An honored Ambassador here at Shamans Directory since 2024, Rosita Arvigo is a wisdom keeper of Maya Tradition and a devoted steward of the plant kingdom. She is a native of Chicago, a naprapathic physician, herbalist, international lecturer and author with an obsession and passion for the medicinal plants of the Americas and abdominal therapy. Rosita has lived in remote areas of Mexico and Belize for more than forty years. There, she studied with many traditional healers including 13 years with Don Elijio Panti, the renowned Maya shaman of Belize, and midwife/herbalist Hortence Robinson, both of whom were recipients of the coveted National Living Treasure Award.

Rosita and her husband, Dr. Greg Shropshire, founded Ix Chel Tropical Research Centre in Belize, an organization dedicated to the preservation and study of medicinal plants of the rainforest. They also founded the Belize Association of Traditional Healers; Bush Medicine Camp for children; The Rainforest Medicine Trail; and Rainforest Remedies, an herbal concentrate company, and the Belize Ethnobotany project with Dr. Michael Balick of the New York Botanical Garden.

Rosita is the founder of the Abdominal Therapy Collective which trains practitioners in the Don Elijios Maya Abdominal Therapy and Maya Spiritual Healing. Now retired from clinical practice, Rosita focuses on teaching and writing. She divides her time between Belize, Mexico and Chicago.

Although Rosita is no longer working with individual clients, she welcomes you to visit her website and attend her classes around the world.