Rosita Arvigo
Spiritual Healing with Plants
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“Everything is important. Faith is essential. Don Elijio would say, ‘I collect the plants, I chop and dry them, but it is faith that heals’. Faith is belief without objective evidence. When we put all this together, water, plants, prayer, love, and faith — we do spiritual healing.” — Rosita Arvigo
Rosita’s Gift to You:
My Apprenticeship with Maya Shaman Elijio Panti
A beautiful video documentation of Rosita's journey with Don Elijio. Sharing their experience over 13 years. With pictures of Don Elijio collecting plants and saying prayers. A beautiful piece, produced lovingly with care for this honored Maya shaman.
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Biography
A wisdom keeper of Maya tradition and an ambassador of the plant kingdom, Rosita Arvigo is a native of Chicago, a naprapathic physician, herbalist, international lecturer, and author with a passion for the medicinal plants of the Americas and abdominal therapy. She has lived in remote areas of Mexico and Belize for more than forty years. There, she studied with many traditional healers, including Don Elijio Panti, the renowned Maya shaman of Belize, and midwife/herbalist Hortence Robinson, both of whom were recipients of the coveted National Living Treasure Award. Rosita and her husband, Dr. Greg Shropshire, founded Ix Chel Tropical Research Centre in Belize, an organization dedicated to the preservation and study of medicinal plants of the rainforest. They also founded the Belize Association of Traditional Healers, Bush Medicine Camp for children, The Rainforest Medicine Trail, Rainforest Remedies, an herbal concentrate company, and the Belize Ethnobotany project with Dr. Michael Balick of the New York Botanical Garden. Rosita is the co-founder of the Abdominal Therapy Collective, which trains practitioners in the Don Elijios Maya Abdominal Therapy and Maya Spiritual Healing. Now retired from clinical practice, Rosita focuses on teaching and writing. She divides her time between Belize, Mexico, and Chicago.