Vodou High Summer Teaching Unit

Offered all summer long at your discretion, the Vodou High Summer workshop is for you! You do this at home, you don't have to travel. You will receive materials by mail, and you will be given access to a private discussion forum. Our work together will include cleansing, empowerment and magical instruction.

You can be part of this workshop no matter where you live. It is led by Mambo Racine and by Haitian and international Houngans and Mambos. Join us!

TheThe Vodou High Summer Teaching Unit is a good way to begin your training in Vodou, in the peace and privacy of your home - but with online access to experienced Vodouisants and the patient instruction of Mambo Racine Sans Bout.

Lave Tet Ceremony

August 2009, in Western Massachusetts. A Lave Tet Ceremony is a cleansing, invigorating purification and consecration of the head using traditional herbs and other substances. It clarifies consciousness, increases the ability to dream lucid or prophetic dreams, promotes healing, facilitates communication with the lwa, removes evil magic and "curses", improves finances and domestic life, and harmonizes the energy the person brings into daily activities. It is not a trivial service, but a deeply sacred one. You can register online for this ceremony, or email Mambo Racine for more information.

Read about past lave tets: December 2001 in New Orleans and a participant's account of the May 2002 lave tet, also in New Orleans.

Fet Gede: The Feast of the Ancestors

October 31 - November 4, in Jacmel, Haiti. Every year in Jacmel, the Vodouisant community observes the twin holy days of the Feast of All Saints and the Feast of All Souls, November 1 and 2. The ancestors manifest through possession constantly and everywhere during this Haitian national holiday. The Vodouisant community of Jacmel organizes a "Spiritual Procession" through the town, and then the Roots Without End Society peristyle presides over the sacred ceremonies of the ancestors - the solemn invocations and the raucous antics of the Gede lwa, their remarkable signature banda dance, their prophetic wisdom.

Participants in the Fet Gede activities will be guided by Houngan Wolmer. You will learn ancestral service, songs, dances, invocations, sacred attributes and objects, correct food offerings - and you will learn the magical means by which the spirit of a departed person can be reclaimed from the grave!

Vodou, the Tarot, and Ancestor Reverence Workshop

November 26 - 28, in Seattle, Washington. This three-day instensive workshop is absolutely crammed with activities - training in Vodou service for the ancestors, the creation of magical objects, invocations and powerful services; consecration of your Tarot deck, the theory and practice of divination taught by Mambo Racine, the participation by telephone of Haitian Houngan Wolmer, and the climax of the workshop - the taking of an ancestor from the grave!

A brief summary of the many activities in this workshop include ancestral service, basic training in Vodou service, an Action de Grace, a journey to a local site of power, the ceremony of bay mo manje or feeding the ancestors, personal divination by Mambo Racine, the construction and empowerment of a wanga bottle, and the baptism of your power objects including your wanga bottle and your Tarot deck. You can register online for this ceremony, or email Mambo Racine for more information.

Kanzo December 2009

We are offering an initiation cycle December 22, 2009 to January 5, 2010. You can begin preparation for this self-empowering, life-changing event at one of the liveliest Vodou houses in Haiti!

The Roots Without End Society peristyle in Jacmel, Haiti is our home, and it belongs to all the members of the Roots Without End Society.

We hold initiation ceremonies and dances, religious services and magical activities. You can be a part of our society! Our members are American and Canadian, Haitian and British, and they live all around the globe. I look forward to hearing from you.

Herbal Power: Plant Based Healing and Vodou Magic

December 23-26, 2009 in Jacmel, Haiti, concurrently with the December 2009 Kanzo.

Led by medsen fey, herbalist Loulou Prince. Learn to gather herbs the Vodou way and use them to compose cleansing and healing baths. Make tonic drinks, strengthening and purifying teas, massage oils, and power objects. Learn Makaya magic and the service of the powerful lwa Grand Bwa.

This workshop is held sequentially with the Erzulie Dantor and Petro Magic workshop, and is available at a reduced price to participants in the December 2009 Kanzo.

Erzulie Dantor and Petro Magic

December 24-27, 2009 in Jacmel, Haiti, concurrently with the December 2009 Kanzo.

Led by Mambo Andreli. Learn the service of the powerful Petro lwa Erzulie Dantor from a hereditary priestess! The sacred songs, the attributes and sacred objects, the correct sacrifice and ceremonial foods, all will be carefully taught and explained. You will play a special role in nighttime Petro dances, you will learn ancient invocations, and finally you will be guided in the execution of your own magical wanga or spell, under the patronage of Erzule Dantor.

This workshop is held sequentially with the Herbal Power: Plant Based Healing and Vodou Magic workshop, and is available at a reduced price to participants in the December 2009 Kanzo.