ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM ANCESTRAL HEALING?

Ancestral healing is one of my favorite practices, it is very humbling to work with family lines.

It involves working with your ancestors, whether you had the opportunity to meet them or not.

It comprises many shamanic forms of healing including journeying to meet with your ancestors, building an altar, and dissolving ancestral curses.

ANCESTRAL HEALING MAY BE FOR YOU IF:

• There are patterns that repeat in your family women getting divorced, abused, a repeating type of illness, losses, etc.
• Someone passed away in a traumatic way and you feel the need to honor them.
• You have a sense you are somehow stuck in place and you don’t seem to be able to change your circumstances.
• You don’t want your children to experience the same events or carry the burden of the family tree.
• After difficult experiences to bring back balance and process emotions including grief.
• You feel you have done a lot of inner work and things don’t seem to move forward

BENEFITS OF ANCESTRAL HEALING:

Assisting in healing intergenerational trauma: ancestral healing helps break patterns of trauma that may run in the family line, allowing individuals and future generations to be break the cycle.

Understanding oneself: Through ancestral healing, you can gain insights into your own behavioral patterns, traumas, and unresolved issues that may have been passed down through your lineage.

Restoring power and wholeness: Ancestral healing can bring a deep sense of inner peace, wholeness, and restored power by connecting with and honoring our ancestors

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Recently, I had the opportunity of performing a session that included ancestral healing. We carry so much with us that is not necessarily our to carry. It can bring a sense of release and lightness to work with your ancestral burdens.

“Fate is a story that’s been written for you by somebody else. By your parent’s genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write”

― Alberto Villoldo

So much can be part of our lineage, both gifts and burdens. We can inherit from our ancestors ways of thinking and seeing the world and addictions.

Every family has things they don’t talk about. It is important to bring light and create the space to work with your lineage.

HERE ARE SOME IDEAS TO GET YOU STARTED ON YOUR ANCESTRAL HEALING JOURNEY:

Be curious about your family history:

Find photos, names etc.

Learn about patterns that repeat in your family

Get help from a trained practitioner who can hold space for you during the process

Find out more about ancestral healing:

Steven Farmer has a great book, Healing Ancestral Karma: Free Yourself from Unhealthy Family Patterns

Connect with your inner guidance ask yourself if you feel ready to start your journey of ancestral healing