Ancestral Practices for The Healer
August 8, 2026 | 3 - 4:30pm
Anima Mundi Apothecary, Venice, CA
A Foundational Workshop in Sacred Connection
Join us for a transformative workshop designed specifically for healers, practitioners, and those who hold space for others. Learn sacred ancestral practices that will protect your energy, deepen your intuition, and anchor you in spiritual truth as you serve your community. You'll discover how to build a relationship with your ancestors for guidance in your healing work, create rituals for energetic protection, and understand how ancestral alignment can prevent burnout and spiritual depletion. Whether you're a bodyworker, therapist, energy healer, doula, or community caregiver, this workshop offers practical tools rooted in ancestral wisdom to help you sustain your practice with clarity, power, and divine support.
This is just the beginning. After building your foundation, you'll have the opportunity to join an advanced workshop for those ready to deepen their ancestral practice and healing journey.
Ancestral Medicine for Healing and Liberation
A workshop of foundational concepts and practices
June 20, 2026 | 3:30 - 5 pm PST
Anima Mundi Apothecary, Venice, CA
We carry more than DNA—we carry the wisdom and the wounds of those who came before us. Join Traditional Spirit Medium and Orisha Priest Angela Cruz, for an intimate exploration of ancestral medicine and spiritual connection. In this workshop, you will learn foundational concepts and practices of ancestral veneration—from building sacred altars and making offerings to understanding how ancestral wisdom can support your health, career, relationships, purpose, and path to liberation. This is more than a workshop— it is an invitation to strengthen our relationship with our blood lineage to empower us in our daily lives and keep us in alignment with our destiny.
Ancestral Practices for Birthworkers
Remembering the Medicine of Your Ancestors
February 21 + 22, 2026 | Portland, OR
This workshop goes beyond typical continuing education. This is about remembering the ancestral practices that protect your energy and deepen your work.
Join us for an in-person experience that explores the spiritual and energetic foundations that make birthwork sustainable, sacred, and powerful. This is for birthworkers seeking deeper ancestral relationship, clarity, and embodied practice in a community setting.
Honoring the Ancestors: A Community Gathering
A sacred space for remembrance, traditional music, and ancestral connection
January 24, 2026 · Albuquerque, NM | All Are Welcome · Limited Space
A community gathering to honor our ancestral lineages through remembrance, drumming, mbira, and participation in living traditions.
Drumming & Mbira | 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Honoring the ancestors through prayer, sound, frequency, and collective presence
Traditional Ancestral Mediumship Ceremony with Mbira | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
A sacred ceremony supported by mbira music, rooted in traditional ancestral practices
Limited Space - RSVP Required
Please send your rsvp here.
(Details will be provided in your confirmation email)
Donations are welcome
This helps to sustain the continuation of ancestral and cultural practices.
This is a ceremonial space, held as a sacred communal container. Participants are expected to arrive grounded, sober, and respectful of the traditions, facilitators, and collective space.
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.
