"Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.
One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.
One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength." ― Gemma B. Benton, Then She Sang A Willow Song: Reclaiming Life and Power with the Ancestors
The stories of our ancestors are part of us and who we are today. The past is not behind us; it's alive in us now, every day, moment to moment. Our bodies store the residue of what's passed down from one generation to the next. Traumatic events such as the genocide of Native Americans, wars, the Holocaust, slavery, the loss of homeland through the immigrant experience, the Depression, and many others, are carried across generations.
To what degree are you aware of the impact of generational trauma on your present day? Does your behavior reflect or even perpetuate some of that trauma or experience?
On Tuesday, October 9th at 4:00pm Sierra McFeeters of Indigenous Roots Institute will help us to initiate some healing of our ancestral trauma. Through awareness and the courage to face the past, we can bring light to any shame, fear, mistrust, numbness, grief, and other feelings that perhaps lie dormant from "looking away." When we integrate something from our past, we make space for new possibilities in our future.
To reserve your space in this ceremony please:
- Send a sliding scale donation from $5-50/person via PayPal to sierramcfeeters@gmail.com Once your donation is sent, your place is reserved.
- Ask yourself how your ancestors endured trauma and how they inflicted it. Please make an offering for the fire that embodies your answers to those questions...it can be something you write, something you sculpt, a collage or another physical totem or artifact. Be sure to bring your offering as these will be gathered and offered to the sacred fire.
A portion of your donations will be sent to Abenaki Helping Abenaki, a non-profit of the Nulhegan tribe of the Abenaki helping support the original inhabitants of this land we live on and call home.
Location: Dragon Rock | 1429 Beach Hill Road, West Glover, VT Date: Tuesday, October 6th Arrival: 4:00pm Ceremony: 5:00pm Rain or Shine
Tent camping is available for those of you traveling from a distance. Please just let me know ahead of time :)