Ancestral Reverence Apprenticeship
Welcome to our digital we-space! This portal offers a synthesis of the evolving practices and inspirations emerging from our shared collaboration.
Below you will find the session practices and points of awareness, the session audio recordings, and other resources to support you in your deepening ancestral attunement practice.
The portal is an emergent space so tune in often to connect with the new additions.
Schedule
3:00p- 5:00p MST
April 7th
May 12th
June 2nd
July 14th
Password to the portal is synchronize
Session One Practices and Points of Awareness
∆ Write down your ritualistic introduction as follows:
My name is ____________. I am the daughter/son of ___________(Mother’s Maiden Name) and __________(Father’s Name). I was born in __________________, land of the ______________peoples. I live in _______________ land of the ___________ peoples.
∆ If you don’t already, find out the names of the indigenous people who inhabited the land you were born in and currently live in.
∆ Get to know some of the trees, and bodies of land and water in your home and seek to find out their names.
∆ Call your spirit and earthly guardians into your meditative and ritual practices and designate an area of your ancestral altar for them.
∆ Using historical knowledge, emotional experience, and your ancestry seek to find out which disruptions affected the lineage you are working with. Use this List of Common Disruptions as a reference.
∆ Continue to develop your ancestry map through genetic testing or applied research.
Session Two Practices and Points of Awareness
∆ Reflect on the notes you made about the disruptions in your line and how they show up on the individual level. Delineate which practices will help you bring restoration to the disruptions.
∆ Reconnect with the guided practice and with the support of your wise and healthy ancestors attune to the field of the troubled dead.
∆ Spend 5m-30m engaging with the ancestral altar. Open your field, ask questions, bring offerings, sing, relate with your people, and express your intent to deepen your bond.
∆ Strengthen your somatic attunement by relating to your body as an extension of the earth and synchronize your awareness with the resource of the planet as an expanded shared container and receptor.
Session Three Practices and Points of Awareness
Attune to the information you received around entities and other-than-human spirits and ask the ancestors that they be taken to the dimension where they came from or be provided with a better place.
Seek to discover in what ways you or your family members are energetically entangled with a spirit of the dead. Petition the support of the ancestors to create mindful disentanglements with the troubled dead.
Note that with the entities and other-than-human and entanglements with the troubled dead, we are not asking to sever cords instead we are asking that the unhealthy attachment be resolved so that they can assume their more healthy form.
Continue to cultivate your relationship with your spiritual and earth guardians by asking them to accompany you in the ethical restoration of the line.
Dancing the Evil Spirits Away Documentary
Session Four Practices and Points of Awareness
Attune to the information received around curses and ask the ancestors to continue to clear and bring restorative blessings to the line.
Write a few notes about what you found during the ritualistic practice around intentional versus unintentional curses.
Re-engage with the ritualistic practice with the intent to more directly connect with the blessings within the line and find creative ways to bring these gifts to life in your daily living experience.
Continue to maintain your ancestral altars with offerings, sweet speech, music, and prayers.
Ancestral Invocation
I call upon the wise and healthy ancestors connected to this lineage. My intention is to attune and collaborate with a lineage that is in accordance with my current evolutionary stage. I ask for your support in assessing the health and availability of this lineage. I offer physical, mental, and visual intelligence as channels of communication.
Ancestral Altars from the Spring Cohort
Audio Group Session Recordings
Meditation Practice
In this meditation class, we relate to the primordial nature of the physical channel. We align with the movement of the breath to synchronize deeper with the earth. From embodiment, I guide you to connect with your wise and healthy ancestors in your matrilineal and patrilineal lineages.
SOMATIC ATTUNEMENT MEDITATION
Somatic Attunement Meditation is a non-dogmatic contemplative practice that focuses on relating to awareness as a conduit of consciousness. In this practice, we relate to the body—the Soma— as an intelligent organism that emits resonance. Through the process of attuning to patterns of movement within the physical and energetic dimensions, we aim to strengthen groundedness, develop subtle body competencies, and create an introspective relationship with the body.
1ST AND 3RD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH
6:00P - 7:15P
VIA ZOOM
Resources
Malidoma Somé: The Ancestors' Gift of Healing
“The ancestors are in a timeless place. In their eyes, you are the future and you look at them as the past. They see the combination of you and them as the combination of the past, present, and future happening at once.”
How a Bulgarian Village Dances Evil Spirits Away | Kukeri | The New Yorker Documentary
Once a year, the Bulgarian tradition of Kukeri unites a small village as residents wear intricate masks and costumes and dance at night.
Native Lands
Enter your location or place of birth HERE to access the names of the indigenous tribes connected to those lands.
Ancestral Medicine book
A practical guide to connecting with your ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing.
Provides exercises and rituals to help you initiate contact with your ancestors, find ancestral guides, and assist the dead who are not yet at peace.
Access Chapter Two—Who are the Ancestors? Here.
You can purchase a copy on Amazon Here.