Ancestral reverence portal
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, images of the ancestral altars & offerings, and other resources to support you in deepening your ancestral attunement.
The portal is an emergent space so tune in often to connect with the updates.
LIVE GROUP SESSION DATES
Meeting every other Sunday from 3:00p -5:00p MST
December 3rd
December 17th
January 7th
January 21st
February 4th
February 18th
Session One Practices and Points of Awareness
¬ Write down your ritualistic introduction as follows:
My name is ____________. I am the daughter of ___________(Mother’s Maiden Name) and __________(Father’s Name). On my mother’s line, I am the granddaughter of __________ and __________. On my father’s line, I am the granddaughter of __________ and __________.
¬ Using the information on this website, add the indigenous names of the lands where you were born and where you live to your ritualistic introduction. Follow this example:
I was born in __________________, land of the ______________peoples. I live in _______________ land of the ___________ peoples.
¬ Practice priming the field in preparation to make contact— include connecting with the navel and base as a team as you attune to the central channel that connects the primary gateways —the head, the heart, and the base.
¬ Connect with the front left or front right and invite your ancestors to come through during your meditation practices and altar attunement practices.
¬ Follow your intuition or the step-by-step instructions in the Creating an Illuminated Altar eBook and create a simple altar dedicated to your lineage of choice and invite them to use it as a window between the ancestral and temporal planes. Before you open the altar, take a picture of it and share it in the group WhatsApp thread for creative collaborative inspiration.
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 my physical, mental, and visual intelligence as channels of communication.
Session Two Practices and Points of Awareness
Practice saying your ritualistic (Mother’s Line Version) introduction out loud while noticing somatic impressions, feelings, and visions:
My name is ____________. I am the daughter of ___________(Mother’s Maiden Name). I am the granddaughter of __________(Mother’s Mother) and __________(Mother’s Father). I was born in __________________, land of the ______________peoples. I live in _______________ land of the ___________ peoples.
Re-connect with your reclaimed birth story and add any additional details that emerge. Write the new version down, paint a picture depicting the change, or create a ritual that invites the changes into direct experience.
Spend 5m-30m engaging with your mother’s people’s ancestral altar. Open your field, ask questions, bring offerings, sing, and express your intent to deepen your bond.
In your meditation practices connect with the central column and sense the movement of energy in the primary gateways: the head, the heart, and the base.
Session Three Practices and Points of Awareness
Follow your intuition or the step-by-step instructions in the Creating an Illuminated Altar eBook and create a simple altar dedicated to your lineage of choice and invite them to use it as a window between the ancestral and temporal planes. Before you open the altar, take a picture of it and share it in the group WhatsApp thread for co-inspiration.
Practice asking the ancestors to support you in an area of life where you need grounding, healing, or inspiration.
Gather stories, pictures, and information about your father’s line and add them to your ancestral map.
Emphasize co-regulating with the earth when you engage with the priming of the field practice.
Session Four Practices and Points of Awareness
Reflect on the notes you made about the disruptions in your lines and track similarities between them.
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.
Spend 5m-30m engaging with your father’s people’s ancestral altar. Open your field, ask questions, bring offerings, sing, relate with your people, and express your intent to deepen your bond.
Make space in your self-cultivation practices to witness the pain and the trauma of your ancestors and the field you were born into. Aim to keep a strong grounded alignment and an active witnessing awareness.
Session Five Practices and Points of Awareness
Follow your intuition or the step-by-step instructions in the Creating an Illuminated Altar eBook and create a simple altar dedicated to your lineage of choice and invite them to use it as a window between the ancestral and temporal planes. I encourage you to work with this lineage for at least 13 lunar cycles so make sure to choose an area in your home where the altar can ground and grow. Track the 13 Lunar Cycles Here.
When you have primed the field and have strengthened your anchor invite one ancestor into your body and sustain the connection as long as it feels natural.
During our closing ritual, we will honor the recently dead. Gather pictures and stories about your line of choice and email the pictures to solea.anani@gmail.com. If you feel comfortable share some pictures on the WhatsApp thread.
Create or acquire a talisman to consecrate as your ancestral power tool during our closing ritual.
Session six Practices and Points of Awareness
Engage in rituals that honor the recently dead. Ask the ancestors to support their continued path and to bless those in the world of spirit, those currently alive, and those yet to come.
Continue to amplify the presence of the causal plane altar by energetically visiting it and attuning to its medicine.
Find creative ways to connect and empower your talisman/amulet
Keep your altar practices active by bringing fresh offerings to the ancestral altar/s.
Mother’s Line Ancestral Altars
Mother’s Line Gifts and Offerings
Audio Session Recordings
Ancestral Meditation Practices
In this meditation practice, 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.
In this meditation practice, we focused on deep embodiment followed by an exploration of space within and throughout the body. We then primed the field and connected with the ancestors. Once an active line of communication was established we asked the ancestors for support and inspiration.
SOMATIC ATTUNEMENT
SOMATIC ATTUNEMENT Portal
The Somatic Attunement Portal offers you visual and audio resources to help you develop you subtle body competencies. Being able to center, ground and open your channels of perceptions helps you refine the mediums of communications to better attune to your ancestors and linage wisdom.
Password: synchronize
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.
2nd THURSDAY OF THE MONTH from 11:00a - 12:00p MST
4th THURSDAY OF THE MONTH from 6:00p - 7:00p MST
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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.”
Bilateral Music from a Nagado Daiko Drum
This Bilateral music from an 800lbs Nagado Daiko is set to beat at 60 beats per minute and pans between the left and right ears. Playing this music while listening to the guided ritual journeys supports steady brainwaves as you connect with the astral and ancestral planes.
For the most optimal experience, I recommend headphones. You can play both audio tracks at the same time from different windows.
eBook
Use the step-by-step instructions in this eBook to support you with creating an Ancestral Altar.
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.