Christina Pratt
Heal ancestral wounds and narratives which may be playing out in your life and your health.
Clear stagnant, unresolved energies from your lineage … and open the door to a more passionate and purposeful life.
Discover how to draw on your ancestors’ gifts, skills, and courage to express your soul’s purpose.
The power to heal yourself, your lineage, and generations to come is within you...
This healing power can change your family, your relationships, your health, your destiny, and even our beautiful Earth.
Whether imprinted in your DNA… held in the unresolved issues of the dead… or taught through the cultural narrative… ancestral wisdom and wounding can be passed on for generations.
Ancestral lineage healing can be a deeply cathartic practice, opening you to grief, forgiveness, and emotional healing you may have been unable to generate through any other practice….
Culvating “right” relationship with your ancestors helps clear the way for you and your living family to break free of past woundings, to live passionately and purposefully, and to fully embrace your destinies.
Your ancestors, both well and unwell, are much more than everyday spirit guides…
Your ancestors who lived well, who left their affairs in order and relationships reconciled, or who were honored as a positive force for change, have unique wisdom to share with you. You can also learn to enlist their help to clear stagnant, unresolved energies — freeing you and your living family of these wounds.
And surprisingly, ancestors who struggled against the oppressions of their time, who were enslaved — or were the enslavers or oppressors — and who experienced unhealed trauma or depression, illness, or addiction, can be your greatest allies in healing.
Unhealthy patterns in your family can now end with you…
— Christina Pratt
Your ancestors are a source of hope, clarity, resilience, and joy as well — when you know how to lovingly draw on their skills and bravery to live a more authentic life and express your soul’s purpose.
You don’t need special “powers” or intuitive abilities to connect with your ancestors and tap into their wisdom and guidance. Potent elemental rituals, shrine-building, prayers, and other practices can ignite profound healing in you and your bloodline.
With great skill, Christina, who has more than 30 years experience in shamanic and ancestral healing, will also guide you in a process of:
Diagnosis: Journey to explore and trace a blocked energy with the help of your ancestral guides. You’ll be guided to locate the ancestor with whom the issue or trauma began so you can assess and heal the wounding.
Remedy: Find powerful antidotes to your originating ancestor’s unhealthy energy — and put an end to the turmoil still showing up in your life today.
Quarantine: For ancestral traumas that are so deeply entrenched, or that you’re simply not equipped to address — you’ll be guided through a process to quarantine them until you can call in the help that you need.
Christina emphasizes that you have more good, true, and beautiful Ancestral Helping Spirits than those who are unwell. You’ll cultivate a strong working relationship with these Helping Spirits to address and transform the damaging effects of unresolved patterns into sacred medicine and blessings.
During this video training with Christina Pratt, you’ll discover:
- How the unhealed wounds and narratives of your ancestors may be playing out in your life (and your health)
- Important distinctions between well and unwell ancestors, so that you can work effectively with them to heal your lineage
- Ritual practices that allow you to engage with elemental energies to heal past wounds and transform our collective future
- Doors,
precision with power objects, and other unique characteristics of an ancestral shrine - How to avoid propagating the patterns of the unresolved dead
- A liberating process to transform the ancestral patterns that affect you the most
- How to heal the patterns you may be passing on at this very moment (consciously or unconsciously)
- Techniques to use your Ancestral Helping Spirit’s eyes to see what’s yours to heal — and what's not
- A new perspective on the role your own experience with family abuse, trauma, and dysfunction plays in healing your life and lineage
- Shamanic journeying to connect you with your ancestors for mutual healing
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part training, you’ll discover the originating ancestor with whom a particular issue or trauma began, and move through the process of clearing this energy pattern from your life and lineage.
You’ll join Christina Pratt in each session and receive powerful ancestral healing teachings — and guidance in shamanic journeying, shrine-building, and ritual-making practices. Each session will build harmoniously on the previous ones, giving you a solid foundation to connect with your ancestors for mutual healing.
Module 1: Develop a Relationship With Your Good, True & Beautiful Ancestors (October 9)
How does our modern-day knowledge of ancestral healing apply to you, your ancestors, and the circumstances of your life?
In your first class together, Christina will help you begin your Ancestral Prayer to call the legacy of all that is good, true, and beautiful into your life.
