Have you ever wondered what kind of an ancestor you are?
A resourceful, powerful, well ancestor, that offers strong support and wise guidance for the future generations or a burdened, entangled, confused, and lost ancestor who is just not available to offer anything, still being preoccupied with personal and systemic unfinished business? Or possibly a bit of both?
The legacy we leave to the future, starts with ourselves in the present, in this very moment. The more we are loving our life, the more we are connected to the world around us and ourselves, the more rooted we are into our bodies and lineages - the more our legacy will be supportive to those who come after us. Just as our present moment is influenced by all those who came before us on a personal and collective level, our here and now will impact the future generations in more ways than we can imagine. So we begin with looking back to release entanglements, looking into the now to step fully into our power to be able to look into the future with a peace of mind. On this journey we are weaving together our personal inner work and the ancestral work.
This path can’t be a marathon, it is a walk, a gentle process of incremental shifts and insights into our own essence, our own being and our interconnectedness with everything around us. We are building a relationship with life and ancestors and that doesn’t happen overnight. Step by step we look inside ourselves, outside ourselves and beyond what is visible, to connect with our ancestors in many different supportive and healing ways, to discover and become friends with our inner child, to empower our relationships and begin to trust ourselves fully.
Becoming a Good Ancestor is a programme of ritual, meditation, ancestral healing, inner work, connection with nature and more. Weaving ritual and ancestral practice into every week of the year with enough space to integrate and process, with good holding and support every step of the way, to keep you inspired, curious, exploring and healing.
The year is structured around the wheel of four directions and four seasons, introducing theme clusters that follow the energy of each season. Each of the four themes contains monthly topics.
We are going to work on four types of primary relationships:
with our inner child (East, Spring)
with the world - with humans, more than humans and all the various communities (South, Summer)
with ourselves - our body, health and intuition (West, Autumn)
and with ancestors (North, Winter)
Each topic includes material for self study, for you to do in your own time and in the way that works best for you.
This year of ritual is designed to support you on your journey with your family tree, with those ancestors who have kind eyes for your life; and to strengthen your connection with the world through working with four directions, elements, sacred space, and nature beings. The focus is on stepping into your wise powerful intuitive self to become a good ancestor.
Is this for me?
This journey is for you:
if you are looking to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life
if you would like to feel more connected to life, to feel like you belong
if you are curious about your ancestors and how they could support you
if you would like to feel more creative, abundant and empowered
if you would like to work with your family dynamics and release what is no longer serving you
if you would like to have better relationships with people and beyond
if you would like to become a resource for the future and clear some of the burden from the future generations
if you would like to tap into your intuition
if you would like to feel more aligned with your purpose
if you would like to feel like you are not alone
if you are interested in shamanism and ritual
if you are interested in creative ways to connect with nature
if you would like to do something special for yourself
A resourceful, powerful, well ancestor, that offers strong support and wise guidance for the future generations or a burdened, entangled, confused, and lost ancestor who is just not available to offer anything, still being preoccupied with personal and systemic unfinished business? Or possibly a bit of both?
The legacy we leave to the future, starts with ourselves in the present, in this very moment. The more we are loving our life, the more we are connected to the world around us and ourselves, the more rooted we are into our bodies and lineages - the more our legacy will be supportive to those who come after us. Just as our present moment is influenced by all those who came before us on a personal and collective level, our here and now will impact the future generations in more ways than we can imagine. So we begin with looking back to release entanglements, looking into the now to step fully into our power to be able to look into the future with a peace of mind. On this journey we are weaving together our personal inner work and the ancestral work.
This path can’t be a marathon, it is a walk, a gentle process of incremental shifts and insights into our own essence, our own being and our interconnectedness with everything around us. We are building a relationship with life and ancestors and that doesn’t happen overnight. Step by step we look inside ourselves, outside ourselves and beyond what is visible, to connect with our ancestors in many different supportive and healing ways, to discover and become friends with our inner child, to empower our relationships and begin to trust ourselves fully.
Becoming a Good Ancestor is a programme of ritual, meditation, ancestral healing, inner work, connection with nature and more. Weaving ritual and ancestral practice into every week of the year with enough space to integrate and process, with good holding and support every step of the way, to keep you inspired, curious, exploring and healing.
The year is structured around the wheel of four directions and four seasons, introducing theme clusters that follow the energy of each season. Each of the four themes contains monthly topics.
We are going to work on four types of primary relationships:
with our inner child (East, Spring)
with the world - with humans, more than humans and all the various communities (South, Summer)
with ourselves - our body, health and intuition (West, Autumn)
and with ancestors (North, Winter)
Each topic includes material for self study, for you to do in your own time and in the way that works best for you.
- You will have access to the whole programme, opened within the first month, and could choose whether to follow it through the year, do it in 12 weeks or 12 days; first module opens as you join to give you time to see if this if for you;
- Programme material includes a recorded meditation and a recorded guidance for a ritual on a theme, an inspiration for reflection on your family tree and ancestors, and guidance for connecting with nature.
- Bonus Rituals! Introductory 7 guided ancestral meditations/rituals are included for your to get an idea of what the rituals feel like and look like, it is recommended to start your journey with these set.
- As a parallel journey or a separate piece of work a bonus set of Walking with Ancestors is included - 12 ancestral rituals to support you building your relationship with your ancestors.
