Ratshuá

Ratsuhá is a female spiritual leader with a rare traditional training, a specialist in childbirth who carries knowledge that today only a few healers still possess, and she has already accompanied over 2,800 births. Together with her husband, she works in healing sessions according to the Madhá tradition and takes part in the transmission of knowledge through the spiritual practice called Opening of the Voice, a rigorous process that involves body techniques, ritual use of tobacco, specific dietas, and that imprints the learn ing of the songs into the apprentice’s body.