Reclaiming Ancestors

Summary

“Western People have lost a connection to their ancestors. Many don’t even know what they have lost and what would be possible if they were to reconnect and reclaim this.” This timely book explores what exactly Westernised people have lost over centuries of industrialisation, colonisation, and the rise of the culture of individualism, and how to reclaim what has been lost. Tanja Meyburgh is a psychologist and renowned Family and Systems Constellations expert who teaches all over the world on the power of working with ancestral lineage healing. Through her work over the decades Meyburgh uncovered a deeper malaise in modern humanity: those raised in Western systems have forgotten how to include ancestors for their health and well-being, they have lost their connection to elders, community, and to the land itself. In this book she shares her stories, teaching and rituals from Southern Africa. She will show you that profound healing can come from personal work with the ones who ‘came before’. It will challenge you to relook at facts, including people and stories that have been repressed and excluded. Meyburgh works with reconnecting to the land and the village, honouring elders, restoring dignity and developing a relationship with the wider systems we find ourselves a part of, including our biological ancestors. She also shares her own experience of being a modern woman following an ancestral calling and ending up helping thousands of people to do the same. This book is for systems constellations enthusiasts and practitioners, as well as anyone who wants to reclaim their own ancestral lineage. “Recognising that we cannot be in isolation, that we all have roots, belonging, and ancestors, is the balm that modernity has buried.” - Francesca Mason Boring, Family Constellation Trainer, author and member of the Shoshone Nation.

Summary (English)

“Western People have lost a connection to their ancestors. Many don’t even know what they have lost and what would be possible if they were to reconnect and reclaim this.” This timely book explores what exactly Westernised people have lost over centuries of industrialisation, colonisation, and the rise of the culture of individualism, and how to reclaim what has been lost. Tanja Meyburgh is a psychologist and renowned Family and Systems Constellations expert who teaches all over the world on the power of working with ancestral lineage healing. Through her work over the decades Meyburgh uncovered a deeper malaise in modern humanity: those raised in Western systems have forgotten how to include ancestors for their health and well-being, they have lost their connection to elders, community, and to the land itself. In this book she shares her stories, teaching and rituals from Southern Africa. She will show you that profound healing can come from personal work with the ones who ‘came before’. It will challenge you to relook at facts, including people and stories that have been repressed and excluded. Meyburgh works with reconnecting to the land and the village, honouring elders, restoring dignity and developing a relationship with the wider systems we find ourselves a part of, including our biological ancestors. She also shares her own experience of being a modern woman following an ancestral calling and ending up helping thousands of people to do the same. This book is for systems constellations enthusiasts and practitioners, as well as anyone who wants to reclaim their own ancestral lineage. “Recognising that we cannot be in isolation, that we all have roots, belonging, and ancestors, is the balm that modernity has buried.” - Francesca Mason Boring, Family Constellation Trainer, author and member of the Shoshone Nation.