Ancestral healing: healing the red thread

As most of us learned in health class, genetic information passed to us from our parents determines our hair color, eye color and physical build.But we receive much more than just physical traits from our ancestors. Our maternal grandmother may have passed along her...

Ancestral healing and compassionate witness

Here’s an example from my personal healing journey about how we might use compassionate witness to bring healing to our ancestral line. This healing can happen during a shamanic journey or meditative state.I always realized that my motherline carried a heavy...

The importance of after care

One of the biggest gifts we can give ourselves after a shamanic healing session (and after many forms of energy work and bodywork) is to slow down and give our body and our being time to integrate the work that has happened. When clients schedule a private healing...