Sublime

In my culture there are prayers and offerings that are made when we take the life of a plant for healing. We explain to the plant why we are taking its life, and for whom the plant medicine will be used. We then offer a token of táádidíín or corn meal, a prayer, and gratitude. Through this sacred exchange we are considered equals in the cycles of

For the shaman, one of the significant reasons that prayer is often of limited success is that the compassionate spirits of the Upper and Lower Worlds are not all-powerful outside the realms in which they dwell. Since their power to affect circumstances in the Middle World is limited, they characteristically need ordinary-reality allies to help

You can call upon light to transmute energy and to empower and heal yourself and your loved ones.

As cantadora (keeper of the old stories), and as an ethnic woman from two cultures, it would be

I am a strong supporter of those who bring back the stories of their heritages, preserving them, saving them from death by neglect. Of course, it is the old people who are the bones of the entire healing and spiritual structures everywhere on the face of the earth.

place substantial emphasis on clinical and developmental psychology, and I use the simplest and most accessible ingredient for healing—stories.

it’s the shaman’s role in the community to keep harmony and balance between humankind and the forces of nature.