What is Ancestral Lineage Healing?

Ancestral lineage healing is the practice of relating directly with one’s blood ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing. It involves safely establishing relationships with wise and well ancestors and enlisting their aid and participation to deeply heal your lineages reaching far back in time.

If you’ve participated in various kinds of personal healing work and you’re seeking greater breakthroughs, ancestral healing may be for you. This approach weaves helpful elements from psychology, cultural healing, and spiritual/ritual traditions. Patterns rooted in intergenerational cycles and cultural pain can finally find resolution. Coming into relationship with recent and more ancient ancestors can serve to re-establish obscured blessings, improve relationships with the living, and encourage clarity of purpose.

Over the course of three days, we will explore the Ancestral Lineage Healing process developed by Dr. Daniel Foor where you will come into direct relation with your wise ancestors on your blood lineages, and begin the lineage repair process. 

What to expect

About the Location

We’ll gather  for our residential retreat at Carronvale House in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland. The grade A listed mansion house, home to the Boy’s Brigade,  is ideally situated in the central belt of Scotland with good motorway and rail links to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling. The town itself lies in the Forth Valley above the River Carron which flows from the west. Larbert is three miles from the shoreline of the Firth of Forth and 2+12 miles northwest of Falkirk.
 
As this is a residential retreat,  your stay will include lodging, (shared or single accommodations), and all meals during the course of your stay. 

Logistics

A week before the event you will be sent an email with the location address and ways to prepare for the residential intensive. 

At the time of the intensive we will gather for dedicated time in group ritual with an introduction to the work on Thursday evening from 7pm-9pm and then for about six hours per day over the next three full days (10 am -4:30 pm EST).

We’ll take spacious 90 minute lunch breaks and we’re close to abundant restaurant options. There will be chairs and floor cushions and we encourage you to bring whatever you’ll need to be comfortable.

Registration

We gladly offer a payment plan to assist with supporting your ability to come to the intensive. If you need further accomodation beyond the offered payment plan please reach out to Shannon directly at Shannon@redearthhealing.org

Please note in the “notes to the business” during registration the following:

  • If you are registering for shared occupancy and know who your roommate will be, please list their name.
  • Provide your dietary needs: Vegan,Vegetarian, Gluten-free, Dairy-Free, or other allergies. 

Residential Shared Occupancy

$ 625
USD
  • List Item #3

Meet and Greet Meal Thursday Evening, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Friday & Saturday, and Breakfast & Lunch Sunday Included. 

Residential Shared Occupancy

Payment Plan details at Checkout
$ 640
USD
  • List Item #3

Meet and Greet Meal Thursday Evening, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Friday & Saturday, and Breakfast & Lunch Sunday Included. 

Residential Single Occupancy

$ 725
USD
  • Meals Included

Meet and Greet Meal Thursday Evening, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Friday & Saturday, and Breakfast & Lunch Sunday Included. 

Residential Single Occupancy

Payment Plan Details at Checkout
$ 740
USD
  • Meals Included

Meet and Greet Meal Thursday Evening, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Friday & Saturday, and Breakfast & Lunch Sunday Included. 

About the Instructor

Shannon Willis, M.Ed 
Shannon is dedicated animist and ritualist, helping others achieve clarity, connection and rootedness through the exploration of liminal landscapes of the seen and unseen. Through heart-centered ritual aimed at re-establishing balance and personal sovereignty, her work is found at the intersection of dream midwifery, oracular mediumship, ritual and ancestral reverence.
 
 She is the founder of Red Earth Healing, a student of Yoruba culture as an initiate of Ọbàtálá, and Ọ̀ṣun, in the lineage of Olúwo Fálolú Adésànyà Awoyadé from Òdè Rẹ́mọ, a devotee of Nepali shamanism under the tutelage of Bhola Nath Banstola amoung other diverse indigenous paths of her ancestors. She is a certified practitioner, instructor, and the Ritual Director of Programs at Ancestral Medicine.
 
 She lives on the historic lands of the Creek/Muskogee Peoples in Athens, Ga. Her recent and older people of blood and bone hail from the England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, West Africa and Cherokee and Kaskaskia/Illini nations.

Frequently Asked Questions

We’ll begin on Thursday evening with a dinner and afterwards gather for an introduction to our time together and an overview of the Ancestral Lineage Healing Approach.  Then we will gather each day, Friday through Sunday, from 10 am-1 pm: then 2:30 pm-4:30 pm with shorter mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks and a spacious 90 minute lunch break. Our shared time each day consists of four teaching and practice sessions of roughly 90 minutes each, two before lunch and two after.

These sessions are a blend of teaching, direct visioning and trance work (often with drumming), sharing in small break-out groups anchored by trained supporters, main group dialogue, and other elements of ancestor-focused ritual, such as offering practice, song, and prayer. There are no prerequisites, however, prior experience with ritual and personal healing are helpful.

The lineage healing intensive closely follows the first nine chapters of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing as participants connect and partner with ancestral guides to support any among the dead still in need of assistance. Our signature online course Ancestral Lineage Healing also follows the steps of the lineage healing process, and these are the fundamental steps that practitioners are trained to guide in individual session work.

The process itself originated from years of in-person events, and there is an alchemy to multi-day group ritual that is unlike any of the other approaches to the work.

It’s important to note that the lineage healing intensive is fundamentally different from the Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training. Participants at intensives learn life-long skills for personally accessing ancestral support. However, this three-day intensive is not a substitute for the nearly year-long professional training that practitioners undertake in how to guide this work for others.

Our venue is Carronvale House in Larbert, Scotland.  It is a A listed country Mansion in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland. It is a large two-storey house with neo-Georgian details. Its outer walls date from the 18th century, with two new wings added in the 1820s, and it was extensively remodelled in 1897 by architect Sir John Burnet.

The space is well-lit, clean, spacious, and wheelchair accessible. To see more go here details and accessible features go here:: Carronvale House

This is a residential Intensive that is inclusive of accommodations and meals. When registering please note if you are traveling with a companion who will also be taking the intensive the name of that companion.

Also note meal preference: Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten and or dairy-free and any other allergy requirements.

In consideration for fellow participants, attendees are encouraged to test for Covid-19. Masking is welcome but not required. For immunocompromised persons or those with sensitive medical disability, we are not able to offer full Covid safety protocol.

Our core values and ethics affirm full inclusivity for people of diverse genders, ancestries, religious orientations, and other factors that can lead to exclusion and harm. Reduced cost options aim to support financial access.

Unless other arrangements are made, 25% of the overall cost is a non-refundable deposit.

If you need to cancel, please let us know as soon as you can. If something changes and you can’t join us, the closer cancellations are to the date of the event, the more difficult it is for us to fill the seats. The remaining registration payment may be refunded as follows:

A 75% refund is available for cancellations made anytime before May 8th (90 days before we gather). A 50% refund is available for cancellations made between 60 and 30 days before the intensive begins. There are no refunds available for cancellations made after Jully 9th (less than 30 days before the intensive begins). We reserve the option to extend some flexibility on this policy especially in cases where an open space has been quickly filled. However, in-person intensives require significant organizational resources and these policies help to ensure these offerings remain sustainable.

 

We’d be happy to help with any additional questions! Reach out to shannon@redearthehealing.org with your question and someone from our team will be in touch, usually within three business days.