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Educational Director

School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center, United States

Sep 1983 - Present

African Spirituality, Ritual Elements

Ms. Teish designs and conducts weddings, naming ceremonies, memorials, and a host of seasonal celebrations. Teish designed a Rites of Passage program for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is the director of the Full Faze Passage Council, a multi-racial, multi-cultural network of artists, consultants, and spiritual advisors experienced in events design and production.

She is the Olori (Director) of Ile Orunmila Oshun (The House of Destiny and Love and the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, CA). She has taught at the University of Creation Spirituality-Naropa, John F. Kennedy University, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and New College of California.

Ms. Teish has conducted tours with the School of Conscious Evolution, to sacred sites in several countries, including Egypt, Nigeria, and Jamaica and is a member of the Fellowship of Isis.

Educational Director

School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Art Center, United States

Sep 1983 - Present

Ritual Theater, Eco-Mythology, Goddess Studies

Summary of Achievements

Luisah Teish is a writer, speaker, teacher, performer, ritual priestess, event planner, space designer, editor, and personal coach.

She is the author of several books on African and African American Spiritual Culture and Feminist Myth. They include the women’s spirituality classic Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World, and What Don’t Kill Is Fattening Revisited: Twenty Years of Poetry, Prose, and Myth.

Other writing credits include contributions to thirteen anthologies and published articles in magazines such as Essence, Ms., Shaman’s Drum, and Yoga Journal.

Iya L'Orisha Oshun

Fatunmise Compound, Ile Ife, Nigeria

Jun 1982 - Mar 2001

Elected Chair of the Committee on Women's Issues at the World Orisha Congress 2001. Awarded the chieftancy title Yeye'woro 1993 Have received awards in Education, Theater and Community Service over a 35 year period.

Dance

Performing Arts Training Center, Illinois, United States

Jun 1968 - Sep 1971

Performed with the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in E. St. Louis, Ill. Served as a Teacher Trainee at P.A.T.C. Later served as the choreographer for the Black Artist Group in St. Louis, Missouri

A groundbreaking work introducing the basics of African and African-American Spiritual Practice to the WomanSpirit Movement.