Three Days of Ancestral Lineage Healing in the Woods of Pennsylvania
Small Group Intensive
w/ Sevan and Ream
Register HERE
When: Friday, October 30th to Sunday, November 1st, 2026
Where:
Kirkridge Retreat & Study Center
Delaware Water Gap/Bangor, PA/Lenape Land
75 minutes by bus from NYC
All Are Welcome
What We Are Offering:
Ancestral Healing is the practice of connecting with and tending to your ancestors of lineage to bring balance, insight, and healing across generations. We come to this with the understanding that our ancestors are not only part of our past but also present today, influencing the well-being, beliefs, and patterns in our personal lives, families, and culture. This work invites us to recognize and honor the gifts of our ancestors as well as the challenges. We repair wounds or disruptions that may have been inherited and passed down over time so we may more fully embody the blessings.
In doing so, we are given more capacity to steward goodness and liberation in our relational spheres and the wider world
Logistics and Cost:
Friday and Saturday we gather from 10 AM-6 PM
Sunday from 10AM-4 PM
The total cost for this program is on a sliding scale from $600 to $1200
***This is a residential retreat***
This cost includes shared accommodation for Friday and Saturday night, and seven meals.
Thursday night accommodation is available.
What We Practice:
Reconnection to our ancestral lineages through making direct contact in a ritual space with ancestral guides.
Receiving the blessings of our wise and loving ancestors, who have been calling to us for generations- we need only to answer the call.
Transformative justice- that the dead can and do change, and in doing so they can support us in our efforts to change the world.
Healing and repair, to strengthen and invite the supportive, vibrant energy of our lineage elders.
The Process Includes:
Grounding, boundaries, and protective practices in ritual space.
Inviting connection with the Earth and elements through tending our relationship to land and spirit.
Directly engaging with ancestors of blood and bone lineage.
Working with unhealed patterns to then relate more wisely and compassionately to ourselves and our people.
Receiving, at the level of the body and soul, the blessings of our ancestors.
For the Sake of What:
Indigenous Sovereignty/Land Back
Reparations/Black Power
Earth Reverence/Land Beyond Borders
Everything for Everyone/Mutual Aid
Queer/Trans Feminism/Bodily Self Determination
Decolonial Futures/Just Transition
Shifting Our Personal & Collective Stories
Safety, Dignity, & Liberation for All
Our Values:
Liberation & Justice
Anti-supremacy, anti-racism, abolitionist, decolonial values. Committed to collective freedom, dismantling oppressive systems, and co-creating just, free, joyful futures for all beings.
Inclusion & Embodiment
LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, body-diverse, sex-, kink-, poly- positive. Trauma-engaged, mentally and emotionally attuned, and devoted to loving the infinite diversity of life in all its forms.
Animist Spirituality
Guided by ritual, animism, ancestor reverence, interspecies kinship, and right relationship with the seen and unseen. A spirituality grounded in Earth-honoring relationality that holds the idea that humans are just one group of many bodies of beings in existence.
Community & Care
Centering caregiving, collaboration, community, mutual aid. Striving for collective thriving.
Autonomy, Curiosity, & Sacred Responsibility
Honoring personal soul-sovereignty, deep inner knowing, spiritual responsibility, and meeting the challenges on the sacred path of healing with curiosity- for self, ancestors, community, and the world.
Who We Are:
Ream (they/them) Instagram @ream.somatics
Ream is a queer labor organizer and somatics practitioner of European ancestry (Germany, Sweden, UK, Ireland) living on unceded Ohlone Land in Oakland, California. Ream organizes with the domestic workers union to build power for economic and racial justice. Ream began practice with generative somatics in 2011, and are a community teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center. They co-lead the "Pathways to Power" multiracial somatics practice community with B Stepp.
Sevan Mercy (they/them) (aka Sevan Arabajian-Ries) https://www.sevanmercy.com/
Sevan is a second generation queer Mama, social worker, community organizer, conflict mediator, full-spectrum doula, and devoted initiate of mystical traditions. Their work integrates somatics, depth psychology, relational skills, animism, and sound meditation to support people in untangling personal, ancestral, and cultural wounds. Through attuned, unshaming presence, they support individuals and communities in cultivating embodied wholeness, connection, and collective care. Outside of their work, Sevan loves playing music, nature walks with their kiddo, Dungeons & Dragons with friends. Their people are predominantly from Armenia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, and Greece and they live in Milwaukee, WI, the ancestral and current lands of the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee nations.
with support from
Chantelle Williams. https://healingwithchantelle.com/
Rebekah Souder-Russo
Kirkridge Land Acknowledgement from https://www.kirkridge.org/
We recognize the Lenape people as the indigenous people of this land and the perennial spiritual stewards of their homelands. We commit ourselves to actively making repair for the harm done to our Lenape relatives, to being in right relationship with them, to walking well and carefully on this land, and to doing whatever we can to contribute to the thriving and sovereignty of both the Lenape people and this vibrant ecosystem.
Learn more about the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania here.