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'''Luisah Teish''' is an author, storyteller, educator, playwright and priestess of the [[Ifá]]/[[Orisha]] faith. She is a native of [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] and a resident of [[Oakland, CA]]. |
'''Luisah Teish''' is an author, storyteller, educator, playwright and priestess of the [[Ifá]]/[[Orisha]] faith. She is a native of [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] and a resident of [[Oakland, CA]]. |
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==Religion== |
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Teish is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the [[West Africa]]n [[Diaspora]], and she holds a [[chieftain]]cy title (Yeye’woro) from the Fatunmise Compound in Ile Ife, [[Nigeria]]. She is the founder and president of Ile Orunmila Oshun (The House of Destiny and Love and the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in [[Oakland, CA]]), which she established in 1983. Presently she is the Chair of the World [[Orisha]] Congress Committee on Women’s Issues. She is also a devotee of Damballah Hwedo, the [[Haitia]]n [[Rainbow Serpent]], under the guidance of Moma Lola. She is an ally to the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. |
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==Teacher== |
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She has been on the faculty at the University of Creation Spirituality-Naropa in Oakland, CA ([[Naropa University]]), Adjunct at the [[California Institute of Integral Studies]] in [[San Francisco, California]] and the [[Institute of Noetic Sciences]], and she teaches at [[New College of California]], [[John F. Kennedy University]], and the Montclair Women's Cultural Arts Center. She is Associate Core Faculty at Sophia University-ITP, and has been a guest lecturer at [[Stanford University]], [[UCLA]], and [[Harvard University]]. She is the Vice President of the Association for [[Transpersonal Psychology]], and the founder of the School of Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, CA. |
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==Author== |
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Teish is the author of several books on African and African-American spiritual culture and mythology, including ''Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals'', ''Carnival of the Spirit'', and ''Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Season with Celebrations from Around the World''. She has contributed to fifteen anthologies, and published articles in magazines such as ''Essence'', ''Ms.'', ''Shaman’s Drum'', and ''Yoga Journal''. Her writings have been translated into German, Spanish, and French. |
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==Theater== |
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She is a theatrical performer of African, Caribbean, and African-American folklore and feminist myth, and has performed in venues such as The Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Ca., the Brooklyn Academy of Music, St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York, and the Galaxy Theater in Auckland, New Zealand. Teish is also a playwright and director, whose works include ''Olokun's Challenge''. Her performances, lectures and workshops have taken her to [[Europe]], [[Egypt]], [[South America]], [[New Zealand]], Nigeria, [[Costa Rica]], and across the [[United States]]. Teish directs Dahomey Royal Design House, which produces mixed–media works of art, designs wearable art and home decor, and conducts private ceremonies and public celebrations. |
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== Bibliography == |
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* ''Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage'' (1994) Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-250868-7, ISBN 978-0-06-250868-3 |
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* ''Eye of the Storm'' (1998) E P Dutton ISBN 0-525-94032-4, ISBN 978-0-525-94032-6 |
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* ''Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals'' (1988) HarperOne ISBN 0-06-250859-8, ISBN 978-0-06-250859-1 |
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* ''Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Season with Celebrations from Around the World'' (2000) Conari Press ISBN 1-57324-551-8, ISBN 978-1-57324-551-7 |
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* ''Soul Between the Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing'' (with Dorothy Randall Gray) (1998) Avon Books ISBN 0-380-79142-0, ISBN 978-0-380-79142-2 |
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* ''What Don't Kill is Fattening: Poems by Luisah Teish'' (1980) Fan Tree Press ASIN: B0007BJRRE |
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* ''What Don’t Kill Is Fattening Revisited: Twenty Years of Poetry, Prose, and Myth'' (2002) Orikire Publications |
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* ''Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries'' (with Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa and Stephen Larsen) (2003) Destiny Books (New Edition of ''Song of the Stars'') ISBN 0-89281-129-3, ISBN 978-0-89281-129-8 |
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[[Category:American spiritual writers]] |
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[[Category:University of Creation Spirituality]] |
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[[Category:New College of California]] |
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[[Category:John F. Kennedy University faculty]] |
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[[Category:Naropa University faculty]] |
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Revision as of 04:28, 12 November 2012
Luisah Teish is an author, storyteller, educator, playwright and priestess of the Ifá/Orisha faith. She is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana and a resident of Oakland, CA.