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Title	:	Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani
Author	:	Rosita Arvigo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 1995 by HarperOne (first published April 1st 1994)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Anthropology

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Circle of Life in the Jungles of Belize

Sastun, is the amazing memoir of an American women’s adventure into a renewed way of life as she transports herself and her family deep into the jungles of Belize. Rosita Arvigo, and Italian/Assyrian women from Chicago, together with her husband and daughter, make the difficult decision to leave the hustle and bustle of today’s modern society to attempt a new life by homesteading and opening up a health facility in South America. Rosita is trained in naprapathy medicine, a sort of chiropractic massage therapy, and her husband is a trained paramedic.

Together they purchase a large many acre plot of jungle in Belize, spend years clearing the land as they set up practice, and live like pioneer settlers integrating themselves into this new world of backbreaking work and daily battles with sweltering heat, insect infestations, creeping jungle flora, perpetual damp and mold, and local diseases. Hearing of a local Mayan medicine man, Rosita makes his acquaintance and from that moment on, becomes determined to learn natural and spiritual healing to accompany her already trained hands.

After meeting Don Elijio Panti, Belize’s renowned healer and Shaman, Rosita falls in love with the 90 year old sage and soon begins a long lived friendship and apprenticeship in which she will sacrifice much time to slowly learn the ways of the forest, train herself with Elijio’s guidance, breathe the natural world around her, and learn to harvest the many hundreds of jungle plants that can heal all of man’s physical and spiritual ailments. This story is one of the most engaging and fascinating memoirs I have ever read. I can’t imagine any reader not falling in love with the delightful and mischievous Don Elijio, aged and wrinkled, so full of life, love, and laughter, that turns no soul in need away from his door. Hundreds of South American patients travel many miles each day to be treated by Don Elijio, to seek his wisdom, medicine and healing hands.

Never did Rosita imagine that such a full bounty of natural pharmaceuticals was right there at arms reach, just a few steps away in the heart of the Belize jungle. Just ripe for the harvesting, so many trees, plants, leafs, berries and bark samples, were there for the healing with the right knowledge to use them. Spending years with Don Elijio by his side training daily allows Rosita to witness healing and miracles like she had never seen in any modern medical facility or hospital. Medical emergencies and sicknesses abound in Belize and not a day went by where she didn’t drop her mouth in awe as she watched and learned what the medicine man was capable of, using combinations of plants, the laying on of his hands, shamanistic spiritual counsel, and his 90 years of common sense and experience with the nature of man and the natural world around him. With a twinkle in his eye, an incredible sense of humor, and with the wisdom of the ages, he teaches Rosita to someday replace him as the village healer. The two embark on a journey close to that of father and daughter, welcoming the village people into their homes and hearts as they line up putting their trust and faith in their hands.

This is a very insightful and illuminating story that will entrance the reader with the wonders of the natural world and what it has to offer us if we just learn to tap into it’s gifts. The book surely holds a story that is uplifting, inspirational, and is a book that will renew one’s faith in mankind. I found the knowledge within this book eye-opening and felt the man himself, Don Elijio Panti, truly a magical human being. To his own people he is a god. After you read this book you will agree he is what the world needs more of.

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Original Title:	Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani
ISBN:	006250259X (ISBN13: 9780062502599)
Edition Language:	English

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A great depiction of one Mayan Healer's (Don Elijio) life and Rosita's assimilation into the culture of herbal medicine. The book looks at environmental destruction, the interrelation of religion in healing, and the need to protect what nature gives to us before pharmaceutical companies come in.

AFTER DON ELIGIO PANTI SENT ME BLESSINGS OF PROTECTION...AND I IN TURN, SENT HIM A TIBETAN BLESSING BRACELET...HE PASSED AWAY. I THEN BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH HIS NIECE...MARIA MEX GARCIA...AND HER NIECE PAULINA. THEY WERE SACRED CEREMONIALISTS. ROSITA ARVIGO FIRST FACILITATED THESE CONTACTS AS A RESULT OF WRITING HER BOOK. WE PARTICIPATED IN A MULTICULTURAL SACRED FEMININE CEREMONY WITH THE INTENT OF BLESSINGS AND NEW BEGINNINGS...WITHOUT PREJUDICES AND IN FAIR AND RESPECTFUL TRADE...FREE FROM

I am currently looking into starting a career in Herbalism and this book was the flicker of anecdotal inspiration that I needed. Sastun is a story for the rich in faith. A biography providing hope for those seeking to learn and incorporate the lost wisdom of the ages (long lost from Western culture) into their practice. Whatever that may be. Its there! You need but have faith and listen.

I read this book when it first came out and I can say with all honesty that it changed my life. I feel it started me on my journey of becoming a New and Better Me. Stronger. Healthier. More powerful. More connected to the earth and spirit world. And less fearful. If I were speaking in today's lingo, I'd say it started me down the path of being the #BadAss woman that I am today. Gloria Squitiro, A first lady of Kansas City and Author of May Cause Drowsiness and Blurred Vision: The Side Effects of

This book was fabulous and for me, as an herbalist myself, an inspiration. While there is a sadness in the fact that this ancient healing modality is disappearing just as the rainforest is, there is a hop through Rosita Arvigo that not only will the healing methods be carried on but also that the plants will be preserved.

I loved this book. It was uplifting and tragic at the same time. It only reminds us of the continued destruction of the rainforest and the healing plants. It's the world's loss that there are no more healers like Don Elijio

This book is amazing. Confirms my belief that we already have with us a cure for all our illnesses. I am so glad the author was able to follow this Maya man through the jungles and learn his remedies. Creating a area to conserve the "healing ingredients" gave me an even more awesome opinion of the author.