Ancestral Lineage Healing

Ancestor Lineage Healing is an approach and practice of safely connecting to our ancestors and bringing healing and repair to generational and cultural wounds. Healing, repair, and continued good relationship allows for the ancestral blessings and wisdom to flow freely and unobstructed to the living. Ancestral repair work has existed in various forms, rituals, and traditions for thousands of years across cultures worldwide. This particular framework and approach was developed by Dr. Daniel Foor, Ph.D., teacher of ancestral reverence and ritual, and author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing.

In our Ancestral Lineage Healing sessions, you will be in direct conscious connection with your well-in-spirit ancestral guides. They are the ones who guide and handle the healing of your lineages. Any harms and burdens are boundaried out while they are being healed. This allows for safe relationship with your ancestors.

I’m currently accepting clients as a Practitioner-in-Training working towards completing my certification hours.

Your ancestors of blood & bone are in your DNA, they are with you every day and they know you even if you don’t know them.

Your adopted family, your found family, your guardians, are also your ancestors. Often referred to as “milk lines” these are traditions and relationships that feed us, nourish us, and raise us. They too have direct and indirect impact our lives and can benefit greatly with Ancestral Lineage Healing.

Even for those who know their ancestors, they rarely know past a few generations of the remembered names, and even with genealogical research there is a limit to how far historical records can be traced. Ancestors aren’t just the remembered ones and the documented ones, they are also the ones who go far back in time before the borders of nation states and empires, before written language, they go far far back to the beginning of existence. All those people, all of them are your ancestors.

Ancestral Lineage Healing is a non-dogmatic approach to healing ancestral wounds.

Just wanting to heal that which you’ve inherited is enough.

Just wanting to reconnect to where you came from is enough.

Just wanting to improve the relationship with those who came before you is enough.

You’re not reconnecting to the unwellness. Ritual safety is of the highest importance in our sessions. Our sessions are structured to connect you only with the wellness in your lineages, unobstructed wellness flowing through the lineage before harm disrupted it. That wellness may be found a few generations back or far back into the Ice Age or even earlier. Those who caused harm are dealt with by your well-in-spirit ancestors and you’re not pulled into that process. Your ancestral guides will deal with the unwellness and handle the healing process. Your presence and intention to bring healing to the lineage supports that process. My presence is to make sure you don’t lean into that unwellness.

We are all steeped in the historical aftermath of those who came before us, whether we are related to them by blood, or we live on the land they lived on, or we identify and interact with the cultures and communities they were a part of, or we explore and work within the industries and professions that they did; we are the next pages in the history books of their stories and they are the prior pages of our life’s story.

Our ancestors “of blood & bone” are our biological parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., even the ones we don’t remember or know of. We inherit their blessings and burdens through our blood & bones. What they lived through is passed down epigenetically through generations and leaves a lasting impact. The American Psychological Association describes it as “a phenomenon in which the descendants of a person who has experienced a terrifying event show adverse emotions and behavioral reactions to the event that are similar to those of the person him/herself.” And this lasting effect still occurs and persists even if the memory of the initial event has long been forgotten. But just as harm can be passed through generations so can healing, even when the initial event has been long forgotten.

Our ancestors “of land & space,” the land remembers even if we do not. The land which was fought over, dug into, extracted from, dumped onto, and that now we set foot on, where we reside, where we settle, where we occupy. There were people who came before us who tended the land and knew the land, its wisdom and gifts. And those who exploited it, harmed it, contaminated it, burdened it and poisoned it. The land remembers the memories of those who tended it, of those who harmed it, those who left behind their love and pain, their blessings and burdens. As we set foot on that land, build on that land, live on that land, we inherit that pain, those burdens. Healing can be brought to the land and to the ancestors of the land through making amends, tending good relationship with the land and respecting the people who tended it and who continue to tend it. It helps heal those burdens of the land and its people and allows the blessing to flow unobstructed.

Our ancestors “of culture & community,” include the founders, the revolutionaries, the leaders, the rebels, even the traitors, all who shaped and impacted our cultures & communities, whether they brought wellness or harm. We walk through the paths they carved, the shortcuts, the detours, the straight roads, the dead-ends, the bridges that overcame obstacles, the roads that lead to nowhere. Whether we are born into or received by cultures and communities we identify with, they are the energetic environments we live within and the energetic air we breathe. We now live in the environments they shaped, and how they are shaped shapes our lives as well. But we too are the next pages in the history books, we too can have impact and shape our culture and community, and we can bring healing to the harms and burdens within them.

Our ancestors “of affinity & profession,” include the explorers, inventors, researchers, developers, innovators, as well as those with questionable ethics, exploitative practices, conflicts of interests, and underhanded motives. Many hobbies, affinities, industries, and professions were developed through very harmful origins, but we often turn a blind eye or their dark past is intentionally hidden and the spotlight is instead placed onto the beneficial results, focusing on the comforts and improvements whilst hiding and denying the exploitation and forced sacrifice to achieve them. Many who enter these fields for hobby or profession often find themselves blocked from success and progression. They may not notice that they are likely haunted by the dark past of their fields and the shunned ancestors calling out, begging for acknowledgement, apologies, remembrance. Bringing healing to these ancestral relationships can provide great ease and wellbeing to those who were harmed. With acknowledgement, apologies, remembrance, they more openly support those who tend and care for these fields.