Luisah Teish is a writer, performer and ritual priestess. Author of several books on African and African-American Spiritual Culture and Feminist Myth, including “Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals” a women’s spirituality classic, and “Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage“, Teish is an initiated elder in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora and is the Chair of the World Orisha Congress Committee on Women’s Issues. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Spiritual Therapeutics from Open International University’s School of Complementary Medicine in Colombo Sri Lanka in 1993. She has taught at the University of Creation Spirituality- Naropa, Oakland, John F. Kennedy University, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and New College of California. - Website