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JAMBALAYA CENTER FOR ANCIENT MYSTERIES AND SACRED ARTS

The Jambalaya Center for Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts fosters ancestral wisdom through sacred gatherings and experiences, aiming to create a permanent home for spiritual traditions that honor the past and empower future generations.

Alafia Good People. Welcome to this New Moon in Virgo.Join Chief Iy&aacute;n&iacute;f&aacute; Luisah Teish for our New Moon Money Pouring. Imagine having your heart&#39;s desire. Please register below. Registration is how we know who is in the room with us, and how we can reach you afterward if you need us. Your Zoom link will arrive in your confirmation email. Ile family and Center Patreon members attend as part of your membership &mdash; please still register. Non-Patreon Guests are asked for an offering of $21. In our tradition we do not enter a shrine empty-handed. No one is turned away for lack of funds so if this is not possible for you right now, choose the fourth option and come anyway with your prayers. For Sponsorship or large group opportunities&nbsp;please contact info@jambalayacenter.org For your Prosperity altarTwo bowls of the same size &middot; a container of water &middot; smudge or incense &middot; money coins, change from your pockets &middot; a prosperity candle &middot; a prosperity symbol (wealth collage, paper dollars, or grain) &middot; comfortable clothing &middot; a good mood.

New Moon Money Pouring Ritual

Each moon cycle we gather to release what we are ready to set down. This is a ceremony of burden burning, led by Chief Iy&aacute;n&iacute;f&aacute; Luisah Teish, Chief Spiritual Director of the Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries &amp; Sacred Arts. Please register below. Registration is how we know who is in the room with us, and how we can reach you afterward if you need us. Your Zoom link will arrive in your confirmation email. Ile family and Center Patreon members attend as part of your membership &mdash; please still register. Non-Patreon Guests are asked for an offering of $22. In our tradition we do not enter a shrine empty-handed. No one is turned away for lack of funds so if this is not possible for you right now, choose the fourth option and come anyway with your prayers. For Sponsorship or large group opportunities&nbsp;please contact info@jambalayacenter.org SuppliesA candle and a glass of water.&nbsp;Strips of paper and a pen.&nbsp;A container for burning paper and matches.&nbsp;A bowl of Moon Water. The InvocationMoon, give me your face.Take my face and give me yours.Take my face, my unhappy face. (or whatever you are burning) and give me your bright face.

Full Moon Burden Burning

The $200 work-trade contribution submitted with your Jambalaya Ambassador application for Shango Festival 2026 (Isokan: The Blessed Binary, June 14&ndash;21).&nbsp; Required with your Google Form application. Full refund within 10 business days if you are not called in this cycle. Questions: Email info@jambalayacenter.org

Shango 2026 · Jambalaya Ambassador Work-Trade Contribution

Aboru Aboye &amp; Alafia. The Jambalaya Center for Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts, under the spiritual leadership of Chief Iyanifa Luisah Teish, Chief Spiritual Director and Founder, and the executive direction of Shylah Hamilton-Tour&eacute;, Executive Director and Co-Founder, invites aligned vendors to apply for booth space at our Shango Festival &mdash; Isokan: The Blessed Binary &mdash; June 14&ndash;21, 2026, at 11900 Hwy 116, Guerneville, CA, on the unceded territory of the Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples. Isokan is a seven-day ritual festival rooted in Yoruba If&aacute; cosmology. The marketplace is an offering to the community gathered for the festival, not a separate event. We are looking for vendors whose work is rooted, whose lineage is clean, and whose presence honors the ceremonial purpose of this gathering. We welcome applications from sacred artisans, herbalists and apothecaries, oracle and divination tool makers, ritual textile and adornment makers, authors, plant medicine workers (within California legal scope), sacred body care practitioners, ritual goods makers, and aligned offerings of all kinds. We vet every applicant with care. Booth Fee: $150 flat, submitted with your application. Fully refunded within 7 business days if your application is not selected. Slots and schedule: Determined after applications close. Tell us in the form which days you are available to be on-land &mdash; we will build the marketplace schedule from your availability and the festival&#39;s ceremonial flow. Notification: Within 7 days of the application deadline.

