BALTIC HEALING
Returning to your mother´s womb
A Documentary by
Baiba Baika and Andrea Lötscher
BALTIC HEALING
Returning to your mother´s womb
A Documentary by
Baiba Baika and Andrea Lötscher
Film
Film
BALTIC HEALING portrays four female healers in Latvia who, during the 2023 Midsummer celebrations, work with herbs, massages, healing chants, and fly agaric mushrooms in the pirts (traditional Latvian sauna).
In the Latvian pirts (traditional Latvian sauna), an ancient European healing tradition has survived to the present day. It is based on herbal medicine and is connected to nature and the festivals of year.
BALTIC HEALING was filmed in June 2023 during the summer solstice celebrations. The documentary portrays four female healers who work in the pirts.
The pirts-ritual is compared to returning to your mother’s womb and then to be re-born. During the ritual the women healers use flowers, herbs, wisks from birch trees, herbal body scrubs, massage, ancient incantations… and fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)… to re-connect their patients with their bodies and souls.
This is healing: returning to our true selves.
Watch BALTIC HEALING (92 minutes)
English, Latvian, German and Italian Subtitles
Credits
BALTIC HEALING
Returning to your mother´s womb
A Documentary by Baiba Baika and Andrea Lötscher
92 Min. / DE / 2024
UT Englisch, Latvian, German, Italian
DCP 16:9 FSK ab 12 Jahre
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt
Organisation des Drehs und Übersetzung
Protagonist*innen
Dreh zusätzliches Filmmaterial
Musik
Script Consulting
Untertitel
Andrea Lötscher
Baiba Baika
Kristīne Sīle, Dr. phil. Ieva Ančevska, Ilga Gavare, Ligita Rudzāte,
Alistair Hegarty, Krists Zeltiņs
Donats Baidaks
Vija Vīgante
Roland Heep
Baiba Baika, Andrea Lötscher, Roland Heep
Directed, Filmed and Edited by
Andrea Lötscher
Production Coordinator and Translator
Baiba Baika
Protagonists
Kristīne Sīle, Dr. phil. Ieva Ančevska, Ilga Gavare, Ligita Rudzāte,
Alistair Hegarty, Krists Zeltiņs
Additional Filming
Donats Baidaks
Music
Vija Vīgante
Script Consulting
Roland Heep
Subtitles
Baiba Baika, Andrea Lötscher, Roland Heep, Manuela Colla
Screenings
2026
16.03.2026 Praxis von Michaela Kiesling, Wien
27.06.2026 Thementag: Europäische Heiltraditionen, Zürich
2025
19.04.2025 Breaking Convention 2025, Exeter
20.06.2025 Symposium on Transpersonal Psychology, Riga
06.07.2025 MatriarchyForFuture-Kongress, Venlo
2024
22.11.2024 Lichtburg Kino, Wetter
16.10.2024 DenkBar, MatriArchiv, St. Gallen
05.10.2024 Seminarhaus Engelland, Lütjenwestedt, Mittelholstein
03.10.2024 Präsentation auf Amanita Symposium 2024, Hamburg
24.09.2024 KoFabrik, Bochum
08.09.2024 Open Air, Bad Bramstedt
06.09.2024 Dokumentarfilmtage LETs DOC. Endstation.Kino, Bochum
10.08.2024 Open Air, Everti, Latvia
03.08.2024 Open Air, Hattingen
26.06.2024 Cinema, Münster
18.06.2024 Endstation.Kino, Bochum
08.04.2024 Endstation.Kino, Bochum
23.03.2024 Filmabend am Generationenweg, Dortmund
19.03.2024 Endstation.Kino, Bochum, Premiere!
Links
PODCASTS / INTERVIEWS
Podcast “The Sacred Travel Podcast”
Podcast “Matriwissen”
Podcast “Viele Wege führen nach OM”
Reel Pirts
Reel Naturheilkunde
Reel Smoke Sauna
Reel Summer Solstice
Reel Amanita Ritual
Reel Amanita Pirts-Ritual
Reel Baltic Healing
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