As you’ll discover in this session, you have a vast number of ancestors who lived well, died well, and are ready, willing, and able to serve as true Ancestral Helping Spirits.
And it’s time for you to meet them.
In this module, you’ll:
- Meet true Ancestral Helping Spirits and discern the difference between well and unwell ancestors in your bloodline
- Connect with the diversity of both bloodline and non-bloodline ancestors who are true Ancestral Helping Spirits
- Understand why unreconciled ancestors create harm — even when they’re sincerely trying to help
- Reclaim the legacy of blessings and protection offered through ancestral healing
- Learn how to live and die so you become a good, true, and beautiful Ancestral Helping Spirit
- Discover a practice for connecting with your Ancestral Helping Spirits, bringing in an emissary for each of your bloodlines
Module 2: Create, Awaken & Empower Your Ancestral Shrine (October 16)
Are you ready for your Ancestral Helping Spirits’ rich legacy to flow freely to you, day and night? First, you’ll need to create and tend to your own ancestral shrine, calling their legacy into your life — and in this class, Christina will show you how.
Christina will also guide you to come into right relationship with people who’ve loved you from the moment of your conception.
Connecting with the supportive ancestral guides in your lineage could be the first step in helping you break free from painful legacies that no longer serve you — and find the peace, connection, and belonging you desire.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover doors, precision with power objects, and other unique characteristics of an ancestral shrine
- Understand the wildly inaccurate notion of “ancestral worship”— and how this misunderstanding can negatively impact your ancestral relationships
- Create and ceremonially awaken your ancestral shrine
- Open to the flow of wisdom and healing energy between you and your ancestors
- Learn the workings of songs, prayers, libations, and other offerings with your shrine
- Begin to create, find, or repurpose power objects for each ancestral line
- Tailor your Ancestral Prayer to fit your family and situation, and begin daily use
- Continue to call in the legacy of your ancestors, now at your shrine
Module 3: Discern Between Your Well & Unwell Ancestors for True Healing (October 23)
Whether they’re well or unwell, our ancestors are forever connected to us through our bloodlines. In this session, you’ll discover how to tell the difference between the unresolved dead and your true Ancestral Helping Spirits.
Understanding this distinction is essential — the energy of these ghosts continues to show up in your wounds, unexplained physical illness, emotional distress and more.
While these ghosts are ancestors too, they should never be called in as helping spirits as long as their issues remain unresolved.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover whether you’ve experienced the symptoms of “hijacking” by the unresolved dead — and other signs that you’ve taken on their unresolved energies
- Learn techniques to use your Ancestral Helping Spirit’s eyes to see what’s yours to heal — and what’s not
- Discover how to avoid propagating the patterns of the unresolved dead
- Identify the patterns that affect you the most in each line
- Discover why bringing healing to your unresolved ancestral lines is one of the most powerful acts of activism for your family — and our world
- Intentionally call in your Ancestral Helping Spirits with the Protection Prayer and Practice to create protection from the energies of the unresolved dead
Module 4: Heal Your Ancestral Line for Lasting Change (October 30)
To get to the root of your life’s difficulties, you’ll need to trace it back to the originating ancestor. During this class, you’ll learn to track the patterns of problems you’re facing in your life — and follow them back into the ancestral realm, so true healing can begin.
You’ll learn the fundamentals of the diagnosis-remedy-quarantine process:
Diagnosis. Tracking an energy with the help of your well ancestors until you discover the ancestor with whom the issue or trauma began. You’ll do this through journey, felt-sense, and more.
Remedy. Determining the proper antidote to address your originating ancestor’s energy and put an end to the ancestral turmoil still showing up in your life today.
Quarantine. Sometimes you’ll discover that ancestral trauma is so deeply entrenched, you’re simply not equipped to address it — you can then quarantine it until you can call in the help that you need.
In this module, you’ll dive deeper into the first step in the process, diagnosis, as you discover:
- The practice of psychopomp or "death walking" — and how this practice fits into your ancestral healing process
- How we stopped tending to the dead as a culture — handing this responsibility over to God —and what you can do to take it back for lineage
- How to heal the patterns you may be passing on at this very moment (consciously or unconsciously)
- The practice of speaking in ritual and prayer language
- Simple elemental rituals to call on the innate qualities for healing
- How to give the proper distance between your own experience and your ancestors’, clearing the way for helping spirits to come in
Module 5: Transform the Past With Elemental Rituals Today (November 6)
In this session, you’ll dive even deeper into the diagnosis-remedy-quarantine process you discovered in the last class...
