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 on the sacred lands of the Appalachian Mountains as we approach the Spring Equinox.
This is a potent season of remembrance and renewal, a time when the world pauses on a perfect hinge, where day and night are in equal balance. It is a threshold moment inviting us to soften, to listen, and trust the alchemy working beneath the soil, as even after long darkness, life returns.
Together, we will gather in reverence for our ancestral lines, to tend what has been forgotten and call home what still longs for healing. The land itself, rich with decades of prayer and ecological devotion, will hold and guide our ritual work, reminding us that all true repair begins in relationship, with soil, with story, with spirit.
About the work
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 support to deeply heal your lineages reaching far back in time.
If you’ve participated in personal healing work and you’re now 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 find resolution. Coming into relationship with recent and more ancient ancestors can re-establish obscured blessings, improve relationships with the living, and encourage greater belonging and clarity around life purpose and path.
Learn a life-long framework to relate in direct, safe, and empowering ways with your family and lineage ancestors.
Establish connections with ancestral guides and work in partnership with them for lasting personal and family healing.
Join with your ancestors to support the resolution of larger systemic, generational, and cultural wounding.
About Our Location
Nestled among dense forests and the whispering creeks of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we’ll gather at Sacred Mountain Waters Wellness Sanctuary. It rests quietly just north of Asheville, North Carolina. A place of refuge for healing, reflection, and renewal — a landscape shaped as much by water and stone as by the seekers who find their way here.
Spread across more than 200 acres, the sanctuary is embraced by two flowing rivers, their currents weaving through woodlands and meadows like ancient guides. Today, the sanctuary stands as an oasis in a rushing world — a haven for those seeking stillness, harmony with nature, and inner rebirth. It remains a place in between: between past and future, earth and sky, the known and the mysterious. A place where, for a moment or a season, one can remember how to be fully alive.
We offer our respect and recognition to the original peoples of this place, the Anikituwagi (Cherokee), on whose ancestral homelands we gather for this intensive. We honor them as the first caretakers and enduring relatives of this land.
Among the Anikituwagi, this area was called Togiyasdi, “Where They Race,” a place woven into the larger Cherokee Nation, Tsalagi Ayeli, which stretched across much of what is now the southeastern United States until the early 18th century—at times encompassing dozens of towns and over a hundred thousand square miles. The teachings connected to this land speak of relationship—how to live well with one another and with all beings.
As we come together here, we recognize that meaningful engagement requires more than acknowledgment alone. The legacies of settler-colonial violence and ongoing attempts to erase Indigenous presence call us to listen, learn, and remain accountable. We affirm our commitment to honoring the living cultures, histories, and sovereignty of the Cherokee people.
logistics
This is a non residential retreat. Each day, you’ll be invited to join us at the venue in time to get settled and begin.
We’ll be gathering at:
2932 Big Laurel Road Marshall, NC 28753
For more details visit:
https://lovevolutionfellowship.org/upcoming-lovevolution-events-at-sacred-mountain-waters
We’ll weave dedicated time in group ritual for about eight hours per day over three full days (9:30 am – 5:30 pm). There will be chairs and we encourage you to bring whatever you’ll need to be comfortable.
We will be providing lunch, as well as morning tea service and snacks.
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. The larger circle and gathering will also be a safe space for bringing care to historical pain.
Register for the Event
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WE’RE HAPPY TO OFFER 2 PRICING OPTIONS IN CONSIDERATION OF THOSE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL NEED.
The price includes only access to the retreat. Lodging and meals should be arranged separately by you.
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 info@redearthhealing.org
Generating
Supported
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the schedule and basic plan for the days of the intensive?
We begin on Friday at 9:30 AM and will break for lunch from 1 pm. We’ll resume our sessions from 2:30 pm – 5 pm with shorter mid-morning and mid-afternoon. 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 by 5:30pm.
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. Ancestral Medicine’s 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. You can view their offerings here.
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 January 15th (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 February 13th (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 info@redearthhealing.org with your question and someone from our team will be in touch, usually within three business days.
Intro to Ancestral Lineage Healing
Below is a recording of a free talk, given in September 2025. It provides more context into what will happen during the event.
