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to support you along the path of living a sweet life and fulfilling your destiny.
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JAMBALAYA SCHOOL OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES AND SACRED ARTS CENTER
The Jambalaya School is a gathering-healing-learning sanctuary in the Bay Area, California.
The Jambalaya is founded by Yeye Luisah Teish and lovingly co-managed with her personal community–the Ilé Orunmila Oshun. This long held dream is brought to life with/by/for cultural workers, locally & globally.
For 40 years, “Jambalaya: The Natural Women’s Book of Personal Charms and Rituals” has served as an essential spiritual blueprint for reclaiming faith, power, and knowing as our ancestors accessed it, before colonization.
In 1985, when Luisah Teish wrote “Jambalaya”, African Traditional Spirituality was illegal. African religions had been outlawed since slavery. Indigenous technologies like drumming and ancestral veneration were considered dangerous because they might unravel an entrenched system of Oppression.
Yeye Teish knew these practices have always been necessary lifeblood, to not only survive systems of colonization, but overturn them. In 1985, Luisah Teish coined the term “Spiritual Activism” to describe the process of moving with Spirit to create Social Justice.
Traditionally, these teachings were passed down orally, but recognizing the ways Oppression tried to block them, Yeye took the great risk to write and publish “Jambalaya”. Her hand guided by Yemaya, who promised Yeye, if she wrote the book, Yemaya would ensure that it went into the right hands.
“Jambalaya” became the kind of sacred text that is relentlessly dog-earred, furiously written in, passed friend-to-friend and parent-to-child like a powerful talisman; a portal for generations of cultural workers, spiritual practitioners, teachers, and organizers.
With a special focus on the African Diaspora, “Jambalaya” centers the nourishment of Black women, while inviting people of all races to access ancestral lineages and spiritual magic unassailable by oppression.
Now, as we approach Jambalaya’s 40th Anniversary, this knowledge is more important than ever. Together we face climate change, and a failing political system that threatens us all, but targets our most vulnerable people. Once again, following Yamaya’s guidance, to ensure this knowledge goes into the right hands, Yeye Luisah Teish will expand the book, and over 70 years of knowledge, into The Jambalaya School Of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts.
