Ekua Adisa (they/them) is a gender fluid medicine person at the intersection of Black Southern traditions and indigenous African practices that center ancestor veneration, conjure, earth magic, channeling, plant medicine, ritual, and community care. Ekua is also deeply influenced and inspired by the teachings of Native people indigenous to so-called North America, as well as various Buddhist lineages. As an intuitive medium, an energy worker, and a ritualist, Ekua’s pleasure-purpose work is inviting and supporting collective and individual grief work with ritual somatic practices, supporting people to connect with their ancestors for guidance, making and sharing plant medicine, and supporting the dead to transition with grace, elevation, and dignity. As a death care worker, they are excited to deepen into the work of supporting people to confront impermanence and prepare for their own eventual end spiritually and logistically. Ekua has twenty years of experience hosting and facilitating groups primarily in liberation movement spaces, and fifteen years experience as a healing practitioner practicing with various modalities.
Ekua is a passionate writer, a tiny house dweller, and a parent of an amazing ten year old. They enjoy hiking, making altars, bringing people together, and being of service in a grounded, consistent way that seeks to enhance liberation and end suffering for all beings. Ekua currently makes home in the mountainous homelands of the Tsalaguwetiyi (Eastern Cherokee) people, the S’atsoyaha people, and the Miccosukee people, also called Western North Carolina.