Dr. Omileye
“Omi”

Trained as a psychotherapist and Doctor of Classical Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, and Herbs, she is also a former journalist with the UK's The Voice newspaper, and has studied ancient healing modalities from around the world. This rare constellation of knowledge informs her life's work: the healing of individual and collective epigenetic and ancestral trauma — tracing the wounds of family, transatlantic slavery, colonization, and holocaust back to their roots, and finding the way home.

At the heart of her practice is what she calls Cultural Alchemy — the art of entering different spiritual traditions deeply enough to distill their hidden essence, and discovering in that meeting something new, universal, and alive. Through writing, storytelling, art, and Daoist Classical Chinese Medicine, Psychotherapy, and indigenous healing technologies, she guides individuals and community to unearth and unbind the stories buried within - to discover Original Self, Purpose, and healing.

As a Kirkus Starred Review and internationally published writer, she currently teaches at the Center for Sacred Studies and serves as a Classical Chinese Medicine CEU instructor in ancient Daoist acupuncture protocols and the role of Wu Female Shamans in Daoist medicine. At her Black Soma, Classical Chinese Acupuncture and Counseling Clinic in Kigali clinic, she holds space for deep personal transformation, while simultaneously conducting research for her forthcoming book, The Stories in the Blood, and undertaking her own profound healing journey across Africa — most recently in Rwanda.

Dr. Omi is recognized for the accuracy and depth of her visions and insights. She is a founding member of the UN's Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) and has been invited to address the United Nations on the traditional importance of Water as not just a commodity but a living sacred being — work she sees as inseparable from her broader mission. For Dr. Omi, the Waters are not metaphor alone; they carry ancient wisdom capable of guiding humanity toward what she calls a cooler existence.

Ultimately, she holds no separation between the healing of Self, lineage, and environment. She believes that true healing does not belong to medicine alone, but to the realm of creative imagination — to the grammar of animacy, the language through which the living world speaks, and through which we finally learn to listen.