Oyabisi Ojola

(she/they)

My Story

Hello My name is R’Yana Michele Oyabisi Anthony (I prefer she/they pronouns and Oyabisi at the moment). I am the founding Experience Architect of High Priestess Sanctuaries Hospitality.

  • I am a Black queer Southern ritualmaker and healing artist. As an Earth Dagara, I create and facilitate authenticity, home, and belonging.

  • I came into this world on a mission to: create expressions of the divine mother through pleasurable sanctuary building, healing arts, and land stewardship.

  • I dream of a world full of magic and liberation for black people and seeks to create interventions for the complete wholeness of Black community.

I learned how to take good care of black people from my grandmother, Pearlie Helen Brooks Cole. As community matriarch and queen mother, she hosted us with care, love, and nourishing culinary masterpieces. I have been crafting events and retreats for 14 years.

I transform empty boxes into something new, creative, and elevated. (*cue Wide Open Spaces*) High Priestess Sanctuaries is a solution to the largely male and white driven hospitality industry that is pigeon-holed into crafting enjoyment for that demographic only.

I am also a wellness and spiritual practitioner - and energy is everything! NO one should have to endure erosion of their peace and sanity from a bad curation experience. I make my clients know that I am listening and provide support to make visions become reality. I blend my synchronicity skills with a divine intuition to create oases of Black cool.

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Some things to know about me:

Plant Dopplegangers :

Rose, Mugwort, Calendula

My medicine shows up to:

  • stimulate growth

  • evoke and promotes beauty and harmony

  • push the limits of freedom with respect for the natural laws of the universe.

Lineages of Practice

~ 11 years of womanist theological study and practice

~ 11 years of Hoodoo and Ancestral Veneration practice

~ 10 years of breathwork and Zen meditation practice

~ 8 year apprentice of PechaKuti Mesa Shamanism (Peru)

~ 7 years of spiritual herbalism and plant medicine training

~ 5 years of Reiki and energy healing practice (Usui Level 1 & 2)

~ 5 years of Black somatic embodiment practice

~ 2 year aborisha of New Afrikan Vodun/Orisa

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