Ancestral Lineage Healing
What is Ancestral Lineage Healing?
In the smallest of nutshells: Ancestral Lineage Healing is a transformative ritual practice which connects us with our Ancestors in order to understand unresolved family patterns, inter-generational trauma, and cultural wounds. With this knowledge we can then choose to release these past hurts and put in their place centuries of lost wisdom and guidance.
This is a deeply transformational process that sets us, and our future generations, free to live a life not held back by the inherited burdens of our forebears.
What are the foundations Ancestral Lineage Healing?
Ancestral Lineage Healing is a modality that sits firmly within an Earth-honouring animist framework. In this view, all Beings are seen to exist in a larger relational field -or web- which extends from the most tiny particles, to the trees, birds and rivers, and to the most distant stars. All Beings are considered to have consciousness, agency and person-hood, different and equal to our own; and all Beings are understood to be ensouled, with spirits that exist beyond the life of the physical body and the physical realm. This includes our Ancestors.
Almost all early, Earth based cultures, including those of Europe and what is now Great Britain, practiced some form of ritual to honour their Ancestors and ensure the ongoing wellness of their lineages. Many cultures still do. And for many people, the cultivation of vibrant, reciprocal relationship with the Ancestors provides the foundation for rich spiritual practice.
In modern Western society, just as we have lost connection with the Earth, the land, and our place within the greater web of life, we have lost connection with the ancestral wisdom and knowledge that is our birthright. We have lost connection to our deeper roots. Yet, the roots systems are still there, however neglected, and lasting a meaningful connection can be