About the work…
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Tamira is an ancestral medium and ritual facilitator who specializes in supporting folks with remembering the authentic pathways of ancestral connections they incarnate with. Her work is rooted in love, truth-telling and embodied self-recovery practices from systems and rituals that decenter our humanity & divinity.
She enjoys co-weaving 1:1 and communal containers of curiosity, connection and homecoming with the living and their ancestral eco-systems of care. She supports folks who wish to dive into the deep waters of ancestral connections to strengthen relationships with their ancestors and co-weave life-affirming rituals and embodied liberation practices. Her work is an open invitation to investigate and dismantle the rituals of disconnection folks and their ancestors have been initiated into upholding by oppressive systems and cultures.
About Me…
My name is Tamira pronounced (Tuuuh-Mee-Rah). I am a student and medium of ancestral and earth-honoring wisdoms and ritual facilitation.
My people descend from lands of West Africa by way of Alabama, Ohio, and Indiana and also from the Irish and British Isles. I grew up primarily in Atlanta in a loving Muslim home run by powerful women.
My Ori has guided me toward exploring embodied ancestral connection and healing practices centering liberation. My exploration of these practices continues to be informed by my initiations into Afro-Brazilian earth-honoring traditions, the embodiment of Black liberation theologies, and West African Ifa Òrìṣà tradition.
I am dedicated to co-weaving liberated, reverence-filled ritual containers and intergenerational ancestral connections across space and time. I am honored to co-weave ritual containers which celebrate all forms of ancestral diversity through embodied practice, ritual, and song.
I currently reside on the ancestral lands of the Catawaba and Eno peoples. In collaboration with my kinfolk at the InPower Institute, Jubilee Healing Farm and companions from all over the world, I strive to co-weave generative relationships and offerings that nourish our ancestral ecosystems of love.
In connection & care,
Tamira Cousett
Ó/Òun/Wọ́n/Àwọn
My Values
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I commit to the embodied practice of centering Love in all that I do. As I root in my own practices of ancestral connections and support others, Love will rest at the center of every approach and connection that unfolds.
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I honor and celebrate the Ase (life-force) that connects all beings to the web of creation. I honor the Ase of my ancestors and seek to help others in deepening connection to the Ase their ancestors have poured into their being.
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In helping others center connection with their ancestral ecosystems, I commit to doing so in ways that are aligned with my trainings and paths of practice. Maintaining integrity requires iwa pele (good character) which both allows me to deepen along my path of practice and is required for building relationship folks I support and their ancestors.
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I am committed to centering liberation in my practices of connection and healing. I commit to holding a space which invites the liberation of both the living and the dead, for personal and collective healing. I commit to invite the living to explore pathways of liberation from the rituals of disconnection within our lineages and dominant culture at large.
Ancestral & Ritual Offerings are an integral component of my embodied spiritual practices.
An invitation to Remember…
“We are born and have our being in a place of memory. We chart our lives by everything we remember from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering.”
