I was born Rebecca Parks… but I prefer Nayma Freedom. Freedom is the spiritual name I was given during a mystical experience with Harriet Tubman. I was given the name, Nayma after attending a mystery school retreat. My daughter named me Nayma when I returned home. She stated, “Your new name is Nayma because you are now a new woman.” I am honoring the gifts of both names as I move forward.
I am a natural-born seer and a witness to the soul’s origin. It has taken me years to understand and accept these innate abilities and even longer to embody this work as my true calling. As I accepted my natural soul listening gifts, I began refining them through an energetic apprenticeship and the practice of evidentiary soul witnessing. These disciplines have helped me deepen my ability to listen to the law that love obeys, and not just for messages, but for memory, resonance, and return.
My lineage includes the Priest-Mothers, the unnamed intercessors, the Black women who carried nations in silence, and the ancestral memories buried beneath the soil of grief and glory as amplified by my daughter, who often sees and hears before I do.
Our ancestors are not worshipped. They inform the field from which we come. They are not the source, but they are witnesses to it. Through them, we hear the memories of the lives lived by our mothers, grandparents, and their parents that have shaped us before we could name it. They live through us not for idolization, but for reorientation to truth.
This is how I walk: aligned with the living God of all creation, governed by the same sacred law that governs Yeshua, guided by remembrance, and surrounded by the law that truth obeys, and its love is the presence that aligns me. I walk in remembrance of the Source of all things, and I continue Its work through alignment and governance that is both internal and ancestral.
As a child, my first language was song, and I was attuned to all things 88.7, 101 KLOL, Magic 102 FM, Negro Spirituals, Church of God Hymns, Percussion, World Music, Ella Jenkins, and Jazz. Music is the core of my memory and filters my entire lived experience.
I am shaped by the diversity and culture of Houston, TX, and its artistic influences. I cut my teeth on the entrepreneurial pursuits of my bricklaying Father and vocalist/musical educator Mother. It was through my mother’s influence that I have visited and studied most Christian denominations and am fluent in the governance structures between Black and White America. These experiences led me to major in Anthropology at the University of Houston, and their pursuits led me to countless construction sites, frequent visits to the museum district, music halls, and theaters.
For the past 25 years, I have worked in the public and private sectors of education from elementary to Higher Education. Fifteen of those years have been in the public schools as a Behavior and Special Needs Educator. It is where I learned to be truly accepted and know that despite challenges, traumas, cognitive impairments, and disorders, that resonance rules our environments and hearts. I now use this skill to help others navigate through distortions to reveal the soul’s alignment with truth and love.