ROBERT WALKER
Robert Walker, MS, is an Elder, Gate Keeper for the Tingan Shrine (Tingan Sob) and has studied with Elder Malidoma Some and has done ritual work with him since 1988. He has assisted with the ritual work for the programs that Malidoma led at the East Coast Village.
Robert has also accompanied Malidoma on many trips to Dano, Malidoma’s village in Burkina Faso to help and assist with the ritual work that was done for the groups of people that would accompany Malidoma to his village.
Robert has been part of the East Coast Village since its inception in 2002 and continues to be active in the programs offered there.
He has led the Ancestralization Five Day Ritual at the East Coast Village for the past seventeen years. Robert has taken many of the programs offered by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies including the Two Week Shamanic Intensive. He feels that it is very important that the traditional and spiritual Wisdom of Africa and the important connection to our Ancestors be brought to the western world which has been lacking in this wisdom