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Sagrada is a sacred space for grief, death work, & ancestral healing.

Rooted in decolonial practices honoring the endings that shape us & the ancestors who walk with us.
✨ Grief Rituals • End-of-Life Support • Somatic Healing • Ancestral Connection✨ Roots was born from a desire to bring the healing qualities of the ancient philosophy of Yoga and Ayurveda to everyone - not just those who can afford it. Minerva saw a need in her community - from the people in her neighborhood, to her family, former colleagues, organizing spaces and beyond. There was a need for comprehensive, accessible, healing tools that anchor us in our mind, body and spirit. Dreaming about the ways in which to bring this to life and slowly putting the pieces in place, Minerva is beside herself to bring life to Roots.

11/04/2026

Welcome to Sagrada. ✨

Where we make space for all the ways we experience grief. Where our ancestors remain part of the conversation. Where death is understood through continuity, and the conversation about grief extends beyond linear timelines, prescribed stages, and any expectations imposed on you by said systems.

I’m Ìyá Ọyaladé, Dr. Minerva Arias. A Priestess of Ọya, scholar-practitioner, and a woman deeply committed to challenging what we’ve been taught about death and grief.

Because I have questions about who decided what “healthy grieving” should look like, whose knowledge was allowed to shape those definitions, and what we’ve lost by treating Western psychology as the only authority in the room.

And I intend to keep asking them.🗣️🗣️

Here, we explore what becomes possible when we tend our grief through relationship—with ourselves, our bodies, our ancestors, and the many endings that shape our lives.

If you’ve ever felt that the ways we’ve been taught to grieve don’t quite hold the fullness of your experience, bienvenidos, you’ve found your sanctuary.🙏🏽💜

Explore Sagrada through the link in my bio.

11/02/2026

Who decided that death should make us strangers?

Who taught us that the “end goal” of healing our grief means moving on or finding closure? Whose understanding of death are we using to define what healthy grieving looks like?

In many African diasporic traditions, death transforms our relationships rather than ending them. Our ancestors remain woven into our lives, our memories, and the ways we understand ourselves.

🗣️🗣️The way we understand death shapes the way we experience grief.

And perhaps it’s time we questioned whose definitions of healing we’ve inherited. 🤔

Pues dime: Have you ever felt pressured to move on from grieving someone?

Vamos hablar….let’s talk about it 👇🏽💅✨

10/06/2026

Y’all, I finally got a good, concise video, only to realize AFTER that I forgot to turn the mic on… so you hear my loud ass fan in the background. But that’s what captions are for. 🫠

Anyway, the point is important, so we move on…
When we talk about connecting with our Ancestors, so much of the conversation focuses on how we receive: dreams, intuition, signs, sensations, messages, spiritual knowing. But I think there’s a question that has to come before all of that: Who is doing the hearing?

Because we don’t receive spiritual information as blank slates. We bring our histories with us. Our fears. Our desires. Our conditioning. Our wounds. Our relationships with ourselves. The stories we’ve inherited and the stories we’ve learned to tell about what we experience. This is why knowing the Self matters in ancestral relationship.

And why discernment is not simply about learning how to identify a “sign.” It also requires becoming more familiar with ourselves. What is mine? What am I carrying? What am I projecting? What do I already know about the ways I perceive and make meaning?

Discernment requires relationship with the Self.

This is part of why In Relationship with Egun spends so much time with the person entering the relationship. We move from cosmology and lineage into questions of Ori, selfhood and destiny; then into the stories, wounds, conditioning and embodied experiences we carry; and from there into discernment, boundaries and spiritual responsibility.

Because being in relationship with Egun asks us to know something about Egun, yes. But it also asks us to know ourselves.

In Relationship with Egun: An Ifá-Informed Study of Ancestors, Cosmology & Sacred Relationship begins October 14.

Enrollment is still open for our inaugural class.
Link in bio to join us.✨✨

09/23/2026

First things first: You do not need to be a practitioner of Ifa or want to become one to study and enroll in this course.

This is for my people who love to understand things beyond the surface level. Beyond the “tasks at hand”. Who would like to geek out with me and fellow curious folks over three months to cultivate a deeper understanding of what it means to LIVE IN relationship with your Ancestors.

Enrollment is Open. Link in bio.

con amor,
Ìyá Ọyaladé, Dr. Minerva 🌬️✨

09/22/2026

If you can’t tell from the video, I’ll say here again: YALL I AM SO EXCITED 🤣🙃. To be able to bring to life this 12-week course and create this geeky container for us to dive into, what I consider the dopest intersectionality of all time 🤪. Diving into dope, brilliant scholarship. Beginning by studying the cosmological & philosophical foundations behind our understandings, then slowly zooming in to our own inner mechanics to help foster deeper, CLEARER, ALIGNED relationships with our Ancestors.

Like yall. This is going to be so dope!

