A West Africa author will be the featured speaker at the 10th annual Kauai Wellness Expo. For more than 20 years, Malidoma Somé has shared the wisdom of his ancestors and tribal elders, “awakening a deep knowing in the hearts
A West Africa author will be the featured speaker at the 10th annual Kauai Wellness Expo.
For more than 20 years, Malidoma Somé has shared the wisdom of his ancestors and tribal elders, “awakening a deep knowing in the hearts and bones of those who have recognized in his name, his books, his voice, the spirit world inviting the renewal of a powerful and abiding relationship with all beings on earth.”
“The Expo’s goal in hosting Malidoma is to bring perspective to the people of Kauai and people of all nations that they are doing the right thing by taking of care of their land for the perpetuity of generations to come,” according to a press release. “He will bring a worldview of this critical issue of land use facing the human race today.”
Before his birth, in 1956, the elders of Malidoma’s village knew that his purpose in coming into this world was to carry the message of indigenous technology and spirituality to the western world, a place where modernity was growing increasingly hungry for a reconnection to ancient wisdom.
Little did he know, as a young child stolen from his family and village, that the years he would spend under the tutelage of the religious order would prepare the way for the eventual challenge of integrating old and new, the sacred and the mundane.
Malidoma is the author of several books, including “Ritual: Power, Healing and Community, Of Water,” and “The Spirit, and The Healing Wisdom of Africa. “
He has earned two Ph.Ds, from the Sorbonne, in Paris and Brandeis University in Boston.
He travels throughout the world bringing a message of hope, healing and reconciliation through the powerful tools of ritual and community building.
Through his lectures and the introduction of ritual in a way that the western psyche can embrace, Malidoma offers life-altering medicine and the opportunity to explore the meaning of purpose within one’s community.
Somé will speak at 6:30 p.m., Feb. 8 at Kauai War Memorial Convention Center. Tickets are $25.
Tickets at the door are $25.
