Ancestral Healing Space

Don’t be so focused on “liberation” that you forget to actually live”

- Ash Johns ✨💗🦋👑

"We have to go home. We have to go back to the land. Because that's where we'll learn to live again."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5vmDGwfoJH8

COVID-19 | Anishinaabe Pandemic Prophecies This video is a collaboration that aims to share the role important role of traditional knowledge in ensuring safety and security of Indigenous peoples from ...

Innovating old ways in new times gives way for hope and healing.

With bird sacrifices and chants, Cuba's Santeria seek protection from coronavirus By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - The family of Emilia Montoya, 79, sacrificed four white doves and two roosters, chanted in the African language Yoruba and pounded a wooden staff rhythmically on the floor in a ceremony to protect Montoya from coronavirus. The small gathering in her Havana home appe...

New Orleans brass band performs 'I'll Fly Away' for those who can't bury their loved ones during COVID-19 outbreak "We wanted to give a little comfort to those who unfortunately cannot bury their loved ones properly during this time."

Anecdotes of ancestral remembering, wisdom, intervention, veneration and healing.

Loving seeing the influencers talk REAL TALK about healing and ancestral / indigenous spirituality.

Yes and yes. 🙌🏾🙌🏾
The evidence is "I'm winning."

Love this. And we know it to be true.
Spirit has no boundaries AND we as humans can and need to respect each other cultures.

"On the right, you see Vodu spirits; on the left, you see a Shinto altar (kami dana) and Buddhist ancestral tablet (butuendo) from Japan."- Sena Voncujovi about to do a thanksgiving ritual Afrikan Magick Temple

Vodu practitioners often believe in the efficacy of other religions or spiritual traditions because God, if it/he/she exists, shows no favoritism. Wisdom is not limited to any particular religion, practice, or people.

Can African spirituality co-exist with other religions in contemporary Africa? Please share your thoughts.


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For our Irish friends and fam...

Irish-American Witchcraft: Shadow & Light, Crafting A Fey Winter Solstice The winter solstice this year for me is different and new. I went to Iceland this past September and my experiences there have left me looking for a way to celebrate the winter solstice that feels genuine and true to a new paradigm - a fey winter solstice if you will.

Honoring all our parts.

African Native American Powwow Dancer, Performer, Activist Ausben Dwayne Jordan II “Spottedeagles” also known as his performance persona “King Aus,” descends from Ghanaian/Nigerian/ and Eastern Apache Linage.

Police shootings of unarmed black people linked to health problems for black infants Pregnant black women had babies born prematurely and with smaller birth weights if they lived near the site of a police shooting of an unarmed black person, research shows.

ancestral medicine.
reason number 2 to connect with ya lineage(s).
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Grandmother of the jungle: This Kerala tribal woman can prepare 500 medicines from memory She lives in a small hut with a palm leaves roof in a tribal settlement, deep in the forest of Kallar in Thiruvananthapuram district. Lakshmikutty, a 75-year-old tribal woman is a poet, poison healer and teacher at Kerala Folklore Academy. With medicinal herbs and plants surrounding her small hut, h...

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so many ways to heal, when we (all) remember who we are. ✨🙌🏿🌿

The curandera nodded her head smiling sweetly at Doña Chole, then went into her house and brought out a bundle of herbs, some fresh and others dry. Life and death were within her wrinkled hands. As she came back, the curandera started singing a song that Doña Chole didn't understand, but took away her tears. Then she took a cigar and blew to***co smoke in her face, and ended by giving her a scrub with the herbs she held in her hands.

The pain in her chest disappeared immediately. Doña Chole didn't remember what it was to live without pain, and felt like something was missing... [She asked what had been wrong with her. The curandera explained]

"Old pains in the craw. I took the hands of the military [who had r***d her and taken away her lover, who was never seen again] from your spirit and reminded your soul that it was free and that no one had touched it, that's why you screamed. I take away the guilt and shame that you did not have to feel and I took them out with to***co.

"Doña Chole paid the curandera with lettuce and tomatoes from her field, and took her leave, thanking her for curing her pains."

Doesn't name the curandera or the country, but it looks like Mexico; the blogger Paola Klug is from there. What a photo. I'll be showing other pictures of healers cleansing with smoke and herb bundles in the upcoming Healers webcast on Jan 13 and 17. See comments for description and registration link.

https://paolak.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/curando-las-penas/

Looking out into the world, with all the various healing, therapy, coaching, counseling, energy and bodywork modalities becoming more accessible and sought after, we come back to what's not seen, but once was and has always been.