Vendor Booth Application — Isokan: The Blessed Binary A Shango Festival Marketplace Offering ·

Shango calls. We answer. For seven days on five sacred acres of redwood land in Guerneville, California, the Jambalaya Center for Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts gathers the village in honor of Shango &mdash; Kawo Kabiyesi, the Orisha of thunder, fire, justice, and divine masculine power &mdash; and Iyami, the sacred feminine force that balances and completes him. Isokan means unity. The Blessed Binary is the teaching that the Divine Feminine and the Sacred Masculine are partners. And when they move together, the world is sustained. Join us for a village gathering: nine days of ceremony, ancestral work, sacred ritual, drumming, praise singing, workshops, and the communal table. It culminates in the form of ebbo: a full procession through the land, offerings at the three trees, and THE FEAST &mdash; a night of celebration, music, and community that breathes. Workshops and talks will include: Sound healingEngaging Black male youth with respectDrawing with EgunEasy and Productive Vegetable GardeningWomen&#39;s Empowerment (Iyaami)Men&#39;s HutWomen&#39;s HutLabrynthRitual at the riverChildrens SectionLand StewardshipHerbal WorkshopsDramatic readingAnd more to come.... Special guests include Ori Temple, Ifa Mystic Temple, and many others.Full schedule of events will be available on jambalayacenter.org What awaits you: A sojourn to the sacred waters for a &nbsp;ritual at the edge of the Pacific, where the Yemaya and Oshun meet to dance. A Labyrinth of Light. A fire ceremony led by a master fire dancer. Fireside conversations with invited elders and Chief Iyanifa Yeye Luisah Teish &mdash; one of the most respected living elders of the African diaspora tradition. Ceremonies honoring Shango, Aganju, Obatala, the Ancestors, and Damballah Hwedo. Ebbo and ribbon fastening at Shango&#39;s trees. And if you cannot be on the land &mdash; your ribbon can still be placed. Shango does not leave anyone behind. Who is welcome: Initiates and students of Yoruba, Lucumi, If&aacute;, Vodou, and Indigenous earth-based traditions. Friends of the house. Seekers. Community. Anyone who has heard the thunder and felt it was meant for them. General Questions, Group Tickets, Scholarships, and Special Accomodations&nbsp;Please contact info@jambalayacenter.org Presented by:&nbsp;Chief Iyanifa Oshun Miwa Luisah Teish, Chief Spiritual Director and FounderJambalaya Center for Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Artsjambalayacenter.org &bull; info@jambalayacenter.orgSliding scale pricing. Remote participation available.&nbsp;The Remote Tie Offering is open to all &mdash; your ribbon belongs at Shango&#39;s tree. Kawo Kabiyesi. As&eacute;.

ISOKAN: THE BLESSED BINARY Shango Festival 2026

This six-week introductory course offers a grounded, culturally rooted approach to tarot as a spiritual discipline, not entertainment. Students are guided to work with tarot as a living system that supports self-knowledge, ethical inquiry, and ancestral alignment.&nbsp; Class begins April 11, 2026Instructor: Shy Hamilton-Toure&#39; What You Will Learn-Establishing a personal tarot practice rooted in respect and discipline-Tarot as a symbolic and spiritual language-The role of Ori in divinatory practice-Ethical approaches to reading for self and others-Working with tarot beyond fear, superstition, and extraction Weekly Structure-Weekly practices to support Ori alignment and ancestral awareness-Guided teaching-Image and symbol study-Spiritual context and cultural framing-Practical exercises for developing intuitive clarity Who This Course Is For-Beginners seeking a grounded entry into tarot-Spiritual practitioners wanting to deepen intuitive discipline-Artists, educators, and healers drawn to symbolic systems-Those interested in long-term study within the Jambalaya Method *This is not a fast-track certification or a fortune-telling class. It is a foundational initiation into a larger body of work.

