The Seeds of WiseWomanhood School
It began about 1982, in Boulder, Colorado. Terra Rafael, then a home birth midwife, began teaching childbirth classes. She went on to teach:
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- over 100 aspiring midwives with the Birth Overview Course.
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- about 100 Reiki students.
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- dozens of home funeral students wanting to care for their beloved dead.
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- over 100 Ayurveda students wanting to know about women’s health and became a certified instructor of continuing ed for the National Ayurvedic Medicine Association PACE program.
Terra always dreamed of having a school for women. She wanted to support them in learning about their femaleness and self-care. After the vision of a school on-line came to Terra, this is the result.
About Terra
Terra Rafael merged her passion for supporting women with her interest in holistic health as a midwife in 1981. Since then Terra has:
- studied, was certified, and practiced midwifery, Reiki, Ayurveda,
Maya Abdominal Therapy, and End of Life Care. - created and taught an introduction to midwifery study course to over 100 students – before the internet.
- helped create the original certification program for home birth midwives in Colorado.
- created and edited the magazine Natural Transitions about alternative end of life and death care.
- taught women’s health and Ayurveda classes at four different Ayurveda schools.
- wrote and published several books on women’s health and of poetry.
- studied and practiced Shamanism with a variety of teachers. Most prominent in her mentors was Jyoti Wind, a local shamanic practitioner; Hank Wesselman ( 9 months of weekly sessions) and most currently Paul Francis at Three Ravens School, since 2022.
Now Terra has transformed her practice to fulfill her dream of passing on what she’s learned in the form of classes and videos for Shamanism. WiseWomanhood School is a labor of love. The goal is to support connection to Soul within the Web of Life.
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