COMMUNITY ANCESTOR DRUMMING
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025
Time: 3:30 - 5:30pm
Location: 306A 16th St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
We are inviting our communities to gather with us to honor all of our elevated ancestral spirits and lineages through drumming and mbira music. This is a sacred space for healing, prayer, dance, and community.
*There will be a community altar. You are welcome to add offerings, flowers, photos, etc.
*We celebrate diversity in our communities!
**Note: This is not an open drumming. There are specific drummers/gwenyambira designated to drum and play mbira for our Ancestors and the Ancestor shrine. Thank you for your understanding.
The Healer’s Path
An Energy Medicine & Ancestral Practices Program
For the BIPOC Community
March 13 - May 24, 2025
A transformative 3-month introductory program designed for BIPOC Health and Wellness Practitioners—especially those in maternal health—seeking to integrate ancestral wisdom and energy medicine into their practice.
What you will be learning…
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As a strong foundation, you will be learning about energy systems from various traditions that have been used for thousands of years in healing as well as maintaining balance in the human body. These systems were not only used for addressing challenges that were manifested physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. These systems were also utilized to maintain peace and harmony in one’s life- which essentially, if an individual is in this practice of addressing health as part of a daily routine, illness has less possibility of occurring.
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When we are moving through the liminal spaces that allow us to heal in the more subtle levels, it is important that we are also tending and caring for ourselves as well. We do this with cleaning, protecting, and amplifying our energetic fields.
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We will be diving more deeply into how working with our Ancestors can play such a valuable and necessary role in this work. We’ll be discussing the medicines that we carry, and how it is passed on through our bloodline, healing intergenerational traumas, and the roles that we choose to play in this web of life.
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The use of sound, music, and the voice has long been a part of healing practices throughout many cultures of the world. We will be exploring the ideas of frequency, vibration, sound, and music as medicine, as well as participating in a sound healing ceremony.
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The Plant world has always played a tremendous role in healing. We will be exploring different roles of plants, and how to be in right relation with them as spiritual beings.
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As we walk this path we recognize the sacredness in ourselves, in others, and the work that we do. We will be exploring the use of protocols and personal tools as an essential part of this recognition as we continue on our path of the sacred.
What the program includes…
Collective Learning
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Online:
2 - Zoom classes per month
1st and 3rd Thursday of the month
6pm - 8pm MST
All classes will be recorded
1 - Follow Up Zoom for the collective, after the completion of the final class
In-Person:
We will meet the 3rd Saturday of the month in a private location
9am - 6pm
Light snacks and lunch will be provided
Downloadable Worksheets
Personal Learning
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1 - Ancestral Oracle Reading
1- Healing Session Per Month
1 - Coaching Session Per Month
1- Follow Up Coaching Session after the close of the 3 month program, to be completed within 30 days of the final class
Access to Zoom Recordings
Sound Healing Ceremony
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You will be exploring sound as medicine, and also participating in a sound healing with the traditional music of Zimbabwe
Materials for In-Person Classes
FAQs
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The most simple response to these questions are yes. We are also sharing some basic shamanic work in these teachings, however, this is an introductory class so we will only be going as far as is appropriate. Yes many would consider us to be shamans, however, it is a not a word that we would use to describe ourselves personally. It is much more complex. First, it is extremely important to note that the term shaman originated specifically from indigenous groups in Siberia and Central Asia. From an anthropological perspective, this is where the word originated from in relation to spiritual practitioners and healers. However, spiritual traditions are practiced across the globe through many cultural traditions.
Over time, the word has become a blanket phrase and used in ways where:
It does not acknowledge the correct phrasing for traditional and spiritual practitioners that may have similar practices but do not use the word shaman.
It has become a word that is trendy and does not honor the path and lineages that have kept this wisdom and medicine sacred.
It does not acknowledge that different cultures carry different medicines in their spiritual traditions.
There is lack of understanding that many practitioners that have carried these traditions have actually given their lives using these practices in defense of their people.
The overuse and misuse of this word dilutes its potency, and does not recognize the responsibility that comes with it.
So while it is a word that has been used to refer to the ritual specialists that walk between worlds it is also vastly important that we do not dilute the magnitude of this work by using the word shaman without clear intention and understanding.
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This program is specifically for BIPOC individuals who work specifically in health and wellness, or have an interest in it. This can range from being a yoga instructor, to being a nutritionist, to a reiki instructor, to a surgeon, and everything in between.
This program is especially suited for those in the maternal health field as it integrates information in relation to working with ancestors and healing lineages.
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Yes, the classes will be recorded and available for lifetime access.
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We will be meeting at the following dates and times:
Orientation:
We will have an orientation online Monday, March 3rd, 2025 | 6pm -7pm MST
Online:
2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month | 6pm - 8pm MST
March 13 and March 27
April 10 and April 24
May 8 and May 22
In-Person
4th Saturday of the month | 9am - 6pm
March 29
April 26
May 24
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Given the nature of our content, we do not offer refunds. Credit is available to be used within 12 months of payment. Credit can be used towards other workshops, ancestral work, or energy healing sessions with Angela. Credit cannot be used towards retreats.
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We highly recommend that you do not miss the in person classes as these are the spaces when we get to have direct experience with this work and also be in community with one another. These sessions are not recorded. If there are folks that cannot attend the live class, we can do a zoom as well but it is important to understand that the experience will not be the same as it will be in person.
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You can send your questions to angela@ndorohealingarts.com
Ancestral Wisdom
This workshop and ceremony is a sacred space in which we will explore concepts of spirituality and ancestral veneration, as well as have the opportunity to participate in a traditional ancestral mediumship ceremony.
Participating in an ancestral ceremony of this nature helps us to embody the practices that we will be exploring, through direct and somatic experiences. It is important to remember that somatic experiences are not only for the intention of healing trauma, somatic experiences in ceremonial spaces also provide access to deeper levels of insight, that can elevate our frequencies, vibrations, and align us with our evolution. This has been an understanding for thousands of years through cultural and traditional practices, and why it can be so important to experience ceremonies of this nature.
It is in these spaces of reverence where we can deepen into a greater understanding of ourselves as carriers of the medicine that has been gifted to us from our ancestral lineages. It is in these spaces where we recognize ourselves as a reflection of the divine.
Let's receive the blessings and guidance that we need to support us through these times.
We look forward to being with you.
