An Introduction to Ancestral Healing
A live teaching with Daniel Foor in Gdynia, Poland
August 5, 2025
9am LA | 11am Chicago | 18h Gdynia
90min Teaching
This event will be held at Fundacja Ogród Kreacji in Gdynia, Poland. There will be live interpretation in Polish, and we’ll broadcast live. We’ll also record and share a link to the recording within two days.
About this event
Each of us embodies the imprint of countless generations—woven from triumph and grief, resilience and beauty. Our ancestral lineages carry both gifts and wounds shaped in the earliest chapters of our human story. Whether we choose to engage with these inheritances can deeply shape how we move through this fleeting, extraordinary life. In this free event, learn one reliable, established approach to ancestral and family healing.
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Ancestral healing is the process of safely and directly coming into conscious relationship with our lineage ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing. When approached with care, ancestral healing can loosen places of long-held stagnation, clarify life purpose, and strengthen our capacity to serve with resilience. Relating with the ancestors is accessible to all and a fundamental life skill.
More about the event
Where: Fundacja Ogród Kreacji, Bernadowska 9, 81-553 Gdynia (see Google maps). Venue is in the Tri-City Landscape Park, surrounded by oaks and near the Swelina River. For those outside of Poland, please register above for the livestream information and to receive the recording.
When: Aug 5, 2025 at 18h Poland time (9am LA, 12pm NYC)
What: In this 90-minute teaching, Dr. Daniel Foor, founder of Ancestral Medicine and creator of Ancestral Lineage Healing, will cover the basics of relating with ancestors. He’ll draw on decades of immersion in diverse ritual traditions, his training as a therapist, and a sustained commitment to historical honesty and cultural healing.
The talk will be clear, pragmatic, and approachable. Expect to be guided in an experiential practice to safely acknowledge your wise and kind ancestors. The time will be a blend of teaching, guided practice, and Q&A.
What is Animism?
Animism is a way of being that centers relationship by recognizing the profound interconnection between humans, the natural world, ancestral presences, and unseen energies. It affirms the intelligence, agency, and vitality of all beings, both visible and invisible, inviting reciprocity, reverence, and responsibility within the web of life.
Practicing and living in animist ways benefits us by cultivating deeper presence and emotional balance through conscious, respectful engagement with all forms of intelligence in our surroundings. By helping to shift cultural patterns of disconnection, grief, and scarcity toward gratitude, humility, and belonging. And by equipping us with ritual and practice-based tools to sustain long-term, heart-centered relationships with other-than-human kin for deeper grounding and more intimate relationships.
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About the Instructors
Daniel Foor
Author and Founder at 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.
Patrycja Labanowska
Ancestral Healing Practitioner (Warsaw)
Alchemist collaborating with plant and elemental spirits to compose aroma support for humans. Through RH/Total Biology modality, she guides in recalling one’s trauma behind their health condition to resource their healing process. Being a menopause mid-wife, she supports women’s journeying into the underworld to reclaim their sacred feminine and a birthing into a more whole version of themselves. Patrycja is anchored at the intersection of seen and unseen realms offering visual art as portals. In apprenticeship with her wise ancestors and helping spirits, she shares her experience on developing a deeply felt connectedness to Earth and benevolent beings.
Wojciech Wieconkowski
Event Host and Live Interpretation
Since 2012, Wojciech has been the initiator and visionary behind the Garden of Creation and the New Earth. His connection to the Garden began with a dream of a community devoted to the art of being human, with music at its heart. He creates spaces that invite presence and allow the healing force of life to emerge. Wojciech leads Temazcal ceremonies, concerts, workshops, and sound healing ceremonies. He also crafts instruments through the Metaphoric Tools project.
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