What kind of ancestor are you?
What kind do you yearn to be?
‘What kind of ancestor are you?”’ is the kind of question I live for.
It is a question you can spend your whole life contemplating.
A question that will unfold and reveal itself – both through choices of your own and forces beyond you.
A question that will inevitably answer itself… or one that will intentionally be answered by you through interrogation, investigation, and investment.
A question that is available to biological and chosen lineages and kin.
A question that, if met with the fullness of heart it invites, can ripple out into wider recognition of our integration into and impact upon the whole, our interdependencies and mutualities within the system of life held by the universe.
Beautiful questions help shape the purpose, meaning, values, principles, commitments, and opportunities through which our lives flow.
“What kind of ancestor are you and what kind do you yearn to be?” are two of countless questions that offers a guiding light through the journey of Cultivating Culture – my online, 9-week course on ancestral repair, reclamation, and renewal.
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This course is for everyone — all ages, genders, backgrounds — for all who are called into a journey through space & time to reconnect with our ancestral root systems, rehydrate lost and suppressed cultural wisdoms, and transform our inheritances into liberatory personal & collective futures.
The magic arises by the very nature of inquiring into these sacred questions in community. Healing is relational. To sit with others in all of our evolving knowings as well as the possible indeterminacies, to sit with others while we’re pushed out beyond the edges into the dormant potentialities, to sit with others and unravel – unlearning and relearning individually and collectively, to sit with others in the inspiration and provocation of the profound calling of ourselves as ancient/present/future ancestors simultaneously. . . this is the healing devotion that radiates out into personal and collective transformation.
Healing is relational. Healing is revolutionary. Relationships are the sacred sites of revolution.
In this course, we lean in to the healing that comes from creating a community of practice rooted in trust. We stretch gently into a spaciousness that comes with surprising ease, one that would seem so challenging and hard-earned to carve into but one that comes organically and deliciously, a breadth and width that feeds our spirits in its antidote to the fast-paced, high-speed-chase, checklist race kind of lifestyles demanded of us in this paradigm we seek so passionately to transform. Every participant in the last four cohorts of Cultivating Culture has affirmed repeatedly the kind of generosity of presence and groundedness of being that nourishes them through the entire week after each session — a 9-week portal of refuge that feeds revolution from a deeply resourced place.
In this refuge, in this nervous-system reset, we meet beautiful questions, facilitated through a journey that builds upon itself through a time/participant-tested rhythm to generate the kind of experiences that lead to feedback like this:
And still, more questions. On the website where you can enroll, I introduce the course with these questions I invite you to pause and consider now, and if anything sparks you toward deeper engagement, I encourage you: maybe this course is meant for you, now.
What does it mean to be human?
To spring forth from ancient and enduring lineages, known and unknown?
What does it mean to forget ourselves?
To become lost to – or severed from – the magic and medicine of our ancestry as something both past and still living?
Where and who did you come from, really? Not just in waht you can or can’t find on ancestry.com, but what do you know and yearn to know through your bones and blood and cell memories?
How does your ancestral legacy operate in your life today?
What ancestral patterns are you ready to release?
What ancestral rituals & practices, medicines & magic are you yearning to remember and restore?
How is ancestral renewal a liberatory practice?
What do you get to radically express that your ancestors had to hide?
What do your future ancestors (biological or otherwise) thank you for exploring in this lifetime that empowers them in theirs?
How does ancestral reconnection serve reintegration of the soul?
What tangible tools and practices can help us rediscover ancestral information and commune with our lineages even if we have little left?
How is ancestral work not only a human endeavor but a communion with the more-than-human world as stewards, strengthening lineage linkages to land, place and lifeways of interspecies solidarity?
Lineage healing knits the wounds of separation and offers us reclamation and revitalization of the wholeness in/by which we are all held.
Cultural cultivation is the invitation of this incarnation. It is the way we shape change. If dominant culture is unsurvivable, it is a survival level priority to cultivate culture in service of life, to cultivate culture that thrives in technicolor contrast to the regimes and world-orders we have inherited, to cultivate culture that expands beyond narrow imaginations of cruelty and threat and dreams more beautiful futures for all into being. We do it together.
With great love and excitement for you to possibly join this gorgeous circle gathering,
Rachel
