Most non-western cultures have rituals and practices to facilitate the safe passage of departing spirits to the other side after death to ensure that they literally do not hang around the living, draining our energy, interfering or influencing our lives. Our culture has few such practices for releasing the dead, with the result that many of our physical problems, obsessive issues, dysfunction and persistent complexes often turn out to be a spirit of one of our ancestors trying in vain to speak or act through us to resolve their own unfinished issues. Untimely deaths, illnesses often, addictions, mental illness, financial difficulties are just a few of the examples of issues in the family history that can cause unhappy spirits to linger. When someone says "it's hereditary", it arouses my suspicion immediately that we are dealing with an ancestal attachment. Dr. Roger Woolger, world renowned Jungian therapist has developed this fascinating technique to get in touch with and heal the wounds of the ancestors. You can give your own ancestors a voice and help them bring about closure and healing of unfinished business and complexes that keep them earthbound.Come with a rough sketch of a family tree going back as many generations as you can. In addition you may bring any old photographs or momentos that will help you focus on past generations. You may want to gather brief information about what their lives were like, how they lived and died as well as how they fit in or did not fit in with the family. If you are planning on attending a workshop or have a session scheduled, please ask for and fill out an Ancestral Inventory form and bring to workshop. For the FAMILY SESSION, you will only need one for the whole family.We will begin our session by calling in the ancestors in either a sacred ceremony, family prayer or manner in which your entire family is willing to participate on a spiritual level. If you would like a shamanic sacred ceremony in the Native American tradition, you are welcome to bring your own drum or rattle
This session includes 3-6 family members coming together for the purpose of healing your family lineage. Those of you who are interested in geneology or family history will find this session informative, poignant, healing, loving and most importantly ~ life changing! Your "happy ancestors" that help and guide you each day will join our healing circle to help the "unhappy ancestors" who have not passed over. The "unhappy ancestors" sometimes linger and unintentionally interfere in our lives. You may have heard the old saying that issues and talents skip a generation. Well meaning Grandparents can be sad, angry, lonely, unfulfilled, or still struggling with financial difficulties of their own. Many came to this country out of poverty in their homeland and that poverty, still being part of their consciousness affects those on the earthly plane. Their spirit is capable of not only lingering in the household, but attaching themselves to a relative, often a grandchild. That grandchild may be YOU! These ancestors want to leave this earthly plane but do not know how. We will help them find their way into a more loving space and reunite them with their loved ones. Together we will heal their suffering.During this session, your family will take a gentle journey through your ancestral lineage. As a group, we will choose two or three descendents (your family) to work with for the highest good to all. Due to the serious and healing nature of this workshop, please limit your family to adults or mature teenagers capable of handling the material. I will let you be the judge of attendees. Families include all relatives, from immediate family to grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. 