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{{Short description|American spiritual writer}}
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| caption = AugustTeish in 2017
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| birth_date = <!-- {{Birthbirth date and age|YYYY1948|MM4|DD20}} --> April 20
| birth_place = New Orleans, La.Louisiana
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| occupation = Artist-Activist, Teacher, Presenter, Editorial Consultant, Life Guidance Counselor, Ritual Theater Director, Author
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| education = International Institute of Integral Human Sciences (Honorary PhD); Wesleyan University (Certificate: Creative Writing Specialist); Stanford University (Certificate: Food and Nutrition)
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'''Luisah Teish''' ({{IPAc-en|t|iː|ʃ}} {{Respell|TEESH}};<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgesG5Hs5vU&list=PL2A81FB8C7FD4F591&index=1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/fgesG5Hs5vU| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Growing up in New Orleans; Learning from Elders; Connecting with Spirit (Part 1/7)|website=[[YouTube]] |accessdate=22 October 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> also known as '''Iyanifa Fajembola Fatunmise''')<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4kBbOOWRDsC&pg=PA91&dq=|title=Women and New and Africana Religions|page=91|author1=Lillian Ashcraft-Eason|author2=Darnise C. Martin|author3=Oyeronke Olademo|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2010|isbn=978-0-275-9915-62}}</ref> is a [[teacher]]<ref>Malka Drucker. [https://archive.org/details/whitefireportrai0000druc/page/6568 ''White Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America'']. SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2003</ref> and an [[author]], most notably of ''Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals.''<ref name=casey>Casey, Laura. "There's magic between plants, food and beauty". ''[[Oakland Tribune]]'' [Oakland, Calif] 28 Oct 2006: 1.</ref> She is an African-American, born in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New OrleansIyanifa]], and [[LouisianaOshun]]. Herchief father,in Wilson Allen, Sr. was an African Methodist Episcopal whose parents had been two-generation servants and only one generation away from slavery. Her mother, Serena "Rene" Allen, was a Catholic, ofthe [[HaitiYoruba people|Yoruba]]an, French, and [[ChoctawLucumi religion|Lucumi]] heritage.<ref>[http://www.nativevillage.org/International%20Council%20of%2013%20INDIGENOUS%20GR/Other%20Women%20Elders/Luisah%20Teish/Luisah%20Teish.htm Luisah Teish, Adapted from "Grandmothers Council the World" by Carol Schaefer, Trumpter Books, 2006]</ref> Her original ancestry also includes Yoruba (West African)tradition.<ref name=rountree>Kathryn Rountree. ''Embracing the Witch and the Goddess: Feminist Ritual-Makers in New Zealand''. Routledge 2003. Quote: "In 1992 Luisah Teish, who is well known internationally in Goddess circles as a writer and ritual-maker, visited New Zealand. Teish is of Yoruba (West African) ancestry, although she was born and raised in New Orleans. She was the guest facilitator at residential weekend workshops in Auckland and Hamilton dedicated to exploring sensuality and creativity in ritual contexts. Her book Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals (1985) is well known among feminist witches in New Zealand"<casey/ref> She is an [[Iyanifa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://greatmotherconference.org/speakers/luisah-teish/|title=Luisah Teish|website=Great Mother and New Father Conference|accessdate=September 20, 2016}}</ref> and [[Oshun]] chief in the [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] [[Lucumi religion|Lucumi]] tradition.<ref name=casey/>
 
==Life==
In the late 1960s, Teish was a dancer in [[Katherine Dunham]]'s group, where she learned and performed traditional African and Caribbean dances.<ref name=albert/> After leaving the dance company, she became a choreographer in St. Louis. In 1969 she joined the Fahami Temple of [[Amun-Ra]], and it was here that she took the name "Luisah Teish", which means "adventuresome spirit".<ref name=albert/><ref>[http://noetic.org/directory/person/luisah-teish Directory, Institute of Noetic Sciences: Luisah Teish, wuote: "In 1969 she received initiation into to the Fahamme Temple of Amun-Ra in St. Louis, Missouri."]</ref> She led the dance troupe of the [[Black Artists Group]] (BAG) in St. Louis after the departure of BAG's first dance leader, Georgia Collins.▼
Luisah Teish is an African-American, born in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. Her father, Wilson Allen, Sr. was an African Methodist Episcopal whose parents had been two-generation servants and only one generation away from slavery. Her mother, Serena "Rene" Allen, was a Catholic, of [[Haiti]]an, French, and [[Choctaw]] heritage.<ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100126100809/http://www.nativevillage.org/INTERNATIONAL%20COUNCIL%20OF%2013%20INDIGENOUS%20GR/Other%20Women%20Elders/Luisah%20Teish/Luisah%20Teish.htm Luisah Teish, Adapted from "Grandmothers Council the World" by Carol Schaefer, Trumpter Books, 2006]}}</ref> Her original ancestry also includes [[Yoruba people|Yoruba West African]].<ref name=rountree>Kathryn Rountree. ''Embracing the Witch and the Goddess: Feminist Ritual-Makers in New Zealand''. Routledge 2003. Quote: "In 1992 Luisah Teish, who is well known internationally in Goddess circles as a writer and ritual-maker, visited New Zealand. Teish is of Yoruba (West African) ancestry, although she was born and raised in New Orleans. She was the guest facilitator at residential weekend workshops in Auckland and Hamilton dedicated to exploring sensuality and creativity in ritual contexts. Her book Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals (1985) is well known among feminist witches in New Zealand"</ref>
 
