Mbali's journey originated in South Africa where she was born and continued in London where she was educated to Post Graduate level in Integrative Medicine, which led her to begin her healing and teaching practices. It continued to the USA where she claimed she was brought to her spiritual teachers and where she feels she has come full circle to a deep understanding of the importance of including traditional ancient practices necessary for healing the ailments of the modern world. She sees spiritual homelessness, rootlessness as a dis-ease carried by many in the western world and she suggests that the key to learning about the medicine we need to heal our modern ailments is embedded in the generational and ancestral legacies that we carry. Her work is rooted in the African traditions of her own African ancestors and the Dagara people from Burkino Faso West Africa, first introduced to her by Malidoma Some, Shaman and Educator, and a brilliant transmitter of African Cosmology here in the USA who has helped many to heal the connection to their ancestors. She has studied with Elder Angeles Arrien, Anthropoligist, Author, Educator and Consultant. She travelled to South Africa to receive transmissions from Elder High Sanusi Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa and is still a student of Elder, Michael Meade, Master Story Teller, tribalist and mythologist and recently named one of the most brilliant teachers of our time. She first learnt about group facilitation and healing relationships from Jett Psaris, a Master Group Facilitator and Teacher of relationships. Mbali continues to be enlightened by Mark Nepo, Teacher, Poet and Philosopher, and Ruth King, Author and Technician of the sacred, who is an honored role model and reminder of having the courage to weave the wisdom practices into her work and to boldly go where some fear to tread. Mbali has been integral in program and curriculum development at the Institute for Health and Healing's, Integrative Medicine and Spirituality Program, where she introduced transformative practices and ritual in to a mainstream medical educational model. She is a published writer in bodywork and health education and a creative artist. She is also a singer with a choir Vukani Mawethu who who have been singing freedom songs for South Africa, as well as labour and civil rights songs since 1986. The choir are a movement, cultural ambassadors of good will who sing out against racism and work tirelessly for their HIV and AIDS projects. As a Traditional Healer, Mbali weaves together her arts as a bridge to ancient practices with the stories we live today. She sees the loss of the ancient ways, our roots, loss of culture, connection to the natural world and practices contributes to a sense of rootlessness. and lack of purpose and she guides others to realize their dynamic potential.