OFFICIAL BEAUCOUP HOODOO FEST 2025 SCHED

My discussion is about which words to Use and How To utilize & absorb them in your worship journey, regardless of your chosen religious and/or spiritual practice. This will include a Q & A. This discussion is particularly great for those who are interested in learning from and connecting with elders. Mama M'Tam initiated as a priest of Osun in 1979 and is a member of one of the oldest African-American Lucumi houses in the United States of America.

In this conversation, Kat Niami will be talking with Charlotte Dueer James about her practice working with ritual and Sacred Earth Medicines to reach expanded states of consciousness.  In this expanded state we have the opportunity to travel deep within our roots to meet our ancestors, our spirit guides, and our true guiding Source.  We will touch on how one can incorporate these practices into our lives as modern beings, as well as how to safely engage with these practices.  

*TBA: Rapeh Ceremony will be offered in the evening.

Are you so busy with your daily lives that you don't have time for yourself?  Come explore:  Why spiritual practice is important?  Why is it important to remember our ancestors?  What are some strategies for self-care?  How do you make time for yourself in your busy life?
 

Black women’s bodies are sites of wealth, wellness, and abundance. In this interactive workshop, join Erin Trent Johnson, founder of BlackMamaBody, for an exploration of the lineage of Black women’s spiritual, ecological, and embodied healing practice.

We are in a time of divine feminine revolution. The earth is raging from the abuses of colonial extraction and capitalist exploitation. These same systems have stolen African bodies, labor, land, and resources for centuries. Yet, we know how to do more than just survive. We have life-systems of repair, rebellion, and spiritual resources within our bodies that are aligned with spirit. We make a way out of no way. In this session, we will explore the liberatory possibility of connecting with our body's gut feelings, intuition and sensorial inner knowing. Trusting in our source of creation allows us to manifest health from our inherent worth and our core values.

Black women’s bodies are divine ecosystems within social systems. We be knowin’! Our bodies are sites of viral imagination. We be sharin’! In the face of terror, we have created ways to open roads and imagine pathways to freedom. When we trust our inner wealth, worthiness, and wisdom, we can practice everyday colonial rebellion. We have the radical possibility to see the unseen to heal the wounds of body-mind-spirit. Our healing is communal alchemy that has the power to transmute forces of destruction. When our bodies heal, all bodies and the earth can thrive.

Using the lens of spiritual somatic activism, we will explore the ways African-descended women have always had the tools for our collective wellness, ecological health, and liberation.

In this session, we will explore various ways that African-descended women’s earth-honoring, spiritual liberatory practice including ATRs, ADRs, Hoodoo, Astrology, divination, and African cosmologies of care and deep root medicine.

Erin will guide us through somatic practices that allow us to regulate our nervous systems and tap into our inner source of power. We will then visit the crossroads of the gut-brain axis to metabolize generational wounding, elevate conscious awareness of survival and trauma responses, and discover the digestive system powers of discernment, choice, and free will that can support collective healing, liberation, and transformation.

The Different Paths of ATRS, How to Find a Qualified OG and How to Not Get Got.

 Why Do We Turn to Astrology? Since the beginning of time, humans have been on a quest to better understand our existence and make meaning of our lives. This talk will focus on the significance of astrology today and why so many are engaged with this connection between the sky and life on earth.  I'll provide an overview of the hows and whys astrology has come to mean so much to all of us.

Are you on the road to healing and empowerment through immersion in Afrikan-centered spiritual practices? If so, then you know that one of the most important parts of discovery is honoring your ancestors. However, besides the daily important rituals and customary ceremonies, what does this work look like? This workshop will discuss the need for aligning our African traditional spiritual practices with pan-Afrikan based work. Iyalosha Sister Kemba shares with us her unique experiences in being raised in the Yoruba Lukumi religion as well as, a cultural revolutionary community, and the significance of both. She will share some unique insights and tools on Afrikan spirituality coupled with Afrikan liberation education, as we forge forward on this journey for uplifting ourselves and our Afrikan people.

This workshop will be centered in how to raise your kids and family in African spiritual traditions and how that journey will change the trajectory of your ancestors AND descendants.

The Different Paths of ATRS, How to Find a Qualified OG and How to Not Get Got.

This workshop will center the most
important spiritual tool in your arsenal: YOU!
We will explore the intersections between
the Yoruba concept of Ori and the more recent
concept of Human Design and outline
practical ways to implement your ori's unique
strategies for success.

