What is Ancestral Lineage Healing?
Ancestral healing helps you reconnect with your authentic path and purpose. It offers a way to transform harmful patterns passed down through generations and shift challenging dynamics within your living family. It is a practice that helps us attune to spiritual connection, resilience, and support in these times.
If you've ever dealt with
Painful family dynamics and/or a sense of inherited complicity in and moral injury from systemic oppression
perhaps you've wondered
What is my right-sized role in shifting ancestral burdens?
As a somatic practitioner with decades of embodiment training and practice, I guide this work in a way that supports presence and grounding in the body, moving at a pace that feels right for you.
Benefits of ancestral lineage healing
- Experiencing an embodied sense of deep and unconditional belonging, support, and love from your well and benevolent ancestors;
- Deepening safe connection and intimacy with ancestors who were previously unwell such that they were unsafe to relate with;
- Gaining greater clarity and confidence around your life purpose as it relates to the blessings, medicine, and magic of your lineages;
- Experiencing increased self-confidence, self-love, and connection to your identities and cultural heritage;
- Sharpening perceptual channels of intuitive knowing and sensing;
- Cultivating embodied resilience in working to dismantle and heal cultural wounds such as Earth disconnection, human supremacy, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy.
It’s my honor to facilitate ancestral lineage healing for those called to transform inherited wounds and burdens into abundant blessings. For many people, cultural practices of ancestral reverence have been lost through centuries of colonialism, war, displacement, migration, and assimilation. Thankfully, each of us has wise, well, loving, earth-honoring ancestors lovingly waiting for us to turn toward them. Ancestral lineage repair work helps us reconnect directly with the wisdom of our lineages, without unconsciously appropriating traditions of other cultures.
Many of the ills of today’s world are rooted in unmetabolized ancestral pain and trauma, which influences living humans by way of the troubled dead (aka ghosts). As we learn to establish and maintain boundaries with our troubled ancestors, and reconnect and collaborate with our well and loving ancestors to heal and transform the wounds and burdens in our lines, we can both experience healing in our own lives and families, and help shift collective consciousness.
One of the biggest gifts of this work is healing intergenerational shame and getting to practice and cultivate secure attachment with the ancestors, which in turn serves as a reference point for tending healthy intimacy and relationality with the natural world and other humans.
I facilitate this work in a way that nurtures and cultivates embodied presence and welcomes right pacing. This practice is ritually and somatically safe and grounded, and doesn’t require prior experience with spirit based healing work. You also need not know genealogical information about your lineages or be in touch with living family members.
As an earth-honoring Jewish ritualist, I support Jews and non-Jews on this transformative path of ancestral healing. If you’re interested in exploring the possibility of working together, please schedule a Curiosity Call below. Information about my sliding scale fee structure is here. I’m currently accepting new and return remote and in-person clients in Northampton, MA. Please note that remote work entails two to three sessions on zoom and subsequent sessions by phone.
To learn more about this work:
This Introductory page of Ancestral Medicine
Fees
I currently offer 1:1 sessions on a sliding scale of $175 to $300 per session. Please discern what exchange feels like a meaningful, fair, and sustainable exchange for you based on your access to resources (income, wealth, family support, etc.).
Please reference this sliding scale discernment guide from Alexis J. Cunningfolk of Worts & Cunning Apothecary for support with this and reach out if you have questions.
Payment is due in advance of each session via recurring monthly Square payments (linked below), Venmo: @simonwolff, or PayPal via elishevasimonwolff@gmail.com. All sessions are 60 minutes except the initial Ancestral Healing Assessment, which is 90 minutes (at no additional charge).
Please note I ask that any cancellations or rescheduling be done at least 48 hours in advance. There is a $60 fee for missed appointment and late cancellations unless it is due to an emergency.
Economic accessibility note: If my sliding scale is not accessible to you, I understand (firsthand). Please reach out via the Connect page as I reserve a limited number of sessions each month at a reduced rate of $125-$150. If that reduced rate is still not feasible for you, you can reach out to Ancestral Medicine at info@ancestralmedicine.org to inquire about other certifiers practitioners in the network who are offering lower cost sessions.
