Ancestral Medicine Trainings
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Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training
Learn to safely and effectively guide ancestral healing practices for others.
This training will serve as a solid foundation for service-oriented work with the ancestors and will also complement and support your current skills and offerings.
If you feel called to this work, we encourage you to prepare now for the next open application period in 2026. The best way to do this is to work on your own lineages in the meantime. When you apply, we’d like you to be familiar with the process of Ancestral Lineage Healing, to know your guides, and to have at least two lineages in a healed condition.
The best paths to arrive here are as follows. Try one or all, whatever is most accessible to you: Enroll in Ancestral Lineage Healing online, attend an in person intensive, or work with a practitioner, many of whom offer low income options. The book is also an excellent start, and also the most economical.
Animism & Earth Ritual Practitioner Training
Learn to safely and effectively guide Earth reconnection and service work for others.
Participants will learn to guide a transformative process of reconnection and cultural healing through relating with our other-than-human kin. The approach emphasizes the importance of place as well as our capacity to relate at depth with people of different cultures and bodies (human and otherwise, seen and unseen).
The training will empower you to lead individual session work (online or in-person) as well as to strengthen the fundamentals needed to guide group ritual and on-the-land offerings if moved to do so. Those who complete this training will be able to support others in carrying out depth service work with the land and in embracing a calling to stewardship and Earth service.
Ancestral Healing Teacher Training
The training will empower you to guide three-day, in-person Ancestral Lineage Healing intensives. It will include group ritual leadership skills that enable guiding this body of practices in other group settings.
Those who complete this training will be able to plan and lead intensives on their own. Various forms of event-planning support and partnership may be available from Ancestral Medicine (depending on the success of this program), but the primary focus will be training you to be independently capable of leading all aspects of the intensives.
Our Commitment
We recognize that participating in the trainings is a significant investment of time, energy, and heart. We intend to honor that commitment by upholding rigorous ethics, mutual respect, and deep accountability. In that spirit, here are some of the ways we strive to guide a training process — and steward a vocational network — that is genuinely worthy of your trust.
Organized, effective training
This will be our ninth well-run immersive training in ritual arts. Though it’s the first of its type, our process is cohesive, ritually effective, and dialed-in so you can focus on the heart of the matter.
Values-based approach
We’re a values-based organization. We keep our word, fulfill our commitments, and walk our talk. We expect the same from those in our Network which makes for a great collegial vibe.
Excellent customer service
We start and end on time with reliable tech. We go the extra mile to reply in timely, professional ways to all who place trust in us. We’re a team of caring people with deep commitment to our craft.
Cultural respect and humility
We’re committed to teaching and embodying Earth-honoring ritual arts in ways that are non-appropriative, non-dogmatic, kind, humble, and rooted in an international, decolonial ethic.
Personalized mentorship
We seek to nurture each person’s distinct strengths and calling. Our training model balances core proficiencies with personalized support in areas you still need to develop to flourish as a ritualist.
Extensive quality resources
Participation includes a Training Manual, access to all past and future Continuing Education offerings, discounts to AM offerings, and inclusion in an international network of Earth-honoring ritualists.
Generative view of conflict
Working at the intersection of cultural healing, Earth changes, and ritual arts means we’ll stir the pot in unpredictable ways. We welcome this and have clear policies to respectfully navigate conflict.
Uplifting peer community
Although this training is just getting started, the parallel training track in Ancestral Lineage Healing brings you into collegial connection with nearly 300 kind and brilliant people from over 25 nations.
About the Instructor
Daniel Foor
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. He is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
