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What is Ancestral Lineage Healing?

Ancestral Lineage Healing, as developed by Dr. Daniel Foor of Ancestral Medicine, is a safe ritual approach that supports you in coming into direct relationship with your ancestors for personal, family, and communal healing. This isn’t mediumship, channeling, or a psychic reading. It’s a process of developing a direct connection with ancestral guides. By healing the unwell dead, you ease the burden of intergenerational trauma, and create a clear pathway for receiving the blessings of your wise and well ancestors.

Practices of ancestor reverence were once found amongst almost every culture across the globe. Many of these traditions were lost as a result of colonization, religious movements, and the destruction of indigenous cultures. In most cases, hundreds, if not thousands of years have passed since ancestor reverence (beyond funeral rites) was a part of daily life. We don’t have to look very far to see the results of this neglect. It manifests in a feeling of disconnection from our families and a sense of not belonging to world around us, not understanding our purpose, and a lack of respect for and connection to nature. This work is a way of healing the disconnect between the living and the dead. This work is decolonizing as it restores right relationship between you and your people, helping you repair and revive the direct connection that your ancestors previously enjoyed with the ones who came before them.

These principles form the foundation of this method of Ancestral Lineage Repair:

• Consciousness continues after death.

• Not all of the dead are equally well.

• The living and dead can communicate.

• The living and the dead can strongly impact each other.

• The dead can change.

Why do Ancestral Lineage Healing?

• To have the support of your well and wise ancestors in cultivating the life you desire.

• To establish a connection with the sacred that rests in your own roots.

• To heal personal, family, and cultural wounds.

• To resolve trouble with the unwell dead and remove any undesirable influence upon you and your family.

• To ensure that those family members who did not die well are able to successfully transition to the realm of the ancestors

• To ensure that loved ones have an easeful transition to the realm of the ancestors, or to prepare for your own death.

• To cultivate an ongoing relationship and practice of ancestral reverence that enables you to receive ongoing guidance and healing from your own people without an intermediary.

Ancestral lineage healing is available to everyone. You don’t have to know anything about genealogy or where your ancestors came from. Adopted people and those estranged from their birth families will also find the work accessible. The process does not require any sort of remediation with living family members. Although, the healing of relationships can happen as a result of the work.

I know from my own experience that deep healing and a profound sense of belonging and connection are possible through this work. Developing a direct line of contact with your wise and well ancestors in a ritually safe way can be deeply empowering. All of us are down-lineage from ancestral troubles and burdens. Through this repair work, the once troubled dead become fully ancestralized, easing the burden for their descendants, allowing them access to the gifts that are their birthright which, in turn, allows for the embodiment of those blessings in the world.