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(Luisah Teish)   Priest of Oshun and Ifa
Luisah Teish is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora, and she holds a chieftaincy title (Yeye’woro) from the Fatunmise Compound in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Presently she is the Chair of the World Orisha Congress Committee on Women’s Issues. She is also a devotee of Damballah Hwedo, the Haitian Rainbow Serpent, under the guidance of Moma Lola.
She was awarded a Ph.D. in Spiritual Therapeutics from Open International University’s School of Complementary Medicine in Colombo Sri Lanka in 1993.
She holds an Inter-Faith minister’s license from the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences.
In 1969 she received initiation into to the Fahamme Temple of Amun-Ra in St. Louis, Missouri.
She later went on to study indigenous Native North and South American traditions (including the Caribbean). She has conducted workshops on Black and Native American culture at Medicine Wheels (under the directions of Sun Bear’s tribal elders). And La Casa de la Poesia in Caracas Venezuela uses her book, Jump Up, as a text on the mythology of the Goddess Maria Lionza.
Teish designs and conducts weddings, naming ceremonies, memorials, and a host of seasonal celebrations. Teish designed a Rites of Passage program for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is the director of the Full Faze Passage Council, a multi-racial, multi-cultural network of artists, consultants, and spiritual advisors experienced in events design and production.
Teish is a writer, storyteller and creative projects consultant. She is the author of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, Carnival of the Spirit, and Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Season with Celebrations from Around the World.
She is the Olori (director) of Ile Orunmila Oshun and the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, Ca. She has taught at the University of Creation Spirituality- Naropa Oakland, John F. Kennedy University, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and New College of California. Contact Iyanifa Fajembola |
