We are living inside the scar tissue
of collective forgetting.
numb where it should feel.
stiff where it should soften.
this is what happens when
a species abandons
the memory of its mother.
this is what happens when
a culture calls amnesia,
america.
We’ve been gaslit into
believing origin is irrelevant.
but you can’t amputate the root
and expect the tree to keep growing.
When a society cannot remember
who held it first,
it will never know
how to hold each other.
People keep asking me who my muse is.
they don’t understand.
she’s not a muse.
she’s the whole
fu***ng
matrix.
matr.
matter.
mother.
the axis mundi
every poem spins on.
the pulse inside every atom
that won’t stop screaming her name.
the code beneath the skin of everything.
the mouth of mystery swallowing me whole.
the kink of collapse kissing creation.
the zero who turned the one on.
the glitch that birthed god.
the original or**sm.
and we are all her
afterglow.
Wild theory,
but hear me out:
the salvation of our species
isn’t in artificial intelligence,
but in remembering her body
as the original technology.
Maybe you’ll read this
and roll your eyes.
maybe you’ll dismiss it
as some dude bleeding
his heart into a notes app.
but tell me, if words aren’t
the umbilical cord of memory,
what are they?
if we forget the mother,
what part of ourselves survives
the forgetting?
what happens to a world
that treats its birthplace
as a battlefield?
look around.
~ Christopher Sexton
📸 On the roadtrip back to Jozi - when nature calls!
18/09/2025
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She is the whisper of water,
the hum of the earth,
the breath between heartbeats—
silent yet infinite.
She is the womb of creation,
where stars first dreamed of fire,
where the first seed cracked open
to kiss the sun.
She weaves the tides with her fingers,
pulls the moon to her breast,
cradles the world in the rhythm
of birth, of death, of becoming.
Her voice is the lullaby of ancestors,
a chorus of wisdom wrapped in the wind,
a song that mends the broken,
that guides the lost,
that strengthens the weary.
She stands in the storm, unshaken,
roots deep, arms wide,
both shelter and sword—
soft as a whisper, fierce as a wildfire.
She is the pulse beneath your skin,
the stillness in your bones,
the love that holds you
when the night is long.
Today, we honor her.
We bow to her power,
we drink from her well,
we let her light rise within us.
Stand strong in her presence,
breathe in her grace,
walk boldly in her love.
You are of her and from her, we return to her in all our desires and dreams and evolution.
From the arms of a lover to the embrace of the warm earth and our final resting place.
She is the earth, the sky,
not just the names they give her
or the roles they write.
She is her own force,
her own fire,
her own beauty,
whole and wild and free.
She rises because she chooses,
loves because she wills it,
stands because she was never meant
to be anything
but herself.
Eternal, boundless, divine.
~ Larson Langston
🌻💛🌈
14/02/2025
Friends of The SHE Academy,
This Valentine’s Day, also fall in love with yourself.
Buy yourself the red roses. Take yourself out for dinner. Write yourself a love letter filled with all the words of appreciation you so deserve!
Spoil yourself and your body — because you are worthy of the deepest love...
You are radiant. You are beautiful. You are loved!
With all our love,
and Your family at the SHE Academy
✨
09/10/2024
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J’anaki began her personal yoga practice in 2004 at the Sivananda Yoga Centre in London. After many years of working in the corporate world she decided to embark upon a journey of the Soul, completing travels throughout Asia, and most notably the birth-place of Yoga: India.
Whilst in India J’anaki had the good fortune to study with many influential Yogis and then immediately went on to complete a rigorous Yoga Teacher Training at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in New York in 2008. In mid-2009 J’anaki returned to South Africa and further trained under the Satyananda Yoga tradition.
Although still teaching classical Hatha Yoga, J’anaki was inspired by her own Pregnancy Yoga classe undertaken in Ireland (through Uma www.yonishakti.co ) to begin teaching prenatal yoga in South Africa in 2010 when Yoga Mama (www.yogamama.co.za) was born.
Since then J’anaki’s work has organically evolved to include the needs of the modern day women with whom she is working. This includes all concerns of the womb space: menstrual irregularities; PMS; infertility and womb-based trauma. Through this advancement in her field of expertise, the Red Tent JHB (www.redtent.co.za) was born on October 2016 – a place where women gather each month to share in thier menstrual awareness and healing.
J’anaki has since furthered her training in 2017 by understaking an international Mixed Movement Martial Arts based Yoga Teacher Training, known as Budokon. In the same year she completed a Post-natal and Yin Yoga Teacher Training. In 2018 J’anaki took part in a Well Women Yoga Teacher Training and a prestigious LifeLine Counselling course.
In 2019 J’anaki launched The Red Tent Facilitators training, the international and online 300hr Sacred Feminine Yoga Teacher Training, a business course: Business101 for Healers and Hippies and the almighty birth of her next child: Womb Whispers with J’anaki Ra, which encompasses all of the above.
