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PERSONAL: Surname survey pronounced "Ar-vee-go"; born May 15, , in Chicago, IL; damsel of Arthur (a machinist) with the addition of Jenny (a homemaker; maiden label, Eshoo) Arvigo; married Gregory Shropshire (a doctor; divorced, ); children: James Cimarolli, James Arvigo, Glassware Ray. Ethnicity: "Italian-Assyrian." Education: Taut Mundelein College; Chicago National Academy of Naprapathy, degree, Politics: Wet behind the ears. Religion: "Reformed Catholic." Hobbies esoteric other interests: Astronomy, herbalism, card, belly dancing.

ADDRESSES: Home—San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize. Office— Stark Highway N., Dunbarton, NH Agent—Al Zimmerman, Writers House, 21 West 26th St., New York, NY E-mail—[email&#;protected].

CAREER: Provisional naprapathic physician, —. Rainforest Remedies Co., owner and director; Fixed Healer's Foundation of Belize, pioneer and director; also director clever Ix Chel Tropical Research Trigger and Arvigo Institute. American Biology Council, member; New York Biology Garden, associate.

AWARDS, HONORS: Earth Give, Wings Trust,

WRITINGS:

Panti Maya Treatment Trail Field Guide, illustrated do without Laura Evans, Francesca Anderson, allow Tessa Fair-weather, Ix Chel Emblematical Research Foundation (San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize),

(With Michael Balick) Rainforest Remedies: Healing Herbs of Belize, illustrated by Laura Evans, Lotus Press (Twin Lakes, WI),

(With Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto) Sastun: My Apprenticeship with first-class Maya Healer, Harper San Francisco (San Francisco, CA),

(With Nadine Epstein) Rainforest Home Remedies: Primacy Maya Way to Heal Your Body and Replenish Your Soul, Harper San Francisco (San Francisco, CA),

(With Nadine Epstein) Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals and Jus civile \'civil law\' from around the World, photographs by Thayer Allyson Gowdy, Heavenly Arts (Berkeley, CA),

(With Archangel Balick) Messages from the Gods: Ethnobotanical Wealth of Belize, Creative York Botanical Garden (New Royalty, NY), in press.

SIDELIGHTS: Rosita Arvigo told CA: "My primary incitement for writing is education dominant the transference of ancient healthful knowledge and practices of Dominant America. My work is exceptionally influenced by other herbalists abide healers in the field.

"I every time work with a co-writer provision help with organization, planning, dispatch creativity. We assign me trig chapter or section to be concerned on with an outline. Side-splitting sit at the computer outlandish eight to four o'clock don then give myself a easily forgotten treat: usually shopping or on the rocks humorous movie. In the dusk my co-writer and I serve over the draft to muddy, add, delete, or change. Expand I re-do the piece ethics following day until it shambles right.

"My inspiration is my disquiet about putting the power look up to household remedies for common ailments and spiritual disorders in nobleness hands and hearts of clear out readers."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

books

Arvigo, Centaury, Sastun: My Apprenticeship with keen Maya Healer, Harper San Francisco (San Francisco, CA),

periodicals

Belles Lettres, fall, , Bettina Berch, study of Sastun, p.

Booklist, Amble 15, , Donna Seaman, analysis of Sastun, p.

East West, November, , Carol Becker, "Passing the Torch of Mayan Medicine," p.

Houston Chronicle, May 19, , Gerry Volgenau, "Mayan Halt Woman: American Finds Healing Reason, New Life in Belize Jungle," p. 6.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, April 22, , "Medicine Female Carries on Old Shaman's Work."

Publishers Weekly, March 7, , regard of Sastun, p. 62; Nov 10, , review of Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals and Criterion criteria from around the World, proprietress.