Low-Income Sessions + Winter Online Courses

Greetings all,

Kindness to everyone navigating myriad intensities with the pandemic, political turbulence, climate change, and old troubles that are slow to change. May we be good to one another knowing that roughly no one is at their best these days.

Thanks to all enrolled in Foundations of Ritual and/or Animist Psychology; we hope you're feeling well met by the courses. Registration is now open for the Winter season (Jan-April) for Practical Animism and Ancestral Lineage Healing (details below). We have listened to all the helpful feedback we received and we are incorporating that feedback into our winter course offerings. Both courses will be well-resourced with small break-out groups immediately following the main live Q&A call with me, plus an additional community call to support participants in international time zones, as well as two separate BIPOC-only and LGBTQ-only community calls every week to support inclusivity and emotionally easeful learning. For folks who have taken either course before, we have a steep discount to circle back for the 30+ hours of live calls and community connection.

Praise again to the 33 ancestral healing trainees, most of whom are available during the next cycle of their training for low-income sessions (including in Spanish, French, Greek, and German). Those in the directory of practitioners are also a great resource for you or your loved ones seeking support with life, death, ritual, and belonging. The 65+ practitioners and trainees in the network with Ancestral Medicine are really wholesome, spirited people and working with them is a great way to dive deeper with your work with the ancestors, ritual, etc.

If you didn't catch the talk from the summer, check out our YouTube for Animism, Conflict, and Cultural Change. It's a reasonable introduction to animism as a pragmatic relational frame and lays out some cultural implications, including for these times.

Ancestral Medicine is happy to welcome a new member to our team. Idamarie Collazo started the last week of October and will be people tending and making the magic happen in a variety of other ways alongside Jason Lay and Sumaya K. Owens.

Finally, thanks to everyone in the United States who voted for critical political change and to everyone moving in self-responsible ways with respect to the pandemic. Politics aside, seems the next few months, as predicted, are on track to be especially COVID-intense. May we anchor in with our people and the good Earth and humbly respect the elder powers by observing all relevant precautions.

With care,

Daniel

Registration now open! Animism is a way of life that emphasizes relationships. Animists see the world as full of persons, both human and other-than-human, and prioritize living in respectful ways with others.

Animism gets at what people often mean when expressing a call to indigenous traditions or shamanism but does so in ways that avoid some pitfalls of those terms. Some kinds of people animists might relate with include: plants, animals, fungi, mountains, metals, fire, bodies of water, spirits of wind and weather, deities, human ancestors, star people, and others we don’t have words for in English.

Early bird discount available until December 10th. Payment plans and scholarships are also available.

Registration now open! Ancestral lineage healing refers to a process of coming into direct relationship with one’s recent and more ancient blood ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing.

This course provides a through and effective step-by-step approach to working with your specific lineage ancestors for this healing intention. The approach is kind, non-dogmatic, and explicitly rooted in a feminist, anti-racist, LGBTQI-friendly, decolonizing, class-aware, earth-honoring ethic without being overly politicized in ways that dampen the spirit of depth ritual work.

Early bird discount available until December 10th. Payment plans and scholarships are also available.