Dakohai Matityahu

The Origin

I am a first generation Haitian American, born and raised in Boston, in a home that was deeply and strictly religious. I was raised with the expectation that I would become a priest.

At eighteen, I left that faith. What followed was years spent exploring African Traditional Religions broadly, searching for something that actually felt like mine.

Everything changed when my son was born. I knew then that I needed to tap into my birthright, not only for myself, but for him. That is when my journey into Haitian Vodou specifically began.

I did not grow up practicing Vodou. But I grew up inside something real: true Haitian culture, family, community, the rhythms and understanding that shape how we grieve, how we celebrate, how we carry each other. That foundation was always there. Vodou is what I have built on top of it, deliberately, as an adult, so that my son would have access to a birthright I had to go find for myself.

The Practice

I work with the body as one system: physical, energetic, ancestral. Reiki Bodywork opens the physical pathways. Shamballa Reiki works the energetic and ancestral body directly. Readings and coaching work with the lwa and the currents of your life calling for attention.

Clients often arrive carrying things with no clinical name: a grief that won’t move, a pattern that repeats, an ancestral wound showing up as chronic pain or a life that won’t open. In Vodou, all of it is connected.

The Lineage: Rooted in Wayom

My formation as a Vodouisant comes from my manman, Kharla Jean, founder of the Wayom Tribe, a Haitian Vodou botanica and spiritual community dedicated to preserving Haiti’s living traditions. Through her guidance and the sosyetè she holds, I learned to serve the lwa with integrity and carry this tradition with the seriousness it demands.

I built this practice because Haitian tradition belongs in Haitian hands, and the people who most need this healing are least likely to find it in mainstream wellness spaces.