Rosita Arvigo
Thirteen Years With A Maya Shaman
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“Don Elijio was not expecting me. I was certainly not expecting to be initiated as a shaman, and neither one of us was anticipating that the care of his people would be left in the hands of a white woman from America. The Maya Spirits are full of surprises!”
— Rosita Arvigo
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Little Altars Everywhere
Documentary Video: A celebration of the life of Don Elijio Panti remembered. Recorded with the Abdominal Therapy Collective. February 2023.
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Biography
Rosita is a native of Chicago, a naprapathic physician, herbalist, international lecturer and author with an obsession and 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; and Rainforest Remedies, an herbal concentrate company, and the Belize Ethnobotany project with Dr. Michael Balick of the New York Botanical Garden. Rosita is the founder of the Abdominal Therapy Collective which trains practitioners in Don Elijio's 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.