Luminary: Arisika Razak

Arisika Razak, RN, CNM, MPH, and Certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor has been a midwife, healer and spiritual dancer for over thirty years. She currently directs the Integrative Health Studies Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA where she is also an Associate Professor of Women's Spirituality. Arisika has worked with women from more than 80 countries, and led numerous workshops dealing with issues of birth, healing, diversity, sexual abuse, and recovery.

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Arisika Rasak on the Essential Shifts

Arisika Razak | 05.08.06 |

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In this interview, professor, dancer, and midwife Arisika Razak shares her unique angle on the essential shifts our world now requires. A truly sustainable world, she says, is one in which the threads of caring and community have been rewoven so that all members of a society feel treasured and honored.

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Arisika Razak on Integral Childbirth for Women

Arisika Razak | 05.03.06 |

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Nurse and midwife Arisika Razak connects appreciation of the sacred feminine with an integral view of women's bodies and the process of childbirth in particular. This benefits not only women themselves but future generations, as the experience of birth determines one's basic feelings about existence, self, and relationships.

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