Our Focus is also on Healing the Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
As a Priestess of Osun, I am fortunate to have met and have access to the highest spiritual leaders in Nigeria be they the Araba of Ile Ife or leading Babalowos, Iyanifas, Babalorishas and Iyalorishas of Osogbo and Lagos.
If you have questions you may find the answers in these pages. If not contact me. If I don't know the answer I can consult my mentors and friends in the Nigerian Orisha community.
Chief Aworeni Awoyemi Adisa Mokoranwale, Araba Agbaye and Olu Isese with Aare Asiwaju,Chief Ifagbenusola Atanda in Ile Ife August 2006
On this page you can hear Chief Sola Atanda of HATTAF international, Osogbo, Nigeria talk of his experience being born into the religion and culture and the modern struggle to survive the encroachment of foreign religions and economies.
Don’t continue to be confused about the terms Ifa, Orisa. We’ll explain it all right here!
Full of photos and videos filmed on location in Osogbo, Nigeria.
High Priestess and the Arugba in the Temple, Osogbo, August 2006
Explore the wonderful world of this emerging Traditional African religion and culture.
Let’s separate the mythology from the practice of Ifa and Orisa veneration. Let's bring this practice out of the 'dark ages' into the light of modern spiritual practice. Whether you call them Orisa, Orisha, Orixa or some other derivation it's all the same spirits! Travel with me to Lagos, Osogbo, Ile Ife.
Arugba and Priestesses in the House of Osun, Osogbo, August, 2006
I will return on a diplomatic trip with the Asheville Sister Cities program and another experience of the Osun Osogbo Festival.
This is our first meeting to establish an Osogbo Sister City committee.
Let's unite to learn from Africa, rediscover our roots, be healed, heal our families and heal the world!
Osogbo Osun Home of the Osun Grove and the Osun Festival Osobgo Osun the home of the Osun Grove. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this ancient Grove is the sacred site of the Diety Osun. The yearly festival to Osun attracts tourists and worshippers fr
Yoruba Dieties Yoruba dieties descriptions and variations in spelling
Travel Nigeria Travel to Nigeria Safe and Sound! From Osogbo, the City of healing waters and the Osun Osogbo Grove to Lagos, Nigeria. Let's consider the home of modern African spirituality.
Healing Maafa Center healing the legacy of the Maafa and it current ramifications.
Maafa Maafa is the 500 years of suffering that people of African heritage underwent and presently undergo due to the transatlantic slave trade.
Middle Passage Legacy Middle Passage Legacy and how to Heal the past in the present to empower the future. Dealing with a global issue on the local level in Asheville, North Carolina.
Marriage and the Trail of Orisa in Osogbo How we met and our marriage, moving to the desert of Southern Arizona and later embarking on our first trip to Osogbo, for my initiation to Orisa Osun.
Osun Priestess Blog The Osunyemi blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the osunpriestess.com Web site. Subscribe here.
Ancestors and Ancestry Ancestry; African-American and German-American, our experience with racism, integration and our philosophy for bridging our cultural heritage and the racial divide.
Daily African Alignment Alignment of the seven chakras for healing and rediness for African Centered Spiritual practice.
zamanirefuge Zamani Refuge - By making peace with our past we can address the needs of the present and give birth to a wholesome future.
Osun Marketplace Zamani Refuge Non-profit sales arm of Zamani Refuge African Culture Center. Sales from this site go to Zamani's non-profit purposes of bridging racial divides and educating about Yoruba indigenous religon and culture.
Documentaries Documentaries we make and distribute and why.
about us About Us who we are, our ancestry, our work in Agua Prieta, Sonora Mexico. The work of our non-profit arm, Zamani Refuge African Culture Center.
cv cv of Rainer M. Doost, Ph.D. and Rev. Valeria Watson-Doost aka Yeye Siju Osunyemi