YOU'RE INVITED TO YEYE'S BOOK PARTY
ONLINE AND IN PERSON
Free Book Party
Calabash Book Party
MaRCH. 17th 4:00pm - 7:00PM Pacific Time
Free. Donations appreciated.
Spring is on its way folks. The trees begin to dress themselves in fresh green leaves. Let's celebrate the return of the season with a "Rites of Spring" book party and story circle.
To be held {insert book store info here}.
Our Spiritual Landscape Artist will share ideas for creating an Ancestral Garden.
Amber Schoneman started her plant journey in her grandmother’s Los Angeles, California garden – mesmerized by the marigold flowers and collard green plants. She gained an appreciation for growing beneficial plants and understood the value a garden can bring. In the early 2000’s, Amber pursued her interest in plants by gaining an internship at the California Botanic Garden (formerly named Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden). She worked in the herbarium and learned the science of plants including: plant collecting, identifying, and archiving. She was able to travel abroad on plant collecting trips and learned how indigenous communities utilize their native flora. Amber then became a Lead Montessori Guide (teacher) and taught 4th-6th graders in Austin, Texas. While working as a teacher, Amber worked with students to plant organic gardens and native trees on campus. She taught students about plant taxonomy and created a project called The Timeline of Plants where students planted specimens according to their historical evolutionary timeline. After the pandemic, Amber and her partner started Dwarf Palmetto Design, LLC. Her landscape design company combines her love of botany with education and design. She continues to teach the importance of plant and soil care and now combines elements of client cultures and spirituality to her garden designs. Today, Amber creates gardens for her clients that provide beauty, joy, and a sacred space for spiritual healing.
We will read selected works from several of Yeye's books: Carnival of the Spirit, On Holy Ground, and the latest work A Calabash of Cowries.
So come out or sign on. Let's scatter seeds and share stories to celebrate the season.
Yeye Teish
love offerings, gifts help to fund Yeye’s many projects.
My journey as a tradition-keeper and healer began when I was five years old on a Mississippi bayou where my aunt introduced me to the mysteries of Spiritualism. In addition, my Catholic Creole culture of origin informs my work. Having grown up steeped in the rich cultural milieu of New Orleans, Louisiana, I've dedicated over four decades of my life to exploring indigenous healing traditions both personally and academically. My passion continues to be the preservation of the folkways of my culture of origin, and to the documentation of African, Black, and indigenous resistance fighters, and the study of quality of life in Native American populations. I am a proud member of the American Anthropological Association, the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists, and the Association of Latina/o & Latinx Anthropologists. I was blessed to be nurtured by my parents as an artist since birth, and my ritual art has graced television screens in shows like National Geographic's Taboo, the Originals, and Blue Bloods. My work, whether in art or writing, echoes my roles as a root worker, tradition-keeper, spiritual artisan, and guardian of the sacred wisdom of Southern folk magic and folkways.
YEYE LUISAH TEISH Chief Iyanifa Fajembola Fatunmise also known as Yeye Luisah Teish is an American author of African and African-diaspora spiritual cultures. She also is an affluent ritualist, keynote speaker, and spiritual advisor on a global scale. Primarily known for Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, a women’s spirituality classic published in 1985 by Harper & Row Publishers. This book has been translated into German, Spanish, and Dutch.
As of 2021, the work can be purchased on Audible.com narrated in her own voice. She has contributed to 40 anthologies, most notably Spiritual Guidance Across Religions: A Sourcebook for Spiritual Directors and Other Professionals Providing Counsel to People of Differing Faith Traditions, and magazines such as Ms., Essence, Sage Woman, and the Yoga Journal have provided further accessibility to her poetry, and essays. Her articles and artworks appear in Coreopsis: Journal of Myth and Theater, and the Cascadia Subduction Zone Journal of Speculative Fiction.
As an Oshun priestess (Yoruba Goddess of Love and Sensuality), Yeye continues to officiate over spiritual retreats, rituals, and workshops that span over forty years since her introduction into the Ifa spiritual practice.
Yeye holds an honorary Ph.D. from the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences.
As of 2021, the work can be purchased on Audible.com narrated in her own voice. She has contributed to 40 anthologies, most notably Spiritual Guidance Across Religions: A Sourcebook for Spiritual Directors and Other Professionals Providing Counsel to People of Differing Faith Traditions, and magazines such as Ms., Essence, Sage Woman, and the Yoga Journal have provided further accessibility to her poetry, and essays. Her articles and artworks appear in Coreopsis: Journal of Myth and Theater, and the Cascadia Subduction Zone Journal of Speculative Fiction.
As an Oshun priestess (Yoruba Goddess of Love and Sensuality), Yeye continues to officiate over spiritual retreats, rituals, and workshops that span over forty years since her introduction into the Ifa spiritual practice.
Yeye holds an honorary Ph.D. from the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences.