Ancient care. Present healing. A wellness practice and community healing institution rooted in a living tradition.
In the Yoruba tradition, your Ori is the divine self that lived before the world named you — the essence chosen before birth, carrying your destiny and your truest self. When life grows heavy, the Ori can become covered. Our work is to help you uncover it.
There is no wrong door. Answer a few gentle questions, and we’ll suggest a way to begin — then you can start with a consultation whenever you’re ready.
Ceremony, reading, and sustained care — each a doorway home. Offered at rates that honor the work, with limited sliding-scale access where it is genuinely needed.
A 30-minute conversation for those drawn to this work who want to learn more before they begin. Bring your questions; we’ll help you find your starting place.
A sacred reading in which Ifa speaks to the conditions of your life — what is aligned, what is blocked, and what your path is asking of you. Followed by ebo riru, the offering that realigns you with your destiny.
A ceremony to align and bless your Ori, the divine self you carry. A foundational rite of the tradition — restoring connection to your own path.
A cleansing, renewing ritual bath prepared with sacred herbs — to clear what blocks you and restore your connection to your path.
A three-month journey of six one-hour sessions, twice a month. The work opens with dafa to reveal the Odu that maps your path, steers each session by its wisdom, and closes with dafa to mark how far you’ve come.
The Living Medicine Collection — hand-crafted soaps and botanical supplements that carry the tradition into your daily practice at home.
A 2.5-day ancestral healing journey for individuals, couples, and families — held on sacred land. Not a workshop. A homecoming.
Some healing cannot happen alone. Group programs built around a shared wound and a shared need.
Coming Home Circle, Family Reconnection Weekend, and a monthly drop-in — reconnection to ancestral self and lineage.
The Ori in Business Circle, Prosperity Ceremony, and a monthly circle — the tradition as the foundation of your work.
The Repair Retreat, Renewal Circle, and Leadership Rest Day — genuine repair for those depleted by service.
Coming Home Reentry Circle, Family Healing Weekend, and leadership cohorts — honoring those who survived the system.
Each program is offered as a seasonal cohort. Reach out to learn when the next circle gathers.
Our home is an oak-canopied property in Topanga — with outdoor ceremony grounds, a guest cottage, a living herb garden, and a seasonal creek. The land holds 50 to 60 people for seasonal circles, collective rites, and the slow work of coming home.
Iya Oyawande is the founder of ORI Wellness & Healing, a Yoruba ancestral wellness practice and community healing institution rooted on the land in Topanga, California. An Ifa practitioner and somatic healer with two decades of devoted practice, she was trained and initiated under Dr. Bankole Popoola Adekunle and Iya Ifashindara.
Her work weaves ancestral wisdom, somatic healing, and Yoruba herbal medicine into a community-centered framework — holding the tradition with deep reverence while making it accessible to all who come. She leads the ceremonies, the divination, and the overall vision of the practice.
ORI Wellness & Healing stands on the wisdom of those who taught and initiated Iya Oyawande into the tradition. With deep reverence and gratitude, we honor her teachers:
What is offered here is not ours alone. It is a lineage held and passed with care, so that it may continue to heal.
This work is carried by initiated tradition-keepers alongside licensed clinicians and an integrative physician — clinical depth woven together with ancestral wisdom. Select a name to visit their practice.
Every relationship begins with a conversation, not a form. Tell us what brings you here, and we’ll help you find your starting place.