Intro to Tarot: Foundations of the Jambalaya Method

There are moments that change you. This is one of them. For one week in the ancient redwood forest of Sonoma County, California, something rare is happening. Chief Iyanifa Luisah Teish &mdash; elder, priestess, and one of the most revered voices in African diaspora spiritual tradition &mdash; is opening the land, opening the altar, and opening the circle. You are invited. The Oshun Festival is not an event you attend. It is an experience that finds you, moves through you, and sends you home different. Over seven days and seven nights, you will walk sacred land at dawn, sit at the feet of elders, hear the drums call Oshun by name, share meals cooked with intention, and remember something about yourself that the modern world has worked very hard to make you forget. This is the medicine. This is the moment. And there are very few spots left. What the week holds:Monday opens with a land blessing &mdash; Chief Teish leading the walk, the prayers, the greeting of the river.&nbsp;By Tuesday you are in the redwoods of Armstrong, standing on indigenous ground that has held ceremony for longer than any of us can count.&nbsp;Wednesday gives you rest, pleasure, and a community dinner that feels like home.&nbsp;Thursday the Congo Ancestral Activation arrives &mdash; a four-hour spiritual experience led by Queen Nqwamary Iya Janiqwa Nganga that will move through your ancestral line like water through stone.&nbsp;Friday is for the ancestors &mdash; shrine dressing, and the quiet powerful work of remembering who came before you.&nbsp;And Saturday &mdash; Saturday belongs to Oshun. Six hours of praise-singing, drumming, dance, and storytelling, closing with a community feast that celebrates everything we have built together across the week. Every evening, the circle deepens. Sacred films. Priest teachings. Song. Story. Altar. Join us in person or from wherever you are in the world. **Residential guests live on the land for the full week &mdash; meals included, ceremony included, community included.&nbsp;**Day passes welcome you for the workshop and vending days.&nbsp; **Virtual tickets bring the evening programming and select workshops directly to you via livestream, wherever you are calling in from. And here is what makes this moment even more sacred.Every dollar you invest in this festival goes directly toward purchasing this land permanently. The 5 acres beneath your feet &mdash; the redwoods, the river, the altar space &mdash; are not yet ours. We are in the process of raising $1.1 million to secure this property as a forever home for ancestral wisdom traditions for a minimum of 16 generations. Your ticket is a brick in that foundation. It is your name written into the story of this land. Residential spots are extremely limited and will not last.The river is already moving. Come. The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Chief Iyanifa Luisah Teish, Chief Spiritual Director. Shylah Hamilton-Tour&eacute;, Executive Director.

Oshun Festival 2026 — A Sacred Week in the Redwoods

Alg&uacute;n terreno te elige. Las 5 acres de antiguo bosque de secuoyas en Guerneville, California nos eligieron. La Jefa Iyanifa Luisah Teish ha caminado por esta tierra. Los ancestros lo han confirmado. El r&iacute;o que corre a su lado ha sido saludado y ha respondido. Ahora debemos hacerla nuestra &mdash; permanentemente, irrevocablemente, y para cada generaci&oacute;n que venga despu&eacute;s de nosotros. The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts est&aacute; recaudando $1.1 millones para comprar esta propiedad sagrada antes de octubre de 2026. Esta tierra se convertir&aacute; en un hogar eterno para las tradiciones sabias ancestrales &mdash; un santuario viviente enraizado en las ense&ntilde;anzas yoruba de If&aacute;, Egungun, Akan Sankofa, ubuntu sudafricano, y ense&ntilde;anzas caribe&ntilde;as basadas en la tierra. Un lugar donde los ancianos son honrados, los ni&ntilde;os son ense&ntilde;ados, se realizan ceremonias, y la sabidur&iacute;a de nuestros ancestros es transmitida sin disculpas por un m&iacute;nimo de 16 generaciones. Esto no es una campa&ntilde;a de construcci&oacute;n. No es un proyecto de capital. Es un acto de reclamaci&oacute;n ancestral. Cada d&oacute;lar que des hoy es un ladrillo en esa base. Cada donaci&oacute;n mensual es una ra&iacute;z que crece m&aacute;s profundo en esa tierra. Cada persona que comparte esta p&aacute;gina es un ancestro en proceso &mdash; alguien cuyo nombre ser&aacute; recordado cuando esta tierra siga en pie mucho despu&eacute;s de que nosotros hayamos partido.Sin pedirte que dones a una organizaci&oacute;n. Te pedimos que te conviertas en parte de una historia que empez&oacute; antes que nacieras y seguir&aacute; mucho despu&eacute;s de que te vayas. La tierra est&aacute; esperando. Los ancestros est&aacute;n observando. El r&iacute;o ya est&aacute; en movimiento. Dona hoy. The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts es una organizaci&oacute;n sin fines de lucro 501(c)(3) de California.Jefa Iyanifa Luisah Teish, Directora Espiritual Jefa.Shylah Hamilton-Tour&eacute;, Directora Ejecutiva.Todas las contribuciones son deducibles de impuestos en la medida permitida por la ley.

