Natural Way: Indigenous Voices
is Honored to Present
A Lecture and Workshop with Luisah Teish
Lecture - On Holy Ground: Learning to Love the Earth Our Mother
Friday, October 21, 2011 , 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Luisah Teish will speak at The Natural Way about learning to love the Earth, our Mother, and will share her personal stories of growing up in the South and her relationship to the land. She will recount and examine cultural myths that have mis-educated us into alienation from Our Mother Earth. Teish will identify the affects this estrangement has on the individual, the human community and the Earth Herself, help us contact this wounding and to begin to release it through visualization, chanting and conversation. Her teaching is based on material from the upcoming book "On Holy Ground: Committment and Devotion to Sacred Land," co-authored with Leilani Birely, a Hawaiina Kahuna and Hula teacher. LuisahTeish is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora, and she holds a chieftaincy title (Yeye’woro) from the Fatunmise Compound in Ile Ife, Nigeria.
Location: Mount Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5441 SE Belmont Street, Portland, OR
Workshop – Eco-Mythology and Art with Luisah Teish
Saturday, October 22, 2011 , 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
(one-hour lunch break)
In her workshop, Luisah will present popular and little-known myths and stories of plants: herbs, trees, flowers and vegetables and their relationship to humans and other beings from world cultures. Participants will explore their relationship to the world of plants, as reflected in the mythology, ecology, and spirituality of their own culture. Visualizations, movement, song and other exercises will enhance the students’ ability to perform story writing and storytelling. Materials such as fresh herbs, flowers, spices, fabric and objects found in Nature will be used to create sacred objects. This workshop is open to women, men, and children. Participants should wear comfortable clothing; bring writing and art materials, and small instruments.
Location: Mount Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5441 SE Belmont Street, Portland, OR
In 1969, Teish received initiation into to the Fahamme Temple of Amun-Ra in St. Louis, Missouri. Presently she is the Chair of the World Orisha Congress Committee on Women’s Issues. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Spiritual Therapeutics from Open International University’s School of Complementary Medicine in Colombo Sri Lanka in 1993. She is also a devotee of Damballah Hwedo, the Haitian Rainbow Serpent, under the guidance of Moma Lola.
A resident of the Bay Area for thirty years, Luisah Teish has been actively involved in teaching transformation and working to insure justice and peacekeeping. Ms.Teish designs and conducts weddings, naming ceremonies, memorials and numerous seasonal celebrations. She has studied indigenous Native North and South American traditions and has conducted workshops on Black and Native American culture at Medicine Wheels (under the directions of Sun Bear’s tribal elders) Ms. Teish is the author of several books on African and African American Spiritual Culture and Feminist Myth. More information is available in her bio at www.luisahteish.com
Co-sponsored by: Earth & Spirit Council and Tabor Space at Mount Tabor Presbyterian.
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Related linkss of interest include: A Different World and Global Women's Gathering