About the Organization
Through online courses and rituals, the book, the Practitioner Training,
and in-person events, our offerings reach participants around the world and seek to respect and include the unseen and other-than-human communities who hold and surround us.
Ancestral Medicine
Ancestral Medicine offers mostly-online courses and programs for an international audience, and stewards a professional network of ancestral healing practitioners. Consider joining our newsletter for news, announcements about new offerings, employment opportunities, as well as sales and promotions. Our frequently asked questions page is a great place to learn more about us, and here are our core values.
Our work encourages the embodiment of animist values and practices in ways that are culturally healing, non-dogmatic, and accessible to people of diverse means, ancestries, and geographies. We seek to honor each person’s unique goodness and to fulfill our mission in partnership with the ancestors and the old ones who are the Earth.
Ancestral Medicine is based in the United States and Spain, and our international team of eight weaves across six nations (Canada, U.S., Morocco, Spain, Greece, and Pakistan). We also collaborate with many ritualists from the AM Practitioner Network who help to guide our Online Courses, Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training, and In-Person Intensives.
Our Team
Daniel Foor
Founder & Director
Daniel is a teacher and practitioner of practical animism who specializes in ancestral and family healing and in helping folks learn to relate well with the rest of life. His recent ancestors are settler-colonialists to Turtle Island from England, Germany, and Ireland. He is a doctor of psychology, amateur naturalist, life-long student of earth-honoring traditions, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing.
Since 2005 Daniel has guided many ancestor-focused trainings, community rituals, and personal sessions in healing arts. Training as a therapist, living in other cultures, and immersion in different lineages of ritual all inform his kind and non-dogmatic approach to ancestor and Earth reverence. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Andalusia in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Granada, Spain. For more info see his full bio here.
Lauren Leonardi
Managing Director
Lauren is a skilled generalist who employs her enterprise-level expertise with hands-on care to support Ancestral Medicine’s operations. She runs the business in close tandem with Daniel with a focus on strategy, development, and daily decisions: smoothing bottlenecks, nurturing team health, and ensuring offerings are delivered with integrity and excellence. From finances to systems-building, she brings clarity and cohesion to a global, mission-driven organization.
Her connection to the unseen was shaped in Brooklyn and deepened in Mexico, where she studied with Huichol and Otomi teachers. She’s created bespoke rituals in three countries. A Jewish and Sicilian/North African New Yorker, Lauren walks humbly in Earth-honoring ways while working across cultures with respect and care. She’s offering a free download of her recent work, “A Field Guide for Practitioners on Fat Inclusion in Sexual Worldbuilding” on her personal website.
Antonio Charalampous
Website and Systems Manager
Antonio is a healing-oriented Web Designer and Creative Consultant with over 20 years of work experience in the IT industry and extensive background in ancestral teaching of yoga philosophy and practice. In his role at Ancestral Medicine, he provides IT solutions that shape the online presence of the organization and serve the needs of the audience.
Through his ImbaCactus company, Antonio has supported the development of websites and digital content of hundreds of international businesses across diverse sectors. Antonio is also a founder of two wellness-oriented entrepreneurships, the Yoga Mala studio and the Modern Yogi online magazine, that promote spiritual and physical wellbeing, integrity, and resilience among communities in Greece. His ancestry spans from the Greek islands of Kea and Evia, where he currently lives.
Michael Linden
Customer Support Lead
Michael is a big-hearted support specialist who brings their experiences across the gender- and ability-spectra into every aspect of their work. Their history in the arts, I.T., and public education supports their passion for connecting people with liberatory opportunities.
Guided toward a rematriated world, Michael strives to relate reciprocally with the living Earth and to address the impacts of oppressive, exploitative systems. The ancestors most known to him include English, German, and Polish peoples, which help inform his personal ritual practice. His path weaves decolonization & renaturalization, composting & transformation, existential dread and meaning-making, all in the ancestral lands of the Timucua and Seminole peoples in central Florida.
