Tsakane – Wolf & Co Café will host iFokotho yoga classes from February 3.
When he launched the cafe last year, the self-confessed hippie admitted he wanted to bring a very different experience to ikasi.
Sphiwe Giba is ready to introduce yoga to Tsakane.
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iFokotho, a Xhosa word that means ‘the hollow soft spot on the top’, usually of the baby’s head after birth, where the skull has not quite completely joined.
“I have two siblings younger than me, and I remember wanting to hold them and pretend to breastfeed them when they were babies.
At which my mother would keep a close eye on me and insist “Ungam’bambi entloko!” (don’t touch the head),” explains Giba.
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He says the level of extra caution was due to the presence of iFokotho on the babies’ head: the soft, underdeveloped skull portion.
“The essence of iFokotho for me is a reminder of the concept of threshold.
“The place or point of beginning; the outset, the point that must be exceeded to begin producing a given effect or result or elicit a response,” he adds.
He believes that thresholds can also come through traumatic encounters.
“All these events usually define how our lives turn out.
“However, after each of them, we are faced with the most critical stage post the threshold, the Fokotho stage.
“This is the stage where we cement what we have learned or gained after we have crossed the threshold.”
Giba believes that this is the stage, mentally, where we complete the development.
And that is where the yoga comes in.
“With yoga chakras, the top of the head of a being is where enlightenment flows.”
He says it is where one has done all that one could on his/her own, and now they look to divine intervention.
“There is a message that needs to be addressed about personal and daily culture and the power of being.”
iFokotho yoga classes will start on February 3, at Wolf & Co Café, Ngcobo Street, Tsakane.
For more information contact Sphiwe Giba on 083 877 3407.