Now that you’ve discovered the ancestral origin of your present-day patterns (diagnosis), Christina will show you how to determine the appropriate remedy — with plenty of help from your ancestors.
In this module, you’ll also:
- Discover the fundamentals of elemental rituals to clear ancestral patterns — including a simple ritual structure you can return to again and again
- Master the use of power objects to carry the problematic energies into your ritual
- Understand why the concepts of both walking away AND trust are so important during your rituals
- Come to deeply understand the role of celebration in this powerful work you’re doing
- Discover why your ancestors may have unexpressed emotions like grief or remorse — and how you can move stagnant emotions and release them
- Begin to feel and tend to the Archetype of the Warrior as you celebrate your success — and the courage it requires to do this work
Module 6: Weave the Blessings, Protection & Love of the Ancestors Into Quality Quarantine (November 13)
What if, after you’ve diagnosed an ancestral pattern and then tried to determine its remedy with your ancestors’ assistance — you discover you’re dealing with a deeply entrenched energy pattern that isn’t yours to heal after all?
You can choose to quarantine it for now, clearing your space to ask for the help to do what's needed to clear and release this energy for future generations. During this class, you’ll discover how to do just that — once again, with the help of your ancestors.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Your role in the structure and function of an effective quarantine — and how to make sure you’re doing your part
- How to stay out of the ancestral pattern you’ve quarantined
- How to clearly discern the help you need and where to reach out for it
- The steps you can take to bolster the quality of your quarantine (as Christina says, ancestors can’t do everything)
- Why quarantine often involves using the blessings you’ve both received and freed
- How, once you’ve quarantined the originating pattern, you may be able to see how the pattern has manifested in your life — and clear it
Module 7: Celebration of Ancestral Blessings — Giving a Gift to the Future (November 20)
In your final step of this powerful journey with Christina, you and your new global community of seekers will gather in ceremony. You will share and be witnessed, bringing the powerful guidance of your Ancestral Helping Spirits forward with their blessings, medicine gifts, and protection.
In this class, we explore the possible future of ancestral healing in community to transform our communal illness and dysfunction. Together and with our good, true, and beautiful ancestors, we’ll look toward a different future, and nurture that hope and possibility at our ancestral shrines.
During this module, you’ll also:
- Have the chance to speak the blessings of your ancestors so you can be witnessed — and witness your fellow participants’ blessings and unique medicine gifts
- Discover best practices for using these blessings, medicine gifts, protection, and power.
- Learn the powerful skill of discerning the need for help
- Feel into the bigger picture of healing — how it can change your life AND the emotional patterns of future generations, starting now
The Healing With Your Ancestors Bonus Collection
In addition to Christina’s transformative 7-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
The Power of a Reconciled Life: Traditional Xhosa Ancestral Healing
Video Dialogue With Christina Pratt and John Lockley
John Lockley is a fully initiated sangoma (healer and shaman) in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa. His remarkable journey through the constraints of Apartheid is a testament to the human spirit, and to the power of forgiveness and reconciliation. John shares traditional Xhosa practices for cultivating a vital, working relationship with one’s ancestors and the power of reconciliation in healing the ancestral lines. In this interview, he speaks with deep insight about the guidance we can draw from the past and the places we will need to innovate if we are to heal our ancestors and ourselves.
Dancing Your Ancestors
Playlist and Moving Meditation Guide From Christina Pratt
Embodiment, movement, and dance allow us to “sink our minds” and drop into the wisdom of our heart and soul. This bonus offers you a pathway through musical inspiration, and step-by-step guidance to fully embody your good, true, and beautiful bloodline ancestors and all of their protection, blessings, and gifts. This bonus can be used again and again to deepen your relationship with your ancestors and your heart connection to their legacy.
Creating & Empowering an Ancestral Shrine Without Tradition
PDF Guide From Christina Pratt
In this “How To...” document, Christina Pratt draws on the multicultural tradition of creating ancestral shrines to share the universal guiding principles for creating, opening, tending, and passing on ancestral shrines. From these basics of working safely and effectively, we leave traditions behind and explore where we, people long lost from ancestral traditions, must innovate, create, and hazard wild intuitions to work well with our ancestors. In this way, the distinction between the (wildly inaccurate) notion of “ancestral worship” and simple truth of coming into right relationship with your ancestors is made clear.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Recorded Class Sessions With Christina Pratt
Experience a rare opportunity to learn from shamanic healer, teacher, and author Christina Pratt — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a video teaching and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to heal the unresolved wounds and narratives of your ancestors — to free yourself and your family of unhealthy patterns.
