"My Ancestry is also my Root System.

My ancestry is not just the past.

The lives of my ancestors are also encoding and living in me today, as I am a combination of many many life times"

Thomas Hübl

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We are connected to our ancestors, and neither time, space or matter can separate us. The story we share with our family begins even before our conception. We scientifically know that a female fetus develops all the eggs she will ever have before birth. That means that your grandmother, your mother and the earliest traces of yourself, were all in the same body - three generations sharing the same biological environment. Science is also showing us that​information from past generations, as well as feelings and emotions, are being passed on in the umbilical circuit from the mother's womb to the fetus's. The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth.
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Ancestral Grief is the grief we carry in our bodies from sorrows and trauma experienced by our ancestors that could not be grieved and got passed down in our DNA, belief systems and emotional processes. It is the un-metabolized aspects of our ancestors’ lives that were handed over to us. Our blood lines carry stories of un-digested losses. We hold Ancestral Grief in our beings, even after many generations in the new life. Some of these stories we know, some we intuitively sense and feel. 

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This Un-processed ancestral grief may manifest as sorrow, suffering, rage, and guilt in the present moment. It might also lead to shameful thoughts about ourselves and our identities that we are unable to shake. It may be an embodiment of sadness, anger, or guilt in the body, such as abdominal pains or neck tightness. It can show up as fears related to our sense of safety, insomnia, themes of self worth and a sense of belonging, financial security and more. Everyone experiences ancestral grief differently. It is always very stifling, exhausting, murky, forgetful and there is a sense of disconnection that is attached to it.​​

 

Honoring Ancestral Grief work is very subtle and profound, that takes place on a molecular level. It takes patience, devotion, compassion and an open heart to generate and embody these changes, until one day the process unfolds organically and naturally without utilizing immense reservoirs of effort. Some of the positive changes occur on the neuroplasticity level, which is the brain’s ability to change through growth and reorganization. Some manifest as a deeper attuned nervous system and wider access to the information and sacred wisdom our bodies carries, a whole inner architecture that we get to know, our ancestry library.

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Our ancestors gave us way more than their woundings. With this work, we are reclaiming Ancestral heritages, heirlooms and strengths. Healing this grief may come through reconnecting with our forgotten lineage, allowing us to restore a foundation that may be missing, from which we can move more deeply into relationship with the wider world, so we may receive the gifts of life-supporting and life-affirming ancestral influences and wisdoms - talents, internal resources, a way of knowing things, ​ancient intelligence, resiliency, super powers. 

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What we liberate in ourselves, echos back infinitely and eternally, as a different quality of energy gets passed on to the generations who have yet to come. A holistic, ancient, awaked, wise energy. One that witnesses the stories from a birds eye perspective, one that is generating the oceans of compassion and light hearted freedom. ​One that is expanding our map of consciousness, that is stretching the elasticity of our collective memory and presence.

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It is essential we support the accessing of ​our own inner wisdom, so that we may connect with the ancestor that we wish to become.

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Do you remember the sound
of the hips that cracked
to birth you
echoing all the way back
to the First Mother?
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The ten thousand secrets
whispered into your blood
by every woman
that came before you.
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The blessings of your lineage:
how to know yourself
how to live a life
how to heal.
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The burdens:
how to hold your tongue
how to carry your pain
how to pass it on.
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You look just like your mother’s mother’s mother
when the sun hits your face
and her voice slips through your lips
when you stand firm-footed
and say:
I remember.
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You look just like your daughter’s daughter’s daughter
when the moon reflects in your eyes
and her voice drips from your tongue
when you stand firm-footed
and say:
this ends with me.
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Don’t you realize
that you can midwife your own birth
as often as you need to?
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Listen closely
to the pulse of silence
in the deep velvet of your womb
until you hear a gentle voice
that whispers
‘this is the way.’

 

- Gina Puorro, from ‘The Wild Will Call You Back’ 

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