Felicia "Onyi" Richards
Felicia "Onyi" Richards is a multidisciplinary creative, multimodality healer, priestess, teacher and consultant. She is the founder of ONYI LOVE, a company and brand through which she has supported and held space for several organizations and events, and thousands of people throughout the world, in person and virtually. In 2022 she launched HEAL the HEALERS, an initiative to support those who serve, lead, create for and inspire the collective.
As a creative artist, Onyi expresses herself through music (voice, piano, percussion), movement, reflective writing, storytelling, modeling/imagery, crafting and acting. Artists and groups she has worked with and productions she has been involved in include: Viver Brasil Dance Company, Angel Luis Figueroa, Lazaro Galarraga, Bobby Wilmore, L’Esprit D’Afrique, Rocky Dawuni, Tristan de Liège, Hands in the Soil, SŌL Day, Brasil Brasil Cultural Center, Palmares (play), AfroHaus, AirBnb Experiences, The Mels (web series), Kara Mack, Magatte Fall, Nakeiltha "Nikki" Campbell, George Kallis, 98 Days Soundtrack (feature film), Nick Gillie, Goddess Black / The Darkness (play), David Bianchi, Batu Sener, Wade In The Water (short film), and Kati Hernandez and Kimbambula Dance Company. She has also produced her own concerts and other artistic performances, and has released music including her debut album Songs of Soothing in 2020, and her second album FORÍBALẸ̀ in 2023.
Onyi is a practitioner of Ifá, the traditional system of the Yorùbá people, within which she is initiated as an Iya Ọṣun and Ọbatala through the Adesanya Awoyade lineage of Ode Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. She is a member of the LA-based Ifá community Ile Orunmila Afedefeyo, led by Awo Falokun Faṣegun and Iya Fayomi Ọṣundoyin Egbeyemi. With Ifá as her grounding ancestral practice, she appreciates and explores all ways humans navigate their connections to Source.
In all she does and wherever she travels, Onyi's image, touch and reflections have been a source of inspiration, breakthrough and healing. Whether in her personal life, within her cherished communities, or as part of her professional work, she weaves together skills across the spectrum of art to guide people along their transformative journey of remembering their true nature, dignity, beauty, peace and joy.