What are Ancestral Lineage Healing sessions like?

We meet virtually or in person, and sessions happen through a mix of exploratory conversation and guided ritual.

We begin with conversation, and then I guide you to ground, relax and connect with your ancestors.

It’s a little like guided visualization, except that your wise and vibrant ancestors are leading the work!

My role is to hold the space, guiding you through the tending and ritual steps in a safe & protected way. The sessions will support you to build a relationship with your deeply wise and loving ancestors, come home to yourself and your destiny, and facilitate healing for you and your lineages.

How do I connect with my ancestors?

Everyone has the biological “hardware” to connect to their ancestors, through their intuition.

You probably use your intuition all the time, without even knowing it!

We engage your intuitive senses by starting the ritual with a guided drop-in, supporting you to get into a relaxed state. Your intuition will develop as you continue to engage this work. Connection with the ancestors often naturally shifts your brainwaves into a theta state, which is associated with focus, relaxation, dreaming, creativity, intuition and emotional openness.

Many folks see mental images along with a sense of feeling and knowing, or "gnosis". Others hear words or phrases. Some relate to colors, textures, emotions or physical sensations. There are many ways to connect with your intuition, and each person is different.

What is this work like?

The process begins with an assessment of one’s primary lineages, from which you can choose a lineage to begin working with. I guide you to connect with a deeply vibrant ancestral guide, who helps us get to know the lineage, learn about what kind of tending is needed, and actually provides that tending throughout the sessions.

Healing one lineage takes approximately 4-7 sessions, provided that amount of tending is sufficient for the particular lineage.

What are the benefits of ALH?

Ancestral Lineage Healing is complementary to personal healing and cultural change work.

Every experience is different, and some of the benefits that may emerge from this process are:

-Experiencing your ancestral inheritance as a strength

-Amplification of the ancestral blessings you embody

-Metabolizing ancestral pain, grief, loss and difficult cultural legacies

-Feeling supported to disengage from behaviors that reinforce ancestral burdens

-Learn about how you project your own internal experience on your family, relationships, the masculine/feminine, and more

- Facilitating healing for the ancestors can bring a deep sense of meaning and heart medicine to the one who provides a compassionate gaze for the ancestors who simply need a witness to a part of their story

-Feeling a sense of kinship and belonging with something deeply wise and ancient that is an essential part of YOU

-Receiving kind and attuned re-parenting from your wise elders

-Increased sense of peace, clarity and resilience through life’s changes & challenges

-Cultivating empathy and humanity for our human family

-Energetic tending, healing and improved energetic boundaries

-Positive psychological impact, which can include easing stress, anxiety, and sleep

- Ongoing relationship with the ancestors is tending a well of guidance and support that can be invoked at any time, as our ancestors are merely one thought away

What is our unseen support?

This work is aligned with the values of animism, which recognizes that humans are not the only kind of people. We are surrounded, and truly never alone, because we are woven into a tapestry of being-ness. Whether that's with the pets and plants we share our homes with, the tree outside the window, a soothing summer rainstorm, or the local mountain, there are a variety of beings here to support us. Additionally, we recognize something more subtle - that the spirits of our wise and loving ancestors, helping spirits, and the spirits of land, elements and nature are always around. They are quite literally living beside us, dreaming alongside us, waiting to connect and relate.

This work re-alivens a part of our relational landscape that is dormant in our current cultural framework. Many who do this work discover affinities with their ancestors that becomes a profound resource and ongoing guidance in all of life’s ebbs & flows.

How are ALH sessions different than Resourcing Breaks?

While both forms of session work are intended to be mentally, emotionally and spiritually supportive - Ancestral Lineage Healing (ALH) is specifically focused on a structured method of rituals that provide healing to one’s blood & bone ancestral lineages.

While both can positively impact one’s psyche, provide resourcefulness, and can include the presence of the ancestors, Resourcing breaks focus on the individual’s needs and intention coming into the session. This form of session work is more open ended, and sessions follow a more basic structure that provides exploration, the possibility of clearing space, opportunities for clarity to emerge, and nervous system resourcing.

For more questions, or to begin the process,

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