve Indigenous communities by supporting food sovereignty,” she says.
Myranda highlights that she seeks to make the ranch into a hub for ceremonies and services for the communities, and introduce youth programs and addiction rehabilitation services. “All these things are needed not just for the Indigenous communities, but also for the greater community at large,” she says.
According to Myranda, most sessions take place via video calls, a structure designed to make her work accessible to individuals seeking guidance beyond geographical boundaries. She notes that the transformations she witnesses echo her own journey, which shapes the heart of her practice.
Raised between her Lakota mother, whose own life bore the scars of being taken from the tribe, and her Scandinavian father, who taught her earth connection through farming, hunting and self-reliance, she inherited teachings that would eventually save her life. She notes that she tried to suppress intense parts of herself in pursuit of normalcy. She later pursued business school and ran multiple ventures, but none fulfilled her. Addiction took hold, deepened by the weight of early motherhood and disconnection from her purpose.
At her lowest point, she experienced what she describes as a spiritual intervention from her father after his passing, urging her to return to the work she was meant to do. “I returned to traditions, and that’s what saved me,” she says, explaining that ceremonies, sweat lodges, vision practices and ancestral healing brought her back to life. That experience fuels her devotion to helping others move through emotional, psychological, spiritual and intergenerational healing.
Myranda Pretty Owl’s vision now centers on broader community stewardship. She believes in creating networks of healers; expanding awareness for her ranch intensives and guideship programs; and mobilizing support for the buffalo restoration initiative. Through these efforts, Boundless Warrior champions a future rooted in earth-based wisdom, personal sovereignty and the restoration of land and identity.