Seven PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Healing With Your Ancestors Bonus Collection
- The Power of a Reconciled Life: Traditional Xhosa Ancestral Healing
Video Dialogue With Christina Pratt and John Lockley - Dancing Your Ancestors
Playlist and Moving Meditation Guide From Christina Pratt - Creating & Empowering an Ancestral Shrine Without Tradition
PDF Guide From Christina Pratt
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Healing With Your Well & Unwell Ancestors Virtual Training
We feel honored that Christina Pratt has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a shamanic healer, teacher, and author whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations, and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Christina’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — and at your own pace!
If you’re serious about clearing the energy patterns of trauma from your life and lineage, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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Christina Pratt is a remarkable teacher and shamanic healer. Her teachings are authentic and deep. Christina never rides surface waves in her teaching. She gives her students the benefit of a wealth of knowledge and encourages them through the practices she shares to go to the deepest level possible with their work. She is a master of communication and provides a very grounded field of energy to work in. I truly admire Christina and all that she brings into the shamanic community. Working with her, you will receive a huge gift — and wake up to your power and how you can be in true service to all of life.
— Sandra Ingerman, world-renowned shamanic teacher and award-winning author of 12 books, including The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred Into Everyday Life
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Christina Pratt is a powerful and eloquent teacher. Her presentations are challenging, inspiring, and focused on ways to deepen shamanic practice and do shamanic work with greater authenticity.
— Tom Cowan, Author of Fire in the Head and Yearning for the Wind
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Christina Lee Pratt is a foremost teacher and mentor of global shamanic wisdom and practices. Throughout the more than 20 years I was fortunate to work with Christina, in many capacities, I found her highly inspirational, thought-provoking, humorous, and at the same time utterly grounded. I admire her focus on supporting people to make serious commitments, with the spiritual discipline needed to achieve life-changing results.
— Itzhak Beery, Author of The Gift of Shamanism, Shamanic Transformations, and Shamanic Healing
“She is truly a brilliant light in our shamanic community.”
Christina Pratt is a delightful, engaging woman whose wisdom and rich experiences inform all that she does. As a shamanic teacher, her lively style encourages her students to dive deeply, and her passion is contagious! She is truly a brilliant light in our shamanic community.
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Christina Pratt is a deep well of wisdom, integrity, and contribution. She is a tireless contributor to the field of shamanism, and has spent decades developing her craft, teaching others, and supporting them in developing their energy skills, while helping them to unveil the spirit that connects us all.
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I’ve known Christina since 1993, and she continues to impress me with her knowledge of shamanism, her authenticity, her ability to bring to the surface complex ideas for open discussion, and her great sense of humor. She always stands out as a person of integrity and as a leader in any group she is a part of. If you have the opportunity to study with Christina Pratt, I say do it!
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On the whole, I was impressed by Pratt’s personal understanding of diverse shamanic trance methodologies and ceremonial traditions, and her ability to explain those practices in unambiguous language. In fact, I was often touched at how she manages to deftly turn seemingly conventional statements into insightful teachings.
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About Christina Pratt
Christina Pratt is a shamanic healer, author, and teacher of exceptional clarity, humor, and practicality. Her mission is to draw on the foundational wisdom of ancient peoples, so we can rise with innovation and creativity to meet the challenges of our time.
She is pioneering new shamanic techniques to deal with the illnesses of our times. Her current focus is healing our ancestral lines to release the growing burden on the living, of the unresolved energies of the dead, and the initiation of our young into spiritual adulthood.
Christina is the founder of Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing in Portland, Oregon, which offers classes in contemporary life skills and shamanic healing for individuals, families, and communities — including Cycle of Transformation, a rigorous, 4-year training.
Christina is the host of the international, live Internet radio show, “Why Shamanism Now,” and the author of the 2-volume set, An Encyclopedia of Shamanism. She has been a speaker at virtual summits on shamanism presented by both The Shift Network and Sounds True.
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