a transformative ceremonial temple
For generations, our communities have faced the same wound, not the absence of strength, but the absence of initiation.
The rites of passage that once held us through every crossroad of life were interrupted.
What was forgotten was not just tradition. It was the web that told us who we are, what we carry, and how to cross
from one stage of life into the next with the support of community and ancestral wisdom.
We exist to restore ubuntu,
the felt sense experience
of the interconnected web of life.
What We Do | Makhosi Foundation is a ceremonial healing space rooted in the Ubungoma tradition of the Southern Bantu peoples. Our work is ancestral healing through culture, through song, dreamwork, earth-centered immersion, and guided rites of passage. A restoration of what was always ours. We serve those who feel the gap, who are in the middle of a crossroad with no map, no elder, no ritual to mark the crossing. We serve communities learning to remember themselves. And we serve the broader world as a living example that African healing traditions are whole and necessary.
Everything we hold is weaved around the understanding: Healing happens in community. The village is a web of medicine.
Guiding you to navigate your healing journey and gifts to restore a cultural identity within an ancestral cosmological map of life.
We teach ancestral practices to re-wild the body as an instrument of prayer and well-being. Through herbal studies, we cleanse the body, invigorate the senses, and fortify primal instincts. We invite deep introspection to expand consciousness.
We immerse ourselves in nature-oriented rituals and cultural experiences to cultivate inner silence, strengthen interpersonal relationships, and deepen connection to the natural world. We expand, study, and transform in community, with self, land, and humanity.
C U R R E N T O F F E R I N G S
Work with our founders to gain insight and support on your personal journey .
A living library of self-paced ancestral studies -- created for seekers of rooted spiritual teachings. You'll find guided practices, ancestral cosmologies, and pathways of ritual to help you return to the wisdom of your lineage.
An in-person ceremonial weekend gathering rooted in the traditions of ubungoma, dreamwork, and elemental rituals to re-wild your mind, heart, & body.
our collaborative collective
// beloved elder + Colombian ceremonialist
// ceremonial song
// Body Acupuncture
A TEMPLE OF SOUND, CONSCIOUNESS & RITES OF PASSAGE