Enrollment is open. We begin October 14th.
Link in bio.

Con mucho excitement,
Ìyá Oyalade, Dr. Minerva 🌬️🌬️✨

09/15/2026

𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

This distinction sits at the heart of In Relationship with Egun.

We’re going beyond what to do to study what sits underneath the practice: how we understand ourselves, our Ancestors, and the relationship between the living and the dead.

𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞.

In Relationship with Egun begins October 14.
Enrollment is open now.

Comment 𝗘𝗚𝗨𝗡 and I’ll send you the link, or find the details in my bio. 🌬️✨✨

09/10/2026

It’s finally here💅✨🙌🏽

After sitting with this, listening, and letting the vision become clear, I am so beyond excited to finally share:

In Relationship with Egun: An Ifá-Informed Study of Ancestors, Cosmology & Sacred Relationship.

This fall, I’m opening a small inaugural class for 12 weeks of study, spiritual exploration, and personal inquiry around one central question:

What does it actually mean to live in relationship with Egun?

We’re going beyond altars, offerings, and “how do I talk to my Ancestors?” to explore the worldview beneath ancestral relationship: cosmology, lineage, Ori, the Self, discernment, responsibility, reciprocity, and what it means to actually live in relationship with those who came before us.

Part seminar. Part spiritual study. Part personal exploration.

October 14 – December 16, 2026 | 20 students

Enrollment is officially open. Everything you need to know is at the link in my bio, or comment EGUN and I’ll send you the link.

I am so fu***ng excited to teach this.🙌🏽✨🙏🏽

In community,  Dr. Minerva Arias De Jesus, Ìyá Ọyaladé 🌬️🌬️

08/27/2026

We experience a death, a profound loss, a major shift...and we still wake up. We go to work. We raise children. We make dinner. We laugh. We celebrate birthdays. We fall in love. We become different versions of ourselves.

And our grief comes with us …
Because grief exists in relationship.

So much of what we have been taught about grief has been shaped by individualism. The idea that grief is something happening inside of us that we should learn to manage, process, and eventually move beyond.

But there are other ways of understanding loss. Within the ancestral and relational worldview that grounds my work, death does not necessarily end relationship. Our relationship with those who have transitioned changes. We change. The ways we remember, speak to, carry, honor, and understand them may change. But relationship can continue.

And if relationship continues, then perhaps the question to sit with is: How do I learn to live in relationship with it?

This is the foundation of The Sacred Grief Circle.

For eight weeks, six of us will gather in an intimate space where grief can be tended through relationship: with our bodies, with one another, with ritual, with our Ancestors and our dead, and with the lives that continue to unfold around our losses.

There is no destination I am trying to get you to. We will make space for what remains, what changes, what continues, and what asks to be witnessed.

The Sacred Grief Circle begins September 9.

Six participants · Eight weeks · Live online
Wednesdays at 8pm ET
Investment · $500

If this is the kind of grief space you have been looking for, you can join us through the link in my bio.

Or comment CIRCLE and I’ll send you the link.

con amor,
Ìyá Ọyaladé, Dr. Minerva 🌬️✨💜

08/20/2026

There comes a point when being resourceful is no longer enough. You know how to make it work, how to adjust, how to survive there. Maybe you’ve been doing it for so long that you know you could keep doing it.
But somewhere inside, you also know: this no longer works for me.

And there is grief in admitting that. Because sometimes we aren’t only grieving what was. We are grieving what could have been…the unlived future that never had the opportunity to disappoint us completely.

I’ve been sitting deeply with this in my own life lately: the difference between perseverance and resistance, and what it means to trust myself enough to move even when I cannot guarantee what happens next.

Ọya keeps bringing me back to the same lesson: pay attention when the wind changes. As her Priestess, her wisdom has profoundly shaped how I understand endings, transformation, and the faith required to honor what is ending while still leaning forward into a life we cannot fully see yet.

That is the conversation behind Moving with the Wind: The Wisdom of Ọya & the Art of Transformation. I created this two-part immersive for us to sit together with sacred endings, embodied change, the grief of letting go, and what it might mean to cultivate enough trust in ourselves, Spirit, and what is emerging to actually move.

If you’re standing somewhere between “I know this cannot continue” and “I don’t know what comes next,” come sit with me.

September 3 & 10 | 8pm ET / 5pm PT

Comment WIND and I’ll send you the details, or register through the link in my bio.

con amor, Ìyá Ọyaladé 💜🌬️

08/20/2026

Yall.there are some audio gems in this one🤣💜

For those of you in a major transition, or dealing with change, I am Inviting y’all to my newest offering:

Moving WithThe Wind:
The Wisdom of Ọya & the Art of Transformation

A two-part immersive where we get to explore that liminal space & use the wisdom of Ọya to move through it 🌬️🌬️ comment WIND and I’llDM you link. Or check it out in my bio. 💜

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