Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive
Rochester, New York
October 30 - November 1 2026
Three Days of Teaching, Practice, and Ritual
About the work
Ancestral lineage healing is the practice of relating directly with one’s blood ancestors for personal, familial, and cultural healing. It involves safely establishing relationships with wise and well ancestors and enlisting their support to deeply heal your lineages reaching far back in time.
If you’ve participated in personal healing work and you’re now seeking greater breakthroughs, ancestral healing may be for you. This approach weaves helpful elements from psychology, cultural healing, and spiritual/ritual traditions. Patterns rooted in intergenerational cycles and cultural pain can find resolution. Coming into relationship with recent and more ancient ancestors can re-establish obscured blessings, improve relationships with the living, and encourage greater belonging and clarity around life purpose and path.
Learn a life-long framework to relate in direct, safe, and empowering ways with your family and lineage ancestors.
Establish connections with ancestral guides and work in partnership with them for lasting personal and family healing.
Join with your ancestors to support the resolution of larger systemic, generational, and cultural wounding.
About Rochester
Logistics
The cost of room and board are not included in the price of registration. Each day, you’ll be invited to join us at the venue for an on-time start and to stay for the duration of the scheduled event.
The venue is:
The Perkins Mansion
494 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
We’ll gather for dedicated time in group ritual for about seven hours per day over three full days (9:00-1:00 and 3:00-6:00). There will be chairs available for seating. We encourage you to bring whatever you’ll need to be comfortable. We’ll take spacious two-hour lunch breaks to enjoy nearby restaurant options.
We’ll approach the work in ways that are psychologically grounded, ritually safe, and culturally inclusive. Teachings and practices are led by Ashley and Teagan, and a team of trained supporters. Those new to ancestor work, adoptees, and folks with a tough experience of family are welcome. The larger circle and gathering will also be a safe space for bringing care to historical pain.
The event will be guided in English.
What to Expect:
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More than a dozen substantive guided practices in circle with drumming, song, offerings, and more.
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Three full days with teachings, different approaches to ritual, and time for live questions.
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Small breakout groups for intimate sharing and processing, anchored by trained ritualists.
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Come away with a life-long framework to relate safely with your family and lineage ancestors.
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Co-create a tangible offering of beauty for your ancestors and the larger prayer of cultural healing.
Register to join us Samhain Weekend!
$875
Sustaining
Pay In Full
This rate helps us make our work accessible to those with modest means and applies if you have investments, a retirement plan, take vacations, and/or have access to economic abundance.
$675
Standard
Pay In Full
Our standard rate allows us to sustain our work. This typically applies if you’re employed full time, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
$450
Reduced*
Pay In Full
This rate applies if you’re relatively less economically advantaged in the ways listed under “standard rate” or that cost is simply out of reach for you financially.
*limited seats available
$292/month
Sustaining
3-month
Payment
Plan
$225/month
Standard
3-month
Payment
Plan
$150/month
Reduced*
3-month
Payment
Plan
There are (2) scholarship seats available on a first-come-first-serve basis offered to Seneca & BIPOC folks. Please email hello@ashleywaverley.com to claim.
Meet Your Facilitators
Ashley is a ritualist and writer who helps you feel less alone, lost, and broken through connection with your ancestors and soul. She supports individuals in building relationships with the seen and unseen. Her work centers adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, walking alongside them through the stabilization, healing, and integration of these experiences. At the core, she changes peoples hearts and minds by sharing what has changed hers. Her ancestors are from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Scotland. Ashley lives on Mohegan land in Connecticut, USA.
Ashley Waverley
Teagan West (she/they) is a Ritualist, Astrologer, Drum Maker & Traditional Healer from Hodinöhsö:ni Land, home of the Seneca Nation. Her people are Irish, Syrian, Egyptian and Omàmiwinini (Anishinaabe). Teagan weaves together threads of Astrological Storytelling, Land Reconnection, Ancestral Tending & Community Ritual as a unique tapestry of culture work + animist remembrance. In her free time, you can find her making ritual tools such as Drums + Rattles, connecting with the Land, or in Song + Dance with her community.