Kafui Logah Awoonor ( hunfoJi)

Kafui means: Praise God

Hunfoji means: The Ancestral Way

Step into a world of transformation, remembrance and renewal with Kafui Logah Awoonor, an IFA initiated West African priestess, she comes from a long line of High Priests and Priestesses. Kafui embodies a rich heritage of spiritual wisdom and healing practices, guiding individuals and communities on their unique paths to wellness and self-remebrance.

She is dedicated to empowering others through her diverse healing modalities such as Somatic healing, Family Constellations and other embodied practices. Whether you seek clarity, connection, or transformation, her compassionate approach will support you on your journey to wholeness.

Kafui embodies a rich tapestry of cultural heritage and spiritual wisdom. Born in Nigeria to Ghanaian parents, raised in Amsterdam from the age of 7 by a Dutch mother, her work is deeply rooted in the traditions of her ancestors of different lineages, and she draws upon the expansiveness of these teachings to offer a diverse array of healing modalities that cater to the mind, body, and spirit.

Her journey began with a calling to serve her community through healing and spiritual guidance as a trained Yoga teacher in 2015. Her extensive training in various other practices has equipped her with the tools necessary to assist individuals on their personal journeys. Known for her warmth, compassion, and intuitive insights, Kafui creates a safe and welcoming space for exploration and healing.

Kafui Logah Awoonor's work transcends traditional healing practices, blending ancient wisdom with contemporary techniques to create a holistic approach that resonates with a wide array of individuals. Her deep understanding of spiritual and emotional well-being allows her to tailor her offerings to meet the unique needs of each person she encounters.

The Essence of Kafui's Approach:

Cultural Heritage: As an IFA initiated priestess, Kafui honors the rich traditions of her West African ancestry. This cultural foundation informs her practices, providing a deep sense of authenticity and connection. She integrates ancestral teachings into her work, offering insights that resonate on both personal and communal levels.

Personal Empowerment: Kafui believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their healing journey. She encourages self-exploration and personal responsibility, helping clients recognize their innate strength and wisdom. By fostering a sense of agency, Kafui inspires transformation that comes from within.

Community and Connection: Kafui places a strong emphasis on the importance of community in healing. She creates spaces where individuals can come together, share their experiences, and support one another. This sense of belonging enhances the healing process, as participants realize they are not alone in their challenges.

Intuitive Guidance: Kafui possesses a unique ability to tune into the energies and emotions of those she works with. Her intuitive insights guide her sessions, allowing her to address specific needs and challenges that may arise. This personalized approach fosters a deeper connection and more effective healing outcomes.

Ritual and Ceremony: Kafui often incorporates rituals and ceremonies into her practice, honoring the sacred and creating meaningful experiences. These rituals can mark significant life transitions, offer gratitude, or invoke healing energies.

Nature-Based Practices: Kafui recognizes the healing power of nature and often incorporates outdoor sessions into her work. Being in nature helps individuals ground, enhance their connection to the earth, and facilitate emotional release.

Reflections

  • “I attended the Sankofa retreat in the Drakensberg at the end of 2024 when I was going through a really intense period of transition in my life. Before I even entered the space, Kafui saw me - and when I entered the space, I felt seen even more deeply, in a way that I had never experienced before.”

    Tumi Moloto

  • “Kafui’s family constellation workshop was incredibly impactful and prompted a journey into myself that I did not expect. Since then I often contemplate what came up for me during the session and it revealed some interpersonal and familial issues that I had been ignoring. If this is something you’ve been considering (or have come across by chance) I sincerely invite you to attend and open yourself to the process. It’s a fulfilling exercise that allows you to dig deeper and in doing so come to attribute meaning to so many areas of your life.”

    Omar Fauq Raed

  • “Kafuis gentle, loving and firm care made my experience healing and full. I’m eternally grateful. I would recommend her to anyone who is brave and ready for this step. I hope that she will be with me on my next one.”

