Unearth Your Roots. Awaken Your Lineage.
Join psychic medium and ancestral researcher Sarah Young of Spirited Places and herbalist Diana Hansen, founder of Mountain Hollow Medicinals, for a transformative in-person workshop that bridges the worlds of genealogy, intuitive wisdom, plant consciousness, and ancestral healing.
About This Immersive Experience
In this full-day retreat, you'll learn to trace your ancestry using online tools like Ancestry.com while cultivating deep spiritual connection to the people, plants, and places you come from. Through guided meditation, Tarot, creative mapping, mediumship practices, and herbal wisdom, you'll begin to uncover the stories that live within your bones — and hear the voices that still echo through your lineage.
Whether you're brand new to family research or already have a few names on your tree, this workshop will help you discover the profound connections that span generations.
What You'll Experience
Genealogical Foundation
Begin or deepen your ancestral research journey using online tools and resources
Learn practical techniques for uncovering family history and documentation
Intuitive & Spiritual Connection
Guided meditation to connect with a well ancestor
Use Tarot and intuitive tools to receive messages from your maternal and paternal lines
Create art for your ancestor altar to honor your lineage
Plant Consciousness & Ancestral Healing
Discussion on how to connect to your ancestral plants with Diana Hansen
An initiation into working with plant consciousness
Guided tea meditation to deepen your connection to herbal allies
Learn how plant wisdom can support your ancestral healing journey
Integration & Healing
Honor and heal patterns passed down through generations
Create a Spirit Lineage Page to take home as a lasting connection to your work
✨ What You'll Receive
Comprehensive guidance on researching your ancestry online
A guided meditation to connect with ancestral wisdom
Tarot-based ancestral message reading
A creative Spirit Lineage Page to take home
An initiation into your ancestral plant lineage and plant consciousness practices
Guided tea meditation experience
Nourishing autumn lunch and snacks throughout the day
Tools and techniques to continue your ancestral connection work at home
Your Facilitators
Sarah Young, Spirited Places - Psychic medium and ancestral researcher specializing in bridging genealogical research with spiritual connection and healing.
Diana Hansen, Mountain Hollow Medicinals - Herbalist and founder of Mountain Hollow Medicinals, offering expertise in ancestral plant connections and plant consciousness practices.
Your ancestors are waiting to be remembered. Come sit with them as we near samhain when the veil is thinnest, and discover the plant allies that have supported your lineage through generations.
Framing the day:
9:15am Arrival - check in, settle in, take a walk.
10am start time - Opening Circle & Ancestral Intention Setting - collaborative group space setting
10:30am - Introduction to Genealogical Research in the apothecary - Using Tarot for Ancestral Insight
12:30pm Farm to Table Lunch
1:30pm - Plants are our ancestors in the yurt - Initiation into working consciously with plants - tea ceremony with a plant
Consciously dreaming with your ancestors - stories and ways we can heal
3:30pm - working with ancestor altars - how to create and make your own elements to add to your altar
5:30pm - offerings to ancestors at the medicine wheel
6:00pm potluck dinner (bring something to share) or head to the Genny or Blackbird Bistro on your way home.
What to bring:
Laptop or smartphone with ancestry.com app downloaded
Your parents birthdates, place or town of birth, and grandparents birth info (as much as you can)
Notebook or journal
Pen or pencil
Water bottle
Comfortable and cozy layers
Any items that offer extra comfort, blanket, pillow, etc.
The space:
Together we will utilize both the apothecary in the farmhouse at the start of the day and also the yurt with a wood stove after lunch. Chairs, pillows, yoga mats, and some blankets are provided. We also encourage you to bring your own for maximum comfort.
The space for this retreat is intentionally held as a safe and loving space for you to navigate into your ancestry, ethics and confidentiality within our space is crucial. Together we will set an even deeper intention to keep each other well and comfortable in moving through ancestral work and all that it can bring to the surface.
$333 for the full day of offerings and a nourishing lunch.
Early Bird pricing at $277 through September 21st!