OFFERINGS
OFFERINGS
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Whispers of the Ancestors
A Five-Week Online Immersion in Ancestral Reverence & Practice
With Alyona Kobevka & Alexandre Jodun March - April 2027
“Maybe you are searching among the branches,
for what only appears in the roots.” - Rumi
Every single one of us descends from an ancient lineage consisting of life, humans and other-than-humans, reaching back through countless generations and ultimately into the deep history of the living Earth.
Across many earth-honoring and animist cultures (some of which we have been personally blessed to sit with and learn from), maintaining a relationship with one's ancestors is understood as a sacred responsibility and an essential part of living in right relationship with the world. From these traditions and perspectives, our connection with those who came before us is intimately woven into our sense of belonging within the greater web of life and the gifts and responsibilities we carry during our time on Earth.
Yet, for many of us living in the modern world, these threads of connection and kinship have become frayed, forgotten, or severed altogether.
Through colonization, migration and displacement, family ruptures, religious persecution, and the gradual erosion of ancestral traditions, many of us have inherited a profound disconnection from our roots.
And yet, whether we know our ancestors’ names and stories or not, we remain intimately connected to those whose lives made our own possible. The very fact that we are here today, with the opportunity not merely to survive, but to explore our origins and cultivate a life in which we may truly flourish, is a profound miracle and something precious to be explored.
Ancestral reverence invites us into a process of remembrance and relationship. It asks us to turn toward our bloodlines with curiosity, compassion, and the courage to look deeper within. To acknowledge what has been difficult, painful, or left unresolved, while also remembering that the collective field of ancestors have immense blessings to offer.
Within our lineages live tremendous resources of love, wisdom, resilience, and strength, and it is our birthright to embrace these blessings into our lives.
An Invitation to Remember Together
Whispers of the Ancestors is a five-week online immersion devoted to exploring the foundations of ancestral reverence and ritual practice within a loving, respectful, and wholesome community.
This offering is a return to some of the foundational teachings from our Remembering the Roots online program, in which ancestral reverence was a central thread. We are delighted to revisit this terrain, bringing together some of the essential teachings and practices from that journey into a more focused immersion, enriched by our continued learning, practice, and relationship with this work.
Whether you participated in Remembering the Roots and feel called to deepen your relationship with the material, have some experience with ancestral work, or are encountering this work for the very first time, you are warmly welcome.
Over our five weeks together, we will draw upon systemic perspectives, ancestral ritual healing, grief-tending, prayer, spirit work & more to explore the relationships that have shaped us, and the possibilities that emerge when we begin to tend to these connections with intention and consistency.
We will explore our relationship with our blood lineages specifically, including the complexities of belonging within our family systems, the importance of honoring those who have been excluded or forgotten, and the ways historical and intergenerational suffering may continue to influence our lives.
Alongside this, we will turn toward the nourishing dimensions of ancestral connection: cultivating kinship and reciprocity with our elders, opening to receiving the blessings and wisdom of our people, and learning to become more receptive to the support and guidance that is available to us in the here and now.
Our integrative approach is rooted in the understanding that ancestral work is not something to perfect, accomplish, or master. On the contrary, it is a humble practice of cultivating genuine relationship (which takes time!) – one that indeed asks for patience, deep listening, sincerity, the capacity to hold complexity, and a willingness to meet whatever arises as part of our learning and evolution.
The Rhythm of Our Five Weeks
Each weekly gathering will take place on a Thursday evening (Peru Time) offering a nourishing balance of teaching, time for questions and reflections, and an experiential practice, allowing you to engage with the material not only intellectually, but also through your heart, body, and lived experience.
Between our gatherings, there will be gentle invitations for personal reflection, ritual practice, and other resources to support you in establishing a meaningful and sustainable rhythm with the work. These invitations are intended to help you bring what we explore together into the fabric of your everyday life, allowing your relationship with your ancestors to unfold and deepen over time.
We will move at a thoughtful pace, honoring the different histories, experiences, and capacities that each person brings. There is no expectation to arrive with particular beliefs, spiritual experiences, or extensive knowledge of your family history. We simply ask that you come with curiosity, humility, and a willingness to participate and explore this terrain.
Our hope is that this immersion will offer not only meaningful teachings and practices, but also the nourishment of a community of fellow travelers who share a sincere longing to remember, reconnect, and live in greater harmony with all of their relations, in this world and the Otherworld.
May we become tender-loving descendants of those who came before us, and wise and powerful elders to those yet to come.
What We Will Explore
SESSION ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF ANCESTRAL HEALING AND CONNECTION
March 11th, 2027 // 5:30-7:30pm Peru TimeZone
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What Do We Mean by Ancestors, Ancestral Healing & Connection? The origins and foundations of our approach. Exploring who and what we mean by ancestors, the many dimensions of ancestral connection, and the cultural, spiritual, and practical foundations of our approach. Understanding ancestral healing and connection as an ongoing process of relationship and remembrance.
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Why Work with Our Blood Lineages? Honoring our bloodlines, belonging & the gifts we bring to life. Examining how our relationship with those who came before us – our roots – invites us into sacred responsibility in this lifetime, and can support a flourishing capacity to offer our unique gifts to our communities.
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Ritual Etiquette & the Reverence of Approach. Cultivating right relationship with the ancestors, mystery, and life. Establishing the foundational attitudes, principles, and practices that support respectful engagement with ancestral work, and thus spirit work. Exploring this terrain with humility, discernment, reciprocity, boundaries, and friendship, while releasing perfectionism, rigid expectations, and the need for certainty or control.
