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About the Course
As the third of four courses on Curanderismo, the art of Hispanic/Latino traditional medicine, this course focuses specifically on traditional healing of mind, energy and spirit. As an educational and cultural platform, this course will share a number of traditional body therapies. Trained traditional healers will share their knowledge of cleansings from different cultures such as spiritual, energetic and Tonalli Cleansing.
Learners will not become certified traditional healers at the completion of this course but will be able apply basic principles or traditional medicine for health and illnesses. They will become familiar specifically with the traditional therapy of the sweat lodge temazcal, laugh therapy risaterapia and they will learn about the creation of sacred spaces and healing grief through Día de los Muertos.
The Final Curanderismo course will be:
• Global and Cultural Influences of Traditional Healing: African traditional medicine from Uganda and Gabon; Afro-Latino from Cuba and Puerto Rico, Native American spiritual cleansings and Mayan acupuncture and other topics.
REQUIRED TEXTS
- Curanderismo: The Art of Traditional Medicine without Borders by Eliseo Torres
- Curandero: Traditional Healers of Mexico and the Southwest by Eliseo Torres with Imanol Miranda
Where to buy:
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OPTIONAL TEXTS
Curandero: A life in Mexican Folk Healing by Eliseo Torres & Tim Sawyer
Healing with Herbs & Rituals: A Mexican Tradition, Eliseo Torres, edited by Tim Sawyer
Where to buy:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/curandero-torres-eliseo-cheo/1120135382?ean=9780826336415&st=PLA&sid=BNB_1341481610&sourceId=PLAGoNA&dpid=tdtve346c&2sid=Google_c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3_6LmYev3gIViuNkCh3IPgUyEAQYASABEgLYXfD_BwE
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PODCAST:
- Blubrry podcast - https://www.blubrry.com/normallol/41068835/normal-lol-63-depersonalization-mental-wellness-curanderismomexican-traditional-healing-with-eliseo-cheo-torres/
- Itunes Episode 63 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/normal-lol-depersonalization-derealization-anxiety/id1065740418?mt=2
Top reviews
ER
Oct 21, 2024
This is a beautiful course in which if you are very receptive to energy you can actually feel the love and transmission of these practices when these instructors explain it. Ometeotl! I loved it!
JA
May 21, 2023
Excellent presentations of traditional healing. The Curandero(a)s were all proficient in demonstrating the various modalities. Enjoyed this course very much and learned a lot.
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By Alex V
•Oct 18, 2020
Would have like it to be more in depth. More on the limpias and sobadas.