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Enio Staub/Guilherme Barcellos
Florianópolis - Gogo Numzimane will
be at the Patriarch Saint Joseph Community from February 25th
through the 28th. The Zulu spiritual leader and teacher will
leave her tribe in South Africa to come to Brazil for the
first time to present and share her spiritual knowledge from
the Amazioni tradition. This doctrine integrates ancient and
traditional African teachings with those of Christ.
Msho Gladys Mazibuko, her “civil” name, is a Zulu
sangoma – traditional spiritual healer and traditional
medical practitioner. To be a sangoma is to open your heart
and being to God and your fellow human beings and to shine
the divine within as a light to the world. Her ancestors for
many generations were sangomas, her mother was a sangoma,
and her father was an inyanga or traditional herbalist. She
grew up harvesting, preparing and administering herbal medicine
and African healing to her parents' many patients.
She then trained as Thokoza sangoma, and has been practicing
as a Thokoza for 12 years. Thokozas, like Gogo Numzimane and
her disciple Gogo Dom de Bruin – who is also coming
to Brazil, are very strong with Mandawu or water spirits.
They most significantly do prayer, energy channeling work
and sometimes body work as their central approach, as well
as water healing ceremonies at rivers or the ocean. Thokoza
healing techniques include "throwing the bones"
- their system of divination, mostly used as diagnostic tool
before a prescribed treatment, reflecting patterns in the
consciousness of the patient and the state of their relationships
with their ancestors and soul guides. They use a wide variety
of herbal medicines and treatments to restore balance on physical,
emotional, spiritual and social levels.
The use of ceremony and ritual is also employed here. The
use of sound via traditional songs, drums and dancing is an
integral part of all Thokosa healing work. Sometimes forms
of traditional shiatsu and pressure point body work is administered.
The requirements of each patient varies.
As the world is changing, and unifying, many trainees from
other non-African spiritual and shamanic paths have been initiated
as Thokozas by Gogo Numzimane and many of these teachings
and ways have been woven into the traditional African path,
creating a new form yet still rooted in African traditions.
Please call the community center if you are interested in
this holy event, telephone number +55 48 3269.5514 or e-mail
acepsj@hotmail.com. Previous reservation is needed for those
that want to be housed in the community.
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