Greetings

“A diviner combines aspects of the healer, social psychologist, priest and social worker”
 Hirst (1990)

My birth name is Sonya and my Sangoma name is Makhosi Nyoni. Hirst’s description speaks to the role of a traditional diviner in many African cultures and societies. I am a diviner in the South African tradition and a therapeutic facilitator in the Western psycho/social tradition. 

The diviner is the first go-to person when there are health issues, mental or physical. They act as a ‘therapist-healer’, for the village community and they help to maintain the social order and guard the traditional knowledge, passing it down from generation to generation.

Diviners in African culture stand as intermediaries between this world and the ‘other world’, those who have passed over and are our ancestors. On the ancestral path, we in the Diasporas yearn to connect with older cosmologies that shed light on how to live harmoniously between worlds.

My work as a Transgenerational healer draws on the old and the new, the known and unknown. I offer an indigenous healing ritual way of working with family and community. Older ways explore ancestral bloodlines and newer processes dis-entangle patterns handed down over generations.