▲In the late 1960s, Teish was a dancer in [[Katherine Dunham]]'s group, where she learned and performed traditional African and Caribbean dances.<ref name=albert/> After leaving the dance company, she became a choreographer in St. Louis. In 1969 she joined the Fahami Temple of [[Amun-Ra]], and it was here that she took the name "Luisah Teish", which means "adventuresome spirit".<ref name=albert/><ref>[http://noetic.org/directory/person/luisah-teish Directory, Institute of Noetic Sciences: Luisah Teish, wuote: "In 1969 she received initiation into to the Fahamme Temple of Amun-Ra in St. Louis, Missouri."]</ref> She led the dance troupe of the [[Black Artists Group]] (BAG) in St. Louis after the departure of BAG's first dance leader, Georgia Collins.
In the late 1970s she became an initiate and priestess of the [[Lucumi religion]].<ref name=albert/> She began teaching in 1977.<ref>Greta S. Gaard. ''Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens''. Temple University Press, 1998</ref> She currently resides in [[Oakland, CA|Oakland]], [[California]].<ref>Aikens, Charles. "Teish Says Oakland Deserves To Be Saved". ''[[California Voice]]'' [Oakland, Calif] 08 Dec 1991: 4.</ref><ref name=eason/>▼
 
▲In the late 1970s she became an initiate and priestess of the [[Lucumi religion]].,<ref name=albert/> Sheand began teaching students in 1977.<ref>Greta S. Gaard. ''Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens''. Temple University Press, 1998</ref> She currently resides in [[Oakland, CA|Oakland]], [[California]].<ref>Aikens, Charles. "Teish Says Oakland Deserves To Be Saved". ''[[California Voice]]'' [Oakland, Calif] 08 Dec 1991: 4.</ref><ref name=eason/>
Teish has said in an interview "My tradition is very celebratory - there's always music, dance, song, and food in our services - as well as a sense of reverence for the children. It's joyful as well as meditative."<ref name=albert>{{cite journal|last=Albert|first=Mimi|date=January 1987|title=Luisah Teish - Yoruba priestess, psychic channel, storyteller, shaman - describes her return to the goddesses and gods of her West African spiritual roots.|journal=Yoga Journal|publisher=Active Interest Media, Inc.|volume=72|pages=33–35|issn=0191-0965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-wDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33}}</ref>▼
 
▲Teish has said in an interview, "My tradition is very celebratory - there's always music, dance, song, and food in our services - as well as a sense of reverence for the children. It's joyful as well as meditative."<ref name=albert>{{cite journal|last=Albert|first=Mimi|date=January 1987|title=Luisah Teish - Yoruba priestess, psychic channel, storyteller, shaman - describes her return to the goddesses and gods of her West African spiritual roots.|journal=Yoga Journal|publisher=Active Interest Media, Inc.|volume=72|pages=33–35|issn=0191-0965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-wDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33}}</ref>
 
One author said she was the "perhaps the most well known.. [[Yoruba religion|Yoruba]] priestess.. of the [San Francisco] Bay Area" (2010).<ref name=eason>Lillian Ashcraft-Eason. [https://books.google.com/books?id=q4kBbOOWRDsC&pg=PA129&dq=%22Luisah+Teish%22 ''Women and New and Africana Religions''], ABC-CLIO, 2010, pg. 129</ref> Another author characterized her as "..well known internationally in Goddess circles as a writer and ritual-maker."<ref name=rountree/>
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==External links==
* [https://www.yeyeluisahteish.com/ Personal Website]
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