What is Ancestral Lineage Healing?
Ancestral Lineage Healing (ALH) is a ritual practice of directly relating with one's blood ancestors for the purpose of personal, family, and cultural healing.
ALH invites you to come into living, conscious relationship with your recent and ancient ancestors in a safe and sacred ritual container as you learn to hone your intuition and sensing abilities.
This work is a doorway for reclaiming lost ancestral wisdom and healing intergenerational wounds.
It is a path toward remembering who you are and who you belong to.
It is an opportunity to fully embody the blessings of your people and to honor the beauty and magic within your lineages.
We all come from earth honoring wise ones. Some of us need only look back a generation to find them, while others may need to go back thousands of years.
Through such traumas and events as colonization and imperialism, enslavement, genocide, war, famine, and religious persecution, many humans have been severed from their roots and cut off from their ancestral wellspring of blessings and protections.
And yet, are you not here? You are the living face of your ancestors still and their voice sings in your bones. Not only that, but you are a living testimony to their great resilience.
While there is yet life and breath in us, let us learn to turn toward them once again for help, for healing, for happiness.
"The Ancestors live through us, and it is our duty to honor them by embracing our cultural heritage and ancestral wisdom."
-Malidoma Patrice Some-
Four Assertions of Ancestral Lineage Healing
1. Consciousness Continues in Some Form after the Death of the Body
Our ancestors live within us, in our memories, DNA, blood and bone, but they also live disincarnate in another realm and are accessible to us at every moment. They may speak in the dreamtime, in meditation, and in states of altered awareness like trance work and through signs and synchronicities.
2. Not All the Dead are Equally Well
Our beloved dead exist on a spectrum of wellness and wholeness just as incarnate humans do. Some are more vibrant and safer to connect with, some may be a little ghosty and lost, while others are in deeply disturbed or distressed states that leave them dangerous to relate to until they are healed. When our ancestors are not well, it is common for the living to feel psychologically and physically unwell. When they are vibrant, it is possible for the living to draw upon a wellspring of joy and peace, to feel deep-rooted belonging, and to be able to step into their destiny and unique talents with confidence.
3. The Living and the Dead Can Communicate
It is possible to reach out to the ancestors or to draw their attention to us, and it is possible for them reach out of their own volition to us. The results of the contact for either side could be helpful or harmful, conscious or unconscious depending on a variety of factors. In ALH, we take many steps to stay ritually safe and create strong and safe containers in which to consciously relate with our vibrant and well ancestors.
4. The Living and the Dead can Strongly Affect One Another
The work of lineage healing is about maintaining positive relations between the living and the dead to ensure their influence is beneficial rather than harmful. We are the eyes, the hearts, and hands our ancestors and the well ones are devoted to us and can bestow great blessings on us. In return, we can feed them with heartfelt offerings like prayers, songs, creative offerings, and food. We can also keep them stuck when we continue to repeat harmful patterns in our own lives. If recent ancestors did great harm in their lives, those of us downstream from them may experience their destructive ways in the form of intergenerational curses, traumas, and bad luck.
What Does the Journey Look Like?
Through guided, dropped in meditation, I will hold a strong and safe ritual container to help you connect with ancient guides on each of your four primary lineages.
We request their help for cocooning your lineage of focus for the purpose of ancestralizing those who are not yet vibrant and well. During this step, you may receive information about the blessings and burdens passed down from this line.
When the healing is complete, the dead come out of the container and are welcomed by the ancient ones. There is often much celebration and rejoicing at this step!
When all those traumas are healed, it is like a boulder being removed from a stream and oh! How the blessings can really flow! With your guides, we take steps to bless the bones of all the deceased in all the lands where they lie so their healed resonance can be fanned out to the earth where they rest.
We also ask the ancient ones to fan out the blessings to the living, including yourself, and you take time to experience your own mind, body, and soul being renewed and updated on a cellular level.
When you have more than one lineage healed, it will be possible to harmonize your ancestors along one lineage with those on another for even more healing and resonance. Their gifts working together in support of your life and destiny.
To put it all together, there are about six steps to the ALH process and it typically takes about 4-6 sessions to heal up one lineage. When you have healed your four lineages, you will have an incredibly strong rock upon which to stand and access to so much more energy and sustenance than before.
If the work calls to you, it is possible to continue the lineage healing process along your secondary lines. It is also possible to deepen into each of your primary lineages and tend deeper, systemic cultural themes.
Agreements + Fees
What You Can Expect of Me
I am a practitioner-in-training with Ancestral Medicine in the ancestral lineage healing approach created and articulated by Dr. Daniel Foor, Founder of Ancestral Medicine. I abide by their Code of Ethics and share their Core Values of being Animist, Anti-Supremacist, International, Courageous, Accessible, and Kind.
While Ancestral Lineage Healing is not therapy, it is highly therapeutic. I maintain confidentiality for my clients and give you access to all notes at the end of every session. You have the option to record sessions as well for future reference.
About Sessions
Ancestral Lineage Sessions are held via Zoom or phone at this time.
Sessions are $80.00 for one hour.
I strive to make this healing work accessible to as many people as possible. To do so, I offer a set number of sliding scale low-income sessions each month. Please do not hesitate to reach out and ask if you can book with me at a lower rate if that makes the difference for you to be able to partake in this nourishing, guided work.
New Clients
If you are a new client, please use the form below to schedule a free 30-minute phone consultation with me. During that time, you can ask me any questions you might have about Ancestral Lineage Healing, and I will ask you to share a bit with me about what brings you to this work.
Book a Session
If we have already chatted by phone or in another capacity (i.e. at an introductory chat, etc), please reach out through the form below and let me know your ideal day/times for booking a one-hour ALH session. We can discuss via email how often you would like to meet (I recommend no more than once a week, and not less than once per month. I find this keeps a good flow of personal engagement and healing movement.)
Payment Options
I accept payment via Venmo @Asha-Myers.
Cancellation Policy
If you must cancel your appointment, I ask that you contact me 24 hrs in advance. If you are unable to give 24 hours notice, then you will be responsible for paying half of the normal session fee, except in the case of emergencies. Thank you so much for understanding that this helps me maintain a sustainable career and gives me time to plan accordingly and to fill your session slot with clients on my waitlist.
I look forward to getting to know you and your people. I'll be in touch soon.
About My People
My ancestors hail from southern Italy, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and England.
My people are farmers, ranchers, horseback riders, and shapeshifters. Garbage men and construction workers, star people, whale singers, secretaries, and seers. From midwives and merchants to bakers and makers, I hail from a glorious mess of the mundane and magnificent.
As I believe, we all do.
My ancestors honor your ancestors, and we are humbled and joy-filled to walk alongside you for your healing and for your highest good.