We welcome you to watch the recording of our event launching Women's Wellness Circle featuring Max Dashu.
Max Dashu Presents Healers, Curanderas, and Medicine Women
A visual talk on women healers and herbalists, their healing ceremonies and ways of clearing blocked or trapped energies. We look at ecstatic healers such as Maria Sabina (Mazatec, Mexico); Essie Parrish (Kashaya Pomo, California); and Katjambia (Himba, Namibia). We learn about healers from the Philippines, Korea, South Africa, Hungary, and Wisconsin; among the Aztecs, Kirghiz, Karok and Yurok, Irish and Welsh, Thai, Ainu, Tibetan, Black Carib and Dayak. And a widespread stories about Women Who Revive the Dead.
Recorded on April 20th 2025 for the launch of Women's Wellness Circle.
About Max Dashu
Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history and heritages from the most ancient times to the present, globally (www.suppressedhistories.net and Suppressed Histories Archives on FB). She is internationally known for her expertise on iconography, matricultures and female spheres of power; medicine women, witches, and the witch hunts; and the interconnections between patriarchy, conquest, and systems of domination.
She is the author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100 (2016) and Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides (2023). Her unfolding open access book, Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church (2024-25) lays out the origins of church-state authoritarianism and persecution. Her videos include Woman Shaman: the Ancients (2013) and Women’s Power in Global Perspective (2008), along with open access videos at https://www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/videos
Max blogs daily on the Suppressed Histories Facebook page, followed by 254,000 people internationally. She teaches online courses and visual webcasts, and has guest-lectured at scores of universities and international conferences.
Disclaimer
At Women's Studies Online we strive to raise feminist consciousness by centering women's knowledge and herstories. By exploring complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional medicine we are in no way treating, diagnosing or prescribing treatments for health conditions. We encourage participants in this circle to seek medical advice from qualified healthcare practitioners.
