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There are many ways of working with ancestors—ancestral healing takes a lot of different forms.

I am a certified practitioner in Dr. Daniel Foor's method of Ancestral Lineage Healing. I practice this framework because it is safe, effective, and relational— it helps YOU build your own concious relationships with your ancestors as well as deepen your skills using your inner senses.

This is a pragmatic method based on the assumption that, since most of us have been culturally disconnected from conscious relationships with our ancestors, some healing may be needed before we can wholesale tap into our birthright of ancestral support.

Here are the steps of the process we work through, in a nutshell:

• The Assessment: taking a look at the condition of four primary ancestral lineages, creating boundaries around any unhealthy ancestors or patterns, & choosing a lineage to focus on first (this is usually a whole first 90-minute session)

• Connecting with loving, resplendent ancestral guide(s) within the chosen lineage - often from ancient times

• Understanding, healing, & attunement with the ancestral guide(s)

• Understanding what has happened in this lineage around unwellness, gifts & challenges

• Healing with those whose names are not known

• Healing with the recent or remembered dead

• Grounding blessings & health in present, and spreading out the blessings to living family

• Repeat all this with your other lineages, integrating along the way

What a typical session looks like:

Using a centered, intuitive approach, I guide clients through this process in what can be considered a guided meditation or using active imagination. The facilitator is the guide and the client/participant is the one doing the actual work.

• Each session is a ritual, meaning that I consciously set up and hold the session in a sacred space that begins with a prayer, or, if you don't like that word, intention. (Part of my job is to maintain the ritual space and connection.)

• We have a brief conversation about this work and your personal situation, questions, and concerns.

• I guide you through entering a light trance state using meditation and guided imagery.

• I guide you through the appropriate phase of the Ancestral Lineage Healing Process. This really varies — it could be several “steps” or one, depending on what is unfolding.

• I give you homework, based on the content of the session, in support of your ancestral healing. This is often small ritual tending, research, and continuing relationship with guides.

• Greater sense of belonging and deep support for your life

• More understanding of intergenerational problems, understanding family relationships in a larger context

• Often a softening and felt sense of healing around active family wounds

• Clarity in your personal life path and coming into your gifts and purposes

• Connection to a vast reservoir of healing and guidance

• Gaining authentic personal spiritual practice

• Often greater health, abundance, and better family relationships

• Access to clarity and healing resources for cultural wounds that your guides know a lot about, like racism, colonization, etc.

Human Design is a consciousness map that offers a nuanced, intricate layout of your specific energy system. It offers a roadmap for decision-making based on the natural creaturely wisdom of your body, instead of letting the conditioned “shoulds” of your mind continue to control the show. Human Design tools promote more true alignment with your brilliant unique sovereign Self, helping you along the path of bringing your specific gifts into the world.

The origin story of Human Design is objectively extraordinary, with its creation emerging through what we now call channeling to a Canadian man called Ra Uru Hu, in 1987.

The Human Design System is a synthesis and renewal of several ancient and modern wisdom traditions, mapping genetic biology and energetic threads of human experience onto natal and gestational astrology — through the filter of the ancient Chinese I Ching, the ancient Indian-Hindu Chakra system and magical channels akin to the connecting lines in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.*

I know, it’s a lot. But if any of this causes apprehension, let me try to ease your mind. The key with Human Design is that it is meant to be put to use experimentally as a tool. You can decide for yourself if it works for you; there is no buy-in, belief, or faith involved. While it’s not a system that we really know how to study empirically, its accuracy and helpfulness is widely reported. Including by myself and literally everyone I have encountered that has “experimented with their design.”

Human Design charts (or BodyGraphs, as they are called) are notoriously confusing to try to interpret. Information about Human Design is out there in bits and pieces (sometimes conflicting, incorrect, and often too simplified). It is also rife with opaque jargon, making it extremely helpful to have a reading with a professional who can interpret and explain the comprehensive whole of your “design.” I can translate this esoteric visual language, and be such a guide for you.

The nuances are endless and combine to form a beautiful gestalt of what can be helpful to you in living of your own best life. As a lifelong scholar of consciousness, I can honestly say that Human Design is the most intriguing and helpful system I have encountered for practical use as a tool for authentic living, and I expect to continue my already years-long study of its astounding depths.

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*I am aware of well-intentioned critiques of Human Design as culturally appropriative due its synthesis of ancient wisdom traditions. If you have these concerns, please sit with it and decide if you would like to proceed.

In my view, while these concerns are completely warranted to question, Human Design is a channelled body of knowledge. It makes sense to me that new wisdom would be synthesized from true recognized bodies of wisdom for global use — combined and evolved for the new strange times we are in. (And frankly, not much different in delivery or function from nearly every “holy book” that a diversity of cultures hold sacred, e.g., the Christian Bible.) That’s just my opnion.

Here’s the short list of where Human Design can be immediately supportive:

• Understanding how your particular energy works mechanically

• Learning the best way to for you to make major decisions from your true self and innate bodily wisdom

• Understanding more clearly what gifts you bring to the workplace and how you work best

• Highlighting areas in which you are on a learning journey

• Pointing out where you may have picked up unhelpful thought patterns and conditioning, and tools for “deconditioning”

• Exploring your purpose — what you are specifically here to contribute to the world

• Showing general themes of your life in very intimate terms

Human Design has a unique way of shining a precision laser on the way you think, process information, and interact with those around you that gets right down to the bone of your inner workings. It’s absolutely extraordinary. It is understanding this differentiation, of how YOU work, that can be immediately validating, touching, and useful to you in how you move through your life.

In Human Design sessions, I make sure to share the most helpful information in your chart to support you where you are in your life. You can expect it to be a real game-changer.

I limit my Human Design sessions to a single insight session in which I unpack the most important aspects of your chart and your life path summary. My gift is in synthesis, insight, practical guidance. This includes making sure you understand what you need to know to embark on your own Human Design experiment and let this body of knowledge begin to improve your life.

There are many experienced Human Design practitioners out there who specialize in going deeper in different areas, like career, relationships, and transits. I am happy to give referrals for these deeper layers after an insight session.

For ancestral healing sessions, there is no concrete answer I can give, since everyone's process is different. It’s more like going to therapy in the sense that it’s an engaged process over a period of time. In fact, the length of process can vary wildly depending on the actual lineage you are working with. Sometimes completing healing with an entire lineage takes two sessions, other times, many more.

As you get to know the method, there is a lot of work you can do on your own, or online in offerings at Ancestral Medicine, and I will always recommend next steps that you can take your time with after a session.

For Human Design, I offer a singular foundational insight session. This is more like a reading — something you will be able to revisit, ruminate on and work with over time. I provide you with a recording, as well as concrete takeaways to experiment with.