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Contemporary Root Worker
Joins Phoenix & Dragon
Psychic Center

Rootwomyn, PhD

For over three decades, Dr. RaShon has been involved in the healing arts offering education, counseling and a unique form of energy work called Subtle Body Therapeutics. This therapeutic process has been further informed by both her initiation and training as a Traditional Afrikaan Priest and healer and her doctoral studies in philosophy and religion.

Dr. RaShon is a gifted intuitive and has guided many along the path of self-awareness, self-development, self-enlightenment, empowerment and healing. Her training began with family elders at the age of five. She has studied and taught in Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean as well as the US.

Her work focuses on discovering the underlying cause of problems, challenges, circumstance or illness that may be causing imbalance or blockage. By removing the blockage, rebalancing the energy and realigning the individual, energy is allowed to flow freely creating the environment for renewed health and transformation of circumstances.

“The first time my mother heard me refer to myself as a Rootwomyn, she responded with absolute horror and demanded that I drop the title. My colleagues said that my counseling practice was sure to suffer, a local minister who had been a major support to my work in the community spoke against me from his pulpit one Sunday morning and my phone was kept busy by people wanting to know if I could ‘fix’ somebody.

“There was always somebody with a story to tell about how someone had ‘crossed them up’ or ‘rooted’ or ‘hexed’ them. Some folks told stories of paying thousands of dollars to people who promised to ensure their marriage to a certain woman or man (who was already married to another certain man or woman), or promised them untold wealth.

“But more often people talked about receiving help when they had no place else to turn. Having their children returned to them from the clutches of big cities or terrifying authorities. Being rescued from desperate situations. Healing when the Doctor couldn’t or wouldn’t escape. Hope. Guidance in making the right decisions.”

Historically, the Rootwomyn was a Traditional Afrikaan Priest, a scientist, doctor, midwife, teacher, healer and Queenmother of the community. She was an alchemist, adept in the use of celestial vibrations; the elements of fire, air, earth, and water; the energies of light and sound; as well as the arts of music, dance and storytelling to create and maintain a harmonious balance between the Almighty, the environment, the community and the individual. She was an herbalist of the highest order (the term “Rootwomyn” comes from her use of the roots, barks, and leaves of trees and plants to use in medicines and rituals). She was a medium, a channel for the creative energy of the universe and its multi-dimensional manifestations. She was not only qualified to deal with symptomatic illness but its cause and applying the ancient science of psychoturgy, was able to facilitate salvation by elevating the soul to its highest expression.

Upon her arrival in the Americas, sometimes brought by force, sometimes arranging her own captivity, the Rootwomyn continued her work. Although handicapped by lack of materials, strange inhospitable ecologies, dehumanizing conditions and constant terror, she continued to minister to the needs of her people. Finding themselves in the hostile environment of slavery, these women often used their knowledge as weapons of war and in part were responsible for her people’s survival. However, as the genocidal de-culturalization of the African people took place, the Rootwomyn was de-sacralized and even criminalized, leading to the almost total annihilation of the wisdom of traditional African healing practices in the U.S. That which is left of her sacred art is shrouded in superstition and negativity, misused and abused by those who were left without the proper cultural context for understanding.

Today, the Rootwomyn is writing books, hosting radio and television talk shows, and lecturing at local colleges and prestigious universities. Through the gift of her ancestors, she has remembered the past, envisioned the future, and taken control of the present. You will find her leading group meditations; teaching astrology, numerology, alchemy, metaphysics; and counseling and advising corporate executives.

She makes seasonal pilgrimages to shrines in Africa were she participates in ancient rituals to heal the race consciousness; vacations at the great pyramids of ancient K’mt to channel the energy of antiquity; and sings in the choir of “Who All Baptist Church” each Sunday before going to Akoms and Bembes (traditional worship services of the Akan and Yoruba people of West Africa) to honor the spirits of the deified ones. (And if you happen to be in New Orleans on the 3rd Tuesday of each month you will see her sitting at a table in the corner of the Candlelight Lounge, in 6-inch pumps, eating seafood, advising local business folk).

With the renewed interest in traditional healing practices and the search for universal principles of being, the Rootwomyn can now take her rightful place as we move into a new age of spirituality – an age of empowerment and wisdom for those who can tap into this ancient knowledge to transform our world.

Dr. RaShon is a contemporary Rootwomyn -- a traditional Afrikaan Priest. She offers the tools for Self-awareness, Self-knowledge, and Self-fulfillment to the leaders and builders of the future.