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About this event
This will be a day of Cultural and spiritual immersion. The facilitators all have over 30 years of experience each in their field, the teachings of the Earth Center, Dogon traditions is over 30,000 years old. On this day you will be taken through theoretical , philosophical and practical applications of African Culture and Spirituality. The speakers:-
Initiates of 'The Earth Center'
The Earth Center was Founded in 1995 by esteemed Dogon High Priest, Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig. Neb Naba has brought to the West timeless knowledge that traces its roots back thousands of years to the great civilization of Kemet.
Kebtah is a multifaceted 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting humanity's Ancestral culture to sustain the health and well-being of all people.
We aim to bridge the gap between modern societies and traditional, indigenous societies and address the cultural, educational, social and environmental problems we all face.
Initiates on the day will speak on the Importance of Language. The Medu language (Heiroglyphics) is not a dead language as was purported by the establishment, but lives on in traditions like the ones the Dogons hold This knowledge has been passed down to students of the temples and the significance, relevance and power of the language in these times. You will get the chance not only to hear initiates speak but you will also learn to write in this ancient form before you leave. This is an expeirencen ot to be misseed
DARREN LE BARON
Darren is an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research, and is based between the UK and the Caribbean.
Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes and mushroom educational programs, he is a keen cultivator and teacher. He has been growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for over thirteen years and has translated his home growing experiences into a social enterprise.
His achievements include launching the UK's first accredited Mycology and Mushroom Cultivation course for schools and young people in 2021, providing hands-on experience to empower school children and at-risk youth.
Darren is a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.
He is a member and presenter at the London Psychedelic Society, a chair and Breaking Convention committee member. He is also a regular presenter at the Detroit Psychedelic Conference, All Things Fungi, Ozora, Noisily and Lightning in a Bottle Festivals, as well as numerous gatherings around the world sharing his extensive research on psychedelics and how they can help support humanity in the here and now.
He is also an Organic Horticulturist and Permaculture tutor who supports schools, businesses and so called hard to reach communities around the world to create holistic and sustainable working systems.
Collectively his work aims to inform and empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to cope with social challenges and contribute to community development as well as self-improvement in an innovative, creative, culturally-aware style.
RAS HAPPA
Will be sharing his knowledge on the various types of drums and the spiritual/cultura uses of them, he will also be holding a workshop on drumming.
Ras Happa) is a cultural icon in the field of Caribbean drumming. Born in Jamaica, Ras Happa specialises in the countries traditional drum rhythms such as nyahbinghi, mento, kumina and bruckins and relates them to the popular dance rhythms found in reggae beats today, he is also versed in traditional African rhythms.
From the early 80’s till 2006 Ras Happa worked at the Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts in KIngston Jamaica, for over 10 years he played as a principal drummer in L’acadco and Stella Morris Dance Ensemble which took him to Europe, Africa and the rests of the Caribbean.
Ras Happa has worked in a voluntary capacity with the Bob Marley Foundation, Operation Restoration Christian School based in Trench Town, Jamaica which was set up to help the disaffected youths in the area and other groups such as Children and Community for Change these projects are all based in Kingston’s inner cities. He has also worked at all levels within the education system from nursery through to University level.
Ras Happa has also worked at the University of the West Indies Hospital Ward 21 for the mentally ill from 2000-2003 using drumming as a therapy for mentally ill patients.
He has been a drummer with: The Little Theatre Movement – Pantomime Company; Hatsfield Folklore Company; the University of the West Indies Dance Society and principal drummer for LACADCO Dance Company .
His career has taken him into the area of film and TV productions including ‘Deep Roots’, a documentary on the development of reggae music in Jamaica; ‘One Love’ movie starring Kymani Marley and music video with Shabba Ranks and Eddie Murphy.
He worked at the 2006 Music Festival Reggae Sun splash held in Ocho Rios where he opened one of the nights with the drumming group he founded, ‘Akwaaba de drummers’, a drumming group in Jamaica that specialises in traditional drum riddims. [see video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTJEiwWAbSs ]
He has also been involved in a number of cultural exchange programmes between groups in England and Jamaica.
In summer 2007 he worked as lead musician at the Royal National Theatre in their production ‘Emperor Jones’. In 2012 he performed and carried out drumming workshops at the UK WOMAD Music Festival. 2014 part of a group of drummers who were invited to play at the Sacred Music Festival in Israel, 2017 played in Cultural festivals in France and Geneva, Switzerland and ,most recently played in Venice at La Biyanalle and lectured at German festival in 2024
QUEEN IZETEH BERHAN
Queen Izeteh Berhan is a Rastafari artisan, teacher, and mother to four children based in the Rasta Village Montego Bay, Jamaica. She considers herself an One Love Therapist ™; intuitively working with the essential elements of fire, earth, water, and wind. She has been trained as a Reiki Energy Healing Master and has been practicing for 22 years; been a plant medicine facilitator since 2016; and is a lifelong student of traditional Rastafari Ital cooking and healing techniques.
