Ancestral Lineage Healing
Heal intergenerational trauma, repair colonial damage, embody ancestral blessings, and come into right relationship with well ancestral guides and the more-than-human world.
Take your rightful place among your people, cultures, and lands
Ancestral Lineage Healing—developed by psychologist, ritualist, and educator Dr. Daniel Foor—is a structured method for coming into conscious, reciprocal relationship with well ancestors, transforming intergenerational burdens into blessings, and aligning with your personal destiny as the living face of your lineages.
For most of human history, relating with our ancestors was considered a birthright and a common, normal practice. However, as a result of centuries of colonialism, war, migration, materialist paradigms, and human supremacy, living humans’ connections to their ancestors—particularly in the Western world—have been degraded, polluted, and forgotten. Dr. Foor’s method addresses these ills by providing an accessible step-by-step framework for living humans to reconnect with their vibrant, loving ancestors and access their wisdom and support.
Why do ancestral lineage healing?
Potential benefits include:
increased trust in self, others, and of intuition; empowerment; and compassion
more consistent sense of belonging
clarification of purpose and increased ability to live in alignment with it
personal, familial, and intergenerational re-patterning
improved relationships with family members, including the deceased
healing from colonialism and cultural harm—including racism, patriarchy, materialism, ableism, extreme individualism, and other forms of supremacy
more peace regarding mortality
path toward clearing the way for their own and family members’ transitions after life
embodiment of gifts and blessings of ancestral lineages
access to thousands of years of love, wisdom, guidance
enhanced spirituality and connection to the more-than-human world
My ancestral Lineage healing story
In 2021, with equal doses skepticism and curiosity, I started working with an Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner. Very quickly, it became clear that the process of coming into right relationship with my ancestors was filling gaps that I had felt, but couldn’t quite name.
Ancestral Lineage Healing provided a pathway toward working on deep-seated issues—relentless tsunamis of grief, chronically low self worth, alienation, rumination, existential dread, and a deep distrust of myself, others, and the world—that therapy alone could not fully address. It wasn’t that I hadn’t found the right modality or practitioner, it was that these issues had intergenerational components that could not be addressed within an individualist, materialist framework.
I realized that I alone didn’t have to be the cycle-breaker; my ancestral guides, with their centuries of wisdom, would help to unwind these long-standing patterns. My responsibility was to build trust with my healed ancestors through offerings and ritual, enacting a relational repair process that rests on feeding a collective good, rather than exerting individual will and effort for personal benefit.
My journey has helped me revitalize my connection with myself and with both living and deceased family members. On a wider level, my well ancestors have also guided me toward a loving decoloniality from patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and ableism, and reconnection with my own cultures of origin.
Like many diasporic people, I have little historical information about my ancestry—no names, no oral traditions, no stories. But through my ancestral lineage work, I have been able to recover several of their gifts—of poetry, scholarship, capacious vision, refinement, flexibility, joy, humor, spontaneity, and deep Earth connection—and seek everyday to express these blessings through the prism of my own soul, and in service to collective healing. To this day, my ancestral guides help me to honor a greater connection to the wider web of life, its inherent beauty, and my place within it.
In 2024, spurred by a desire to share this powerful form of personal and collective healing, I trained as an Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner. My style is warm, relatable, playful, insightful, clear, and boundaried. Given my personal and professional experiences, I am particularly attuned to the unique cultural and racial considerations of the Asian diaspora (including multiracial people and adoptees) as well as therapists, but I’m open to consulting with anyone who resonates with what I’ve written here.
FAQs
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I’m recently completed my certification and have been offering discounted sessions at a standard rate of $60/£45 for 75-minutes (recommended for a first session) and $50/£35 for a 60-minute session.
My standard fee will increase in September. However, I will not turn away anyone for lack of funds so please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss a rate that would work for you.
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In a typical session, I’ll open the space with a prayer to honor and invite in our well ancestral guides. We’ll check in for a bit and decide on your intention for the session. I’ll guide you through a 4-step drop-in sequence to help you get grounded in your body, call in support from the greater field, ask those supportive powers to clear your field from negativity or interference, and put a gentle layer of protection in place around you.
Once you’re dropped in, I’ll invite you to attune to your well ancestral guides and provide prompts and questions to deepen your connection with them, receive any guidance or messages, and facilitate the ancestral lineage healing process. Every person and every lineage is different in terms of how communication happens—some people see images, hear messages, see words, feel energies, somatic sensations, metaphor, etc.
After the drop-in, we’ll chat and debrief at the end, and review any pertinent follow-up actions that came up during the drop-in.
After the session, I’ll send you notes so you have a record of what happened in the session.
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No, a medium who uses themselves as a channel for the dead. In contrast, in an Ancestral Lineage Healing session, I will relate to my own ancestors and hold space for deepening your connection with your well ancestors. Our well ancestors will interact in their mysterious, magical way to bring through whatever is needed for you to move forward in your life. This structure helps living clients to re-learn how to have a conscious relationship with their ancestors, and in the process, to reclaim their intuition.
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Most definitely. Your skepticism is very welcome in sessions and I honor that it is around to protect you. As long as your inner skeptics allows you to give it a chance, there’s no reason you can’t engage with this work.
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This is a very common scenario, especially for people who are descended from migrant populations. I, too, have very little information about my ancestors, and have still been able to have a very deep and profound relationship with my guides. It is common for people to learn more about the stories of their people on an “energetic” level, rather than having a lot of specific historical detail.
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It depends, but you’re always free to stop at any time. In our first session, we will do an assessment of your primary lineages and decide where to start. The number of sessions needed to heal a lineage can vary based on what’s needed and the amount of time between sessions. Most of the time, it takes roughly 3 to 5 sessions to complete the healing of a lineage. Apart from healing lineages, we can also have sessions where you “drop in” to receive guidance from ancestors about particular issues and/or cultural concerns. Additionally, your relationship with your ancestors are available to you at any time, and there are many resources to help you to do this work without a practitioner.
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No, while there can be therapeutic benefit from Ancestral Lineage Healing is different in a few ways.
In Ancestral Lineage Healing, the primary attachment relationship is to the ancestral guides, so as a practitioner, I am always looking to help deepen that connection.
Secondly, although the living client is likely to receive profound healing from the work, the direct recipient of the healing is the unwell dead that are impacting you.
Thirdly, on a more practical level, you schedule sessions based on what feels “right” to you on an intuitive level, which is quite different from most therapy frames.
Fourth, in ALH sessions, there is not a focus on mental illness or diagnoses and I am not acting in my capacity as a licensed psychologist. For more information on my role as an Ancestral Healing Practitioner, read the Code of Ethics.
Interested?
Schedule a free 20-minute video consultation with me so I can orient you to the work, answer any questions, and give you a feel for my style.