A Quiet Place

What does spirituality look like in the metaverse? Sabrina Villard, the first shaman to build a virtual world, lets us in

By Coco Marett

As a tot, Sabrina Villard took her first steps in the Sahara desert, in the south of Algeria. She did so while holding the hand of her great-grandmother, a Bedouin shaman—known in the region as Fugara— who she says lived to be 123 years old. “She is still with me every day, guiding me,” says Villard, who inherited and honed her skills as a shaman from her late great-grandmother. She keeps a photo of her on an altar surrounded by candles and flowers in the corner of her ceremony room, which occupies the second bedroom of her apartment on Robinson Road in Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels district. To this day, when faced with adversity or difficult decisions, a distinct tingle on her arm is a reassuring sign that her great-grandmother is watching over…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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