Arisika Razak
Dr. Arisika Razak is a professor, spiritual dancer, and African-American healer.[1] She has led healing workshops for men, women and people of non-conforming genders and sexual orientations for over three decades.[2] She has contributed to many publications and speaks at various conferences on subjects of multicultural feminism and embodied spirituality.[2]
BIOGRAPHY[edit]
At age 19 Arisika Razak lived in New York City with an Afro-American dance troupe that practiced the Yoruba religion.[3] From this experience her connection to spiritual dancing grew. She created the Vulva Dance in order to empower women and help them understand that they should view themselves as goddesses.[3] Her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 22 and the influence of the Civil Rights Movement helped her make the choice to have a home birth for her son. This was her first experience with midwifery.[4] Dr. Razak went to UC Berkeley and graduated in 1978 with a Master’s degree in Public Health. Dr. Razak then went on to UC San Francisco and became a Certified Nurse Midwife in 1980. For thirty years she worked with low-income, multi-ethnic women of color in the San Francisco Bay Area. For twenty of those years she was employed by Alameda County as a nurse-midwife and served a largely inner-city population composed mainly of women of color. Her midwife service initially was provided to reduce infant mortality rates but extended to include reproductive health care.[5] She is a Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She was the former Director of the Women’s Spirituality MA and PhD programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is the current Director of Diversity at CIIS.[6] In an article titled “Catching Babies” by Geradine Simkins in the Spirituality and Health Magazine, Dr. Razak recalls one of her first experiences as a midwife and the discoveries that shaped her career.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights -- Film Screening and Conversation". www.sfstation.com. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Razak, Arisika (2016-01-01). "Sacred Women of Africa and the African Diaspora: A Womanist Vision of Black Women 's Bodies and the African Sacred Feminine". International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. 35 (1): 129–147. doi:10.24972/ijts.2016.35.1.129. ISSN 1321-0122.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Changing Woman Gallery". Maureen Murdock. 2016-05-29. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- ↑ Simkins, Geradine (2011). Into These Hands: Wisdom from Midwives. Spirituality & Health. pp. 285–298. ISBN 9780981870854. Search this book on
- ↑ ""I am the Darker Sister": Responses from women of color". Journal of Women and Religion. 20: 179. 2002 – via GALE.
- ↑ "Arisika Razak". Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- ↑ "Catching Babies". Spirituality & Health Magazine. 2011-05-01.
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