Clients sometimes come to a shamanic healing session with a vague sense that a piece of pain they are experiencing is ancestral. They may have a general awareness that a parent or grandparent struggles with a similar issue. In the diagnostic journey, I ask my helping...
Ancestors
Our ‘Ancestors’ content is a combination of audios and articles focused on the shamanic practice of being in right relationship with our ancestors.
Unraveling the Red Thread –
The Gathering Place: A Safe Place for Ancestral Healing
When I first began my shamanic practice, I noticed early on that I had an affinity for ancestral healing. The client’s ancestors would appear in the session and share the story of the original wound in the family. Many of these suffering ancestors brought their pain...
Tending the Dead
About this Audio As we support the Re-Creation of our world, we also have opportunities to look back and help correct miss-steps from our collective past. In many places today, people have lost the skills and rituals needed to guide souls after death to the afterlife....
Land of the Ancestors: An Upper World Journey
Once guided to a healing ancestor in the Upper World, ask to be shown what you are needing for further expansion on your shamanic path and what can be done to restore right relationship with Mother Earth?...
Book Review of The Energetic Dimension by Ann M. Drake
As I begin to write this review of Ann Drake's excellent new book The Energetic Dimension, Americans are trying to make sense of the two most recent shootings over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which together left 31 people dead and many more...
Xhosa Sangoma Medicine
From time immemorial the medicine person’s job was to help the community reconnect with their ancestors and thus find their vision and soul’s purpose. For it is well known that all people come to earth for a particular purpose and when that purpose is realized then...
Healing Through The Generations: A Guided Meditation
What are you ready to release? What have you noticed within your family unit that you would like to clear, not only for yourself but for future generations? With the help of our ancestors, Archangel Michael and our animal allies, Dr. Steven Farmer guides us towards a...
African Shamanism & Ancestral Wisdom
Dr. Steven Farmer interviews Gretchen Crilly McKay about the wisdom obtained from working with a Sangoma (African Shaman) through a divination process called throwing the bones. Gretchen is reunited with her African ancestors as she begins to cultivate the healing...
Our Unspent Grief: The Lost Art of Keening
Perhaps no other story in Celtic mythology demonstrates more succinctly the unbearable weight of grief than that of the great hero, Cu Cuchlainn at the death of his son, Connla. The young warrior’s death comes tragically and unwittingly at Cu Cuchlainn’s own hand,...