YeYe Luisah Teish and Kelly M Beard invite you to step into the luminous embrace of fire and spirit in this sacred gathering where we will explore the ancient wisdom of candles, their colors, and the art of conjuring. Through the flickering flame, we commune with ancestors, open portals to the unseen, and call forth blessings of love, protection, prosperity, and transformation.
During this gathering, we will return to the indigenous way of learning the sacred symbology of color and discovering how each hue carries its own vibrational medicine. We will discuss the meanings of candle colors, shapes, and sizes. And how to dress, bless, and breathe power into them for manifestation. Whether seeking healing, clarity, justice, or elevation, you will be guided in the art of intentional candle work—rooted in the African diaspora traditions, the ancestral wisdom of several cultures, and the deep knowing of the Earth’s cycles.
Together, we will:
• We will sit in a circle and listen to each other in community.
• Unveil the spiritual significance of candle colors and their role in conjure work.
• Compose prayers, recite invocations, and create rituals to empower our intentions.
• Explore how herbs, oils, and symbols amplify the potency of candle magic.
• Align with the rhythms of nature and celestial forces to enhance our work.
This is more than a class. It frees us from the boundary of colonial thinking. We will break away from the standard Western way of teaching and learning.
It helps us to recover our indigenous minds, hearts and relationships.
It is a gathering around the fire that is a ritual, a homecoming, a remembering. Bring your open heart, your person story and needs, your willing hands, and your reverence, for we will ignite more than just wax and wick—we will awaken the ancient Light within.
You are invited to sit at the knee of our favorite Elegant Elder, Chief, YeYe Luisah Teish, who is bringing us The Jambalaya School. These live, interactive gatherings are designed for intimacy.
Yeye offers only 24-spaces to deepen the interaction and community building, providing time to answer your most intimate questions, and to create together. These small, focused one-day workshops will become standard classes at the Jambalaya School, where you may deepen your dedication to your Spirit Work.
During this gathering, we will return to the indigenous way of learning the sacred symbology of color and discovering how each hue carries its own vibrational medicine. We will discuss the meanings of candle colors, shapes, and sizes. And how to dress, bless, and breathe power into them for manifestation. Whether seeking healing, clarity, justice, or elevation, you will be guided in the art of intentional candle work—rooted in the African diaspora traditions, the ancestral wisdom of several cultures, and the deep knowing of the Earth’s cycles.
Together, we will:
• We will sit in a circle and listen to each other in community.
• Unveil the spiritual significance of candle colors and their role in conjure work.
• Compose prayers, recite invocations, and create rituals to empower our intentions.
• Explore how herbs, oils, and symbols amplify the potency of candle magic.
• Align with the rhythms of nature and celestial forces to enhance our work.
This is more than a class. It frees us from the boundary of colonial thinking. We will break away from the standard Western way of teaching and learning.
It helps us to recover our indigenous minds, hearts and relationships.
It is a gathering around the fire that is a ritual, a homecoming, a remembering. Bring your open heart, your person story and needs, your willing hands, and your reverence, for we will ignite more than just wax and wick—we will awaken the ancient Light within.
You are invited to sit at the knee of our favorite Elegant Elder, Chief, YeYe Luisah Teish, who is bringing us The Jambalaya School. These live, interactive gatherings are designed for intimacy.
Yeye offers only 24-spaces to deepen the interaction and community building, providing time to answer your most intimate questions, and to create together. These small, focused one-day workshops will become standard classes at the Jambalaya School, where you may deepen your dedication to your Spirit Work.
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.
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