The author of The Dancing Healers draws on his first-hand experiences with Native American cultural rituals and traditions to show how we, too, can live our lives wisely in a materialistic world. In this book, Carl Hammerschlag illustrates the importance of cultural traditions and rituals in teaching us values and maintaining our communities. The book describes the experiences of people who have faced ordinary traumas and extraordinary catastrophes and found ways to overcome these challenges. It builds on the same experiences to help us conquer emotional pain and loss in our lives through spiritual healing.