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A Baobab Collection of Alternative Lifestyle Experiences

...choose the Life you Want...

There are many wellness and healing practices, retreats, spaces that lay out happier and healthier ways of living. I venture out and write to demystify and translate the essence of these alternative lifestyle options with the intention to promote amazing opportunities, to guide seekers towards what is relevant for them and to create an archive of the flourishing consciousness that is upon us. 

Baobab Trees can live up to 3000 years providing food, products, paper and shelter for humans and creatures. This magnificent tree serves the body & soul in a variety of ways. Inspired by the diversity and depth of the Baobab, the core of these writings aim to speak with and ignite the musings of your soul.

Cleaning up my vibe

- An Energy Clearing with Kagiso Msimango 

Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.” - David Hawkins


I was feeling a bit stuck, like I was on a new edge of growth and prosperity in several areas of my life but not really able to sustain or flourish further. I’ve been on a quest for the last while to move from a state of survival towards abundance. Practically, I was doing all I could on a day to day basis that was useful on some level, yet I felt like I was going around in looping spirals – kind of like snakes and ladders: climbing the ladder and falling right back down to where I started. With and through the nature of my purpose-filled work, I am aware that I am aware of the relationship between energy, emotions, thoughts and vibration. Especially E-motion as Energy in motion – if one hasn’t processed or ‘let through’ emotion, there may be a backlog effecting one’s vibration. In simple terms, vibration being the mood of our overall energy field (a complex and fascinating topic!).** Many other factors influence and effect our emotional state which in turn effects our vibration: relationships, money, trauma, childhood, ancestral coding and more. Understanding my energy field is an on-going study and source of amazement, especially interesting in the last few years of my life that have felt like an unusual combination of adventure and chaos. To assist with some ‘un-sticking’ I approached Kagiso Msimango for energetic support and clearing.


I encountered Kagiso for the first time when I hosted a Burlesque workshop at the UFYS (‘Unf*ck Yourself Retreat’) in 2019 and later through reading her book The Goddess Mojo Bootcamp. Overall, without having spent one-on-one time with Kagiso I experience her essence as high in integrity and a clear, relatable truth talker. A magical high priestess of sorts that my subtle energy field feels safe and appreciative of. All conducive towards feeling comfortable with having a remote energy clearing session with her.


After filling out a form and giving consent for Kagiso to have access to my energy field, a time was set for the clearing and we were good to go. I gave permission for Kagiso to tune into my higher self to see what could be cleared instead of me bringing what I thought needed to be cleared. This is an important distinction with energy work because a) some things are not ready to be cleared as we are still learning from them; b) it’s more helpful to allow the higher self to guide the clearing than the ego to decide as more can be accomplished on a vibrational level through the guidance of the higher self. Often what we think our vibrational frequency is, can be way off the mark.


Map of Consciousness
David Hawkins

Out of the four different types of clearings offered, I received a Level of Consciousness (LOC) clearing (see Map of Consciousness Above from David Hawkin’s Power vs Force). One thing that stood out in my clearing report was that 47% of my spirit was out of my body. Sounds radical but made sense. Ironically, or actually in perfect synchronicity, the day before the clearing I was noticing that sometimes I’m not completely present – not in a day dreamy way but in a way where I felt like pieces of me were missing in action. Via the clearing, I discovered that this can be due to toxins (physical and psychological) and trauma. Kagiso tested my LOC via a pendulum and her intuition, reporting that my general LOC was operating at the level of 'desire'. My response to this was well, disappointment, particularly because my partner and I had been doing meditations and other practices to clean up and raise our vibration. The disappointment was another irony, since the View of Life at the level of desire in the chart above is disappointment. I was disappointed because I know this is not where I want to be and I do believe I have experienced and lived in higher states of consciousness. On the flip side I felt compassion and understanding for the incidents that got me here along with the mental state that’s kept me here. I was also grateful to receive the support via Kagiso. In conjunction with my higher self, she managed to assist in raising my general LOC to Pride, a little closer towards courage! This may all sound way out there but to simplify it, having someone assist you in a positive vibrational shift is like having another adult speak sense to a child that you otherwise couldn’t.


It’s been over 15 days since the clearing. Being sensitive to subtle energetic fields – post-clearing I definitely feel a lightness in my subconscious field, which sometimes puts up resistance. An example of this is if I know I need to do something important or I’d like to let go of an unhelpful looping thought, I feel less resistance in my mind to doing it and more flow in my body to get into heart-full action or just drop the looping thought– without stories, excuses, or negativity. There is more focus, ease and flow in my day to day movements and my ability in manifesting what I need has been quite profound – especially in work, finances and family. My boyfriend said I seem more confident, decisive and even more sexy (hehe!). I also finally took initiative with healing a skin irritation that I’d had on and off for months, which was affecting my well-being and work.


My session with Kagiso was exceptionally valuable. I believe anyone can benefit from energetic assistance of this kind for the purpose of awareness that in essence we’re energy and are all interconnected. As Kagiso and many other teachers and energy healers emphasize, this awareness is vital to tap into as the frequency of the earth and humanity are changing and rising. i.e. this is not a fun to do thing but kind of a requirement (although it can be fun once you get into it!)


Kagiso uses several different energetic and spiritual modalities that influence her clearing style. She is also a certified Life Coach and author of another book Unf*ck Yourself, Unf*ck the world, published in the tense year of 2020. Kagiso’s present mission focuses on BE-ing: only doing what is necessary, inspiring and what brings her joy. The roles that seem to fill these requirements are currently:


  • being a mother and partner,

  • letting the cat in, then out, then in again, then out again, then in again

  • energy healing on herself and others

  • being a student and a teacher (in that order)

  • doing intuitive transformational coaching. Even though she got her first of many coaching certifications in 2010, she now relies more on intuitive guidance than coaching frameworks when working with clients.


The most efficient way to get hold of Kagiso is by booking a free 20 minute Zoom discovery session via this link: calendly.com/kagisomsimango/exploratory-session


** Kagiso shares more on this in the initial documents that you receive before a clearing. A reference she shares is ‘Power vs Force’ by David Hawkins.


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