Walking with the ancestors

Walking with the Ancestors, is an anti-dote to the trappings and too muchness of our modern Western way of life. It was born out of my own personal journey of healing the old pains of trauma, as guided by my ancestors and my dream life. An initiation, where I was called upon to move out of my habitual disassociated fear state and come back into my body, deepening into my intuition and reclaiming my rightful place, back in the body of the natural world.

What is the roadmap?

Through Walking with the Ancestors, I offer a loose roadmap that can help us expand the depth and breadth of our own unique journeys of healing. This includes remembering the old ways of our ancestors, as well as what stands in the way of our remembering. Mostly they are the ways that help us deepen into our intuition, so that we may sharpen our inner eyes and ears and remember how to commune with the seen and unseen forces that envelope us. They are the ways that gently lift our eyes back up to the skies and let us know that at our very essence, we are all expressions of the sacred, divine, vast mystery of life. They are the ways that lovingly help soothe our anxious minds and nervous systems enough to let us rest in the arms of an old oak tree and trust that we are always held and never alone. These old ways also live on in the memories of our cells, though most often lay dormant and forgotten.

What is the work?

The work is two fold. Once we clear the path, we can do the work of disentangling our lives from the lives of our ancestors, metabolising and transmuting some of the pains of our past, so that we may begin to free ourselves of transgenerational habits and patterns that no longer serve us. And then crucially, we must know how to move forward as they walk alongside us, integrating and embodying the multitude of resources that we’ve inherited from all those that have gone before. Here we get to carve out a life that is not only fulfilling and satisfying but one that is also enchanted beyond measure. These are ways that our ancestors knew in their bones; how to live in harmony with the seasons and the rhythms of nature and how to live in sharp alignment with one’s own intuition and with the sacred that is animate in everything, all around us, all of the time.   

How will I benefit?

As we cultivate our relationship once again with the natural world and reclaim our place within it, we may begin to find that there is really no separation between me, the natural world and all its inhabitants. Compassion for ourselves and all other beings – human and more than human – may naturally begin to emerge and divisive social constructs and stories about who and what we are, gradually begin to loosen their grip and fall away. Our self-esteem grows, our sense of worth and purpose strengthens and finally, we may begin to feel an unshakable sense of belonging to the ancestors, to the natural world, to the Earth and are compelled to treat all things - ourselves included - with the utmost compassion, care, love and respect. This is the work of healing soul wounds at a personal and collective level, for the generations that have been and for the generations yet to come.

Who is this work for?

My work is strongly rooted in the menstrual cycle, so for now, the work is for menstruating and peri menopausal women. It is for women who feel that they would like to bring the sacred back into their everyday lives and for those who feel the call to deepen into their own bodies and intuition and cultivate a relationship with the ancestors and nature spirits. It is for women who remember in their cells, the flavour of lives lived before in connection with the land and for those who wish to restore their faith and trust in life, God, the universe, the great spirit - whatever archetype you choose.

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