Yoruba Elder Iya Tahirah Abubakr provides knowledge on the profound medication of struggling and the way we are able to rework private and ancestral ache into an attractive expression of creation.
This time on The 4 Sacred Items, Anita and Iya focus on:
- Iya’s upbringing because the daughter of a sharecropper and the way indigenous methods of residing provided knowledge past struggling
- The fantastic thing about village life in rural Mississippi—rising up linked to the land, nature, and neighborhood
- The lack of outside play and creativeness in in the present day’s youngsters, and the way this disconnects them from nature and spirit
- Iya’s transformative encounter with Native American tradition and the way it deepened her understanding of ancestral knowledge
- Redefining struggling as a sacred trainer and a gateway to religious development and resilience
- Processing trauma and emotional ache in order that we aren’t trapped within the wounds of the previous
- They ley traces of reality on the planet and remembering that reality doesn’t lie
- Remembering our ‘indigenality’ as particular person and collective beings on this earth
- Honoring the bloodline of our ancestors and moving into our full expression as sacred beings
- Dissolving the phantasm of separation by turning into a compassionate, unified world neighborhood
- Asking why our souls selected to incarnate now—and discovering what sacred items we’re right here to supply
- The very important significance of initiating youth into indigenous knowledge and holding a brand new imaginative and prescient for the subsequent era
About Iya Tahirah Abubakr:
Iya Tahirah Abubakr is a Black American with Yoruba ancestry, born River Lee Adams in Pocahontas, Mississippi. Iya was initiated by Ifa Priestess Yamaya within the ancestral traditions of the Yoruba folks of western Africa and studied and skilled with Malidoma Some’ in shamanism. She is a medication lady, diviner, shamanic practitioner, She offers initiatory steerage and trainings for many who search better knowledge within the thriller, she is founder & co-founder for the St. Croix Council of Elders. Iya’s life goal and dedication are to the service of humanity as an entire and to depart the earth in a better place than she
There’s a richness to the truth that I grew up as a daughter of a sharecropper. I notice that beneath that was a deep love and safety. Had I not had that, I might not be the particular person I’m in the present day, as a result of past the struggling was the indigenous means that we lived in life. That’s why I prefer to convey African folks again to know that closeness to land and residing, it doesn’t matter what we’re going by way of, when we’ve that connection to land, to nature, that’s your buddy, mom, that’s what carries you.” – Iya Tahirah Abubakr
