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Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health

Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health

Biographical Note: Elena Avila (1944-2011) is the author of the national bestseller Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health. Before...

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Biographical Note:
Elena Avila (1944-2011) is the author of the national bestseller Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health. Before becoming a spiritual counselor, Avila studied nursing and psychiatric nursing. In addition to her book, Avila also wrote poetry, plays, and gave lectures throughout the United States.

Joy Parker is the coauthor of several books including Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health, Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path, and The Sound of the Earth: A Man's Mid-Life Passage and Spiritual Awakening.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a poet, trauma specialist, and Jungian psychoanalyst most recognized as the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. She is also a spoken word performer and has performed with Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison.

Table of Contents:
Woman Who Glows in the Dark Introduction
In the Beginning
Chapter 1. Curanderismo: Health Care for the Body and Soul
Chapter 2. Doctora Corazón: The Training of a Curandera
Chapter 3. Tools and Ceremonies of a Curandera
Chapter 4. The Weeping Soul
Chapter 5. The Twisted Heart
Chapter 6. Apprenticeship: Student Teacher, Teacher Student
7. The Gods That Refused to Die: The Future of the Medicine of the People
Index

Publisher Marketing:
"An autobiographical account of how a psychiatric nurse specialist became a folk medicine healer; this also explains the origins and practice of one of the oldest forms of medicine in the New World.″-- Kirkus

Praise for WOMAN WHO GLOWS IN THE DARK

"This is a book that we've been awaiting for years--one that unites the best medicine from the ancient past with the deepest needs of the contemporary heart and soul."--Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run with the Wolves, The Gift of Story, and Faithful Gardener

"Elena Avila's book is a combination manual, memoir, and healing chant. I'm so glad these stories and secrets - which have been known orally by our culture for ages - are finally down on paper." --Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

"Avila shatters myths about curanderismo and reminds us that it's just as important today as it was centuries ago."-- The Austin Chronicle

"In this age of impersonal and technologic health care, Elena Avila's book gives the reader permission to rely on what has all too often been forgotten. Her message--that healing cannot occur without the heart, instincts, wisdom, and compassion of the healer--is given with grace and simplicity."--Barbara Dossey, R.N., M.S., HNC, FAAN, Director, Holistic Nursing Associates

"Truthful, often painful, always riveting, WOMAN WHO GLOWS IN THE DARK reveals how the practices of curanderismo can heal the soul sickness not addressed by Western medicine."--Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima

"Grounded in the earth, at home in both modern and indigenous medicine, Elena Avila is a true emissary of healing, casting a brilliant glow into the dark of all medicine that denies the soul. As a human, I cherish Elena's light. As a psychiatrist, I welcome her insight."--Judith Orloff, M.D., author of Second Sight and The Genius of Empathy

"Avila is entertaining and often humorous...Without climbing on a soapbox, [her] narrative demonstrates what's missing from most American medical practices, and how many patients could be helped so much more than they are now."-- Kirkus Reviews



Author: Avila, Elena
Publisher: Tarcher
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2000-05-22
BISAC: Health & Fitness|Alternative Therapies|Health & Fitness|Women's Health|General|Mind, Body, Spirit|Healing|General
Subjects: Magic|Superstition
Weight: 0.8 lbs
ISBN: 9781585420223
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781585420223

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