Private Sessions
Ancestral Healing
No matter what our families are like today, all of us have a heritage of powerful, wise ancestors behind us. Our lines go back long, long before the days of separation from Earth, from Spirit, and from ourselves, and this knowledge and wisdom is embedded in our very bones – along with the wounds and trauma passed down through the generations. In earlier times, our ancestors were sources of wisdom, power, and belonging, as lives were lived within webs of connection, and communication was maintained between the living and those who had gone beyond.
Ancestral Healing does not belong to a specific religion or spiritual path. It is based on a number of basic assumptions:
- Something of us continues after death; the dead are still around.
- Not all the dead are healthy in spirit. Some are very loving, kind, and helpful, and some are in distress, harmful, and even dangerous.
- The living and the dead are connected, and our impact on each other is significant.
- We can communicate with the dead. This is a perfectly normal human capacity, which can be developed.
- The dead can change and heal, even after many years.
Ancestral Healing is a process of coming back into relationship with our blood ancestors, healing the generations that have been wounded, untangling unwanted influences, and receiving the guidance, blessings, and backing of our lineages. The Ancestral Healing process, developed by Daniel Foor, works in a ritual / trance space to put you in touch with your own loving, wise ancestors.
Many of our challenges (especially with our families, but not exclusively) are expressions of ancestral entanglement and influence. Common benefits of Ancestral Healing include:
- Resolution of problems resistant to other interventions
- A sense of at-home-ness, being loved, and finding one’s place in the world
- Softening of individuality, a sense of being part of a collective
- Lessening of isolation and loneliness
- Improved personal boundaries
- Greater ability to trust one’s intuition
- Feeling at peace regarding death
- Clearer sense of individual destiny
- Increased skill with ritual consciousness and trance
- Awareness and strengthening of inherited gifts
In Ancestral Healing sessions, we’ll first assess the health of your blood lineages, and then work to contact your wise and well ancestors to partner in the healing process. While both prior experience with ritual and energy work and prior information about your lineages can be helpful, neither are necessary to begin the process, and both are often a result.
Voice Dialogue
I’ve been through a lot of inner work methods, and Voice Dialogue (as taught by the masterful Ora Gavriely is both the most transformational and the most fun and enlivening! Voice Dialogue is a Jungian approach that identifies and clarifies the many parts, voices, or inner selves behind our patterns, and gives them expression, healing, and balance. Nothing else I’ve encountered untangles psychological knots so efficiently and effectively with ongoing practice, and often in a single session. It also builds ritual muscles by honing the central practices of changing consciousness at will and of vividly embodying different and even opposite energies.
Voice Dialogue is an effective tool for resolving difficulties within ourselves, with spouses, with our children, with our parents, in the workplace – in short, wherever we’re not satisfied with our usual responses. In Voice Dialogue sessions, we will explore personal and collective patterns in a safe way, expand your ability to embody new energies, and heal parts of yourself that experience pain or suffering. Common effects of Voice Dialogue include:
- More vitality
- A wider range of responses to common situations
- Acquisition of a tool for both emotional first aid and depth healing
- Transformation of long standing patterns
- Strengthening latent abilities
- Sense of ease with not knowing
- Greater understanding and compassion
Spiritual Mentoring
Everyone should have at least one mentor and ally who holds us to our greatest potential and a place to work with what is most important to us in this life. Spiritual mentoring aims to serve people who are looking to deepen relationships with deity, hone ritual and magical skills, discover the numinous magic of experiencing an animist, enspirited world, and grow into service to this life and this Earth. We may employ some Ancestral Healing or Voice Dialogue along with Reclaiming Tradition and eclectic magical practices, while we attend to whatever your needs and goals are during a period of intensified focus and practice.
While I have never received a formal initiation into any Craft tradition, I bring over 25 years of experience working with magic, the Goddess, and the Old Powers (and having them work on me), along with various modalities of inner work balanced with an ethic of walking the talk and an alternative worldview that celebrates diversity and honors our collective aspects as well as our individual gifts, challenges, and callings. If you’ve read my book or encountered my teaching or writing and feel like I may be the mentor you’re looking for, I invite you to explore working together to up your practice.
Technical Details
Where:
All of the one-on-one work can take place either in person in Hadera or virtually via Zoom, which is both accessible and surprisingly effective. You do need a decent connection and a private space where you feel comfortable and safe.
Time:
Sessions last an hour, with the possibility to extend a few minutes if needed.
Ancestral Lineage Healing is a personal process based on your connection with your lineages, so the number of sessions needed to complete one cycle varies from lineage to lineage, even for the same person. That said, it’s most common to go through the process with one lineage in five sessions. Getting to know either method takes several sessions. After that, you can continue working alone, get one session of targeted support, or embark on a longer transformative process.
Cost:
One session $125 / 350 NIS per session
Five sessions: $500 / 1500 NIS