In Yoruba religious traditions, the body is a sacred vessel often used to communicate with the divine realms via dance, drumming, and song - sacred arts in Yoruba and other African and Indigenous traditions around the world - that honor the ancestors, spirits, and orishas. These rituals of movement, music, and voice are elements of our ancestral embodied prayer that activate the ashé (life force) of our sacred vessels and deepen individual and community connections to the divine with our earthly lives and experiences.
Please join Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Iya Amma McKen, Iya Danys Mora, Artist-Scholar Yesenia Selier, and Moderator Iya Marinieves Alba on June 10, 2021, at 6:30 PM for the next edition of Sacred Traditions where we will be exploring the role of these embodied prayers in Yoruba and Congo religious systems.
These panelists will examine their own lived experiences and explore the lines between the sacred and profane in ritual and performance.
Panelists:
Chief Baba Neil Clarke
Iya Amma McKen
Iya Danys Mora
Artist-Scholar Yesenia Selier
Moderator: Iya Marinieves Alba
