South Africa Retreat 2019 - Learning About Indigenous Plant Medicine

So last weekend I hosted another Wealthy Money retreat in the village and it was lit.

This was the first of 2 retreats in March and I am only taking 4 people per retreat so I can go deep in the sessions.

I have only now really recovered cos for some unknown reason I took it upon myself to explore the relationship that Black Women have with God/ Divine this March.

I am working on a whole body of work about vows we make around the Divine and how that affects our ability to ask and receive money.

We have trauma around religion and God/Divinity and to heal our relationship with money, we have to heal this so we can tap into our own money magic.

I coined a term for it and am uncovering vows with my one-on-one clients who are game to be used as guinea pigs.

Sounds exciting in theory. BUT...

Mid Retreat - I was on wats app with my brother and Mizo talking about quitting this work cos I was seeing flames.

I was losing trains of thoughts in the middle of group coaching sessions cos my guides were dragging me into freaking conversations about this topic and trying to guide me mid-session.

I mentioned this in passing to everyone at the retreat when I totally forgot what we were coaching on.

Flames!!!

But it was worth it to see the realizations and aha moments everyone had at the end of the retreat.

WE LEARNED ABOUT AFRICAN MEDICINE AND HOW OUR ANCESTORS HEALED AND WENT ON A DIG WITH A GUIDE

The reason I chose to do the retreats in the village is because there's so much ancient knowledge there and it's carried on through the people.

I asked one of the healers I know (my mom's healer), Vusweni, to take us on an African medicine dig cos I know he digs his own medicine and was taught by his mom who was taught by her mom etc.

He shared so much.

My biggest aha moment was when he explained that our womb issues as women come from our mothers who got it from their mothers and he shared how our womb issues are intergenerational.

He also talked a little about the link between womb issues and emotions.

To hear all this shared in siSwati was awesome. It just confirmed that our ancestors knew these things that we're only now discovering.

[We were doing yoni steams centuries ago. I learned about yoni steams from a sangoma in Soweto, he doesn't do Google or English.]

Vusweni taught us about how our ancestors used the bark of a particular tree and put it in the river to call the rain.

We learned about the plants we could use to pray and to manifest our desires. I am so slow on all that Shem. I didn't take good notes and am kicking myself.

I have a plan for the retreat next weekend.

Then everyone else got energy readings and learned what their blocks were.

The vision I have for the village retreats was always to share African ways of healing and doing things.

I will talk about the other parts of the retreat later. I have to break it up cos I am still digesting it all and prepping for the next retreat on March 22nd.