Greetings

“A diviner combines aspects of the healer, social psychologist, priest and social worker”
 Hirst (1990)

My birth name is Sonya and my initiated Sangoma name is Makhosi Nyoni. I have travelled to both West and South Africa, learning the skills and knowledge to become an African Traditional Healer, which I integrate into my therapeutic practice as a Ancestral Constellations practitioner.

The diviner/healer is the first go-to person when there are health issues, mental or physical in many African cultures. They act as a ‘therapist-healer’, for the community, helping to maintain the social order and guard traditional knowledge as it is passed down from generation to generation.

African Traditional Healers stand as intermediaries between the living world and the ‘world of the ancestors’. When we in the Diasporas step onto the ancestral path, we are connecting with these older cosmologies, that shed light on how to live harmoniously between worlds.

My work as an transgenerational healer draws on the old and the new, the known and unknown. I offer an indigenous healing ritual way of working with family and community. Older ways explore ancestral bloodlines and newer processes dis-entangle patterns handed down over generations.