Welcome to the Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive, a gathering stitched with ancestral reverence and earth honoring belonging. Here, we enter a sacred pause where creativity becomes prayer, ritual becomes remembrance, and celebration becomes a bridge between worlds. Together, we tend the love that ripples backward and forward through our bloodlines. We court the presence of our wise and well ones. We engage the ancient dance of reciprocity between the seen and unseen.
We are looking forward to entering this deeply rooted work, shaped by the lineage repair approach of Dr. Daniel Foor and Ancestral Medicine, and held during this potent season of remembrance. Across many cultures, this liminal turning, the end of October into early November, has long been honored as a sacred threshold, in Celtic world, known as Samhain, the closing of the harvest gates and the opening of the spirit veil. It is the dusk of the old year and the first inhale of the next. A time when the veil thins and the dead draw near, not in fear, but in longing, in love, in kinship.
If your bones ache with old names, if your dreams have grown crowded with those who came before, if you long to reweave the threads that connect breath to bone, root to star, come.
Bring your tenderness. Bring your songs. Bring a stone or a story. The veil is parting. The ancestors are stirring.
And they are waiting for you.
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 where you will come into direct relation with your wise ancestors on your blood lineages, and begin the lineage repair process.
About the Location
We will gather at a serene sanctuary overlooking the Salish Sea, the ancestral and current lands of the Twana-Skokomish people.
Nestled in evergreen and alder woods with panoramic views of the Olympic Mountains and Hood Canal, the Sacred Waters Center for Restoration and Retreat is at the gateway to the wild temperate rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula in the rural hamlet of Union, Washington.
Sacred Waters will host us with cozy on-site lodging options, delicious healthy meals, and gorgeous meeting space for our three days of ritual.
Enjoy miles of hiking trails through the woods, two contemplative labyrinths, and many peaceful nooks on site in your downtime.
logistics
At the time of the intensive we will gather for dedicated time in group ritual over an introductory evening session (7:00 pm – 9 pm) and three full days (10 am – 5 pm).
We’ll take spacious 90 minute lunch breaks and have time to relax and decompress. There will be chairs and we encourage you to bring whatever you’ll need to be comfortable-yoga mats, cushions, sheepskin, etc.
The address for Sacred Waters is 7362 E. State Route 106, Union, WA 98592. The closest airport is the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, 1 1/2 hours away. Participants should arrive by 4pm Thursday (Oct. 30) and check out will be after lunch Sunday (Nov. 2).
We will offer community space with our Mighty Network for participants to share resources and travel planning. A week before the event you will be sent an email with ways to prepare for the intensive.
Please indicate any dietary needs, accessibility needs, and other pertinent information to make your stay comfortable in the comments section at registration.
Three + full days with teachings, different approaches to ritual, and time for live questions.
More than a dozen substantive guided practices in circle with drumming, song, offerings, and more.
Small breakout groups for intimate sharing and processing, anchored by trained ritualists.
Come away with a life-long framework to relate safely with your family and lineage ancestors.
Co-create a tangible offering of beauty for your ancestors and the larger prayer of cultural healing.
We’ll approach the work in ways that are psychologically grounded, ritually safe, and culturally inclusive. Teachings and practices are led by Shannon and a team of trained supporters. Those new to ancestor work, adoptees, and folks with a tough experience of family are welcome.
Investment
WE’RE HAPPY TO OFFER 2 PRICING OPTIONS IN CONSIDERATION OF THOSE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL NEED.
There are a limited number of single private rooms, more plentiful shared double rooms, as well as other lodging options nearby. Most single and double rooms have shared bathrooms, but a few are en-suite. Single rooms, and private-bath rooms will be assigned on a first come, first served basis.
The retreat price includes all meals, from Thursday dinner through Sunday lunch, with breakfast, lunch, and dinner served on Friday and Saturday.
As spaces are limited to 30 participants, we kindly ask that you enroll by clicking on which option best meets your current financial experiences.
Generating: For those folks with comfortable financial means to contribute more, we are deeply appreciative of your generosity which assists in making this accessible for those who may otherwise not be able to attend.
Supported: We invite folks with leaner financial means to enjoy programs at a reduced cost and are delighted you are here.
If you need a reduction beyond what is provided or a payment plan, please reach out directly to seyta@redearthhealing.org
Commuter Generating
Commuter Supported
Single Room Generating
Single Room Supported
Double Room Generating
- shared with one person
Double Room Supported
- shared with one person
Practitioners
Meet the dedicated practitioners and ritualists supporting this transformative ancestral healing experience. Each of them brings years of experience in ancestral and ritual work, creating a supportive space for deep personal and collective healing. Grounded in diverse cultural and spiritual traditions, they will assist in ritual, offer personalized support in breakout groups, and help you connect safely and powerfully with your lineage ancestors. Learn more about their unique paths and offerings below.
Shannon Willis, M.Ed
Facilitator
Shannon will be your guide for this immersive. Her work lives at the wild confluence of dream midwifery, oracular listening, ancestral reverence, and ritual arts. She’s the Ritual Director at Ancestral Medicine, and an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa, she has also apprenticed herself to the dreaming wisdom of her own bloodlines and to teachers of Jhanki Shamanism.
Shannon writes and weaves spiritual accompaniment for emerging leaders and cultural edge-walkers—those drawn to the holy work of remembrance, repair, and rooted resistance. She dwells with her son and their furred companions near the mist-kissed shores of the Salish Sea, on the ancestral and living lands of the Twana-Skokomish people.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the schedule and basic plan for the days of the intensive?
We arrive on Thursday by 4 pm, come together for dinner, then have an evening session from 7 pm – 9 pm. Friday and Saturday, we gather after breakfast from around 10 am – 1 pm: then 2:30 pm – 5 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. Sunday we conclude with a final session and depart after lunch.
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.
How does this compare to other ancestor-focused offerings through Ancestral Medicine?
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.
What accessibility is available, with respect to venue, Covid safety, cost, and accommodations?
There are fully ADA accessible accommodations available on site at Sacred Waters, and all areas where we will gather are ADA accessible. We will do our best to accommodate dietary restrictions, working with the chef at Sacred Waters. Please let us know if you require any mobility or dietary accommodations.
In consideration for fellow participants, 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.
What is your refund policy?
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 August 31st (60 days before we gather). A 50% refund is available for cancellations made between 30 and 60 days before the intensive begins. There are no refunds available for cancellations made after September 30th (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.
What if I have a question that's not answered here?
We’d be happy to help with any additional questions! Reach out to seyta@redearthhealing.org with your question and someone from our team will be in touch, usually within three business days.