Algún terreno te elige.Las 5 acres de antiguo bosque de secuoyas en Guerneville, California nos eligieron. La Jefa Iyanifa Luisah Teish ha caminado por esta tierra. Los ancestros lo han confirmado. El río que corre a su lado ha sido saludado y ha respondido.Ahora debemos hacerla nuestra — permanentemente, irrevocablemente, y para cada generación que venga después de nosotros.The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts está recaudando $1.1 millones para comprar esta propiedad sagrada antes de octubre de 2026. Esta tierra se convertirá en un hogar eterno para las tradiciones sabias ancestrales — un santuario viviente enraizado en las enseñanzas yoruba de Ifá, Egungun, Akan Sankofa, ubuntu sudafricano, y enseñanzas caribeñas basadas en la tierra. Un lugar donde los ancianos son honrados, los niños son enseñados, se realizan ceremonias, y la sabiduría de nuestros ancestros es transmitida sin disculpas por un mínimo de 16 generaciones.Esto no es una campaña de construcción. No es un proyecto de capital. Es un acto de reclamación ancestral.Cada dólar que des hoy es un ladrillo en esa base. Cada donación mensual es una raíz que crece más profundo en esa tierra. Cada persona que comparte esta página es un ancestro en proceso — alguien cuyo nombre será recordado cuando esta tierra siga en pie mucho después de que nosotros hayamos partido.Sin pedirte que dones a una organización. Te pedimos que te conviertas en parte de una historia que empezó antes que nacieras y seguirá mucho después de que te vayas.La tierra está esperando. Los ancestros están observando. El río ya está en movimiento.Dona hoy.The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts es una organización sin fines de lucro 501(c)(3) de California.Jefa Iyanifa Luisah Teish, Directora Espiritual Jefa.Shylah Hamilton-Touré, Directora Ejecutiva.Todas las contribuciones son deducibles de impuestos en la medida permitida por la ley.

Sacred Land Campaign — Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts

Some land chooses you. The 5 acres of ancient redwood forest in Guerneville, California chose us. Chief Iyanifa Luisah Teish has walked this ground. The ancestors have confirmed it. The river that runs beside it has been greeted and has answered back. Now we must make it ours &mdash; permanently, irrevocably, and for every generation that comes after us. The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts&nbsp;is raising $1.1 million to purchase this sacred property before October 2026. This land will become a forever home for ancestral wisdom traditions &mdash; a living sanctuary rooted in Yoruba If&aacute;, Egungun, Akan Sankofa, South African Ubuntu, and Caribbean earth-based teachings. A place where elders are honored, children are taught, ceremonies are held, and the wisdom of our ancestors is transmitted without apology for a minimum of 16 generations. This is not a building campaign. This is not a capital project. This is an act of ancestral reclamation. Every dollar you give today is a brick in that foundation. Every monthly gift is a root growing deeper into that soil. Every person who shares this page is an ancestor in the making &mdash; someone whose name will be remembered when this land is still standing long after we are gone.We are not asking you to donate to an organization. We are asking you to become part of a story that started before you were born and will continue long after you leave. The land is waiting. The ancestors are watching. The river is already moving. Give today. The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.&nbsp;Chief Iyanifa Luisah Teish, Chief Spiritual Director.&nbsp;Shylah Hamilton-Tour&eacute;, Executive Director.&nbsp;All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Some land chooses you.The 5 acres of ancient redwood forest in Guerneville, California chose us. Chief Iyanifa Luisah Teish has walked this ground. The ancestors have confirmed it. The river that runs beside it has been greeted and has answered back.Now we must make it ours — permanently, irrevocably, and for every generation that comes after us.The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts is raising $1.1 million to purchase this sacred property before October 2026. This land will become a forever home for ancestral wisdom traditions — a living sanctuary rooted in Yoruba Ifá, Egungun, Akan Sankofa, South African Ubuntu, and Caribbean earth-based teachings. A place where elders are honored, children are taught, ceremonies are held, and the wisdom of our ancestors is transmitted without apology for a minimum of 16 generations.This is not a building campaign. This is not a capital project. This is an act of ancestral reclamation.Every dollar you give today is a brick in that foundation. Every monthly gift is a root growing deeper into that soil. Every person who shares this page is an ancestor in the making — someone whose name will be remembered when this land is still standing long after we are gone.We are not asking you to donate to an organization. We are asking you to become part of a story that started before you were born and will continue long after you leave.The land is waiting. The ancestors are watching. The river is already moving.Give today.The Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Chief Iyanifa Luisah Teish, Chief Spiritual Director. Shylah Hamilton-Touré, Executive Director. All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Sacred Land Campaign — Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts

Cracking the Ancestral Code A 15-week creative writing workshop in the sacred art of ancestral storytelling &quot;To be a storyteller is to be a keeper of the flame, a bridge between the world that was and the world that is yet to come.&quot; We are all walking archives. Carried within our memories, our family habits, the rhythms of our speech, and the very marrow of our bones are the maps of those who walked before us. Yet so much of our ancestral history remains fragmented &mdash; locked away in dry census data, faded photographs, and the silent spaces between family secrets. How do we reclaim these fragments and breathe life back into them? Cracking the Ancestral Code is a transformative, 15-week creative writing workshop designed to help you excavate, honor, and craft the stories of your lineage. Whether your family history is a sprawling, multi-generational epic or a quiet collection of half-remembered folklore, this course will give you the tools to transform raw memory into powerful, resonant narrative art. Together, we journey through three sacred pillars. In Remembrance, we move past dry dates and facts to mine the sensory truths of the past &mdash; using family heirlooms, recipes, photographs, and regional landscapes to bring the ghosts of your history vividly onto the page. In Reverence, we explore the sacred ethics of the storyteller: navigating complicated family truths with grace, honoring the distinct musicality of ancestral voices, and crafting characters who stand as three-dimensional human beings. In Resilience, we examine &quot;blood memory&quot; &mdash; unearthing the blueprints of survival, defiance, and triumph left behind by your ancestors, and structuring your narratives so they become a source of strength for the present and a legacy for the future. This workshop welcomes writers of all backgrounds and skill levels &mdash; from seasoned essayists and memoirists to those picking up a pen for the very first time. If you have a burning desire to listen deeply to the past and find your voice in the present, your seat at the table is waiting. The semester culminates in Voices from the Roots, a celebratory live community reading where we stand together and speak our ancestors&#39; names into the room. Come join us this Fall. The ancestors are waiting to be heard. Guide: Chief Iyanifa Yeye Luisah Teish When: Saturdays, 1:00&ndash;3:00 pm Pacific &middot; September 5 &ndash; December 12, 2026 Format: Hybrid (in-person and online) &middot; Limited to 12&ndash;15 participants

Cracking the Ancestral Code

A ten-week decolonial foundations course in tarot &mdash; not memorization, but the slow cultivation of a reader whose practice is spiritually anchored, intuitive, and ethically responsible.&nbsp; Taught by Shylah Hamilton-Tour&eacute;, we treat the deck as ancestral technology: a tool for developing intuition, aligning with Ori and destiny, and bridging ancestral guidance with contemporary self-understanding.&nbsp; We read through Yoruba cosmology, hold the Ire/Ibi tension in every card, and ground each lesson in ritual, journaling, and dreamwork.&nbsp; Every participant receives a copy of the Seed &amp; Smoke deck, mailed before we begin.&nbsp;Sundays, 9:00&ndash;11:30 am Pacific,&nbsp;October 4 &ndash; December 13, 2026 (pausing Thanksgiving weekend).&nbsp;Limited to 12 readers. All levels welcome.

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