Sensuality & Grieving: Tools To Elevate You and Your Ancestors
Welcome to the Ancestral Elevation: Spiritual Midwifing Via Sensuality: a 5-month coaching container where we will explore the intersection of sensuality, grief and ancestral veneration as a midwifing practice. To conjure a nurtured reality to venerate ourselves and our ancestors from suppressive colonized love to liberating LOVE.
Introducing the revolutionary framework that will help you overcome colonized love and elevate yourself and your ancestors. If you're tired of feeling suppressed and unfulfilled in your ancestral veneration practices, it's time to take a new approach. Our program teaches you how to use sensuality and grieving as tools to release the stranglehold of colonized love and it’s greatest disciplinary tool: suppression.
Our approach is grounded in ancestral veneration, but with a twist that incorporates sensuality and grief as integral practices.
Our program is perfect for those who are already rooted in ancestral veneration, seeking to embody the qualities of the altar, which looks like strengthening your hecka (power of voice), your prayer, and preparing to go through the grieving process to incorporate the sensuality that has been taken away from you due to colonization and colonized love. To become closer to ancestors that have elevated and not stuck in the mentality the colonization your ancestors have endured.
Say goodbye to being complacent in suppression and hello to sensuality as a state of rest that alleviates the body from suppression. Our framework is designed to help you heal from the inside out, elevating not only yourself but your ancestors as well. Join us today and discover new paths in ancestral veneration through sensuality and bravely grieving.
Meet our RESIDENT expert practitioners!
Dr. Jay and Natalia, MDiv. will guide us through the grieving and sensuality journey to curate a nurturing reality outside of colonized love.
Supplemental Practitioner, Natalia, providing:
Pre-Recorded Workshop Series: Reclaiming Self as Black Folx through Sensuality and Ancestral Connection
Natalia holds a Master of Divinity in Global Christianity from Mercer University. She channels her understanding of the human experience through the transformative power of creative arts. Natalia's insatiable curiosity has taken her on captivating journeys, both near and far, including immersive experiences living abroad, where she delved into the intricate intersection of spirituality and trauma. Her engagements with individuals and communities of diverse faiths have further enriched her insights.
As a natural-born storyteller and an unwavering advocate, Natalia accompanies and empowers Black women as they rediscover, expand, and reclaim their divine voices by reconnecting with their true selves. Deeply rooted in ancestral reverence, she firmly believes that by sharing and embracing our ancestors' narratives, we honor their legacy and cultivate a sense of collective identity. Natalia's profound wisdom extends to the understanding that our individual selves are significantly intertwined with the broader tapestry of humanity. We have the extraordinary privilege of authentically embodying who we are in this life.
Resident Grief Practitioner, Dr. Jamie Eaddy, will provide us:
monthly LIVE community grief sessions that explores grief, dreaming and reimagining to support sensuality
Dr. Jamie Eaddy (@DrJfrederika) is a dreamer, healer, storyteller, and ritual keeper and helps you Re-Member yourself whole. She is unusually gifted to journey with people through grief, loss, and transitions from first to last breaths. As a thanatologist, theologian, educator, death doula, and grief guide, she is deeply committed to challenging death-dealing systems and cultivating space for people to explore grief without shame and to lean into their healing unapologetically.
Curator of Dorothy's House, Mama Cody, providing:
Pre-recorded Lecture Series: Four Cornerstones For Spiritual Midwifing
Hey, I'm Mama Cody!
I'm the curator of this program and will act as your spiritual midwife and conjure woman. I will be present in every session and I will provide the necessary tools you need to sustain and support THE PRACTICE of embodying sensuality as a state of rest through spiritual midwifing.
Meet our expert practitioners!
They will guide you through the cornerstones of ancestral veneration, the nature of our ancestors, ritualistic approaches, and how sensuality elevates the human/spiritual experience.
July Practitioner: Kisha K of Bitcraftworks teaching:
The Cornerstones Of Ancestral Veneration
Kisha K is a highly experienced psychic medium and intuitive tarot reader with over 15 years of experience in the field. She has a natural gift for sensing energies and connecting with the spiritual realm, which she uses to help her clients gain insights and clarity on their life path.
In addition to her work as a psychic medium and tarot reader, Kisha K is also a gifted energy healer and spiritual teacher. She is passionate about helping people to awaken their own intuitive abilities and connect with their higher selves, and she offers a range of courses and workshops to support this process.
July Practitioner, AfroSpiritual, teaching:
Understanding The Nature Of Our Ancestors
Meet AfroSpiritual,owner of AfroRootworks. I’m a Hoodoo practitioner, born and raised and brought up through the black church, while also a Aborisha in Lucumi Orisha practice. My focus is the Ancestors, being a bridge of communication for those in need, and show others how to best commune/venerate their bloodline. My approach is a practical one, Integrating veneration into everyday life. Hope y’all enjoy what I have to say.
August Practitioner, Donnell Writes, teaching:
White Supremacy and The Demonization Of ATR's: What To Look Out For
Donnell McLachlan (@DonnellWrites) is a writer, theologian, and social justice advocate working to create a more empathetic and inclusive society through writing, research, and storytelling. With a Master's in Religious Studies from the Chicago Theological Seminary and a degree in non-fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago, McLachlan is an expert in communicating complex ideas to a wide audience. His research centers the study of Black faith and life, including liberation theologies, decolonization, womanist theology, and the spiritual and sociohistorical aspects of hip-hop music and culture. In addition to his academic pursuits, McLachlan has a popular TikTok page with over 240,000 followers where he shares insights on theology and religious history, discusses religious deconstruction and decolonization from an Afrocentric perspective, and offers social commentary. He was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
August Practitioner, Lyvonne Briggs teaching:
Sensuality: The Evolution Of Our Divinity + Humanity For Ancestral Veneration
AncestorsLyvonne Briggs, MDiv, ThM, an Emmy Award winner, is a body- and sex-positive womanist preacher and speaker. She is the host of Sensual Faith Podcast and the author of Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body (Convergent/Penguin Random House). A spiritual life coach and TEDx speaker, she has been featured in Essence, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post, and Sojourners named her one of "11 Women Shaping the Church.” Briggs is a graduate of The Lawrenceville School, Seton Hall University, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary. A New York City native, she is currently based in New Orleans, LA and you can follow her across platforms: @LyvonneBriggs
September Practitioner, Mystikal Onyx teaching:
In Plain Sight: Using What's Around To Venerate Ancestors
I am Mystikal Onyx, your intuitive seeing vessel, root worker, conjure woman, healer, prophetess, and everything in between. I have been truly blessed by God with a supernatural gift, which I have been called forth to share.
My practice is Traditional Hoodoo, which is faith based, but we work with both hands over here. I provide FREE Hoodoo newsletters to increase the knowledge of my people and erase the stigma that your roots in African Traditional Religions are evil.
So sit and get comfortable! Auntie Onyx got ya!
October Practitioner, Mama Cody, teaching:
Ancestral Elevation: Calling Things That Are Not As Though They Were
I wasn't raised in the church. I was raised in my granny's living - a conjure room. Her living was my sanctuary and her lap was altar. My granny taught me to the power/practice of prayer and how to call those things that are not as though they were. I have decolonized what my granny taught me for her glory and Spirit's to aid personal liberation and healing for our community.
