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Introducing Ancestral Lineage Healing 

Ancestral Lineage Healing is a five step approach in learning how to reconnect safely and respectfully with our ancestors and our ancestral lineages. Ancestral Lineage Healing is the particular approach in which I am trained, as developed and taught by Dr. Daniel Foor at Ancestral Medicine.

 

Ancestral Lineage Healing is rooted and founded in the experience that our ancestors are as much part of our present as our past and can have a profound influence in shaping our wellness, our world views and the ways we show up in our lives: friendships, families, workplaces, networks, and wider culture. The Ancestral Lineage Healing process is based in animistic, earth-honouring, anti-supremacist values and can bring perspective, insight and deep repair and healing within and across generations of each lineage of focus, allowing lineage blessings to flow more easily to current family, friends and community. It encourages us, working with a well and vibrant lineage guide, to honour the gifts and embody the blessings of our ancestral lineages, which in turn supports the repairing of burdens, ruptures and unhealed wounds which have been passed down through time, often accumulating in the more recent generations. 

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One thing I value hugely about Ancestral Lineage Healing is how it addresses personal and familial difficulties, and in the process starts to contribute, lineage by lineage, to wider cultural repair work arising from war trauma, colonialism, racism, and other troubles enacted by or inflicted upon - often both - our ancestors, as well as upon land, the other elements, and other-than and more-than-human kin. It thereby has the potential to weaken the harmful effects of different, interrelated forms of damaging supremacist beliefs (be they ancestral, cultural, economic, human, ideological and/or based in rigid, binary assumptions about gender, sexuality, ability and other forms of body supremacy). Once healing starts to happen on the lineages where it's needed, we and our people need no longer hold a stance (realised or not) of being any better or any worse than anyone else. A kind of 'right sizing,' happens and we can find we awaken to the very unique flavour and gifts and qualities of each of their particular lineage's origins. Seeing this happen on my own lineages, a few made up of recent colonisers and the recently colonised, amongst other complex dynamics, has woken me up to recognising the wider ripples of ancestral healing.

 

How it works

This work takes place in a step by step, ritually safe, structured way. As a practitioner, I offer one-to-one sessions, generally one or one and a half hour/s in length, in supporting you to meet and turn towards listening to the wise and vibrant ancestral guides on each of your main lineages, approached one at a time (e.g. our matrilineal, patrilineal and grandparents’ lineages).

 

What it is…

• a form of healing, yet it is not the same as, nor a replacement for, psychotherapy or medical care

• a form of enabling communication and strengthening those skills. I will be supporting you to meet and listen to your wise, vibrant ancestors, with the backing of my wise, vibrant ancestors and helpers, rather than acting as a medium

• an everyday ritual. My people and supporters and I will be supporting you to clear your space, call in helpers who you call upon and listen to your people

• as relevant to folk who were adopted as it is for folk who were brought up by their blood relatives

• accessible to folk who know little factually or biographically about their family,

• a way for for folk to make connection with older lineage ancestors, even if they mightn't be in contact with current family

• a powerful and empowering way of extending our horizons in who we think of as 'family'

 

What it isn’t…

• genealogical research. Knowing about, talking about and being taught to intuitively communicate with our ancestral guides are different skills. Genealogy can sometimes be really helpful and, on some occasions, can get in the way of this intuitive communication process, as a distinct, yet highly related, ancestral practice

• as binary as it sounds! Ancestral lineage work can come across as very gendered in the language of talking of ‘mother’s mother’s’ and ‘father’s father’s lines etc. Clients practising in Ancestral Lineage Healing often make contact with ancestors and trancestors across the spectrum of gender identities and expressions. This can not only be deeply life-affirming, it also usefully challenges and reminds the status quo that gender was never a binary thing

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Working with me

I've been fascinated by all things ancestral for decades -  if it's useful, you can read about my interest in this subject in this piece I wrote last year. I have welcomed the blessings of my lineages for many years. I have also been acutely aware of the implications of unresolved intergenerational trauma in my own family and in the families and communities of clients, supervisees and trainees with whom I've worked, as a facilitator and teacher since 1995, a therapist since 2004 and a therapy supervisor since 2013. I draw on more than 30 years of Buddhist practice in terms of my 'back up team' in the unseen realms, a connection with the Christian mystics, and a childhood intrigued by faith, prayer, mysteries and huge respect for more than human life and the potency of the elements.

 

In deepening my understanding of this work I am currently training as a teacher at Ancestral Medicine and will be offering three day Ancestral Lineage Healing intensives from 2027, in Bristol and further afield. Visit the Events page for more details.

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The Ancestral Medicine network

Ancestral Lineage Healing is now practiced worldwide by a network of people trained in this - and often, other highly complementary practices. It is proving to be a sound and effective method, taught and practiced across widely varying cultural contexts. Practitioners include practicing Animists, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, with services being available in more than 20 languages. If my style/approach doesn’t click for you, yet you’re still interested in doing this work, please have a look at the other Ancestral Medicine practitioner directory.

 

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Listen above to the 20 minute intro talk about Ancestral Lineage Healing I offered on the intro afternoon in March 2026. 

Read Dr. Daniel Foor’s book: Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

Listen to this longer You Tube introduction to Ancestral Lineage Healing from Daniel.

And/or feel free to contact me with any questions or arrange a free 20-minute consultation

Read my training and facilitation testimonials. 

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Session costs. I offer Ancestral Lineage Healing sessions at a mutually convenient time by in person, by appointment. Before 'signing up' for this work I offer a free, no obligation 20-30 minute Zoom call to see whether this approach is timely and if we sense we would work well together.

 

Following the free Zoom call, I charge a sliding scale of £105 - £128 for the initial 1.5 hour session, and then a sliding scale of £70 - £85 for subsequent one hour sessions (payable online). Please note that this fee includes detailed notes from the session, so you don't need to remember the content. The sliding scale reflects the range of clients I work with  - see below - from those living below the minimum wage to much higher earners. 

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I also offer a saving of three 'bundles' of sessions (1 x 1.5 hour initial session, followed by 2 x 1 hour sessions) for a sliding scale of £220 - £268, payable upfront, with the three sessions being booked within 3 months. 

 

My wish is that Ancestral Lineage Healing is as financially accessible as possible. If you are a higher earner I invite you to consider paying the higher end of the scale. The additional amount goes into a bursary fund which enables me to offer a few concessionary places (some lower than the sliding scale) at any one time.