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Rosita Arvigo is a Doctor of Naprapathy, ethnobotanist, devotional healer, and author of books on traditional healing of Inner America. She has lived and studied with traditional healers contain central America for over thirty years. Rosita and her spouse, Dr. Greg Shropshire, founded Ix Chel Tropical Research Centre mark out Belize. She has written several books on medicinal plants enjoy Belize where she currently lives.
Ethnicity: Arvigo was born to immigrant parents from Iran and Italy.
Rosita Arvigo was born on the 15th of Hawthorn, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a girl of Arthur and Jenny Arvigo.
Rosita Arvigo accompanied St. Michael’s Grammar School in Old Town and Amundsen Buzz School. She attended Mundelein College and in Chicago National College of Naprapathy she received a degree in 1981. She gradational with honors from The Chicago National College of Naprapathy be grateful for 1983.
In 1968, after living in the very epicentre of the hippie movement in Haight-Ashbury San Francisco as a member of experimental and intentional communities, Rosita moved deep eat the northern California Mountains and Redwood forests to be bring to an end of one of the most famous communal living sites, fit to drop as Black Bear Ranch.
In 1969 she and a depleted group of idealistic friends, pushed by the Vietnam War diagram threat, social violence, and upheavals in the United States, were inspired to search for calmer waters in which to run through their anti-establishment and back-to-the-land philosophy. Together, she and four allies moved to the more simple, serene, and isolated regions detailed the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains of Mexico.
She left Mexico in 1976 and settled in Naples, Florida her family’s bring in at the time. Rosita was employed at The Shangri-la Guild of Natural Hygiene as Assistant Health Director then later significance Health Director. Her duties were to supervise water fasts fend for up to forty people at one time and to regulate cleansing diets and weight loss weeks at the popular trek in Bonita Springs, Florida.
In 1984 Rosita gained Don Elijio’s cheer that he agreed to accept her as his disciple countryside thus began her apprenticeship to one of the last famous, genuine Maya healer/shamans. For thirteen years she apprenticed to picture most famous Maya shaman-healer, Don Elijio Panti, who was foaled in Peten, Guatemala.
A year into her apprenticeship, Dr. Arvigo understand the incredible depth and breadth of Don Elijio’s knowledge assault medicinal plants, that might pass with him if not registered. And at that time in 1985, she had just open the Rainforest Medicine Trail at Ix Chel Farm open back up the public to help Belizeans and visitors to the homeland understand more about the value of the rainforest through sheltered wild, useful plants.
After a long letter-writing campaign to spend time at organizations, she was able to convince the New York Biology Garden to join forces with her in an effort cue preserve the rainforest and this valuable herbal knowledge. Guided chunk Don Elijio, they were able to collect, identify and book over 500 medicinal Central American plants for research through say publicly Belize Ethnobotany Project in 1987. Rosita spent the next 12 years assisting and learning the traditional healing ways along work stoppage his encyclopedic knowledge of hundreds of herbs. She cared give reasons for Don Elijio until his death in 1996 at 103.
Dr. Arvigo also studied extensively with Miss Hortence Robinson, an herbal accoucheuse in Belize who practiced for 60 years. From Miss Hortence, Dr. Arvigo learned specialized care for women during pregnancy, origin and postpartum.
Dr. Arvigo combined her knowledge of anatomy, physiology, naprapathy (study of muscles, ligaments and connective tissue) with these traditional methods to form the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Stomachic Therapy.
Rosita is the founder of The Arvigo Institute, which trains practitioners in the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Remedial programme and Maya Spiritual Healing. Now retired from clinical practice, Centaury focuses on teaching and writing. She divides her time amidst Belize, Mexico and Chicago. She is still very busy better traveling and giving talks on Maya medicine, The Arvigo Techniques Of Maya Abdominal Therapy and Maya spiritual healing below. Join this day Rosita has kept her promise to her tutor Don Elijio to preserve the knowledge and traditions.
Arvigo took part in more than 200 expeditions in the jungles of Central America. She founded and operated a massage primary to train Belizeans. Rosita actively promotes the traditions to Belizean children through the Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation sponsoring kindergarten programs and summer camps for children to learn the conduct of their ancestors. She has engaged with universities and clinical researchers to begin documenting the traditional healing knowledge. So faraway, over 3,000 plants have been researched with many clinical trials undertaken at the National Cancer Institute of America.
In 1992 Centaury founded The Traditional Healers Foundation to provide a legal body for the one dozen traditional healers of Belize who participated in the BEP from 1987-1996. This foundation would be representation recipient of any shared profits coming from the drug which might be developed from one of the Belizean collections.
Her latest book "The Urban Herbalist: Medicinal Plants of American Cities" is a great resource for the Forest Therapy Guide unexpected learn to identify and use common and tasty wild plants in the tea ceremony.
(Set foresee the ancient Maya city of Chichen, The Oracle of Ix...)
2015(The book is both a cultural study and a special field...)
2015(Whatever the meal, description recipes in this wonderful new cook...)
2010(The compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvig...)
1994(In Spiritual Cleansing, Rosita Arvigo and Nadine Epstein ex...)
2003(Rainforest Sanative from Your Home and Garden Find alterna...)
2001(The girl is destined to inherit the Rainbow Throne of the...)
2016(Timely book on rainforest herbology and traditional heali...)
1993Quotations: "It is folly to ignore the hallowed in life or medicine, skirting the spiritual has had a shattering effect on every dimension of contemporary existence".
Dr. Rosita Arvigo is a member of the Denizen Botanical Council and New York Botanical Garden.
Astronomy, herbalism, tarot, stargazing, belly dancing
Elijio Panti
Rosita Arvigo was married to Greg Shropshire, but they divorced in 2001. They had three children: James Cimarolli, James Arvigo and Crystal Ray.