Sentry Page Protection

The Pledge & The Law

The Orisa Lifestyle Pledge and the Orisa Lifestyle Law are the foundation of all the activities you do as a member of the Orisa Lifestyle Academy. Learn the Orisa Lifestyle Pledge and the Orisa Lifestyle Law and then complete the activities about them found on this member site. 
  • One of the special things about Orisa Lifestyle is its ceremonies. A ceremony may celebrate an event, an achievement, or it may accompany a ritual activity. Take a leadership role in planning and conducting a ceremony. 

Orisa Lifestyle has unique traditions that devotees and priests experience around the world.  Research the ways in which people in Haiti, Benin, Brazil, Trinidad, Nigeria and Cuba present and make use of: 
  • Divination
  • Sacrifice
  • Taboos
  • Herbal baths
  • Medicine
  • Charms
  • Ileke (beads)
  • Drumming/Dancing/Singing
  • Possession
  • Initiation
  • Greetings
  • Naming ceremonies
  • Marriage
  • Burial
  • Iranra-eni-lowo (self-help projects)
  • Aroko pipa (Symbolism)
  • Crafts/Vocations
  • As a practitioner or Orisa Lifestyle, you are able to do activities from many different program resources written just  for you. Oriki Awon Orisa and the Orisa Lifestyle member site are just two of the resources available to you. Familiarize yourself with the free materials and the classes offered at www.ObafemiO.com. 
  • Read about the meaning behind the Opa Iku the Ibori and Owokanfa do one of the following activities:
    1. Start your family tree, including timeline, migration map and collectables (i.e., pictures, belongings)
    2. Talk to your family about the time your were born. What were the conditions of your birth? What changed as a result of your presence? 
    3. What do you REALLY want to be when you grow up? Define your greatest imaginable impact on your family and community. How do you want to be remembered? 
Find out more about Orisa Lifestyle, including Yoruba language, history customs, kingship, family structure, farming, eating, dress, contemporary culture and the like. Do an interview with a Yoruba person:
  • What does he or she do?
  • What special skills does she have? 
  • What aspect of the culture does he or she like most?
  • How does the person support Orisa Lifestyle?

      • What is the Orisa Lifestyle motto? Think of some ways you could live by the 
      Orisa Lifestyle motto in your daily routines. Then follow through on this.