Ancestral Recovery
A Series on Culture, Land, and Healing
Whether your people have migrated voluntarily, were forcibly displaced, or have remained for generations in ancestral homelands; whether they suffer under colonialist aggressions, act out harmful ways of being toward others, or manage to carve out peaceful lives amidst turbulent times. No matter the specifics, the ancestors and their legacies reverberate and call for care and attention in the present.
This series on “ancestral recovery” explores healthy cultural pride as sourced in part from land connection, honoring ancestors, and resistance to oppression.
All teachings in this series are rooted in an anti-racist, decolonialist ethic that respects historical legacies and ongoing realities of systemic oppression.
Coming up
Ancestral Recovery: Turtle Island, North America
The old ones of North America, like the dead of all places, still speak through the land and to their children of diverse bodies and geographies. Join three guests of North America ancestries for a teaching and guided practice on ways to partner with ancestors for cultural recovery. More details coming soon
Feb
2025
Ancestral Recovery: Southeast Asia
The old ones of Southeast Asia, like the dead of all places, still speak through the land and to their children of diverse bodies and geographies. Join three guests of Southeast Asia ancestries for a teaching and guided practice on ways to partner with ancestors for cultural recovery. More details coming soon
Aug
2025
When cultural legacies are harmful, engaging with wise and healed lineage ancestors can be a potent form of correction.
Past Events in this Series
In this slowly unfolding series, we’ve already covered Northern Europe, West Africa, and more. We intend to traverse the good Earth exploring ways that ancestral reconnection in diverse regions can support decolonization and generational repair. With each panel, presenters share tangible ways to draw on ancestral support, love, and guidance. We also consider how ancestral healing supports transformation of supremacy and greater connection with land and place.
Join three guests of North Africa & Southwest Asia ancestries for a teaching and ritual on ways to partner with ancestors for cultural recovery.
The old ones speak through the land. Join three guests of West African ancestries for a teaching and ritual on ways to partner with ancestors for cultural recovery.
A teaching and ritual on ways to partner with ancestors for cultural recovery as it pertains to Northern Europeans and Euro-descended folks.
Our Esteemed Guests & Hosts
Layla K. Feghali is an ethnobotanist, cultural worker, and author of the Land in Our Bones, who lives between her ancestral village in Lebanon and her diasporic home in California.
Omid is a teacher in the Sufi tradition of Radical Love, and a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought.
Nermin is an educator for nonprofit Healing the Wounds of History, and a Diamond Approach practitioner – a dynamic teaching that leads to openness, freedom, and realization of our human potential.
Shantrelle P. Lewis is a multi-hyphen creative and scholar who accesses multiple disciplines to help elucidate African Diasporic history, aesthetics, culture and spirituality.
Lin Lucas is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in ritual practices and the founder of Earthseed Rising, a Tucson, Arizona based network of creatives, animists, and healers who seek to reclaim the transformative role of artists in community.
Adeyinka is a founder and scholar, who speaks on Quranic spirituality, rites of passage, peace-building, and the healing wisdom of Black Muslim cultures and civilizations.
Dajana is an artist, teacher, student & ceremonialist who works from a profound love for the wild and a deeply animistic experience of the world.
Scott is an academic researcher, writer, herbalist, historian, activist, Scottish folk magic practitioner, and the founder at Cailleach’s Herbarium.
Shannon is a dedicated ritualist working at the intersection of dream midwifery, psychopomping, ancestral reverence and oracularship.
