ARISIKA RAZAK is an African American midwife, healer and spiritual dancer who has led healing workshops for women for over thirty years. Her work is dedicated to the reclamation of the power and sacredness of the female body, and reflects her belief that we are all embodiments of the sacred. Her dance celebrates the faith of the ancestors; contemporary struggles for liberation, and the transformative gifts and challenges of embodied female existence: menstruation, sexuality, childbirth, menopause, aging and loss.

An Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, Arisika is a contributor to several books, and presents at numerous conferences on the subjects of multiculturalism and diversity, women’s health and healing, and embodied spirituality and movement.