This year of ritual is designed to support you on your journey with your family tree, with those ancestors who have kind eyes for your life; and to strengthen your connection with the world through working with four directions, elements, sacred space, and nature beings. The focus is on stepping into your wise powerful intuitive self to become a good ancestor.
Is this for me?
This journey is for you:
if you are looking to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life
if you would like to feel more connected to life, to feel like you belong
if you are curious about your ancestors and how they could support you
if you would like to feel more creative, abundant and empowered
if you would like to work with your family dynamics and release what is no longer serving you
if you would like to have better relationships with people and beyond
if you would like to become a resource for the future and clear some of the burden from the future generations
if you would like to tap into your intuition
if you would like to feel more aligned with your purpose
if you would like to feel like you are not alone
if you are interested in shamanism and ritual
if you are interested in creative ways to connect with nature
if you would like to do something special for yourself
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North/Winter/Place of the Soul January – Wheel of Four Directions/Four Seasons/Four Stages of Life Creating a foundation for the work this year on the Wheel, connecting to various aspects of four directions and their relationship to our life at different stages. Honouring our journey, where we are on it, setting the intention and calling in the ancestors to support it. February – Am I a Good Ancestor? Exploring what does it mean to be a good ancestor on various levels. Who do we learn from? How does it look like? What does it feel like? Honouring ourselves in this process, our story, past, present, and future. East/Spring/Childhood The energy of the new beginning, of sun rise, re-birth and new potential. March – Becoming your Own Best Adult – re-membering yourself Beginning in the beginning. Getting to know our inner child and how we can stop betraying ourselves and step into being a reliable adult. This allows us to stop giving away our power to everyone else and start meeting our own needs, creating our own amazing reality, supported by our ancestors and the natural world. April – Inner Child and Abundance As we become a reliable adult for our inner child, we start to see the world as a kinder place and begin to be more open to all the abundance this world has to offer. When we feel safe as children the world is rich, wide, incredibly supportive. We will do a ritual to reconnect the inner child to the sense of abundance, to restore this channel and keep it open. May – Releasing Inner Child Entanglements We come to this world with a great capacity to love, and out of our love we unconsciously take on the pain of others in our family. We grow up to have our own path but the little child within us is still carrying the pain of others, still trying to rescue and help. This month we'll focus on releasing this entanglements and freeing ourselves to be more available to our own reality and future generations. South/Summer/Adulthood The energy of aliveness, action, community and being full grounded in the present. June – Family Ties As we move into summer we'll focus on our relationship with the world as adults, being mindful of our inner child. What is our place in our lineage and our family? Who do we exclude, creating more entanglements? A ritual to restore harmony and balance in the family system to have enough freedom to be in your power. July – Romantic Relationships How do our inner child and ancestors support our romantic relationships? What would it be like to step into a relationship without losing yourself or projecting your parents onto the other? This month we will focus on bringing more clarity, freedom and power into your romantic relationships existing, past and future. August – Relationship with Community (including other than human) Every month we will be invited to connect to nature in some way in our own time. This month the whole focus will be on how do we relate to the world around us, continuing the work we started in Spring on trusting the world as children, we will look at our integration into the wider other-than-human community as adults. West/Autumn/Elderhood The energy of slowing down, introspection, inner wisdom and letting go. September – Intuition and Guidance As we move into the energy of the Autumn we are beginning to focus on our inner world - how well do we know ourselves, how much do we trust our inner knowing? This month we will zoom in to our intuition, the guidance we receive from our own wisdom, from ancestors, from the nature world. October – Body and Health Our intuition brings us within, and puts us face to face with our body and health. This month we are bringing together all we have done this year with the inner child, nature world, and ancestors to look at re-balancing our relationship with our own bodies - the temples of our spirit, and how this connects to our health and wellbeing. What are your ancestral beliefs about the meaning of body and health? What is ready to be released? November – Letting go of unfinished business This month we call in the support of our ancestors to help us let go of what is still draining our power. Releasing our own unfinished business and that which we still carry for the ancestors and other people in our life. Calling back all our essence and power that is so thinly spread between all these contracts that do not serve us any more. Let go, let go, let go. The more we let go now, the less future ones will have to carry for us. North/Winter/Place of the Soul The energy of stillness, silence, spirit, ancestors and soul. December – Trusting Yourself to Be a Good Ancestor As we finish the year we gather all the work we have done in these twelve month to integrate it and to empower our path forward. We focus on calling in all our power, all pieces of our soul, and building trust to continue the journey with our inner child, loving ancestors and nature beings. We continue to live our life as a good ancestor. |
What does it take to be a good ancestor? A guided meditation.
How is nature medicine important for our wellbeing? A guided meditation.
What could ritual do for your life? A guided ritual for setting new year intentions.
An example of a meditation that you'll be doing each month
An example of what a ritual looks like and feels like. A full set of 7 meditations/rituals like this are included with the programme.
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What is included:
- an introduction to each theme - a recorded meditation to do as many times as you wish at your own pace (12) - a nature medicine invitation (12) - a recorded ritual guidance on each theme (12) - a reflection invitation to connect with your ancestors and the theme of the month (12) - bonus material of additional 19 rituals - unlimited access for as long as the programme exists |
As you walk this journey you will encounter beautiful insights about
- your lineage - your ancestors' capacity to support your healing and life path - the importance of connecting with your inner child and becoming a good parent to yourself - learning to trust the world and yourself - the support nature could offer you - your capacity to be able to receive support and guidance and so much more. |