What is
Ancestral Lineage Healing?
What is
Ancestral Lineage Healing?
Welcome
The ancestors are our roots and mycelia. To relate with them is to deconstruct the isolation of an individualistic understanding of self and find ourselves in an expanded web of interconnection. Our approach to ancestral healing is nourished by established traditions of ritual arts, animist and Earth-honoring values, psychology and healing arts, and a deep commitment to positive cultural change.
Who are the ancestors?
In the broadest sense they’re everyone who has lived before us, both human and otherwise. They’re the life of the past that nourishes and shapes the present.
Our human ancestors are the spirits or souls of the dead, the collective love, wisdom, and suffering of homo sapiens over the past several hundred thousand years.
More specifically, our ancestors are those among the dead who are now well in spirit. This is in contrast to those we might consider ghosts, the troubled dead, or the not-yet-ancestors.
Why should I consider ancestral healing work?
Engaging in ancestral healing allows us to connect with well ancestors, transforming intergenerational traumas and burdens into ancestral blessings to free us from painful legacies.
Many who undergo this process experience greater clarity of purpose, a deeper sense of belonging, and lasting personal, family, and cultural healing.
Six ways to get started
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Work one-on-one with a practitioner
All practitioners have completed an intensive nine-month training, maintain certification through Ancestral Medicine, and commit to maintain a code of ethics. Sessions are available in 20+ languages and nations, and those in the Network have widely varied skills, identities, and interests. This option is the most personal and many practitioners offer sliding scale rates.
Take the course
The course offers 12 live teaching calls and 12 accompanying pre-recorded lessons, plus an additional 12 live calls to practice your ritual skills. You’ll have unlimited access to the recordings and a deep archive of resources. You’ll also be added to our connection space where you can connect with others in the course. Live lessons are taught by Daniel Foor and others in the network (teachers rotate seasonally). Thousands of people have taken the course, and hundreds have taken it more than once.
Attend a retreat
Each year, we gather in global cities for three to five days of intensive Ancestral Healing. Some events are all-inclusive and others non-residential to offer flexibility for different budgets. The work includes rituals, trance work, drumming, singing, sharing and learning in large and small groups. Live whisper translation is often available for accessibility in the local language.
Read the book
Whether you’re a self-starter or like to prepare in advance, our book offers an affordable way to begin. Read it first, or dive deeper later with our courses.
How does healing the wounds of my ancestors help me?
Ancestral healing, when done safely and effectively, disrupts harmful patterns and supports mental, emotional, and physical health. By resolving generational pain, we can more fully embody our personal destiny. In relationship with our well ancestors, we access deeper rootedness and power, including in our work to transform oppressive systems. Healing ancestral wounds also clears the way for our eventual transition to the next reality.
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How does Ancestral Lineage Healing relate to the epigenetics of trauma or other approaches like family constellations therapy?
Our approach to ancestral connection for healing is rooted in global traditions of ritual arts and deeply symbiotic with approaches like psychotherapy, family constellations, and parts work.
Unlike some methods, participants in Ancestral Lineage Healing are never asked to embody or relate directly with the troubled dead or other unsafe forces.
There’s no need for prior experience with the ancestors, and the practices are safe, accessible, and inclusive of different cultural backgrounds.
How can ancestral healing help the world?
Ancestral healing bridges the personal and cultural and is one pathway out of extreme individualism.
Many social toxins—sexism, racism, colonialism, rigid dogmatism, and other supremacies—are manifestations of unmetabolized ancestral trouble and exacerbated by interference from the troubled dead.
By helping to elevate the unwell dead, we also contribute to healing our families and cultures.
How do I know if ancestral healing work is right for me?
If you’ve wondered how to break ancestral patterns and heal trauma passed down through generations;
if you’ve sought help with trauma and are looking for a more spiritual and culturally inclusive framework;
if you’re a fan of science and want to put epigenetic research into practice for a better life;
if you’d like to explore spiritual practices for family healing in ways that are safe, inclusive, and grounded in psychology, then ancestral lineage healing could be for you.
Introduction to Ancestral Lineage Healing
A free 90 minute talk
Daniel Foor
Founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine
Daniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
As a psychologist, the training has helped me expand and de-colonize ways I conceptualize intergenerational trauma, cultural burdens, and systemic oppression on any given lineage across time and history. The training gave me a relational-based practice to offer clients as an adjunctive to psychotherapy that helps them access and embody gifts and blessings of their own ancestral lineages, repair intergenerational burdens from legacies of oppression and adversity, and provide a deeply personal and sacred support system through their relationship with their ancestors.”
