THE WERK Season 4 Episode 02: Sacred Medicines as Holistic Framework for Ancestral Healing with Buki Fadipe

Buki Fadipe is a Nigerian and British certified Professional Psychedelic Medicine Facilitator, Trauma informed 200-hr YTT Hatha Yoga practitioner, Decolonized Educator, Seer & Spiritualist. She is passionate about reclaiming ancient earth/indigenous wisdom practices to act as a basis for Earth centred integrative healing. Using a decolonized lens in her practice, Buki fuses her knowledge of the science of the physiological & neurobiological effects of trauma with indigenous and traditional perspectives on healing with sacred medicines. Her specialisms include but are not limited to the healing of intergenerational & ancestral trauma, Traditional African spirituality, Rites of Passage Rituals and Spiritual Emergence. Buki facilitates healing ceremonies, retreats, workshops, classes and one-on-one coaching sessions for preparation, ceremony and integration. Find out more about her work via www.adventuresinom.com and on IG @adventures.in.om! In This Episode:

• Buki’s origins story, how she started learning about plant medicines from a scientific method approach, and then to sacred medicine healing. us to reclaim our birthrights. 
• The challenges of growing up in a nation at the start of its emancipation from colonial powers.
• Buki shares how sacred medicines can help us to heal ancestral wounds
• Buki talks about the effects of returning to one's lineage and ancestral practices. 
• Bridging science and ancestral practices together for healing and empowerment.
• Buki shares about the BIPOC integration circles she leads.
• Buki shares her own personal experience on why sacred medicines are taboo in the church and in religious institutions.
• Buki speaks about how she’s been able to transmute rage when doing the decolonizing work.
• Buki shares about her personal experience with assimilation and erasure in being a Black woman in the UK.

Full Show Notes:

• Buki Fadape's Website
• Buki's Instagram (@Adventures in Om)
• Brittany Simone Anderson's Instagram
• Laura Chung Instagram
• The Werk Podcast Instagram
• The Werk Podcast Website
• YouTube Channel

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