Healers

Abbebe Oshun

Abbebe Oshun is a poet and journalist. As a journalist, she traveled all over the world. Her trips to the Congo and Egypt opened a path to her current healing practices. One day she received a spiritual message: she would build and lead a ceremonial community in the Dominican Republic devoted to healing and empowering women. That is how she became a migrant in the Dominican Republic and the Iya (or mother) of her ilé, a home in Santo Domingo that receives people seeking healing. People come to her ilé from the US, Honduras, Holland, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic. She attends anyone in need of spiritual attention through both espiritismo and regla de osha . Oshún’s motto is “Obedi kaka, Obedi lele” (Knowledge was spread around the world). She prides herself for building an ilé where all healing and ancestral lineages are honored and respected. She deploys her usual spiritual healing tools, as well as reiki, sanación pránica and the de luz, in her daily praxis. Since 2012, she has accompanied Indigenous women healers in Mexico, the U.S. and the Dominican Republic.