Sastun - My Apprenticeship With A Maya Healer

Director: Guido Verweyen
Studio: CreateSpace
Category: DVD

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Sales Rank: 87102

Media: DVD-R
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Running Time: 20 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5

UPC: 883629678153
EAN: 0883629678153
ASIN: B001OTZOQG

Release Date: January 2, 2009
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Description
In her quest to explore the healing powers of plants, an American herbalist ventures into the rainforest of Belize where she befriends one of the last remaining Maya shamans, Don Elijo Panti. While learning his secrets during her apprenticeship, she unearths her life's work: to preserve this ancient knowledge and to bridge the gap between science and traditional healing wisdom. Funded by the National Cancer Institute in New York, Rosita Arvigo is in a race against time, scouring the tropical rainforests of Central America in search of cures for many deadly diseases like Aids and cancer before they are wiped out by deforestation.

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5 out of 5 stars

Fascinating Story Directed By A Talented Filmmaker March 14, 2009
Monika Skerbelis (Los Angeles, California)
SASTUN directed by Guido Verweyen is a wonderful film made by a talented filmmaker. I had the pleasure of meeting Rosita Arvigo in San Ignacio, Belize along the Panti Medicinal Rainforest Trail many years ago. A few years later, I came across Guido's Verweyen's amazing film about Rosita's journey with the Maya healer, Elijio Panti, at a film festival. I was taken by Guido's passion and superb direction bringing visual insights into the Maya medicinal plants and healing practice. His film was invited into the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival and won the Documentary Award.

- Monika Skerbelis, Programming Director, Big Bear Lake International Film Festival; Co-Author, "I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out"; Co-Founder, ESE Film Workshops Online

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Dedication..the healer...the student January 29, 2009
S. Handlon (Bethlehem, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

As an herbal studies student, Sastun provided me with insight into the dedication of those that have gone before me. Don Elijo Panti was an incredible healer and the devotion of Rosita Arvigo to support, learn and continue the healing in his honor...both were captured perfectly in this timely documentary by Guido Verweyen. Their dedication(Don Elijo, Rosita & Guido) to the people and the herbs crossed previous boundaries enabling much good..which, thanks to the documentary, still is spreading the word!

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