Ancestral Healing Practices - What to Expect
This practice and process is not linear. Spirit leads, and every person is different. That said, it is nice to know how things might go. For sure, every session begins with a guided meditation so we can ground to the Earth, open to Spirit and ask for protection so that all messages are for your best and highest self. Together we travel on a mindfulness journey to sense into the lineages and find ancestral guides (detail below). At the end of each session, we center in the present moment for a short debrief. Kelly can record the session so you can refer to it later.
Kelly facilitates this process using practices from her ancestral tradition which is Celtic, not practices borrowed or appropriated from traditions other than her own. That said, the content is about you and will surface images and guidance specific to your own roots.
Here is a typical progression of the four sessions:
Session 1: 90 minutes
3. Choose one ancestral line to work with.
4. Guided meditation to find an ancestral guide to help you in this work.
5. Guided meditation to collaborate with the ancestral guide to release burdens in the line.
6. Somatic (body) practices to remove burdens from you.
7. Claim the gifts of that line and listen for a ritual to do to honor these gifts and wisdom. Also listen for other ways to nurture relationship with the ancestor(s) who are there to support you.
Session 2: One hour
Session 3: One hour
Session 4: One hour
When this beautiful work finishes, Kelly can continue to companion you spiritually.
Kelly facilitates this process using practices from her ancestral tradition which is Celtic, not practices borrowed or appropriated from traditions other than her own. That said, the content is about you and will surface images and guidance specific to your own roots.
Here is a typical progression of the four sessions:
Session 1: 90 minutes
- A more detailed introduction to the process and an opportunity for your questions. If you are adopted and/or don’t have information about your family history, it's no problem. We sense into all the material energetically.
- Guided meditation so that you can share what you know and sense about your family history, at a high level. For each line, you are invited to share:
- When did your ancestors settle in America?
- From where did they immigrate?
- What, if any, struggles directly affected each of your bloodlines? What struggles may your people have inflicted on others? (We won’t delve into these in detail, rather just name them or sense into them.)
- Where were your people before colonization and organized religion (before approximately 300 CE)? Those ancestors can help us heal.
- What are the gifts that each line has passed down?
3. Choose one ancestral line to work with.
4. Guided meditation to find an ancestral guide to help you in this work.
5. Guided meditation to collaborate with the ancestral guide to release burdens in the line.
6. Somatic (body) practices to remove burdens from you.
7. Claim the gifts of that line and listen for a ritual to do to honor these gifts and wisdom. Also listen for other ways to nurture relationship with the ancestor(s) who are there to support you.
Session 2: One hour
- Choose the next two lines to work with. Move through steps 4-7 described above for each.
Session 3: One hour
- Choose the final line and move through steps 4-7 above.
- Meditation and visualization into the future - seven generations from you - to hear what the descendants are experiencing and needing from you now. (If you do not have children, no worries, this can be done with the collective seventh generation.)
- Ritual to ask the guides from all your lines to work together.
Session 4: One hour
- Guided meditation to find ancestors of the place where you live, from your faith tradition and/or from your profession. Introduce them to your familial ancestors and ask them all to work together.
- Offer prayer and healing presence for the ways in which the collective culture may be affected by burdens similar to the ones in your lineage. Ask all the ancestors to help.
- Listen into the ways, if any, you are called to offer healing to this collective and cultural trauma.
- Consider how your new ancestral guides and helpers can companion you and help you find more fulfillment and vitality in the future.
When this beautiful work finishes, Kelly can continue to companion you spiritually.