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A FREE VIDEO EVENT

With Elder Sangoma (African Shaman) & Founder of “The Way of the Leopard" Teachings
John Lockley
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Discover how your nightly dreams may be carrying messages from your ancestors invitations to heal inherited wounds and nourish your soul’s evolution.

Journey back to the world of some of your most ancient ancestors to send them love and healing and establish a reconnection to your lineages to evolve your soul and cultivate peace, groundedness, and clarity within yourself.

Have you ever suspected that your ancestors even ones you didn’t know may have deep wisdom they want to share with you?

Many seekers find there’s insufficient spiritual nourishment in their lives, and even a profound sense of disconnection and loneliness. Yet, in traditions around the world, says African shaman John Lockley, it’s understood that we are never alone and always connected to lineages with deep roots.

Our ancestors live on in our bones, our dreams, and the land itself waiting for us to listen, remember, and restore the sacred thread that connects us to our family line, and our souls.

In this free online event, John will explain why each of us carries a well of psychic memory an ancestral intelligence that holds the dreams, struggles, and spiritual gifts of those who came before us. Not just of those ancestors from the past two or three generations, but some of our most ancient ancestors as well.

This memory is not accessed through the mind, but through the soul’s language of dreams, ceremony, reverent listening, and multisensory experiences.

Join John for this soul-stirring hour to learn why ancestral dreamwork can help you develop humility and reduce selfish egoism as you honor your ancestors not for their personalities but for their essence.

This process lays the groundwork for grace to enter your life through your dreams and ancestral remembrance as you awaken soul-level guidance, deepen your sense of belonging, and activate the gifts that live within your bloodline.

During the event, John will guide you to cultivate a renewed sense of purpose through a meditation to connect with your ancestors not to ask them for anything, but to send them love and stay vigilant to what messages from the liminal world come through for you.

John shares time-honored teachings from the Xhosa tradition, the people of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, including the philosophy of Ubuntu and the ancestral wisdom symbolized by the Baobab tree. Just as this tree can live for over 2,000 years, you can reach back that far and even further into the past to gain a deeper perspective of your lineages and your place within them and to draw on the fresh energy and vitality that lies deeper in the roots of your family tree.

This event will be especially meaningful for anyone experiencing low spiritual energy, emotional disconnection, or a loss of purpose. In the Xhosa language (a Bantu language spoken primarily in Southern Africa) this condition is called amandla omoya aphantsi a soul-level depletion that can be restored through a reconnection to your ancestors, by honoring and respecting them through your dreams, ceremonies, and developing an awareness of their energies in your life.

Whether you’re navigating grief, ancestral or present-life trauma, or simply feel unrooted in your life, John offers a deeply grounding, sacred path to help you reclaim your soul’s voice and remember your place in your own lineages and in the human family.

In this hour-long free online event, you’ll discover:

  • How to connect with your ancestors by creating a space for them to contact you so you can honor them, respecting their essence or khanya (shining)
  • Why reaching back thousands of years in your lineages rather than focusing only on recent generations can help you develop new perspectives and reduce the expectation of quick fixes as you open yourself to spiritual growth that lasts a lifetime
  • John’s guided meditation journey with drumming and a powerful chant to reconnect with your ancestors and send them love and healing as you cultivate peace, groundedness, and clarity within yourself
  • The potential to grow your soul when you listen to its quiet murmurings in your dreams and how you can feed your soul when you make a conscious effort to remember your dreams and write them down
  • How to develop an awareness of your personal dream language, including the three levels of dreaming, to elevate your soul and enrich your waking life

During the event, you’ll also learn how you can dig much deeper into your dreams and ancestral lineages in John’s upcoming 7-week live video course. Through intuitive connection and weekly dreamwork practices and ceremonies, you’ll activate your psychic memory and begin transforming inherited trauma and disconnection even from painful or complex lineages into a deeper sense of purpose, resilience, and connection to your roots.

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Join this FREE video event with John Lockley and journey back to the world of your ancestors, accompanied by a sangoma drum and masiyembo (a sangoma chant) to send them love and healing.