SPIRIT.

Acculturated Space is now Ancestral Healing Space.

This name change represents the original fibers that created this offering — that the traumas and ideas of the past are often holding us back now, and that the love and wisdom from those before us can be leveraged for our personal and collective evolution.

Ancestral veneration and reverence has always been part of the practices of AS, both in our Bali immersions and 2018 group online program, leveraging the wisdom of those before us to support and nurture our development.

And now, we'll be calling greater emphasis on this aspect of healing —

in the Spirit (ancestral lineage healing),
in the Body (emotions and trauma in DNA), and
in the Mind (psycho-spiritual discovery and coaching).

Excited to begin sharing what's been happening behind the scenes! Sign up to be notified of the new offerings as well as details to start your own Ancestral Healing for Personal + Cultural Change journey 👇🏾
bit.ly/ancestralhealingspace

What's been going on?!
See below:

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So I've got this love/hate thing going on with social media...hence why I'm here and there nowadays which is much different than before when y'all could see all the goodness and crazy that is my life.
Just a note -- I'm not hiding. I'm just doing, and being and processing and creating and writing and holding myself accountable and in great integrity to be and do what I think my calling is. And as I climb this stairway of a path, I'm also maintaining western living and responsibilities. AND THAT Y'ALL is where the struggle lies for me right now.
'cuz 'murica is nuts right now.
Having been an immigrant the last 3 years, re-inserting myself into this construct and system is nothing shy of a mind-f*ck.
I see a need. I feel an urge. I'm just navigating how I'll show up...
So the moral of the story (or post 🤣) is: Take the space that you need. The internets can wait.
In the meantime, I look forward to sharing all that's unfolding behind the scenes.
For now I'll just say how incredibly proud and excited I am to be journeying with an incredible group of women showing up to in . While I'm holding space, I'm also learning too AND in full transparency.
I believe THAT is how this whole healing / mentoring / coaching movement should be done nowadays. No more guru-ness or teacher pedestal-ing. And likewise, we don't have time for the "I'm human too" excuses when we f*ck up either. Let us all show up and get through these steps of unearthing our s**t and integrating our shadows. Tribe style.
k, that's it. Got some more stairs to climb. 🤣🙏🏾❤
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Monday's free webinar series will be more of a sacred circle experience. The topic -------> DEEP COMMUNICATION.

And no, it's not about "easy" communication tips and tricks.
If you sign up to join this SPECIAL session, be ready to dive deep and feel activated afterwards.

Note: some happy, freeing and relieving tears may fall and be associated with this weeks topic. Remember, you're in safe space and will be supported.

Join here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/acculturated-space-/4

We're taught to hold our cards closely.
To plan.
To strategize.
So we can plot the points and get ahead.

But sometimes (MOST times) that "strategery" leads us into confusing ourselves, mixing up our motives and going into fight or flight mode.

And you know what fight or flight mode is??
SURVIVAL. Short sighted-ness. Distrust. Cutting other folks off at the knee.

And worst of all... scarcity mindset.

In just 40 mins, I'll be sharing a point of view about opening up, being transparent and showing up in vulnerability so that the entire Universe...and everyone around you...can align to what you actually want in your life.

With more ease, grace, gratitude and deserving.

In this practice we learn how to flow and allow what is ours to come to us.
Not worrying and grasping at what we think is ours.

This is Session 4 of our Acculturated Space webinar series.
Hope to see you there! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/acculturated-space-/3

Ash x

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•° We set intentions for a desired outcome, and more often than not, for our own personal benefit....
but WHAT IF we started setting intentions that held the vibration of being good for the greater good? Asking and hoping for everyone to be mutually blessed from interaction to interaction, situation to situation?
What if we could learn and PRACTICE generosity in our intention setting process and became more mindful and trusting of our requests of this world and of others?
What if you elevated your intentions and were able to hold the prayer and wish for good things to happen to more than just YOU? .
In my personal experience and in guiding others, I've learned and witnessed that this act, done consistently, magnified how we manifested juicy goodness into our lives with more ease and less hard, pushing effort.
🙏🏾This week's free webinar is all about this 👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 Offering CLEAR and ELEVATED Intention Setting workshop for the benefit of all involved. 🙇🏾‍♀️ It's gonna be an activated session to say the least! 😍🤗.
Soooooo if that tingles your heart, come on through! We'll meet this week on Wednesday at 7pm (instead of today Monday) .

Link:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/acculturated-space-/1 🙏🏾🌟❤✨.

