by Mary Hernandez | Feb 24, 2015 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Indigenous Education
“Based on her 30 years of study on indigenous health and practices of the Igorots, a professor from the University of the Philippines Baguio is invoking the power of spiritual healing over diseases covered by the indigenous and spiritual practices in the...
by Jen Maramba | Nov 26, 2014 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Decolonization and Filipino Identity, Events and Conference, In the News, Indigenous Education, Modern Practices, Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
by Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta in UP Forum For countless years, indigenous peoples (IPs) have lived on the fringes of society, barely mentioned even in the footnotes of history texts. The IPs, if given any attention at all, are often viewed as collateral damage in...
by Omehra | Jun 24, 2013 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites
by Luisa A. Igloria Review of Song of the Babaylan: Living Voices, Medicines, Spiritualities of Philippine Ritualist-Oralist Healers by Grace Nono (Institute of Spirituality in Asia, 2013) In the “Invocations” chapter of her newest book, Song of the Babaylan: Living...
by Omehra | Feb 16, 2011 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Events and Conference
February 2011 The banigs or hand woven mats said it all. It was Thursday evening, January 27, 2011 and as I spread them out and looked at them, they looked back, crumpled, dirty and forlorn. I carried them, laid them on the tub and tried to scrub them clean. But as...
by Omehra | Jan 31, 2011 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites
Virgil Mayor Apostol, Way of the Ancient Healer NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2010 Reviewed by Leny Mendoza Strobel January 28, 2011 In a note I sent to Virgil shortly after receiving my copy of his book, I wrote: In a way, my books have been a way station for the arrival of...
by Omehra | Dec 25, 2010 | Babaylan and Community Healing
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