The Candle, The Machete, & The Nommo

This is not a course. This is a 6 session, three month Liberatory Mystery School designed to assist you in liberating your self in spite of oppressive societies.

Who this is for:

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    People of the Global Majority.

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    Persons racialized as White.

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    All Folx, including Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Folx.

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    People who don’t know their lineages beyond 500 years due to migration—forced or willing.

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    Those who’ve reclaimed their spirituality away from colonialism, but don’t feel confident in their understanding of historical intersections of colonialism, whiteness, race, gender, class, sexuality.

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    Those who want to liberate themselves from the energetic extraction of all systems of oppression—not through bypassing but by powerful embodiment informed by freedom-makers across time.

What’s inside

Module 1: The Candle

*Writing Ancestors into Being Through The Elements Guided Exploration

*Liberatory Ancestors Reclamation

*Creating Ancestral Council & Altar

Key Text References: Various texts from Subonfu Some and Malidoma Some

Module 2: The Machete

  • Reclaiming The Self From The Colonial Imagination

  • Energetic Boundaries Training: Theater of the Oppressed informed Role Play

  • Recovering historical freedom fighters of our lineages as ancestral way-showers.

Key Text References: “The Uses of Anger”, Audre Lorde; Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People; Also, exploring liberatory ancestors like: Louzen, Native American Warrior and Seer and Grace O’Malley, Irish Chieftain and Pirate.

Module 3: The Nommo

*The Power to Call into Being: The Aje, The Nommo, and Sonic Activation

*Communal Naming Ceremony

Key Text References: Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts by Teresa N. Washington.

Limited Enrollment

Limited Enrollment

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • It’s $600 total— $100 for each session.

  • All my products are available through Resonance Exchange. This is a barter-style system that allows you to contribute what you have in abundance towards my and reciprocal care. To do this, go here:

  • In a nutshell:

    Bachelors, Black Studies

    Masters in Public Administration

    Years developing curriculum as a certified teacher (Texas).

    10 years as artist and creative entrepreneur.

    200+ hours in ritual practice with Dagara Wisdom-Keeper Dr. Malidoma Patrice Some

    I’m the combination of this real-world qualifications, as well as the experiential praxis of exploring the embodied strategies at the intersection of history, quantum mechanics, spirituality and ritual, ancestral veneration, art, creation, and motherhood.