ANCESTRAL LINEAGE HEALING
3- Day Intensive ⟡ Rochester, NY
Samhain Weekend ⟡ Oct 30th-Nov 1st, 2026
Three Days of Group Ritual, Teaching & Practice
Ancestral lineage healing is the practice of relating directly with one’s blood ancestors for personal, familial, and cultural healing. Through establishing ritually safe connection with our people, we collaborate with the Wise + Well Ones to bring healing through our Lineage.
Each of us are shaped by a unique tapestry of intersecting histories, that form the current world as we know it. We inherit a world from our Ancestors, with both their Blessings & Burdens as part of our own story. This work tends to those threads as they move through both deeply personal processes and the larger cultural context that we’re woven into. The intention is to heal what has not yet been fully resolved or processed along Lineage, both for the Beloved Dead and the Living Family Legacy.
This Intensive is led by experienced Practitioners of the Lineage Healing framework, created by Dr. Daniel Foor of Ancestral Medicine.
INTENSIVE OVERVIEW
Non-Residential ⟡ 3 Days of Ritual
SCHEDULE
Friday, October 30th — Sunday, November 1st
Morning Session: 9am - 1pm
Lunch Break: 1-3pm
Evening Session: 3-6pm
Please plan to arrive on time & stay for the duration of the scheduled sessions.
Our 3 days will consist of 7 hours of teaching, guided practices & group ritual. We’ll take spacious two-hour lunch breaks to enjoy nearby restaurant options.
There will be chairs available for seating, and we encourage you to bring whatever you’ll need to be comfortable.
Room & Board are NOT included in the cost of the event. If you’re coming in from out of town, we can recommend local options within walking distance or a short drive to the Venue.
The Perkins Mansion
494 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
TEACHINGS
Over the course of our 3 days together, we’ll move through a step-by-step Lineage Healing Process to deepen connection with Ancestors in a psychologically safe, grounded way.
Teachings & Practices are Led by Teagan West + Ashley Waverley, and a team of trained ritualists. Participants will engage in Breakout Groups with their peers to deepen into personal processes, while learning from group discussion. The larger circle will be a place to harvest insights + tend to the larger cultural layers of historical wounding.
This event will be guided in English.
SAMHAIN WEEKEND
We chose this particular weekend because it lives inside a global, cross-cultural moment when attention naturally turns toward the ancestors. Across traditions, from Samhain (pronounced Sow-en) and All Souls' Day to Día de Muertos, Pitru Paksha, and the reflective arc between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, cultures around the world mark this threshold as a time when the veil feels thinner and the dialogue between past & present becomes more accessible.
The land here mirrors this passage, leaves loosening their grip and returning to soil, reminding us that death is not an ending but a threshold. Held between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, this weekend sits at a powerful midpoint where darkness deepens and invites us inward, making it a potent time to gather, to listen, and to tend the relationships that continue beyond the visible world.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Learn a step-by-step framework for connecting with Ancestors in a direct, embodied & ritually safe way.
Form relationships with Ancestral Guides to partner in Lineage repair & lifelong support
Tend to the larger systemic & cultural wounds at the root of intergenerational trauma
Participate in Group Ritual for the ongoing healing of Land, Culture and Ancestors.
Over 12 Guided Practices in Circle with Drumming, Song, Prayer & Offerings
Create a tangible offering for the Ancestors of Land + Lineage, as a prayer for larger cultural healing impact.
Rochester, NY
Home of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, ‘Rochester’ is settled on Seneca Land, the Keepers of the Western Door of the Six Nations. The City has a long history as a crossroads of culture, serving as a critical hub on the Underground Railroad due to its location near Lake Ontario. Rochester offered a final stop for freedom seekers escaping to Canada in the mid-19th century, with leaders like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Amy Post operating active stations.
Originally, Rochester was known as the "Flour City" due to its numerous mills along the Genesee River. In the mid 19th century, the city transitioned to embrace its massive nursery industry, becoming a world-famous center for horticulture. Now called the “Flower City”, Rochester celebrates the Annual Lilac fest as an ongoing dedication to this rich history of floral majesty.
To this day, Rochester is a hub for diverse Arts & Culture events, with an established history of hosting internationally-renowned Music & Performing Arts Festivals. With so many intersecting threads of culture & history, this Land is ripe for Ancestral Tending work in this context.
LOCATION
The Perkins Mansion
Located in the Heart of Rochester, we will spend our time together in the Parlour of the Historical Perkin’s Mansion. The Estate is now home to the American Association of University Women & the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley.
494 East Avenue • Rochester, NY 14607
FACILITATORS
Teagan West
Teagan West (she/they) is a Ritualist, Astrologer, Writer & Drum Maker from Hodinöhsö:ni Land, home of the Seneca Nation. Her people are Irish, Syrian, Lebanese and Anishinaabeg. Through embodied relationship to Land + Sky, her work centers the restoration of Animist Lifeways as a form of Cultural Repair.
Teagan weaves together threads of Astrological Storytelling, Land Reconnection, Ancestral Healing and Community Ritual as a tapestry of culture work + animist remembrance. She leads Rochester’s Ecstatic Dance group, along with community ritual gatherings.
Ashley Waverley
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.
SUPPORTERS
Shimon Wolff (they/he)
Simon Wolff (they/he) is a queer Jewish politicized healer and ritualist, stewarding one-to-one and group somatic and ancestral healing for the sake of collective liberation. They have the honor of offering radical care to queer and trans folx, people living with disability, neurodivergence, and/or chronic illness, and fellow care workers and activists.
Nicole Casteel (she/her)
Nicole Casteel is a classically trained vocalist, transformational guide, and medicine musician. She now helps women reconnect with their bodies, intuition, and inner knowing through sound ceremonies, breathwork, and one-on-one healing sessions.
Ready to Join Us?
There are 3 different Sliding Scale rates available, and payment plans for each corresponding tier.
If you would like to Sponsor a Seat for another individual, please reach out to Teagan at thealtar.healing@gmail.com.
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.
