QUIMBANDA WORKSHOP OCTOBER 2020

Our next Quimbanda Workshop will take place in Extrema, Minas Gerais, Brazil from the 1st day of October to the 4^th of October 2020.

The workshop is initiatic in nature. It means that parts of the initiatic process used in our house of Quimbanda will be used for the purpose of connecting you with your personal Exu and Pomba Gira, but also with Exu Omolu who is the Exu presiding over this step pf the process.

The aim is to forge a true connection with your personal Exu/Pomba Gira through Omolu in such way that you will during these days enable yourself to forge a genuine connection with spirit.

This means that this first step is about you and your personal relationship with your Exu and Pomba Gira, hence at this point you will not make a commitment to the cabula/temple like the lifelong pact of loyalty a Tata or Yaya pledges. This first step is something you do for yourself, to become an autonomous practitioner capable of taking care of your Exu and Pomba Gira.

We will take care of all things necessary both practical and spiritual, and whatever present itself naturally and dynamically during the workshop we will strive towards addressing. The idea is to generate this event together and allow it all to unfold naturally under the watchful eyes of Exu and Pomba Gira. This means that the content/outline of the workshop will be subject to change depending on what surfaces as important. This because each group is unique and the needs tend to change a bit from group to group, hence the chronogram is more suggestive than fixed.

For more information, please write to: sacred.alchemy.store@gmail.com

Please note, that interest and opportunity is not enough, every person is presented to the Maioral and will go through a spiritual screening process.

Laroyê!

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