Hawk Woman Dancing with the Moon: Sacred Medicine for Today's Woman

by Tela Star Hawk Lake

Female shaman Tela Star Hawk Lake interweaves traditional Native ritual, ceremonies and prayers with her own personal experiences as a healer in a modern time where old traditions are widely abandoned and forgotten. She sets down shamanic knowledge that can be easily incorporated into the daily lives of contemporary women of any culture to cleanse, balance, comfort, and strengthen.

For the first time, Tela Star Hawk Lake shares Native women’s wisdom anyone can

In Hawk Woman Dancing with the Moon, Tela shares her story as a woman adrift in society that often emphasizes artificial values and solutions to natural problems. By recounting her ordeals as a healer and sharing her life story—including her spiritual initiation and rites of passage on her road to recognition as an intertribal shaman—she shows how she was forced to apply the principles of her own beliefs to daily life. Her story includes real life experiences with ghosts, spiritual battles, vision quests, and a variety of illnesses through which she learned to heal herself and, from these experiences, to heal others.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 1996

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

part autobiography, part anthropology, part spiritual healing/journey guide, part historical account.
It was a good reminder about ritual, spiritual journeys and indiginous views.

[Collette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hawk woman dancing under the moon is beautiful written, Tela Star Hawk Lake drew me in and captivated me with the story of her life and her struggles all while becoming a shaman in a westernized world. Thank you for such a wonderful book and what it taught me.