Episodes

Betrayal is a painful thing! Unfortunately Orunmila went through quite a bit in the Odu Baba Ogbe Kana! Watch this Our Roots Podcast episode as Joseph Baba Ifa shows us how Ifa dealt with adversity! Also stay tuned for a segment on the manifestation of the necklaces, or Ileke’s, of Ifa! #santeria #ifa #isese

Ochun’s love life was to complex to only do one episode on it! Part 2 will delve deeper into her relationships with other Orishas! Joseph Baba Ifa will go one by one ending with Ochun’s soul mate in this Our Roots Podcast episode! Que viva el amor familia! #ochun #oshun #orisha

We all know Ochun is the Orisha of love! Our Roots Podcast is going to look at each of her relationships and break down the lessons to be learned! Watch Joseph Baba Ifa look at Ochun’s love life in depth family, Iboru!#ochun #oshun #orisha

Have you thought of taking a pumpkin to the river for Oshun? Do you have a pending offering and you just don’t know what to give the Orisha? Watch this Our Roots Podcast episode so Joseph Baba Ifa can give you all the tips you need to be successful! Subscribe Family! #santeria #ifa #adimu

Have you ever heard of the benefits of Sea Moss? Maybe that being alkaline is beneficial to your overall health? If so, you probably heard of Dr.Sebi! A gentleman who revolutionized the holistic medicine and nutrition industry! Watch this interview of his family to know who the man behind the legacy was! #drsebi #seamoss #holistic

Are you interested in the origins of the Egungun tile? Maybe you want to learn more about Oshun? The way Eshu looks peaks your interest? The Odu Ogbe Hunle is the one for you! Watch this Our Roots Podcast episode with Joseph Baba Ifa to learn all about this sign!#ifa #eshu #oshun

Did you just receive Hand of Ifa and now you have no idea what to do? No worries Joseph Baba Ifa is here to clarify what your next steps could look like on your Ifa and Orisha journey! If you want to know what to do next after receiving Mano de Orula watch this Our Roots Podcast episode family!#manodeorula #handofifa #ashe

The Odu Baba Ogbe Irosun focuses on the continuance of existence! Whether it’s the priests of Ifa living harmoniously or avoiding the extinction of the animals we need the most! Joseph Baba Ifa is going to peel back the many layers of Ogbe Irosun in this Our Roots Pocast for you!#ifa #santeria #birds

Most would look at a cat and see just another common house pet. What if someone told you that it is a reincarnated God walking around your home! All ancient cultures recognize the divinity of the cat, and the Yoruba were no different! Joseph Baba Ifa is going to tell you all of the ancestral knowledge Ifa has to share about this amazing animal in another Our Roots Podcast episode!#cats #ifa #spirituality

Do you want to know how to take care of your loved ones after they’ve passed? Yoruba spirituality is based on the practice of honoring our ancestors! Through an Orisha known as Egungun, human beings can take care of their ancestral spirits in the most productive way possible! Our Roots Podcast and Joseph Baba are going to show you how! Press Play Family! #spiritism #ancestors #egungun

The best way to learn nothing is by trying to learn everything at once! This is what the Holy Odu Baba Ogbe Odi teaches us! Joseph Baba Ifa goes over how knowledge was spread in this Odu so that we could all benefit as Ifa practitioners today! Watch this Our Roots Podcast episode to hear about a sign full of amazing patakis! Enjoy Family! #ifa #wisdom #orisha

So you walk through your front door with this brand new Orisha you just received, and then the thought hits you, “Where do I put them?”. No worries, Joseph Baba Ifa is here to let you know all the different places these Orishas can go! This Our Roots Podcast episode will focus on various Orisha’s and where they can live harmoniously in our homes! If you don’t know whether to put Eshu inside or outside the house, This is the one for you! #orishas #santeria #atr

Are you someone that just found out about Ifa and ATR’s?!? There are so many others just like you who have the exact same questions! In this episode Joseph Baba Ifa is interviewed by Joy, a fellow podcaster and newcomer to the concept of Ifa! Watch this Our Roots episode to learn what everyone should before entering into the beautiful world of Orisha spirituality! Welcome Family! #spirituality #ifa #orisha

Who’s afraid of snakes?!? Ifa is here to demystify this very misunderstood animal! Snakes have always been sacred in ATR’s! Joseph Baba Ifa in this Our Roots Podcast is going to tell you everything Ifa has to say about this majestic reptile!#snakes #reptiles #ifa

There is no doubt Ifa began as an oral tradition! Ifa’s ancestors were able to preserve its sacred information this way for thousands of years! There are various Odu that show how it became what it is now, a written tradition that is here to stay! Joseph Baba Ifa will show the viewers of this Our Roots Podcast episode how to balance the tradition of oral teaching with the accountability of documentation! Ashe!#atr #ifa #santeria

Ogbe Iwori (Ogbe Weñe) I Joseph Baba IfaAs long as the world exists there will be witchcraft! This is what the Odu Ogbe Iwori states! Luckily Orunmila has given humanity the solution to defend itself, Ebo! Watch this Our Roots Podcast episode to learn more about this miraculous sign and how to defeat brujeria!#santeria #brujeria #ifa

Our Roots Podcast has done many episodes on Ori, the internal destiny that lives in our head! This time Joseph Baba Ifa is it going to teach you how to take care of it! You will find the stories that explain Ori’s concepts, how to attend to it, and what it likes to receive as offerings in this video! Enjoy Family!#josephbabaifa #ori #destiny

Ifa & Animals: The Crocodile | Joseph Baba Ifa Our Roots Podcast

Ifa and Orisha are practices based on respect! Respect to the Orishas, respect to our ancestors, and respect to our elders! Joseph Baba Ifa cites various Odu’s and pataki’s explaining Ifa’s hierarchy! Our Roots Podcast, here we go! #ifa #orisha #santeria

Berniel Ogbe Bara is a Babalawo from Compton, California! He is a VIP member and supporter of Our Roots Podcast! Baba Joseph sits down with him to discuss his decades long journey in Orisha and Ifa culminating in his priesthood and possibly making a run for Governor of California! #ifa #orisha #compton

There is no way we were going to make it through an Ifa & Animals series without giving elephants their own episode! The largest land animal on earth, and possibly the most majestic, had to be one of Orunmila’s favorites! So much can be learned from this magnificent creature! Watch this Our Roots Podcast episode where Baba Joseph goes over all the details about the true King of the Jungle!#ifa #elephant #orishas

Ashe is what makes the universe go round! It is the divine grace that Olodumare creates with! Each of us have our own very special Ashe that we’re meant to make the world a better place with! Joseph Baba Ifa is going to break down the various aspects of this concept for Our Roots Podcast! Ashe Family!#ashe #axe #orisha

Our Ogbe series is kicking off with its first omolodu, Ogbe Oyekun! Also known as Ogbe Yekun, it is the first combined Odu in the corpus of Ifa! Destined for greatness, he quickly learned that good character would be the quickest path to his fulfillment! Watch this Our Roots video where Joseph Baba Ifa speaks of the integral role the Orisha Oshun plays in this sign!#oshun #ochun #oxumOrlando 2025 2 day work shopOct 4 & 5VIP members will get code for 40 percent offAll other members will get code ...

There aren’t many things more majestic than a leopard! An animal that upon arrival causes all others to pause! It is revered in Ifa as the true king of cats and is a central character in its mythology! Joseph Baba Ifa goes over multiple patakis in this video clarifying its mysteries for you! Don’t miss this Our Roots Podcast episode family, Ase O! #ifa #leopard #santeria