Roots and Resilience - Ancestral Healing for Personal and Cultural Change

Our Invitation

What is unresolved persists. The dead are not dead, not truly. They speak through our institutions, families, bodies, and psyches. The ancestors, for better and for worse, are tenacious and profoundly influential. In this live two-hour teaching Daniel Foor, founder of the Ancestral Lineage Healing method, will share teachings and practices for ancestral healing and reconnection. We’ll address the risks of engaging with the dead, and the role of ancestral healing in work for psychological, family, and cultural change. Daniel will be joined by ritualists in the Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Network with in-depth skills in mental health, grief work, IFS, shamanic healing, women’s circles, and more. Expect time for questions and for experiential, guided practice to connect with ancestral support.As we will be gathering on occupied lands, any attendees of Cherokee heritage/ancestries are warmly welcome at no cost. Likewise for anyone who is not Cherokee but who is engaged in sustained service work with the Cherokee Nation.

About Daniel

Daniel is a doctor of psychology and experienced ritualist dedicated to matters of personal, cultural, and Earth healing. He’s the founder of Ancestral Medicine, an international teaching organization focused on animist ethics and ritual arts. He’s guided more than 150 multi-day ancestral healing intensives in over ten countries and helped thousands of others in their ancestral healing. He’s trained over 200 practitioners to guide ancestral healing services, and his book, Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing has been translated into ten languages and will be available at this event, care of Malaprops Bookstore.Daniel is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and a practicing Muslim who has also learned from Mahayana Buddhism and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. He’s passionate about generational healing and training leaders and change-makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual. And he’s an approachable, caring person trying to contribute usefully in a time of global crisis.After nearly seven years in the Asheville area, he now lives with his wife and two young girls, near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and is looking forward to reconnecting a bit with the land and good peoples of Western North Carolina. Learn More