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What People Are Saying About John Lockley...

“John offers the truly authentic wisdom we seek.”
Our mission is the conservation of Indigenous cultures, preservation of their territories, and the education of the public regarding the rich wisdom that they carry. We hosted John Lockley for a week and wish to express our gratitude to him for offering such truly powerful and authentic spiritual work from the Xhosa sangomas of South Africa. Everyone in the audience felt the presence of the ancestors in the room and left deeply fulfilled by the experience. We also offered a weekend medicine workshop and it was a beautiful experience for all who attended. The workshop participants experienced great shifts in their souls and a deeper connection to their ancestors through John’s guidance. I highly recommend his work to any organization that wishes to host a truly authentic elder from South Africa. In these times when many people are calling themselves shamans, we do a lot of searching for the authentic medicine people of the world. John offers the truly authentic wisdom we seek.
Patricia Turner
Founder of Tierra Sagrada, The Sacred Earth Foundation
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“... an extraordinary tale...”
John Lockley is a white man that can dance! And he plays the skin drum like he was born to it. This is an extraordinary tale of a middle-class South African who had the dreaded African “calling sickness.” To heal, he went through years of rigorous traditional African spiritual training and ritual sacrifice. With great eloquence and sensitivity, John relates his wild journey, which takes him from his life as a Zen student in the East to his mystical studies in Ireland to eventually becoming an African sangoma. He combines his life’s work of spirit hunting in the brave and profound teachings he calls “The Way of the Leopard.”
Craig Foster
Filmmaker and Oscar winner for My Octopus Teacher
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“I wholeheartedly recommend John Lockley to anyone seeking a transformative and enriching experience.”
I am writing this testimonial to express my admiration and gratitude for John Lockley, who has made a significant impact on my life and the lives of many others through his book Leopard Warrior and his profound teachings. His story is incredible. I first became aware of John Lockley through his captivating YouTube videos, where he generously shared his experiences as a sangoma from South Africa. As someone who was undergoing my own journey as a sangoma while living in South Africa, I was immediately drawn to his wisdom and authenticity. His ability to convey profound spiritual concepts with such clarity and humility left a lasting impression on me. I was particularly moved by his genuine passion for sharing the teachings of his ancestral lineage. Through his songs, drumming, and powerful prayers, he evoked deep emotions within us, reminding us of our interconnectedness with the natural world. I wholeheartedly recommend John Lockley to anyone seeking a transformative and enriching experience.
Nancy Rebecca
Shamanic teacher and healer, and founder of Intuitive Mind Programs
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About John Lockley

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John Lockley is a fully initiated and ordained sangoma (African shaman) in two lineages from South Africa: the Xhosa and Swazi nations. His Xhosa apprenticeship took 10 years, and he was foreseen in a dream by his teacher, MaMngwevu, a senior Xhosa sangoma from the same tribe as Nelson Mandela who invited him to be her apprentice.

He was one of the first white men in recent times after Apartheid to be awarded the title of “Ligqira Linkulu” by his Xhosa elders, meaning senior sangoma. His Xhosa name given by his teacher is “Ucingolweendaba,” meaning “the messenger or bridge between cultures.”

John has pioneered the bridge between modern Western psychology and traditional South African healing. For the past 12 years, he has been facilitating “Ubuntu” (Humanity) and Way of the Leopard retreats worldwide, teaching people how they can reconnect to their ancestors, spirit, and the Earth.

A passion of John's is teaching people Indigenous African medicine to help them reconnect to the Earth. He facilitates this through his Dreams & Tracking retreats in the Kalahari Desert every year, and Leopard Warrior trails in South Africa.

John, who holds an honors degree in clinical psychology, offers private divination and healing sessions online. He is also a Zen meditation practitioner with over 30 years of experience. He took Buddhist precepts with Zen Master Su Bong from South Korea in 1992.

He is the author of the book Leopard Warrior, and of audio teachings titled em>The Way of the Leopard. 

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