The Way Of Ubuntu: Exploring Traditional South African Healing
Teacher: John Lockley and Nomusa Mthembu
Cost: 3 days accommodation + R600 surcharge
Dates: Monday 05 May 2025 - Thursday 08 May 2025
Participants will experience a traditional South African healing ceremony over three days during which they will learn to connect to their Ancestors (bones), Dreams, 'Umoya' (spirit) and one another.
'Ubuntu' means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. It is a circle of interlinking relationships connecting the seen and unseen worlds. The ceremony will involve a plant cleanse, using medicinal plants to cleanse the spirit and open the heart.
Included will be an in-depth discussion on 'African cosmology' and the understanding of ancestors, plant medicine and dreaming. Retreatants will learn one of the most ancient and misunderstood cultures in South Africa today - the Sangoma medicine people, the monks and nuns of Southern Africa.
The retreat will focus on educating people about South African traditional spirituality and also lead participants on a spiritual journey to rediscover their own ‘soul’ or what is termed ‘umoya’ in Xhosa and Zulu culture.
This is a unique opportunity as there are very few places in South Africa today where people can learn from this mystical tradition. 'Ubuntu' in essence represents harmony and is similar to the Zen circle. Linking the past and present, it is an evolving state of co-operation and compassion whereby every human being is linked to their own families and communities as well as the unseen world of ancestors. John will be assisted by his colleague Makhosi Nomusa who is the resident Zulu Sangoma.
Please bring a plastic basin which will be used for medicinal foot healing, a dream journal, pen and paper to take notes, a meditation blanket and an open mind. This retreat is suitable for all therapists, healers and those with a desire to heal South Africa.
You may also like the following events from The Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa:
- This Friday, 9th May, 07:00 pm, Wesak: Doing What The Buddha Did with Stephen Coan in Sobonakhona
- This month, 23rd May, 05:30 pm, The Sacred Feminine - Empowering The Feminine with Yoga, Meditation and Your Astrological Moon in Sobonakhona
- This month, 30th May, 05:30 pm, Change Your Mind - A Mindfulness Retreat with Mark Joseph in Sobonakhona
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