Greetings
“A diviner combines aspects of the healer, social psychologist, priest and social worker”
Hirst (1990)
My birth name is Sonya and my initiated Sangoma name is Makhosi Nyoni. I have travelled to both West and South Africa, developing the skills and knowledge to become an African Traditional Healer. I integrate these learnings into my transgenerational healing practice’the ancestral call!”
The traditional healer is the first point of contact when there are health issues, mental or physical in many African cultures. Their role is as a ‘counsellor or griotte’ for the community, helping to maintain social order and guard traditional knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
In Diaspora communities of colour, we have become distanced from this knowledge, leading to a gap in our psychological and healing knowledge that Eurocentric learning cannot fill. But we can reconnect to these older cosmologies and responding to the ancestral call is a vital first step.
The healing retreats and learning immersions on offer provide a way to reclaim these ‘other ways of knowing’, drawing on the old and the new, the known and unknown. The purpose is to fill a gap in missing knowledge creating new paths for personal and professional transgenerational healing.
Stepping onto the Ancestral Path
The Ancestral Call is a continuation and extension of the transgenerational therapeutic work started on my Ancestral Constellations site. The focus beginning the work was on identifying and extracting the Ancestral and African overlay in the family constellations process that was often overlooked. In coming to this sacred healing practise, I heard the ancestral call of my ancestors to de-colonise the process and speak to the part that was calling me. It led to a 15 year learning path in indigenous African wisdom and initiation as an African Traditional healer. You can read more about my journey HERE.
As more people awaken and begin to Re-member knowledge that has been missing in the Diaspora, the journey of Re-claiming begins. You will learn the first principle of transgenerational ancestral practice, your ancestors are calling you to heal. When I talk with participants during a personal session, I often find that there are healers and ancestral knowledge passed down the family line, but often no clear sense of how to retrieve it. I am finding also, that the awakening taking place, is a request to find out more about the gifts and purpose that we come into the world to fulfil and can be RE-claimed.
My Ancestral Constellations practice offers a path to personal and professional learning centred on the application of the work within an integrated Western and indigenous therapeutic learning system. This includes personal sessions, Diaspora workshops and a Foundation Training in systemic constellations with ancestral healing as an overlay. Here on the Ancestral Call, the focus is transgenerational healing and ancestral learning. We are going straight to the ancestors, answering their call and using ancestral guidance and traditional wisdom to support those on the ancestral path.
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Amazed by the transformation..
“Thanks again for the powerful constellation session. I experienced lots of big realisations and processing that had been deeply subconscious up until then. Since the session I am seeing a clearer pathway for future healing and feel a lightness, peace and clarity around my family and ancestral dynamics that I haven’t felt before.”
Diahann Holder, Life Design & Leadership Mentor, Barbados, 2023
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Transgenerational Healing Retreat   7th -18th November 2024 Johannesburg, South Africa
