Who Is Yeyẹ́sìndé?

For many years, women have known me through my work in wellness, womb healing, holistic health, and feminine restoration. But my work did not begin with a title, and it has never remained in one place.

It has evolved as I have evolved.

Today, I am Yeyẹ́sìndé—a priestess, healer, spiritual practitioner, teacher, and woman who has spent years learning how to hold space for other women.

But becoming Yeyẹ́sìndé has been a journey.

The Work Came Before the Title

Long before I stepped fully into priesthood, I was already doing work that asked me to listen deeply.

Women came to me carrying concerns about their bodies, their wombs, their relationships, their fertility, their weight, their families, their grief, and the transitions happening in their lives.

Sometimes what appeared to be a physical concern opened the door to something much deeper.

I learned that a woman can change what she eats and still be carrying heaviness.

She can care for her body and still need to release something.

She can know exactly what she should do and still feel disconnected from herself.

Over time, my work naturally began to include more than the physical body. Womb massage existed alongside prayer. Herbs existed alongside ritual. Rest existed alongside spiritual cleansing. Conversation existed alongside ceremony.

I wasn't abandoning wellness.

I was beginning to understand it more completely.

My Path Into Priesthood

My spiritual path eventually led me deeper into the Yorùbá spiritual tradition and into initiation.

I am initiated in Ifá and Ọ̀ṣun, and my spiritual training and development continue under the guidance of elders and priests within the tradition.

One of the things I have come to understand about priesthood is that initiation does not mean you have arrived at the end of your learning.

In many ways, it means you have agreed to become a student at an entirely different level.

There are prayers to learn.

There are rituals to understand.

There are traditions that must be respected.

There is divination to study.

There are responsibilities that come with caring for sacred spaces and serving people spiritually.

And there is the ongoing work of developing your own character.

I am still learning.

I expect to be learning for the rest of my life.

Stepping Into the Role of Priestess

There is a difference between being initiated and accepting the responsibility to actually serve.

That distinction has become increasingly important in my own life.

More than once through divination, I have been directed toward spiritual work and toward functioning more fully in my role as a priestess.

That has required me to look differently at work I was already doing.

When a woman comes for womb healing, sometimes she needs physical care.

Sometimes she needs rest.

Sometimes she needs to release.

Sometimes she needs prayer.

Sometimes she needs divination.

And sometimes what she believes is one problem is pointing toward something entirely different.

This is why my work continues to expand.

Not because I am trying to become something new, but because I am becoming more willing to occupy the role I have been prepared for.

What My Work Looks Like Today

My work sits at the intersection of womb healing, spiritual practice, ritual, restoration, and Yorùbá spirituality.

Some women encounter me through womb work.

Others come through ceremony or ritual.

Some are interested in learning about spiritual practices.

Others may eventually sit with me for divination and spiritual counsel.

And some simply find an article in this Library that helps them understand something they have been experiencing.

Not everyone who enters my space needs the same thing.

I don't believe they should.

My responsibility is not to make every woman follow the same path. It is to create spaces where women can slow down, listen, learn, restore themselves, and receive the appropriate support for where they are.

Why I Created The Library

The Library is another expression of that work.

Over the years, I have accumulated teachings, practices, rituals, observations, and knowledge that should not exist only inside my head, my training materials, or conversations with the women who happen to sit in front of me.

Some things need to be preserved.

Some things need to be shared.

And some things simply need a place to live.

Here I will write about womb healing, ritual, spiritual cleansing, divination, Ori, Ọ̀ṣun, ancestral reverence, sacred spaces, feminine restoration, and other subjects connected to the work I practice and continue to study.

This is not a space where I claim to know everything.

It is a space where I can share what I have learned, what I practice, what has been passed to me appropriately, and what I continue to discover.

Becoming Yeyẹ́sìndé

I once thought growth meant leaving one version of myself behind and becoming another.

I see it differently now.

My wellness work was preparation.

My womb work was preparation.

The women who trusted me with their stories were preparation.

The rituals were preparation.

The years of studying the body were preparation.

And my initiations did not erase any of that.

They gave me another framework for understanding the work that had already been unfolding.

So when someone asks, “Who is Yeyẹ́sìndé?”

The answer is still being written.

I am a woman who heals, studies, serves, practices, and continues to grow into her responsibilities.

I am a priestess who understands that spiritual authority also requires humility.

And I am building a body of work that I hope will remain useful long after a ceremony has ended, a session is complete, or a woman has left my space.

I am Yeyẹ́sìndé.

And this is the work I have been called to do.