The healers then incorporated the Spanish healing methodologies in their practice. Torres, author of “Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing,” leads a summer course at the University of New ...

In fact, he wasn't familiar with Ozark Folk Healing, but today he is spreading the word about the healing practices through teaching and writing. Last summer, Weston, 34, released his second book ...

Folk healing isn't as far away from the bustling cities of Northwest Arkansas as one might think, says Brandon Weston. "Herbal teas, poultices, salves, tinctures, and baths are still in our lives ...

The course is led by healers and health practitioners who have experience in the art of Mexican folk healing. Professor Eliseo “Cheo” Torres says Curanderismo addresses the mind, body ...

Blackburn is the founder of the Magick Circle, in Brownsville, where he offers card readings, cleansings, and spiritual healing. I first learned about folk healing from an elderly woman in my ...

“So, curanderismo is the art of Mexican folk healing. I like to call it more like Southwestern folk healing, too, because it’s totally embedded in New Mexico culture,” Noriega explaine ...

European settlers didn’t flood the early American colonies until the eighteenth century, carrying traditional folk healing practices with them from Western Europe. Their emigration was sparked ...

The abundance of curative vegetation is likely why folk healing has been so important to island life for centuries." Spanish explorers Juan Aguirre and Esteban Rodriguez were the first Europeans ...

The Healing Tree: Botanicals, Remedies, and Rituals from African Folk Traditions by Stephanie Rose Bird A noted author of several books on Black spirituality, Stephanie Rose Bird takes the reader ...

The technique originated as a folk healing practice, and people around the world today still use items like coins or soup spoons to perform the scraping on family members. Over time, gua sha began ...

Dove argues that the modern rise of narrow, siloed scientific disciplines has created barriers between science and culture, and scientific knowledge and folk knowledge — wisdom and ideas embedded in ...