A southern bantu approach to mental, emotional, body-centered healing in community.
We offer a transformative ceremonial space where ancestral healing arts & cultural traditions enrich our humanity.
Ubungoma, our lineage is a web of spirit-led, holistic, afro-cultural practices…
with mother nature as our elder guiding us on the path of restoration & liberation.
Makhosi Foundation curates both virtual and physical spaces that reunite individuals with ancestral practices. In our spaces, we remember how to be with nature and one another, embracing fluidity and transformation to meet the ever-evolving principles of wellness, integrity, and togetherness.
Led by black, diasporic ceremonialists…
Gogo Ekhaya and Gogo Thule underwent a form of cultural reclaimation through an African-Indigenous initiation to transform into iSangoma: traditional healers carrying the wisdom of their elders and ancestors.
Gogo means grandmother in zulu, which identifies one as a carrier of ancestral wisdom with the ability to guide and provide remedies of well-being.
the heart of our work
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Root cause based counsel & ubuntu-centered communal teachings
We offer divination and dream-sharing circles as a form of community counsel and to navigate one's healing journey or ancestral gifts. We use storytelling to restore cultural identity and to establish a cosmological map of life.
We practice reciprocity through service as each person is a contribution by tending to the upkeep of the communal space and environment. -
ancient medicinal songs & herbal studies
We transmit song and dance to re-wild the body as an instrument of prayer and well-being; engage in herbal studies to cleanse the body, to invigorate the senses and to fortify primal instincts. We invite deep introspection to expand our consciousness through dream quests.
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motherland journeys & earth-centered immersions
We immerse ourselves in nature-oriented rituals and cultural immersions to cultivate inner silence, strengthen interpersonal relationships and to deepen connections to the natural world.
We expand, we study, we transform in community with self, land, and humanity.
1:1 guidance
Work with our founders to gain insight
and support on your personal journey…
Imphepho Plant Workshop
virtual teaching
Imphepho is known as an herbal ritual incense from South Africa that helps you connect to your ancestors.
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Motherland Journeys
We go on ancestral pilgrimages to embrace the land as our elder mother that we learn from and journey through to remember our ancestors.
Sacred Sites: Sedona, Mt Shasta, Three Rivers, Big Sur, Colombia, South Africa, Burkina Faso
our collective
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Taita Edwin
// beloved elder + Colombian ceremonialist
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Camille Uthando
// kemetic movement artist
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Michelle Mabatu
// breathwork + futha facilitator
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collaborative supporters
“Ubuntu & Ubungoma acknowledges that we are all in an web…we are remembering our interconnectedness and gracefully upholding our ancestral principles of Ubuntu through embodiment, service, and humble leadership..”
— GOGO THULE, co-founder