The Yoruba people of West Africa developed a rich spiritual tradition centred on the Orishas — divine intelligences who govern specific domains of existence and who mediate between humanity and the supreme creative force. This tradition survived the Middle Passage and took root across the Caribbean and the Americas, giving rise to systems including Candomblé, Lucumí, Trinidad Orisha, and Orisha Baptist.
Working with Orisha tradition means understanding the specific character, preferences, and protocols of each Orisha — the relationships between them, the way they manifest in a person's spiritual constitution, and the forms of assistance and clearing they can provide. This is not surface-level invocation. It is relationship-based work that requires genuine knowledge of the tradition's internal structure.
For people from Caribbean backgrounds, this is often the tradition closest to home — the one that was practiced by grandparents, spoken about in fragments, or deliberately concealed. Working within it allows the practitioner to meet that background directly and use it precisely.