📸: dear sistar ❤🙏🏾

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The face (and Spirit) behind it all -- Hey! I'm Ash. A free spirited ex-ad executive turned Spiritual Entrepreneur and Personal Development Guide.
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I created out of a VERY CLEAR need for transformative, and immersive, lifestyle development experiences that are authentically ran in integrity and WORKED, but included practical principles you could adapt and make your own.
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As an avid traveler, every trip was an opportunity to exchange something that wasn't serving me, with something that would, with RESPECT to the land and people I met on the journey.
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And I've now developed a course to share that all with YOU. ❤🙏🏾
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So if you've been wanting to move into the life you've always dreamed of, I'm going to share EXACTLY how I've done it for myself, in less than one year every time.
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Join my Monthly Monday FREE webinar to learn the 7 principles of deep personal and spiritual reconnection to get you where you wanna be.
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SIGN UP in bio link. SHOW UP with your mind openand heart present! ❤🙏🏾✨ See you soon!

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•° We just wrapped up our very first 2018 Course webinar and I () have to say I'M EVEN MORE PUMPED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM. Why?
Because although only 1 of the 15 people signed up was able to join live, I could feel the energy of activation, stepping out in my Truth, and sharing tools that REALLY changes lives flowing all around me....and you know what?!
That's what Acculturated Space is all about. Showing up to help, support, and guide ANYONE who needs it and is ready...even if it's ONE person at a time. ahhh yeah! ❤❤✨✨
Sharing and guiding you through personal development, spiritual reconnection and how to move with life in a way that allows you to co-create with the Universe.... with more grace and ease.
This program is one to sign up for
if you're ready to take PRACTICAL steps to an empowered life --a life where you can weather the storm because you've mastered a level of personal awareness like never before. A life where you give yourself permission to be yourself.
So new friends and followers 👇🏾👇🏾 head over to the link in bio if to join the next webinar. I'll be hosting them weekly on Mondays, 8pm EST and I'll be sharing just how you can shift your whole life in just under a year 🙏🏾🤗❤.

and so it came to be...welcome to the Acculturated Space experience

Just a reminder of my favorite saying of all time... "trust the process". 🙏🏾✨❤🤗

"We are more than what hurts.

We are more than what has hurt us. We are more than the hurt we have inflicted upon others, the world, and ourselves.

Each time we consciously work with our pain we are working towards a more nuanced understanding of ourselves. An understanding that is less binary and more inclusive of our humanity. We cannot change the fact that we have been harmed, but we can create pathways towards our healing." — Chani Nicholas 💗✨

—— THIS is why Acculturated Space was birthed. To support you in undergoing practical ways towards your healing, and ultimately, your power in being COMPLETELY YOURSELF.

✨ Registration for the 2018, 8-month course opens next week. AND there's more goodies coming too...workshops, webinars, ask anything sessions...yeah!

Read Chani's full report here: http://chaninicholas.com/2018/03/horoscopes-new-moon-pisces-2018/

Affirmation Horoscopes for the New Moon in Pisces The new moon in Pisces arrives on Saturday, March 17th at 6:12 AM PT. Conjunct Chiron, the Wounded Healer, this new moon speaks directly to the hurts that hold us back. That prevent a part of our humanity from realizing its potential. That possess the keys to a greater understanding of ourselves.

You're reading + seeing it here first....
We're relaunching Acculturated Space in May 2018!

If you'd like to hear about all the new changes on the way with the program and what to expect to explore — Sign up for the open enrollment notification here!

On launching...Our Intake Process... and How to Find the right Healers for your Soul + Business!

Read below to join our Creator, Ash Johns, and Nadia Payan of Good Axe Designs for a juicy chat on June 29th 🔮💫
http://mailchi.mp/1359ed9841b9/two-invitations-in-one-email

Two Invitations in One Email But I wasn't feeling this way at all last year. 2016 was one helluva rollercoaster for us all. For me, I realized how much of the past I needed to let go of in order to reconnected to myself, purpose, happiness and move forward into something new.

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It's funny how a little can go a long way in the right space.
•°it seems that overconsumption and "consumerism" can occur even under the healing and self improvement labels...that paying 💸 automatically means entitlement. but it doesn't work that way folks. Spiritual and personal development are only achieved through focus and consistency...and an open mind + heart.
•°JOIN US on YOUR JOURNEY •°.
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photo cred cc: - Thank You!

For women ready to do some serious digging into their lives:

Acculturated Space is personally curated programs •° healing •° and integration after you return home -- let's share, connect, show up