Queen I. has embraced the preservation of indigenous healing techniques within the Rastafari and wider Jamaican society, as a personal mission. She knows the healing properties of almost every plant in the garden, and how to prepare and administer them; and assists others seeking healing, as a part of her own healing process. At her workshop in the Village, Queen handcrafts a wide variety of skin-care products from indigenous Jamaican plants and herbs and also offers her adaptation of traditional herbal bush-baths.
Queen I. attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, and was an English teacher at the prestigious Jamaica College, a traditional high school. She was one of the earliest employees at the groundbreaking IRIE FM radio station, the first station to play reggae music around the clock. Her work there as a record librarian gave Queen I. deep exposure to a wide range of reggae music, and helped guide her to Rastafari livity (way of life). Among other achievements at IRIE FM, Queen I. was an original pioneer of using Jamaican patois in advertising announcements— becoming a recognized and beloved voice in every part of the island.
BOUABTI FAHKARA
Bouabti will be speaking on the ancestral connection and demonstrating how it is done practically .
Bouabti was born in St Thomas, Jamaica in 1955. He was taught the significance of herbs and their medicinal properties. Raised in a rich clairvoyant community, he is descended from Maroons renowned for their heightened spiritual gifts and perceptions. From as young as five, Bouabti recognised his spiritual abilities, witnessing spirits and having visions. As a teenager, he began channeling these abilities.
Upon arrival in the UK, Bouabti continued to utilise his spiritual gifts. He is a talented medium and a learned clairvoyant.
He gives readings through several mediums including Tarot Cards, Cowrie Shells, and Energies. Bouabti also identifies
and remedies spiritual problems using herbs, prayers, and positive energies.
Keen to pass on these traditions, for over twenty years Bouabti trained mediums through meditation groups and courses. Currently, he runs a meditation group at Harrow Spiritualist Church and performs guest services at several spiritualist churches in North and West London.
In 2014, Bouabti began Dogon initiate training with The Earth Center. He has traveled across West Africa to attend seminars on their rituals and rites. In 2016, Bouabti completed his Dogon initiation. He continues to work closely with the center and teaches Kemetic philosophy to initiates at the London Earth Center on a weekly basis. He has participated in seminars on Dogon and Traditional Knowledge in Ibiza and Birmingham. Bouabti was a featured speaker at the Sacred Gathering in Ibiza in October 2019.
KANDAKE MAKONNEN
Kandake will be sharing her extensive knowlege and speaking on Modern v Traditional Concepts of Healing and Herbs.
Kandake was introduced to the use of herbs and healing by her grandmother in her childhood years when she went to live with her in Jamaica.for a while. Embracing Rastafari from early teans she again left London at 21 and went back to Jamaica to live amongst the Rastafarian community for 15 years living an ‘ital’ natural way of life.During that time she lived a community based holisti lifestile based in nature and practiced herbal medicine and the healing art of Reiki on the island until she decided to return to the UK to integrate what she had been learning with the Western scientific knowledge. Kandake went on to attend the University of Westminster, London where she studied for 4 years and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Medical Herbalism.
Clinical Practice
Kandake worked out of the TLC Health Centre in North London in her first 3 years of her clinical practice alongside a team of other professionals including doctors, specialists in diabetes, gynaecology , endocrinology, osteopaths, kinaesiologist,, sports masseurs and physiotherapists. Unfortunately the clinic closed in November 2013 and she then moved to the Quality Life Medical Centre in North London again working again alongside GPs.
Kandake currently works out of the Tree of Eternal Life in North London.
African Herbal Healing and Spiritual Training
Kandake has studied with the Dogon people of Togo West Africa for the past 10 years and during that time has been asked to speak in places like Spain, Canada and here in the UK . She has been a guest speaker at venues like the Medicine Festival in Reading 2021 and 2022 a which hosts indigenous peoples from around the world including people from the Amazon and native American communities. She has travelled to several African countries including Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso learning about her ancient culture and traditional medicine. Because of her love for herbal medicine she also had the opportunity to stay with a state recognised traditional healer in Togo at his healing compound learning the traditional ways of gathering medicine in the African bush, drying and preparing them for medicine. She is currently the Head of the Dogon Temple known as the Earth Centre in London where she also teaches.
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