Daniel Foor – Ancestral Medicine 4-Session Immersion | Digital Download

Ancestral reconnection directly supports mental and emotional health in a variety of more or less obvious ways. Bringing more awareness to some of these factors can help this process along both in ourselves and when supporting others.

Together we’ll explore factors such as healthy attachment, self-esteem, clear boundaries, clarity of purpose, and ability to accurately perceive and care for others. We’ll approach the lesson with respect for the pervasive occurrence of physical and sexual abuse, social injustices, and complex forms of relational trauma.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover ways to call on ancestral support for your personal growth edges
• Explore the relationship of ancestral healing to personal, familial, and cultural self-worth
• Consider your own attachment style and learn to anticipate how this will show up when relating with your ancestors
• Discuss similarities and differences between psychotherapy and ancestral healing as approaches to wholeness
• Practice asking your ancestors to bring healing remedy to areas of personal pain and vulnerability

Relating with the older ancestors raises questions about cultural identity and the possibility of engaging in older ways of knowing. Sometimes these traditions are partially intact or practiced by living representatives, and sometimes the lineages have been completely broken, remembered only by the ancestors themselves.

Under the guidance of the ancestors, we’ll inquire about ways to engage older traditions with integrity, pragmatism, and ritual effectiveness. We’ll approach this inquiry in ways that are mindful about cultural loss and not overly Eurocentric.

In this module, you’ll:

• Be given strategies for researching what is still knowable about your ancestral traditions
• Explore the importance of food, land, and the natural world in cultural recovery
• Examine the differences between arrogance, racial essentialism, colonialism, racism, and just regular healthy cultural pride
• Discuss the complexities and inevitable heartache when traditions are interrupted, distorted, or lost
• Practice bringing specific blessings forward along the lineage into present time and awareness

The dead speak in many ways, both during waking time and in dreaming time, and many of these pathways of communication occur spontaneously, outside of the designated space of ancestor-focused ritual. Many of our own ancestors welcomed these regular contacts, yet many today were not raised with even basic skills to navigate spontaneous ancestral outreach.

With the backing of the ancestors, we’ll inquire about ways to welcome direct contact while in different states and for different reasons. Our time will include consideration of unhelpful and frightening contact from the troubled dead.

In this module, you’ll:

• Examine beliefs from your family and cultures of origin on ancestral contact as well as ways in which the ancestors have already been in touch
• Discover ways to work safely and skillfully with both troubling and welcome dreams of the dead
• Discuss the role of synchronicity and how to receive these types of ancestral contacts in an easeful way
• Practice asking the ancestors for assistance in expanding the ways that you currently relate with them in your everyday life

Many of us were raised in cultures that avoid the topic of death and minimize talk of the next reality. In contrast, the ancestors are expert guides in this terrain, experienced at dying and traversing the worlds beyond. Together we’ll speak of the inevitable transformation and invite the ancestors to help educate and prepare us on what we can expect when our time arrives.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discuss assumptions about the next reality and your own journey upon death of the body
• Reflect on your personal experiences with death and dying as well as the role of the ancestors in those moments
• Explore practical preparations, funeral customs, and practices for honoring the body after death
• Ask the ancestors to help you nicely inquire about how to be more prepared for your own death and what’s beyond