Orisa Lifestyle Academy

Let my ori reach out to touch yours; let it reach out to touch 200. May your ori reach out to touch mine; let it reach out to touch 200.

200 on my right. 200 on my left. Together, we are the 401 best and brightest. Together, we will work to help bring about the Good Condition.

I am looking for leaders who are ready to improve the world through positive influence. If that is you, find out how Oloye Obafemi Origunwa and the Orisa Lifestyle Academy can help you take your practice and your life to the next level.

Join us today: OrisaLifestyle.com

The Orisa Lifestyle Academy in Abeokuta is now open.

After decades of teaching, community building, and cultural work in the United States, the vision has returned to its ancestral foundation. The first Orisa Lifestyle Academy campus in Africa is complete and programs are now underway.

Language instruction has begun.
Training is in motion.
The work is active.

We are now entering the next phase: regional expansion.

This is no longer a vision.
This is a functioning institution.

If you’ve followed this journey, this moment belongs to all of us.

Support the next phase: https://www.gofundme.com/f/orisa-lifestyle-academy-in-abeokuta

Perhaps more than any other orisa, Sango exemplifies the effects of identity crisis. There are several verses of Ifa that teach us about the times when Sango was troubled as a result of either being away from his ancestral home or ignorant of his true identity.

In the Holy Odu OsaIwori, for example, Ifa says that the people we bullying Sango by relegating him to a subservient status. It got so bad that they stopped calling him by his name and referred to him as the slave.

Exasperated, Sango went to consult Ifa and was advised to go in search of his father’s lineage. The awo told Sango that he would know power and earn respect only after he discovered his true identity. Sango completed the sacrifice and began the journey.

He found his father’s house as predicted. But while Sango was away, the people were slandering his name again, calling him the slave. But now, empowered by his true father, Sango commanded the skies to darken with clouds and his voice rumbled like an earthquake! Then, the slanderous liars fell to their knees and hailed him, Kabiesi! Your royal majesty!

Orisa Lifestyle is a tradition based upon reality. A leopard will only beget more leopards. No matter how long a log rests in the river, it will never become a crocodile. A word is more than enough for the wise.

Obafemi Origunwa, MA | OrisaLifestyle.com