💫 About SankofaRising
Decolonial Healing Rooted in Ancestral Remembrance, Sacred Relationship, and the Wisdom of the Body and Earth
"We return to get in order to rise in our wholeness."
SankofaRising is a decolonial healing practice rooted in radical care, ancestral remembrance, and sacred relationship—with the body, land, lineage, and spirit.
Based in Clarendon, Jamaica, we support your rising—individually and collectively—through Sacred Accompaniment Sessions, consultations, and natural, handmade products crafted with seasonal herbs and community care. Whether you're navigating trauma, disconnection, or a yearning to return to your roots, our offerings honor your system’s wisdom and the broader healing justice movements of the Global South.
Our Sacred Accompaniment Sessions are not therapy or coaching. They are a unique, client-led journey of individual decolonial healing, guided by your own insight and the ancestral, land-based intelligence already within you.
Learn more about our Sacred Accompaniment Sessions here.
What is Decolonial Healing?
Decolonial healing is not just personal—it is ancestral, collective, and political.
It is a sacred journey of returning to our truest self, our lineage, our ancestors, and the Earth. This path moves us away from fragmentation, disconnection, and the colonial impositions—such as perfectionism, dominance, and control—that keep us from our wholeness.
Rather than striving to meet imposed ideals, decolonial healing invites us to reclaim our authentic voice and expression, and to move toward deep connection with our community, elders, and the wisdom of the land and species. It is part of a broader movement toward healing justice, especially within communities across the Global South who continue to experience the impacts of colonialism, systemic inequity, and resource extraction.
At its heart, decolonial healing is a return to right relationship with all of life—a remembering of our place in the sacred web. It is not a straight line, but a rhythmic cycle of returning, again and again, to our inner knowing, our roots, and the Earth.
🌍 Our Approach
Our approach recognizes that returning to self, land, and lineage naturally happens during the healing journey, guided by your own innate wisdom. We honor healing as a profound form of resistance and remembrance—reclaiming tradition, nurturing daily ritual, and uplifting Black and Indigenous futures. Healing is not a luxury; it's a sacred remembering and return.
At SankofaRising, we understand healing as a form of resistance and remembrance—a reclamation of memory, rhythm, ancestral wisdom, and Earth-based lifeways. Whether you're tending to grief, anxiety, ancestral trauma, land disconnection, or seeking rootedness, you are welcome here.
We draw from two sacred wells:
🖤The wisdom of our spiritual, land, and blood ancestors—carried through story, ritual, and community.
🌿The wisdom of the Earth—carried through plants, elements, and the body’s relationship to nature.
Our soaps and offerings are handcrafted in Jamaica, made with mostly local herbs and seasonal ingredients. They are created in relationality—meaning they not only support your healing, but also directly benefit the community and land that make them possible. This is a vision of shared prosperity, not charity.
🐦 Why “Sankofa”?
We are guided by the principle of Sankofa (pronounced SAHN-koh-fah)—a Twi word from Ghana meaning “to go back and get it.” Represented by a bird looking back while carrying an egg in its mouth, Sankofa reminds us:
“It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”
This is the heart of our work: to retrieve what was lost through colonization and displacement—wisdom, land connection, ancestral knowledge—and rise together in wholeness.