Mending the Past, Serving the Future
Ancestral Healing as Therapeutic Practice
May 6, 2026
9am New York | 15:00 Madrid | 20:00 Jakarta
90 minutes
This event will be held live on Zoom, and will be recorded.
A recording will be shared with all who register within 48 hours after the event.
About this event
Many healing modalities focus on the individual: the psyche, the self, the personal. Ancestral Lineage Healing expands the frame by placing focus on the greater context of lineage, culture, and land.
This approach to ancestral healing engages inherited trauma, cultural rupture, and the living presence of the dead; not as metaphor, but as relationship. Through skillful ritual practice and ethical frameworks, practitioners help clients to draw on the support of their living ancestors to transform generational burdens into sources of resilience, guidance, and blessing. Whether you’re drawn to be the client, the practitioner, or a bit of both, this call will have something for you.
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In this free 90 minute teaching and conversation, you’ll hear from three practitioners who first came to lineage healing work as students and later completed the practitioner training. They’ll share what it’s like to engage in ancestral healing practices, what the training involves, and how becoming practitioners has informed their lives and service. You’ll also hear from Ancestral Medicine Founder and Director, Daniel Foor, authored of the book Ancestral Medicine, and creator/lead teacher of the Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training.
Whether you’re considering working with a practitioner or wondering about applying for the training yourself, this talk will offer a grounded look at what the work asks of us and how we hold the training process at Ancestral Medicine. You’re also welcome to submit questions ahead of time. While we may not answer every individual question, we will speak to the themes that arise.
Who is this event for?
People considering becoming practitioners.
Therapists, holistic healers, rituals, change makers, and other helping professionals who feel called to expand their work will learn about our training program. Our upcoming cohort places special emphasis on psychology and the psyche, offering ways to integrate ancestral healing, inherited trauma, and cultural repair work into therapeutic practice. If you’re curious about bringing lineage healing into your work, this conversation will offer a window into what that path can look like.
People considering working with an ancestral healing practitioner.
If you’ve been curious about working with a practitioner, but you aren’t sure what to expect, this conversation will offer a clearer picture. We’ll talk about what actually happens in sessions, what kinds of changes session work supports, and how to find a practitioner who feels like the right fit.
Ancestral Healing for Beginners
Curious about what it might be like to take our full 12-week Ancestral Lineage Healing course? But aren’t ready to dive in? Join us in April for a $45, two-part event where you can get many of your questions answered. If you end up taking Ancestral Lineage Healing, we’ll give you your money back.
We’re proud to have opened our ninth cohort of this training to new applicants. Spaces are limited and interest is high for this cycle. Please read the application page carefully, and begin your application as soon as you’re ready. We look forward to hearing from you, and to potentially diving deep with the ancestors.
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Ancestral healing chips away at the conditioning that tells us we’re alone. This healing supports lasting cultural change and a more connected life.
– Daniel Foor
About the Presenters
Amber McZeal
Writer, vocalist, & sacred scholar Amber McZeal utilizes sound therapy and guided somatic imagery to engage the knowledge of the body within an interactive and liberatory arts practice. Amber weaves somatic praxis with social justice and spirituality, in an approach that centers the psyche as foundational in movements to end oppression and create more humane social & cultural relationships. She holds an M.A. in Somatic Depth psychology and a Ph.D. in Depth psychology with a specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecological psychologies. Her ancestors are from Louisiana, with roots in Haiti, Cameroon, Congo, Nigeria, Benin, France, Spain, and Indigenous North America. Amber lives on the Indigenous lands of the Ohlone people in Oakland, CA.
Rowan Carr
Rowan is a first generation British-born Afro-pean of Black-mixed heritage. His ancestors carry the wisdom of Jamaica via West Africa and Britons. Dedicated to healing the wounds of racialization and racism, and the many impacts of white-bodied cultural supremacy, Rowan has become adept in numerous healing arts. As a senior facilitator at the Institute of Applied Somatics, practitioner & teacher of Classical Tantra and Kemetic yoga, and creator of Body Heart Mind Somatics, Rowan offers a variety of modalities to empower communities to rise above the oppressive systems of supremacy and stand in their authentic ancestral wisdoms.
Teagan West
Teagan West (she/they) is a Ritualist, Astrologer, Drum Maker & Traditional Healer from Hodinöhsö:ni Land, home of the Seneca Nation. Her people are Irish, Syrian, Egyptian and Omàmiwinini (Anishinaabe). Teagan weaves together threads of Astrological Storytelling, Land Reconnection, Ancestral Tending & Community Ritual as a unique tapestry of culture work + animist remembrance. In her free time, you can find her making ritual tools such as Drums + Rattles, connecting with the Land, or in Song + Dance with her community.
Daniel Foor
Daniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, founder at Ancestral Medicine, 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, a practicing Muslim, and has learned from 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.
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