Welcome to this creative episode with Marni and guest Felicia “Onyi Love” Richards (aka Onyi) as we discuss the journey of self through sound, the creation of what is means to be a musician/healer/sound alchemist and priestess. More importantly the importance of Healing the Healers, Music as Medicine, and Reverence as a Global Cure.

Onyi is a multi-disciplinary creative, multi-modality healer, priestess and teacher dedicated to guiding people through their journey of awareness, healing and transformation through her brand ONYI LOVE.

In 2022 she launched HEAL the HEALERS, an initiative to support those who serve, lead, create for and inspire the collective.

In October 2023 she released her sophomore album FORÍBALẸ̀, a body of work connected to a larger vision of encouraging people to have reverence for themselves, others, and the Earth. Onyi is a practitioner of Ifa, the ancestral system of the Yoruba people of West Africa. Within this tradition, she is an Iya (initiated priestess of) Ọṣun and Ọbatala. She is a member of Ile Orunmila Afedefeyo, an LA-based Ifa community led by Awo Falokun Faṣegun and Iya Fayomi Ọṣundoyin Egbeyemi. Onyi honors and enjoys investigating the spectrum of ways human beings navigate and understand our existence and our connection to and as the divine. To her, spirituality is the spectrum of all of it–from the mundane to the magical; the simple to the complex; the subtle to the over. And all of it is beautiful and necessary.

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