When:
Friday, October 30th to Sunday, November 1st, 2026
Where:
Kirkridge Retreat Center
Delaware Water Gap/Bangor, PA/Lenape/Mohican Land
75 minutes by bus from NYC
All Are Welcome
Informational Call:
Tuesday, July 28th, 4-5 PM PST
Will be recorded and sent to all who share their email with us on this document. If you aren’t ready to register yet you can let us know that at the end of the form.
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, and repair wounds or disruptions that may have been inherited and passed down over time so we may more fully embody the blessings.
Logistics and Cost:
Friday, and Saturday we gather from 10 AM-6 PM, and Sunday from 10AM-4 PM
The cost reflects the Kirkridge pricing structure, and the total amount is on a sliding scale:
$315 if you'd like to camp on the grounds
$525 for shared-room accommodations.
The cost includes a camping site or shared accommodation for Friday and Saturday night, and seven meals.
Thursday night accommodation is available upon request.
Please register here first, and we will follow up with the payment link.
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.
Second-generation queer parent, social worker, community organizer, conflict mediator, full-spectrum doula, and devoted initiate of mystical traditions. Sevan's work involves somatics, animism, depth psychology, relational skills, mystery traditions, and sound meditation to support the healing of personal, ancestral, and cultural wounds.
Outside of their work, Sevan loves playing music, nature walks with their kiddo, Dungeons & Dragons with friends, dreaming in new worlds, and contemplating the ineffable. Their people are 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
Rebekah Souder-Russo