SESSION TWO: SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY, ANCESTORS & LINEAGE
March 18th, 2027 // 5:30-7:30pm Peru TimeZone
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Exploring our relationship with our mother and father. Understanding what it means to step into our own adulthood, cultivating maturity, sovereignty, and personal responsibility, while honoring our rightful place as the child in relation to our mother, father, and grandparents within the generational order.
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Exclusion and Entanglement. Exploring how exclusion, unresolved trauma, and unacknowledged family histories can create knots, tensions, and patterns of entanglement within the family system.
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The Fundamental Need to Belong. Understanding belonging through a systemic lens, and taking our rightful place in our family system and in relation to our ancestors.
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Attending to Both Energy and Facts. Cultivating the capacity to perceive the emotional and relational dynamics within a family system while remaining grounded in historical realities, lived experiences, and what is actually known.
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Honoring Death, Respecting Destiny. Exploring what it means to acknowledge the lives, deaths, and choices and circumstances of those who came before us, and noticing where we may carry what is not ours.
SESSION THREE: GRIEF-WORK WITH FAMILY & ANCESTRY
March 25th, 2027 // 5:30-7:30pm Peru TimeZone
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Grief-Tending as an Essential Practice in Ancestral Work. Understanding the role of grief in ancestral healing, and exploring how the willingness to grieve can open pathways toward compassion, forgiveness, reconciliation, and a deeper capacity to love.
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Understanding the Historical Context of Ancestral Disconnection. Acknowledging the collective and historical forces that have shaped our most recent ancestral histories, including colonization, displacement, migration, cultural erasure, and internalized oppression.
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Recognizing and Tending to Ancestral Disconnection. Exploring the signs of disconnection from our families, ancestors, cultural roots, and places of origin (and how this shows up as disconnection from ourselves) and identifying pathways toward reconnection, and the authentic restoration of meaningful relationships with our lineages, on our own terms.
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Working with Those Who Are Unwell. Exploring how to relate to ancestors and family members who have experienced profound suffering, illness, addiction, violence, or other forms of unresolved difficulty.
SESSION FOUR: SPIRIT-WORK - RECEIVING THE BLESSINGS FROM OUR LINEAGES
April 1st, 2027 // 5:30-7:30pm Peru TimeZone
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Love and Gratitude as the Nectar of Ancestral Connection. Exploring love and gratitude as the essential qualities that nourish our relationships with the ancient ones, deepening the bonds of kinship and reciprocity across generations.
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The Power of Prayer. Cultivating prayer as a living expression of devotion, and as a direct experience with the holy. Exploring how prayer can become a bridge between the visible and invisible worlds, opening pathways for communication and embodied knowing.
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Receiving the Blessings of Our Lineages. Opening ourselves to the wisdom, strength, guidance, and support of our ancestors. Learning to receive the gifts and blessings available to us, and allowing these to become living resources in our own lives.
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Becoming a Receptive Vessel for Ancestral Medicine. Cultivating the internal conditions for intuitive insight to flow and alchemy to occur. Exploring what it means to become a receptive vessel for the particular gifts of our lineages, allowing what we receive to take root, find expression, and move through us in service to life.
SESSION FIVE: BECOMING FUTURE ANCESTORS - REVIEW & INTEGRATION
April 8th, 2027 // 5:30-7:30pm Peru TimeZone
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The Fruits of Ancestral Work. Understanding how the blessings of ancestral connection and healing can practically take root in our everyday lives.
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Becoming Future Ancestors. Recognizing ourselves as living ancestors-in-the-making, and exploring the responsibilities and possibilities that come with our place in the unfolding continuum of life. Considering what we are cultivating, embodying, and passing forward to those who will come after us.
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What Are We Heeding? Deepening our capacity to listen for the teachings and invitations emerging through the work we have done in this immersion.
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What Is Calling Us Forth? Claiming our lives as fully as we are able, and listening attentively for the instructions, commitments, and contributions that are asking to be brought into the world through us, in service to our communities, future generations, and the greater web of life.
“I am so grateful to you both for your courage, hard work, and dedication in this course. Your life's path is so evident in the teachings. All of this provided guidance, wisdom and knowledge are alive and I can feel both of your blood lines coursing through every aspect, image and word. Thank you again for this priceless offering. The time with you and all has fortified the soils beneath, behind and in front of me and us all.”
– Gia, Remembering the Roots participant
California, USA
Alexa Young, CA
Immersion Dates & Times
We will meet every Thursday starting March 11th for five weeks from 5:30-7:30pm (Cusco, Peru Time). Please use Timezone Converter here to confirm the date & time in your location. The dates we will be gathering are: March 11th, March 18th, March 25th, April 1st and April 8th.
Pricing for the Immersion
$222 USD
We warmly encourage you to attend as many of our live gatherings as possible, as the richness of this journey is deepened through our shared presence, participation, and connection with one another. We also understand if you miss a class or two, so each session will be recorded and made available to those who are unable to attend live.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
We recognize that things are constantly shifting and unfolding in life in unexpected ways. We do empathize that plans can change, circumstances arise, and sometimes commitments become difficult to honor. We totally understand this.
At the same time, after years of offering workshops, courses, and immersions, and learning what is needed to sustainably hold these spaces, we have come to uphold a 100% non-refundable registration policy.
We kindly ask that you thoughtfully consider your capacity and commitment to participating in this five-week immersion before registering.
Once you have registered and made your payment, your place is confirmed, and no refunds will be issued, including in circumstances where you are no longer able to attend, your personal circumstances change, or you choose not to participate live in the course. We deeply appreciate your respect for this policy, which allows us to honor the time, energy, and resources that go into creating and holding these spaces for our community.
We look forward to diving into this immersion with you!