Our Senegal Experience is a pilgrimage that reflects our understanding that We Got Soul; We Can Heal. Our Senegal Experience reflects the wisdom of many of our wisest elders and ancestors, including Malidoma Somรฉ who tells us in The Healing Wisdom of Africa, that healing requires community, ritual and spirit. And, Alice Walker who tells us in Anything We Love Can Be Saved that healing means putting the heart, courage and energy back into our bodies with our own culture (SOUL).
SOUL is the culture that Walker is referring to. SOUL is, as Dr. Sharon Harrell offers us, “the transformative healing resource that reflects sensibilities of the African Diaspora.” Soul is “the medicine we are looking for [that] has been within us and our communities all along. (Torres). SOUL reflects the fact that the healing we are seeking can be found in “the relationships with our communities, the natural world, our roots, and our ancestors” (Torres).
The Senegal Experience allows for participants to deepen and restore their connection with SOUL in impactful and transformative ways.
We offer the Senegal Experience in two formats – for professionals and practitioners and for families, friends and kinfolk.
THE SENEGAL EXPERIENCE
INTEGRATING CULTURE & CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES
Meeting Mami Wata
Ritual
Visit to Goree Island & The Door of No Return
Contemplative Arts
Movement Practices
The African Renaissance Monument
Heritage & History
Senegalese Cuisine
Daily Debriefs|Guided Reflections
Stillness Practices
Connecting with the Natural World
Traditional Spiritual Practices