Healing with our Ancestors

As we journey through our lives, we carry within us the wounds of our ancestors. The disconnect from nature that we experience today is rooted in the ancestral wounds that have been passed down through generations. From Roman separations to the burning times to the industrial revolution, each traumatic event has created a collective trauma that has been passed down through family trees.

Research into epigenetics shows us how the trauma of separation is passed down through family lines, but we also have the tools to reconnect with ancestral memory and to heal. By connecting with the wisdom of our distant ancestors, we can re-attune ourselves with the natural world.

The Wild Ancestors section of the Spiritual Rewilding course focuses on the importance of our Spiritual Rewilding as a form of ancestral healing, and healing inherited wounds of separation. By healing our own connection with nature, we also shift the epigenetic programming that is passed on further down the line.

Honouring the Grief

There are many ways that we can start to honour and heal the ancestral loss of connection with the land and the sacred, through how we work with ancestor altars to holding grief circle, where we come together to share joy and pain, and feel the support of a community. By doing so, we can process and release the unspoken in a ritual or ceremonial way.

Being a good ancestor is about reflecting on the legacy of those that have gone before, and what legacy we want to leave. We can pass on an awareness and a way of being to future generations that will help restructure and build society and community around connection rather than disconnection, around reciprocity with the rest of the natural world, and around living in harmony with the spirits of nature.

If you would like to explore this in more detail, join the Spiritual Rewilding online course and reconnect with the inherent wisdom and strength that will help and support you in your journey of re-attuning yourself with the rhythms and spirits of nature. Let's heal the wounds of our ancestors and become good ancestors ourselves.