This ethnographic study was conducted among the Kariri-Shoco, an indigenous people of Northeast Brazil. The research focused on Kariri-Shoco shamanism as a medical knowledge. The interrelation between gendered embodiment and shamanism provided the possibility of observing how Kariri-Shoco specialized knowledge relates to gendered embodiment and female embodied subjectivity. Kariri-Shoco shamanic specialists explain that the body opens during sexual intercourse and when women experience menstrual and post-delivery blood fluxes. I describe three different kinds of Kariri-Shoco cure-healing rituals which have the purpose of closing the patient’s body. The reza (prayer) ritual is one of the first steps that Kariri-Shoco people take towards cure-healing processes. Specialists experience embodiment during cure-healing rituals, when the nature of the patient’s health problem is discovered, diagnosed, and treated. I have discussed and demonstrated that Kariri-Shoco knowledge of the body...