MISSION

Cause Reign is an oral history project that connects Black TGNC people to their histories through dreamwork -- the practice of remembering, recording, and activating the healing potential of our dreams. We guide students to explore the meaning of their dreams through artistic expression, journaling, and dream play therapy. SAGE House is an autonomous artist RESTidency for Black TGNC folks, and it will be piloted this summer. Our adult audiences remember through DREAM School. Dream Reclamation, Energy and Ancestral Healing, and Matriarchal Praxis (DREAM) School is for Black and Indigenous students to feel safe to dream. Functioning as both a digital oral history project and online decolonial education, DREAM School creates celebratory remembrance containers; students remember how to pray, eat, tell stories, and sing medicine songs while walking alongside their ancestors. Our younger audiences remember through KindeziCare, the oral tradition and art of Kongo babysitting. Through the KindeziCare art of deep creative youth care, we teach medicinal lessons which directly translate to the honoring of spirit, elders, and the environment.

EXPERIENCE

TBN is Cause Reign’s Principal Dreamworker. TBN has lectured and facilitated classes at the following conferences and private events:

• 191 Toole and Casa Libre in Tucson, AZ

• Black Farmer and Urban Gardeners Conference in Durham, NC

• Herbal Hoedown Conference in Lodi, NY

• Trans Day of Joy Conference in Queens, NY

• Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, CA

• Emotions and Society Guest Lecture, FIT, New York, NY

• Studio 34 in Philadelphia, PA

• NOLA Herb Gathering, virtual conference based in New Orleans, LA

Classes are offered quarterly with the equinoxes (online) and solstices (in-person). Contact if you would like to book a class in your area.

“I personally have always had poignant, metaphysical dreams that I now combine with additional research and strategies to sharpen the effects of my dreamwork (easing PTSD symptoms, divination) and the dreamwork of others (visiting other realms, learning dream language).” - TBN

STORY

Tyrell Blacquemoss (TBN) is a prophetic dreamworker and descendant of a long line of African priests and Turtle Island medicine people. As a scholarly researcher with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an emphasis in Africana Studies and Indigenous Studies from Cornell University, TBN reclaims and continues their family legacy of the science and art of dreaming.

TBN has traveled globally studying with shaman, elders, and healers of the following traditions: African diasporic and Western Herbalism, Conjure, Hoodoo, Rootwork, Southern Folk Medicine, Pachakuti Mesa (Peruvian shamanism), Sonoran desert Curanderismo, Toltec - Chichimeca dreamplanting, and diasporic African and Japanese energy healing.

TBN is certified in Usui Reiki 1 and 11, a trained herbalist specializing in mental-emotional health and dreams, with ancestral licenses in dreamwork, elemental healing, bone divination and is a gifted seer, Sangoma gobela initiate (in training to teach others to become South African Traditional healers) and future doctor of acupuncture.

TBN has volunteered in advocacy and organizing work for survivors of domestic violence and abuse. In addition to their work for others, their practice is very personal and has supported them through eighteen months of houselessness. They were nomadically based, living on farms, couch surfing, camping in wilderness, between upstate NY and the southwest, searching for their indigenous roots and connecting people of color to their ancestors and the land.

They are a 2019-2020 fellow in Freedom School’s National Health and Healing Justice Fellowship. TBN is currently based in Flagstaff, AZ and quarantined in the desert, seeking birth worker training and beginning an MFA candidacy at Prescott College in Social and Environmental Arts Practice with Patrisse Cullors.

5 Divination ceremonies

Bone Divination - 30 min and 60 min

A collection of sacred objects from nature and life that are thrown on a map to tell a story about the clients path. Cause Reign bone divination is based on Pachakuti Mesa and Kongo kosmogram. 

Energy Clearing & Divination

A ceremony of energy, songs, and speaking with Spirit that clears blockages and gives you tools and tasks to continue healing on your path, based on reiki, laying hands and cross-cultural shamanic practices. (More information about the process below.)

Spirit Cleansing

A ceremony to remove a troublesome Spirit wrecking havoc, based on Sangoma tradition, sacred diets and kundalini energy.

Femba

A ceremony to gather specific and vast sacred information and shift on a cosmic 

level, based on Sangoma tradition and cross-cultural shamanic practice.

ENErgy Clearing and Divination

For chronic pain, persistent anxiety, general stress, chronic fatigue, spiritual hygiene for diviners and direct care practitioners, tension headaches, nightmares, ptsd symptoms, trauma recovery, balance, insight, intergenerational trauma, ancestral medicine, and more.

The Very Gentle Proces

Grounding, Meditation, Opening Prayer,

Speaking with your spirits,

Clearing your Connections, Grounding,

Check in, Review TBN notes.

Write up and recommendations

provided after session.

*Energy Clearing and other Divination Ceremonies are not a replacement for medical treatment.

DREAMWORKING Courses

The DREAM School embodies the acronym Dream Reclamation, Energy and Ancestral Healing, and Matriarchal Praxis through the following methods:

• Distance-learning that increases the capacity of TBN and the accessibility to these traditional practices.

• Offers group learning for students to share their findings with each other and TBN.

• Offers a structure for bartering services or resources in exchange for tuition for those who are in need.

• Reaffirms the rights and responsibilities that individuals have of claiming and preserving their ancestral wisdom.

See classes currently being offered.

For those who need it, we are able to accept a limited number of Work Trade Exchanges, Sliding Scale and Payment Plans. Complete a Work Trade Application for DREAM School tuition or a Divination Ceremony Package. If you are in need of Sliding Scale, please provide your annual income in your inquiry about pricing.

Full-spectrum Postpartum Doula Services

& initiation Integration support

Available for In-person & Virtual Postpartum and Abortion Support.

Specializes in postpartum support: text/email/phone support, time management, entrepreneur support, plant medicine, dreams, spiritual concerns, wellness team identifying, planning meal trains, light housework, postpartum ceremony space, etc. We will create a plan together to fit your needs, which can include all, some or none of the above.

Training: 5 years of ancestral initiations, 18+ years of professional support experience, Birthing Advocacy Doula Training, and personal transmasculine womb cleansing.
🙏🏿 A Sangoma, South African Traditional Healer
🙏🏿 A trained Herbalist, apprenticed with @rootworkherbals
🙏🏿 A Pachakuti Mesa Carrier, initiated by @soulshifting_retreats

Book a call to see if we feel good together.