Yemọja & COLD WATER THERAPY.

I have always felt more at home in the sea than out of it, despite growing up in the most landlocked part of the country.

“ Yemanjá (Yoruba: Yemanjá) is a major water spirit from the Yoruba religion.Her name is a contraction of the Yoruba words Iye, meaning "mother"; ọmọ, meaning "child"; and ẹja, meaning "fish"; roughly translated the term means "mother of fish children.” This represents the vastness of her motherhood, her fecundity, and her reign over all living things.

The river deity Yemoja is often portrayed as a mermaid, even in West Africa, and she can visit all other bodies of water, but her home and the realm she owns are rivers and streams, especially the Ogun River in Nigeria. Yemanjá is often depicted as a mermaid, and is associated with the moon (in some Diaspora communities), water, and feminine mysteries. She is the protector of women. She governs everything pertaining to women; parenting, child safety, love, and healing. According to myth, when her waters broke, it caused a great flood creating rivers and streams and the first mortal humans were created from her womb. “

Although I’ve always swam my dream was to be able to dive, and film underwater. I started training for it in 2015, got my PADI in 2017, and designed & filmed my first shoot that year.

It wasn’t until 2020 though that I started to use Cold Water as a deliberate therapy for my illness. So the reality of my healing enmeshed completely with my life long belief in and use of magic realism.