Reweaving The Torn Fabric in Kinship
When we enter into living relationship with our wise and well ancestors, a steady current of support begins to flow across generations. Their presence offers orientation, strength, and remembering for the work of transforming intergenerational and collective trauma. Through careful, reverent tending of the troubled or burdened dead, wounds can be witnessed and softened, estrangements can be mended, and the deeper blessings of those who cae before us can become available again.
Foundational Aspects of the Work
Ancestral Reverence emphasizes animist pathways of connection, reweaving the fabric of torn kinship.
This work invites direct, embodied relationships with supportive guides and venerated ancestors of our blood, our belonging, and our bonds of care. Through embodied listening and ritual acts of repair, held in a boundaried, ritually safe, grounded sacred space, inherited burdens are gradually composted into wisdom and resilience. Pathways open toward clarity, resourcefulness, and rooted belonging.
The lamented spirits in our ancestry often bring unhelpful impact to the living. Through this process, we transform intergenerational burdens into ancestral blessings supporting our well-being and that of other living descendants, Here, we are released from karmic stories, curses, and patterns that created blockages, and burdens for the living and we are free to embody more peacefulness and rootedness in our lives, enjoy our families, and enjoy a felt sense of belonging to our cultures of origin.
Is this work for me?
Many people come to the work with a curiosity of if they are suited for the process of connecting with their ancestors, particularly if the living and or stories of the most recent ancestors is one frought with trauma and other complicated dynamics.
This work is for you if:
- You experience challenges within relationships with your biological or adopted families.
- You don’t feel like you belong to your family and feel disconnected
- You feel as if you bear the weight of all the ancestor’s trauma.
- You feel the effects of an ancestral curse.
- You do not experience the benefits of ancestral support or feel your path is blocked
- You see unhelpful patterns in your living family that are inherited
- You feel disconnected from your ancestry.
Benefits of Ancestral Veneration
Frequently Asked Questions
Many come to the work without genealogy information, from being adopted, due to family relations, or through lack of sharing family stories passed down. This is not an imposition on the work because the source of connection is coded within your DNA. This approach is heart-centered, grounded and intuitive beginning with the ancients long before remembered names.
I come to the work through a pragmatic and grounded lens, where, using an intuitive approach, I support you in relational repair using a form of guided meditation/trance work that enlists supportive, healing connection with helping spirits and venerated ancestral guides. Through our work, we will follow these particular steps:
- I consider each session a ritual which begins by focusing our conscious intention, holding an embodied prayer for a safe and connective space where we will be working, calling on our connection to the vibrant, well ancestors, and from our helping spirits, as we begin the process.
- We then have a brief check-in about the work and where you are in the process including any current personal situations, questions, and concerns you may have.
- You are then dropped into a light trance state using meditation and guided imagery.
- Here, we will do an assessment of the impact of ancestral burdens, and then focus on moving the work through the appropriate stage of the ancestral repair.
- As we conclude our work together, thanking the powers, often, your ancestral guide may give you further homework to focus on, based on what happened during the work to support the process of moving forward between sessions. This can be a ritual, an offering, research, and other ways to strengthen the relationship with your kith, blood and bone kin.
Intuition or inner knowing has been systemically rooted out in us through the impacts of cultural harms. Our inner compass is a birthright, albeit underutilized, and gaslighted through these systemic harms. When we endeavor to reclaim these natural abilities with an authentic longing to connect, extend our curiosity, and suspend self judgement, petitioning the the ancestors and other allied spirits to support us, these pathways of connection are reclaimed and imbued with relationality, kindness and support.
As we all hail from diverse backgrounds, with varying degrees of wellness and impact, the time required varies depending on what is needed to fully engage in the process.
It also depends upon the complexity of the particular impact we are working with and how often you wish to engage in the work.
For those new to the work, the initial session is 1.5 hours, allowing us time to get grounded in the method and to complete the assessment. The remaining sessions are 1 hour, guiding you through the subsequent steps for repair.
I highly encourage folks to engage in at least 3 healing sessions initially to have a complete understanding of how the work unfolds and to ensure safety and support throughout the process.
