View Healers, excerpted from the video Woman Shaman: the Ancients. It looks in greater depth at the theme of Women Who Revive the Dead, including the Ninth Sorceress of Mande and the great tungutu Pa Sini Jobu of the Soroko people (Mali); Medea of Colchis (Georgia in the Caucasus); the Nine Priestesses of Sena (Bretagne); Ilmatar (Finland); Nishan Shaman (Manchuria); and Yeshe Tsogyel (Tibet). Also, a brief glimpse of medieval herbalists and the sweathouse in Czechia, Russia, and Mexico.

This two-dvd set reveals the rich cultural record of medicine women, seers, oracles, healers, trance-dancers, shapeshifters, and dreamers—on a global scale. They told us that female spiritual leaders didn't exist, or were rare exceptions, or insignificant; that Indigenous medicine ways were superstitious and backward. All lies. To experience the beauty, power and wisdom of these spiritual legacies is medicine for the spirit, especially for the women who have been pushed down, marginalized, denied, and silenced in the name of religion. These most ancient spiritual ways have immense value—however far back, or deep, we have to go to recover this human birthright.

Available here.

View the trailer. Another trailer here.

Contents of Disc One (90 minutes):

Invocation

Sacred Dance

Flight

Shapeshifters

Serpents

Animal Spirits

Shamanic Goddesses

Healers

Diviners

 Contents of Disc Two (90 minutes):

Oldest Shamans

Drums

Rattles

Entheogens

Staffs

Fans / Herb Bundles

Crowns / Headdresses

Mirrors

Commentary

The full transcript of Woman Shaman is Open Access, here.