Ashley Greenfield
Programs & Administrative Support Coordinator
Ashley is a healing ally, teacher, and multidisciplinary creative devoted to merging the sacred within the fabric of everyday life. In her role at Ancestral Medicine, Ashley weaves her background in content creation and coordination into her love of this living work.
For over two decades, she has studied with teachers from many global traditions and is ordained as an interfaith minister. She believes that through a synthesis of spiritual and practical wisdom, we find our way back to wholeness. Born and based in Washington, D.C., she draws on the enduring strength of her African American, Japanese, Cherokee, and European ancestors, whose wisdom and resilience continue to shape her service in the world.
Amina-Olivia El Abbassi
Network & Program Coordinator
Amina-Olivia is a creative entrepreneur, holistic therapist, and professional mentor. As Network & Program Coordinator at Ancestral Medicine, she brings her expertise in strategic coordination, community space-holding, and operational facilitation to help nurture a global network rooted in integrity, belonging, and remembrance. For over a decade, she has devoted her path to supporting women through life’s key passages.
Polish-Moroccan, and born and raised in France, Amina-Olivia carries a rich multicultural heritage. She has lived in Mexico, the US, the UK, and Morocco. She finds deep joy in reconnecting with her indigenous lineages—from Amazigh Berber roots in North Africa to Slavic Polish traditions—honoring their wisdom alongside her French identity, and weaving them into a path of unity and wholeness.
Sophia Anjum
Practitioner Network Assistant
Sophia is a soul midwife and holistic healing practitioner based in Lahore, Pakistan. She brings nearly two decades of experience in university administration and student counseling to her role at Ancestral Medicine, where she supports the Practitioner Network and longer vocational trainings. Her years of serving diverse student populations and facilitating teamwork across institutions have deepened her commitment to creating ethical, healing-centered spaces.
She integrates her training in psychotherapy, ancestral lineage healing, psychopomp practice, and end-of-life care into her work with individuals. Deeply rooted in her South Asian and Middle Eastern heritage, Sophia speaks Urdu and Punjabi and draws on ancestral wisdom to support individuals and communities in healing the intergenerational wounds of colonialism and oppression, and reclaiming their ancestral power and wholeness. Learn more about her offerings on her personal website.
Lucía Salas
Live Call & Learning Support Anchor
Lucía is a multilingual marketeer and grassroots activist who has always dreamed of creating and living new worlds into being. In her role at Ancestral Medicine, she weaves together the technical and the human so participants can integrate and engage with ease, helping each course unfold with steadiness, warmth, and a heartfelt commitment.
Born in southern Spain, she descends from southern European lineages and now lives in Toronto, on the homelands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Lucía is deeply shaped by the landscapes and cultures she has had the opportunity to live with, and has had a lifelong pull towards the natural world and relational ways of knowing. Her work is grounded in community care, creative expression, and a reverence for the unseen threads that bind us all.
Teachers, Speakers, & Mentors | 2025-2026
Each year, we’re proud to host at least 60 guest speakers as well as trained ritualists from our Practitioner Network for both public and Practitioner Training-only events. Below are listed just a few recent teachers and mentors (all folks from our Network). Keep your eye on the bio sections of each course page to see who’s teaching what.
Amber McZeal
Chi Young Kim
Erica Nunnally
Adrián Villaseñor Galarza
Annie Blackstone
Mikki Baloy
Langston Kahn
Catherine Dunne
Michelle Ayn Tessensohn
Trece Spalten
Gita Thandika
Jason Engledoe
Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network
Our network of practitioners and practitioners-in-training includes folks with lineages from all inhabited continents, and we are committed to offering ancestral healing services in ways that are kind, culturally mindful, financially accessible, respectful of place and histories of colonialism, and anchored in sound and effective ritual practice.
Sessions are available in nearly 30 languages and with practitioners of diverse nationalities, professional training, genders, geographies, religious backgrounds, and life experience. Distance sessions are just as well for this modality as the focus is on your connection with your ancestors.