Cultural Perspectives on Wellness with Virgil Mayor Apostol (Part 2)

For Part 2 of our seventh episode of Season 4, we talk with Virgil Mayor Apostol, B.MSc., HHP, author and cofounder of the Kaïlūkuän School of Indigenous Science.

Virgil Mayor Apostol descends from a maternal and paternal bloodline of healers, and has dedicated himself to the research, development, and promotion of his ancestral traditions. His maternal bloodline is traced to Don Pedro Almazán who led the 1661 Ilocos Revolt against the despotism of Spanish authority. He is a cofounder of Kaïlūkuän School of Indigenous Science, author of "Way of the Ancient Healer: Sacred Teachings from the Philippine Ancestral Traditions" (North Atlantic Books, 2010), and co-author of "Healing Hands of Hilot" (1997).

As an avid researcher of both the combat and healing traditions of his Iluko and Pangasinense ancestry, Apostol has writ ...