Healing the Ancestral Body, Family Constellations and Ceremony

We never truly heal body or soul alone

Whether we have concerns about love, money, pain from our family history, or persistent disorders in our life, the answer always involves some kind of healed relating to find wholeness.

In this workshop, through ceremony, teaching, and the somatic group process of family constellations, we will explore what we cannot see with our ordinary problem-solving and find ways forward in our most stuck problems. Our practice is to do ceremony and the constellating of that which is breaking the flow of happiness and love within ourselves and with others.

Often, the root is in our ancestral tree.

In this workshop, we will experience the way in which body, soul and ancestors all heal together.

Everyone will have a chance to constellate an issue that they have.

What exactly are constellations and how do they work?

Our group will take different aspects of your concern, your partner, or your family and ancestral line, and represent key elements that affect you. As the healing movements of the constellation begin, each participant will begin to express a part of the dynamic until you see an amazing holographic living human map of your challenge. From there, many potential solutions become more real to the heart of the one seeking a constellation

Family and systemic constellations are very powerful tools, first developed by the German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger, to bring healing through re-establishing equilibrium and a 'flow of love' within families and between individuals and their ancestors. It can also be used to improve function and relating in businesses and other institutions or groups. You do not need your family, partner, or other relations present for this process.

Come with your most pressing worries to look at them in a way you have never been able to before. The healing group formations of a family constellation, through representation, allow you to see hidden dynamics in your family system that may be causing blockages in your life, in relationships, and other issues. All types of relationship and love issues, involving people of any gender identity and sexuality, are welcome.

Event Experiences

• First, we begin by connecting with the beautiful and wide field of ancestors which includes our family trees intuitively (no knowledge of family history is required) and the land itself, which is our most primal ancestor. In this way, we begin healing and looking at our challenges from a place of being resourced, not alone.

• Second, we work in small groups to experience what it is like to represent a loved one or ancestor for another person, standing in the place of someone that they know, feeling some of what the relationship was like and relaying that to the other person in our group who has us to do the representation.
• Third, we will experience, through constellation and ceremony, what has not been seen and loved in the body of our ancestors, which has come down to us to be seen and loved, through our dreams, visions, or through our physical and emotional pain – it may manifest in many ways to get our attention.
• Finally, we will experience group constellations, in which the issue affecting one person in the group will be held by the entire group, through representation by the attendees, who may hold the place of a parent, grandparent or ancestor.
• In closing, we will also ceremonially experience what it is like to live in a harmonious flow from the ancestral past into a more loving and alive present and future. We also acknowledge the earth itself as an ancestor seeking to work through us and with us, as we seek to heal our difficulties. We inter-are, as Thich Nhat Hanh said.

Who is the Facilitator?

Dr. Sparks is a student, both of the planet's healing traditions, and of the emerging modalities for the repair of the soul. He serves to heal broken relationships and restore the flow of love. His apprenticeship to traditional knowledge has taken him to Mexico, Native America, South Africa, Turkey, and the Middle East. He is a mediator trained by the state of Arizona, and has been in the field of family and systemic constellations for more than ten years.

He is a scholar-healer who holds a doctorate from the Institute of Ritual and Liturgical Studies, formerly housed at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, and has a Masters in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London. He works in systemic healing with private individuals and groups, and teaches Native American undergraduate students in the tribal higher education system in the United States. Logan has two decades of experience as an intercultural and international educator, and group facilitator.

Image Credit: Ben Shahn

Video Credit: The attached video is the work of my colleague Emily Waymire, and features footage of intergenerational healing by Bert Hellinger, the founder of family constellations, at around 58:40.

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