Earth, Smoke & Spirit – The Tools of a Sangoma with John Lockley
Sat Aug 8, 2020 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM BST
Online, Zoom
Description
Learn how to work with the elements like sangomas from Southern Africa. For centuries sangomas refined their trade through observing nature and integrating their observations into a profound system involving prayer and deep healing.
As a sangoma taught in these mystical ways John will guide you to new ways of seeing the world around you through working with natural tools from your own backyard.During this webinar John will cover:
- Ancestors
- Elements
- Plants (plant spirit, healing properties, washing, brewing, smudging)
- Animal (Spirit, sacrifice, products)
- Muthi markets
- Drum & Rattle (rhythm, trance, community)
- Dreams
- Divination Bones
- Staffs
Note: The webinar will start at 6pm London time (1pm New York; 7pm South Africa). The webinar will be recorded and the recording will be available for 14 days for all ticket holders. The ticket fee is $30.
About John
John is one of the first white men, in recent history, to become a fully initiated sangoma in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa. He was born, in 1971, into a divided Apartheid South Africa, with the mark of the sangoma on his face – a band of white birth skin around the eyes. At 18, John was serving in the South African army as a medic (after the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa sangoma. He immediately began to suffer from the thwasa, a severe period of ill-health that is inherent in all ancient shamanic cultures which can only be cured through apprenticeship to a shamanic teacher. Because of the restrictions of Apartheid (which ended in 1994) it would take John seven years to find a Xhosa teacher
Eventually, post-Apartheid, John met MaMngwevu, a well-known Xhosa Sangoma medicine woman, in one of the poorest townships in South Africa. She had foreseen his arrival in a dream and began his 10-year apprenticeship, giving him the initiated name Ucingolwendaba, meaning messenger or connector between people and cultures.
John is the author of the book 'Leopard Warrior', a teaching memoir about his journey in becoming a sangoma. He also produced a series of teachings called 'The Way of the Leopard', to help people reconnect to their Dreams, Visions, Destiny and inherent Humanity; both are produced
by Sounds True.
John now divides his time between South Africa, Europe and the U.S