Ori · A School of Ancestral Practice · A Covered Suns School

Ori opens December 202716 courses · 9 traditions · Black practitioners onlyA school of ancestral practice

A Covered Suns School

ORIA school of ancestral practice

Orí is Yoruba for the inner head, the seat of destiny, the personal divinity within every human being. The school carries the name and teaches toward it.

16

Courses

9

Named traditions

4

Membership tiers

Dec 2027

Opening

What Ori Is

A school. Not a feed.

Ori is not a podcast, a social group or a wellness app. It is a school built on the premise that ancestral spiritual knowledge is sophisticated, transmittable and worth paying to receive from a qualified teacher rooted in a specific named tradition. That tradition is always named. Gullah Geechee rootwork is not called folk healing. Haitian Vodou is not called spiritual practice. Hoodoo is not called African American spirituality. Every tradition carries its own name.

Every course is mapped to the seasonal framework and the seven centers, called here by their Yoruba names. A reader who already keeps the daily devotional arrives with the context to receive the courses, and every Ori student is pointed back toward the books as the daily companion to the classroom work.

How the voice works here

Every other work in the house speaks in the brand's voice. Ori brings practitioners in to teach in their own. A practitioner teaching from inside their own tradition is not edited to pass a house style rule. Practitioners are chosen because their teaching already leads with the crown, so the house voice governs the framing, the course descriptions, the platform copy and the sequencing, and it stops at the practitioner's own words.

"The wellness industry has monetized Black spiritual practices for decades without crediting Black practitioners. Ori is the corrective."
The Tradition Map

Nine named traditions

Continental Africa gave us the roots. The diaspora grew the tree. Ori holds both, and every teacher's lineage is traceable to its source.

Continental African
The original sources
YorubaIfá divination, Òrìṣà practice, ancestral altar building and energy work rooted in Orí cosmology. West Africa, Nigeria and Benin.
AkanThe Adinkra symbol system, the Sankofa principle and seasonal ceremonial practice. West Africa, Ghana and Ivory Coast.
KemeticKemetic yoga, Ma'at ethics, cosmology and vibrational science. Northeast Africa, Kemet.
DagaraPlant medicine, grief ritual and the elemental spiritual framework. West Africa, Burkina Faso.
African American and diasporic
The tree the diaspora grew
African American HoodooThe oldest continuously practiced African American spiritual tradition, rooted in West and Central African practice and shaped by the American South.
Gullah GeecheeThe most intact African spiritual tradition on American soil, preserved by Sea Island communities of South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida.
Haitian VodouRooted in the Fon and Ewe traditions of Dahomey. The spiritual system that sustained the Haitian Revolution. Present across North America and the Caribbean.
New Orleans spiritual traditionsLouisiana Voodoo, syncretic Creole practice and second-line grief as spiritual technology.
Caribbean ancestral practicesJamaican Kumina and Nine Night, Trinidadian Spiritual Baptists, Maroon ceremonial traditions and Obeah as protective healing.
The Course Library

Sixteen courses

Four to six video lessons per course, a seasonal alignment guide and a downloadable micro-ritual PDF keyed to the daily devotional.

Hover or tap any course to read what it covers

The Architecture

How every lesson works

Every course follows the same five-part structure. The teacher's lineage is the credential, not their fame.

01

The Tradition

Where it comes from

Who has carried this knowledge and across how many generations, and why it belongs to the practitioner watching.

02

The Practice

The technique

The specific method demonstrated on screen, its seasonal application and the center it tends in the daily framework.

03

The Context

Why this matters

How this tradition serves Black families and the people who hold them in prayer. The specific protection it offers.

04

The Integration

The daily connection

How to weave this practice into the devotional so classroom knowledge becomes daily sovereignty.

05

The Lineage

The traceable source

Every teacher names who taught them, and who taught the person who taught them. The knowledge is not borrowed. It is inherited.

Membership

Four tiers

Tier names are drawn from Yoruba thought. Each name describes the practitioner's relationship to the knowledge rather than a status hierarchy.

Foundation

Àṣẹ

Yoruba for the power that makes a word take effect. The force behind every prayer.

$129

per year · or $13 a month

  • Full video library, all 16 courses available on day one
  • Downloadable micro-ritual PDFs and seasonal alignment guides for every course
  • Course progress tracking and lesson bookmarks
  • Certificate of completion for each course finished
  • All new courses added to the library automatically
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Alignment · Most chosen

Ire

Yoruba for blessing and good fortune. The state of being in right relationship with one's Orí.

$229

per year · or $23 a month

  • Everything in Àṣẹ, the full library and all materials
  • 48 live seasonal sessions a year with each of the 16 practitioners
  • Full archive of past live sessions, available to stream at any time
  • Quarterly group call with Dr. Nikka Lemons, seasonal reflection and practice
  • Priority access to new course releases seven days early
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Character

Ìwà

Yoruba for character, what a person is in conduct. The alignment between one's choices and one's Orí.

$399

per year · or $41 a month

  • Everything in Ire, the full library, live sessions and Dr. Lemons calls
  • Monthly 30-minute practitioner session matched to your area of focus
  • Access to the Ori Facilitator Track, a structured pathway to a certificate
  • Facilitator certificate recognized by Covered Suns for group facilitation
  • Name in the Ori credits as a founding patron
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Institutional · Ilé

For organizations, schools and community institutions

Ilé is Yoruba for house, the family compound, the bounded space that carries lineage and protection. Faith organizations, cultural centers, Gullah Geechee institutions, schools and community programs. From $1,499 a year.

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The Sacred Household

Already have the books? Your first year is $99.

When you order The Sacred Household, the Nurturers Edition and Self Edition · Him together, you receive Ori Foundation for your first year at a reduced rate. The books teach the daily practice. Ori teaches the traditions behind it. They are designed to travel together.

Order the Sacred Household

$129 a year

$99

First year, then $129

A sun makes its own light. Covered Suns is named for every person who does.

Opening December 2027

The school opens
December 2027.

Join the waitlist for early access, launch pricing and the first announcement when courses open for enrollment.

16 courses · 9 traditions · Opening December 2027