Ancestral Healing Pratices - What to Expect
This practice and process is not linear; Spirit leads and every person is different. Kelly customizes the experience for you. Every session begins with a guided meditation so you can be rooted deep in your “knowingness” while opening to receive messages for your best and highest self. Together you travel on a mindfulness journey. In closing, you center in the here and now, and there is a short debrief. If you journal, it’s helpful to take time to pause and capture the experience fully. Kelly can also record the session so you can refer to it later.
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. (Kelly leads this meditation using mystical Celtic practices, not anything borrowed or appropriated from indigenous traditions other than her own.)
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
Session 2: One hour
Session 3: One hour
Session 4: One hour
When this beautiful work finishes, Kelly can continue to companion you spiritually.
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 the information, we will sense into the following questions energetically.
- Guided meditation so that you can share from your heart about what you know 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?
- Where were your people before colonialism and organized religion (before approximately 300 CE)? (If you are Native American and have no immigrant ancestors, we’ll skip these first questions.)
- What, if any, struggles directly affected each of your bloodlines? (We won’t delve into these in detail, rather just name them or sense into them.)
- How are you impacted today?
- What are the gifts that each line has to offer?
3. Choose one ancestral line to work with.
4. Guided meditation to find an ancestral guide to help you in this work. (Kelly leads this meditation using mystical Celtic practices, not anything borrowed or appropriated from indigenous traditions other than her own.)
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
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.)
- Harmonize your ancestral guides and ask them 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. Harmonize them with your familial ancestors.
- Offer prayer and healing presence for the ways in which the collective culture may also 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.