    Basheera Surty

  • “IThe Family constellation with Kafui was really transformative for me. She created a great atmosphere by explaining everything and being very gentle throughout the whole session. I felt taken care of and safe to express everything I needed to. Thoughts, feelings, boundaries and tears.”

    Zeyneb

I'm not new to this

Since 2010, I have been deeply rooted in the Cape Town wellness community—not just as a participant, but as a vocal advocate, disruptor, and space-holder. From the beginning, I saw how the yoga and wellness industry in South Africa mirrored the country’s broader inequalities: exclusionary, whitewashed, and unwelcoming to the very people whose ancestors carried ancient healing wisdom long before colonialism stripped it away. I refused to be silent.

For over a decade, I have been at the forefront of the fight to reclaim space—not just within yoga studios, but in the very landscape of wellness itself. I have spoken out, challenged racist gatekeeping, and built spaces where Black and Brown people can gather, move, breathe, and heal in community—indoors, outdoors, and beyond the structures that were never meant to hold us.

My work is about more than access; it is about returning our wellness and spiritual practices home. It is about undoing the erasure of indigenous African healing traditions and calling our people back to the practices that have always belonged to us—practices of movement, breath, sound, plant medicine, and ancestral connection.

I have taken this fight beyond conversation, holding individuals and institutions accountable—even in South Africa’s Equality Court—when necessary. Because this is not just about personal healing; it is about systemic change. It is about ensuring that future generations never have to ask for permission to exist fully in these spaces.

Wellness belongs to us. Healing is our birthright. And I will continue to disrupt, reclaim, and build, until every Black and Brown body in South Africa and beyond knows they are home.

I'm true to this

  • Seapoint Promenade

    in 2020, at a time when we were told to social distance and not gather in large groups… we found a way to be in community. our morning sessions before the work day started were a beautiful way to remember our breath, reconnect with ourselves, each other and nature.

  • Pipe Track Sunset flows

    As 2020 progressed and we were allowed to be outside for longer periods of time… we started gathering at the Pipe Track on a weekly basis to flow together into the sunset overlooking Camps Bay.

  • Pipe track sunset flows

    It became a weekly lifeline for us all to gather, take off our physical and spiritual masks and be in community together. To release, to reclaim our breath.

  • Battery Park sessions

    How it all started? When the V&A invited us to come & play at the newly erected Battery Park in November 2018, we took it upon ourselves to invite some Freedom Friends for a sunset lead Yoga session with Kafui Awoonor & as our leader in light. The first #FreedomFriendsYogaExperience was born. Many sessions followed.

  • Battery park sessions

    Every week, we gathered. Every week we flowed through a beautiful curated session accompanied by music from all time favorites like D’Angelo, Sade, John Coltrane.

  • Battery park sessions

    Taking up space, reclaiming our bodies through breathe, movement and black joy. The sessions continued to expand and grow upto sometimes 50 predominantly brown & black bodies.

  • Holding space holistic studio

    In February 2019, in addition to the outdoor sessions, we opened the doors to our studio space in Woodstock. Smaller more intimate sessions with a variety of offerings and teachers.

  • Pipe track sunset flows

    Our offerings have consistently been a space that reflects the variety of South Africa and the world. a space for the melanated global majority to gather and reclaim spaces we have previously been excluded from.

  • Pipe Track sunset flows

    A reminder that “we can breathe” at a time when black bodies were intentionally being constricted. our mere existence was an act of defiance.

homecoming

As the journey continues and the offering expand, the one constant is remembrance, honoring, reclamation of the inherent magic of melanated people of the global majority.

To return home to ourselves. To our lineages and the ancestral wisdom waiting to be re-activated within our DNA through our breath, movement, sound and through community. We honor those who came before us by reclaiming our wholeness.

The goal has always been to expand into the vastness of us.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Your legacy is every life you touch

-Maya angelou