Healing Ancestral Trauma through Nature, Ritual, and community
Aug 12th, 2025 - Aug 18th, 2025 | Wild Mountain, Colorado | Nancy Jane, Bettina Straub
When we heal our roots, we open up new possibilities for our future.
-Thomas Hubl
This 7-day program provides an opportunity to witness, explore, and transform the ancestral energy we have inherited. We sit in a sea of intergenerational and collective influences that color how we react, what motivates us, and how much we trust ourselves and others. Through awareness and the courage to face the past, with the support of guides and community, we take a deep dive into our genealogy that leads to a beautiful liberation of aliveness, inspiration, and gratitude for ourselves and those who came before us.
What Needs Healing
The stories of our ancestors are part of who we are today, but much of their influence remains unconscious. Family suicide, depression, addictions, and a multitude of griefs in our ancestral line are carried across generations and remain undigested in us. Remnants of our ancestors’ wounds, fears, and fragmentation keep us in bondage to dysfunctional patterns and behaviors; even bodily symptoms can be linked to our lineage.
Ceremony, Wild Nature, and Community
Through immersion in wild nature, within a safe community and supported by ritual, we can begin a process of healing. We give ourselves time and space so that the invisible can become visible. We bring light to the shame, fear, mistrust, numbness, grief, and other feelings that perhaps lie dormant from “looking away.”
Why It Matters
The importance of this kind of work cannot be underestimated. The gift of our time together carries forward to new generations. If we are to maximize our creative energies and follow a heart-felt path of service to others and the planet, then we must uncover the entanglements of the past.
Flow of the Days
The format of the 7-day program is spacious, to allow for insights to emerge. We will meet daily in sharing and teaching councils, followed by experiential reflection walks on the land and evening gatherings. The framework of the Four Shields will help us map out our exploration of ancestral wounding. Other rituals and practices will enhance our time together. On Day 5, participants will undertake a 24-hour solo with optional fasting. Upon return, participants will share their stories and have them mirrored by the guides.
Program Questions Contact: Nancy Jane at [email protected]
Submit Waitlist form
This program is full; however, you may add your name to the Waitlist by clicking the Waitlist button below.
Submit enrollment form
Please fill out and submit the enrollment form and then pay the program deposit below. Before you pay the deposit, please read deposit section below, all deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. After your enrollment form is complete, please submit all health and liability forms.
Pay program deposit
Deposits: This deposit signifies your commitment to the program and is deducted from the tuition balance. All deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. They cover the work of the specific course you signed up for, including all communication involved as well as the fee that guides pay to the school administration for the course accounting.
Additional Deposit: Some programs require a second deposit to help us affirm commitments. Last minute cancellations make it hard to fill openings and incur a loss of income to the School and the guides.
Tuition Balance: Balance of tuition can be paid before or upon arrival. Simply deduct any deposits made from the amount you’ve chosen on the sliding scale.
Additional course details & Materials
Start time is 10:00am on Aug. 12th, and end time is noon on Aug. 18th. More logistical info will be sent when you register for the program. ADDITIONAL FEES: Our base camp is on private land bordered by National Forest at 9500’, a 3-hour drive from Denver. Land Use Fee $105 to be collected at or before the time of the program.
You will be responsible for bringing your own food and equipment, though we can provide some gear if needed. We ask everyone to come prepared to live self-sufficiently. You will need to bring shelter and clothing suitable for a full range of inclement weather.
All participants must submit the required health questionnaire and liability form.
If you have questions about the enrollment process contact us at [email protected] or call 760-938-3333.
A recommended reading list will be provided.
Wild Mountain is land of the Tabeguache Ute people and other Indigenous tribes who traveled through this area of the Colorado Rockies. The Ute lived and hunted in this abundant land of elk, buffalo, deer, and bear before white settlers came and forced them onto reservations in southwest Colorado and Utah.
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