Who are traditional healers?
Who are Traditional Healers?
Nahua-lineage traditional healers Erin Everett and Adam Laufer, who are based in Asheville, NC, USA
The work of traditional healers has its origins and foundation in the mysterious ritual dialogue between human specialists and Divine.
As human beings, we need support from others in order to bring back balance and harmony when disease, misfortune, and other challenges shake up our lives. Over millennia, through intimate communion with the living world, indigenous societies developed time-honored practices to bring healing for these uniquely human concerns.
A traditional healer is someone who has been born with a natural gift for healing others, has received a calling by Spirit to the healing path, and has undergone years of apprenticeship, training, and initiation by an elder in an ancient lineage. Though they each have their own special gifts and medicines, all traditional healers work with helping spirits and other sacred healing forces to bring physical, mental, and spiritual balance to those who receive their healing.
Adam Laufer and Erin Everett are tepahtiani healers, descended in a long line of healers and medicine men and women in their Nahua (Aztec) tradition. Their healing room and altars are located near Asheville, NC, and they offer healing sessions, spiritual house clearings, counseling and ceremonies for people in western North Carolina and beyond.
“The healing doesn’t end in the room. It unfolds over time. Parts of myself are waking up.”
—Patrick Hackney, Woodfin, NC
This work is helping me show up more whole and authentically in my relationships, with myself, my family/friends, and work.”
—Tanya Robertson, Asheville, NC