My discussion is about which words to Use and How To utilize & absorb them in your worship journey, regardless of your chosen religious and/or spiritual practice. This will include a Q & A. This discussion is particularly great for those who are interested in learning from and connecting with elders. Mama M'Tam initiated as a priest of Osun in 1979 and is a member of one of the oldest African-American Lucumi houses in the United States of America.

In this session Charlotte Dueer James talks about her practice working with ritual and Sacred Earth Medicines to reach expanded states of consciousness.  In this expanded state we have the opportunity to travel deep within our roots to meet our ancestors, our spirit guides, and our true guiding Source.  We will touch on how one can incorporate these practices into our lives as modern beings, as well as how to safely engage with these practices.  

*TBA: Rapeh Ceremony will be offered in the evening.

The paradox of managing ancient traditions in modern contexts.

Are you so busy with your daily lives that you don't have time for yourself?  Come explore:  Why spiritual practice is important?  Why is it important to remember our ancestors?  What are some strategies for self-care?  How do you make time for yourself in your busy life?
 

Black women’s bodies are sites of wealth, wellness, and abundance. In this interactive workshop, join Erin Trent Johnson, founder of BlackMamaBody, for an exploration of the lineage of Black women’s spiritual, ecological, and embodied healing practice.

We are in a time of divine feminine revolution. The earth is raging from the abuses of colonial extraction and capitalist exploitation. These same systems have stolen African bodies, labor, land, and resources for centuries. Yet, we know how to do more than just survive. We have life-systems of repair, rebellion, and spiritual resources within our bodies that are aligned with spirit. We make a way out of no way. In this session, we will explore the liberatory possibility of connecting with our body's gut feelings, intuition and sensorial inner knowing. Trusting in our source of creation allows us to manifest health from our inherent worth and our core values.

Black women’s bodies are divine ecosystems within social systems. We be knowin’! Our bodies are sites of viral imagination. We be sharin’! In the face of terror, we have created ways to open roads and imagine pathways to freedom. When we trust our inner wealth, worthiness, and wisdom, we can practice everyday colonial rebellion. We have the radical possibility to see the unseen to heal the wounds of body-mind-spirit. Our healing is communal alchemy that has the power to transmute forces of destruction. When our bodies heal, all bodies and the earth can thrive.

Using the lens of spiritual somatic activism, we will explore the ways African-descended women have always had the tools for our collective wellness, ecological health, and liberation.

In this session, we will explore various ways that African-descended women’s earth-honoring, spiritual liberatory practice including ATRs, ADRs, Hoodoo, Astrology, divination, and African cosmologies of care and deep root medicine.

Erin will guide us through somatic practices that allow us to regulate our nervous systems and tap into our inner source of power. We will then visit the crossroads of the gut-brain axis to metabolize generational wounding, elevate conscious awareness of survival and trauma responses, and discover the digestive system powers of discernment, choice, and free will that can support collective healing, liberation, and transformation.

Why Do We Turn to Astrology? Since the beginning of time, humans have been on a quest to better understand our existence and make meaning of our lives. This talk will focus on the significance of astrology today and why so many are engaged with this connection between the sky and life on earth.  I'll provide an overview of the hows and whys astrology has come to mean so much to all of us.

In this session, we're going to discuss why understanding CHIRON is the key to DOING THE WORK bka SHADOW WORK bka HEALING YOUR LIFE.

Are you on the road to healing and empowerment through immersion in Afrikan-centered spiritual practices? If so, then you know that one of the most important parts of discovery is honoring your ancestors. However, besides the daily important rituals and customary ceremonies, what does this work look like? This workshop will discuss the need for aligning our African traditional spiritual practices with pan-Afrikan based work. Iyalosha Sister Kemba shares with us her unique experiences in being raised in the Yoruba Lukumi religion as well as, a cultural revolutionary community, and the significance of both. She will share some unique insights and tools on Afrikan spirituality coupled with Afrikan liberation education, as we forge forward on this journey for uplifting ourselves and our Afrikan people.

This workshop will be centered in how to raise your kids and family in African spiritual traditions and how that journey will change the trajectory of your ancestors AND descendants.

This workshop will center the most
important spiritual tool in your arsenal: YOU!
We will explore the intersections between
the Yoruba concept of Ori and the more recent
concept of Human Design and outline
practical ways to implement your ori's unique
strategies for success.