New In-Person Yoga Classes
ANCESTRAL LINEAGE HEALING
Connect with your Ancestors
Anyone can learn how!
Check out my conversation with Angela of Guardian at the Gateway about how we can honor the dead and connect with our beloved Ancestors during this potent time of year.
(Skip to 19:00min for improved audio)
New clients Save $75 on the Ancestral Initiation Discount Package
I highly recommend booking a series of three sessions over the course of a month to ignite the healing process and keep it flowing!
Ancestral lineage healing is a spiritually-grounded, ritual process that empowers you to connect, repair and nurture relationships with your own wise and loving ancestors. This approach is an effective, securely held form of ritual work (unlike conventional therapy) which assists you to directly access the supportive guidance of your own ancestors of blood to transform inherited burdens and reclaim the gifts that are your birthright.
This practical, experiential process combines ritual, guided trance, dreamwork and offering practices. There are no prerequisites, however, prior experience with inner work and relation with spirit guides are both helpful. I am accepting new clients for one-on-one phone and Zoom sessions and can support small ongoing study groups by arrangement. I have trained extensively in this modality as developed by Dr. Daniel Foor of Ancestral Medicine and am a senior practitioner of this method. Learn more about Ancestral Lineage Healing.
NEW WRITINGS & PRESS
When you find yourself at the Edge...
Lean back, take a few deep breaths and relax into the Unknown with this 2 minute poetry meditation.
Manzanita showing normal branch dieback, near Idyllwild, California. Photo by Joel Fetzer.
FIRE AND SHADE: Lessons from Plants on Death and Dying
Honoring death through acts of conservation and advocacy has become an antidote for the despair, self-righteousness and loneliness symptomatic of a human-centric worldview. I’ve learned to try for the sake of trying, not because I believe humans can halt climate change or fight mass extinction, but because trying itself is a love song.
Photo: Banu Aydınoğlugil looking at her reflection in an 8,000 year old obsidian mirror from Anatolia. Photo by Jason Quinlan of the Çatalhöyük Research Project.
“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
–Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
THE DARK MIRROR: Reflections on Ancestral Identity through Dreams, Stones, and Mystical Practice
I was between 10 and 11 years old when my body begun to transform and I started bleeding every month. I yearned to become a teenager and do teenage things like wear makeup, but I was in the 5th grade and lipstick was a distant fantasy. In spite of this, I managed to acquire one of those round cosmetic mirrors that plugged in and had its own fluorescent light. The mirror must have been right next to my bed because when I burst out of dream that fateful night, I don’t remember getting up or anything at all about my dream. What I do remember, what has stayed with me all these years, is the moment I flipped on the light and in that state of half-waking looked at my own reflection. I saw something in that mirror. I saw someone gazing back at me. Her eyes were just like mine but she was ancient and withered like Grandma Roupen, my Armenian great-grandmother who had died some years before. But it wasn’t Mariam Roupenian’s face either; it was someone else’s. Maybe it was mine?
