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Isithebe

Isithebe

Andile Dyalvane

South Africa
2025

Terracotta Clay

Imbued within each tool that channels through me is the transfer of lightning energy, strengthened by those in my lineage who sang to me through each amniotic incubation – ever active, ever conceptual.


We, together, further define our energetic participation by way of collected or inherent cognitive codes as ritual practice. We still further energise our contributions through collective reception that allows a deeply beneficial alchemical fusion – an acceptance of nature’s call to be present in our bodies.


We utter words to locate unconscious separation, and with words in song, sound accompanies us. Herbal brews that cleanse and open our cellular portals are then able to bring about (trauma-healing synaptic) neural recalibration – to unification, safety, and belonging in one's body. To remember our lightness in womb bouncy, to harmonise with that greater pulsing body that reaches through ALL as sentience.


Our bodies are vessels that require tethering our spirit(s) to the cosmos, connected to the whole and grounding us within a specific frequency in which we are able to integrate our natural way of becoming, mending new connections as we expand and contract with life’s sparks as ebb and flow.

We nurture each other by feeding our collective bodies with every inhale and exhale, our BREATH as conductor and source-to-source in the act of UKU Qokelela (to collect and release energy with ritual tools).


Our works offered to the lung space of UKU ZINZA feel through our ceremonial inhabitancy of our collective presence within our bodies as we create. Clay forms that host symbols, sound potentials, and vessels of nutrition sharing as sustenance for the body are integrative ritual tools.

An ever-presence within community, in which ritual alchemy IS our luminescent thread, we are able to energetically weave into the fabric of an eternal breathing space in which our generations are constellations birthed from our own efforts to breathe with ease.


New ritual energy practices actively ripple through axons of eternal creation, as we are invited to bask in the balances that strengthen our cords’ elasticity toward – and equally as – the conversive playfulness of source.


We will sing, clap, dance, sound vibrations that collect and release. Actions continue to lighten up the frequential way as part of life’s eternal, energetic visionary churning within the snaking canal of creation. Uku Qokelela Ritual Tools are the ingredients fundamental to celebrate through the breath of our receiving and giving bodies.

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