Ancestral Arts
Connect to your Ancestors with Art and Ceremony.
In many places around the world, ancestral work and ancestral festivals are an important and special part of culture. Unfortunately, in the “West”, we have forgotten many of the ceremonies and rituals that our ancestors used to do every year to honor and connect to their wise elders and predecessors.
Ancestral Arts is a creative approach to help us reconnect and create new ceremonies. The art-making process becomes part of an Ancestral Ceremony. We honor our ancestors and share our creative energy with them.
This series is for you to make it your own and reconnect to your ancestral roots in a new way.
The Art Ceremonies include guided ancestral ceremonies, guided visualizations, and meditative drawing processes with the Neurographica Method. All of these creative activities will help you get to know yourself more deeply, and will allow you to step into a conscious relationship with your Ancestors.
You will make the invisible threads between yourself and your Ancestors visible, and trace all these connections with the tip of your pen. You will learn about your Family Lineages and receive Ancestral Wisdom through colors, shapes, and your intuitive inner wisdom.
With this series of workshops, you can begin to establish a creative and healing relationship with your ancestors. Through these practices, you might even receive specific messages that help heal your ancestral connection.
You are the channel to your Ancestor's wisdom.
Join the next LIVE Art Ceremonies
starting October 2nd 2022 with the free ROOTS workshop
If for any reason, you cannot sign up through the field above, please use this EVENTBRITE LINK, and you will receive access information as well.
Mother Lineage
A 2 hour deep dive into the feminine wisdom lineages.
Did you ever contemplate that you were already present as an egg when your grandmother was pregnant with your mother?
We all came into this world through our mother's body and we all carry the experiences of our feminine ancestors deep inside us.
Especially as women, it is very important to connect with our mother's lineage and heal any traumatic ancestral memories or painful patterns that we may have received. We can access immense creative feminine energy when we clear the ancestral imprints and strengthen our connection to the feminine lineage.
We are the cycle breakers who can bring new creations into this world and who can heal our world with the feminine wisdom that lives inside us.
This Art Ceremony is now available as prerecorded single session and is included in the complete Ancestral Arts program (see details below)
MOTHER LINEAGE
►prerecorded Mother Lineage Art Ceremony (aprox. 2hrs long)
price: $77
guide: Antje Howard
This workshop is included in the Ancestral Arts Program - see below.
from November 11 to 22
use code ELEVEN11 at checkout
FREE Ancestral Arts Ceremony on October 8th 2023
Every year in October, I offer a series of Ancestral Arts drawing sessions. My intention is to help us connect with those who came before us in a creative, deeply personal, and nourishing way.
Our first drawing this year will be a reminder that we are all children of the earth, and we all came here for a reason.
If you are interested in experiencing Art as a Ceremony, please join me for this workshop. Also, you can start drawing right away with the video below - the Roots drawing from the 2022 series.
No prior experience required. Sign up for my newsletter to join.
I offer Ancestral Arts workshops live every year in Autumn.
ANCESTRAL ARTS
►new Mother Lineage workshop
►8 pre-recorded Ancestral Arts Ceremonies from previous years
►exclusive discounts on future Ancestral Arts Ceremonies
price: $222
guide: Antje Howard
Dates for 2023:
Ancestral Mandala - October 15th at 12 PM Pacific Time
Ancestral Lineages - October 22nd at 12 PM Pacific Time
Ancestral Portrait - October 29th at 12 PM Pacific Time
Please make sure to double-check your TIME ZONE HERE.
I offer the Ancestral Arts series live every year in October.
Below, you can purchase the latest recorded series from 2022.
Start with the free introductory session - ROOTS - below.
ANCESTRAL ARTS RECORDINGS
►3 Ancestral Arts Ceremonies as recordings (each about 2 hours)
►plus a FREE Introductory Session to the Neurographica Method
price: $150
instructor/guide: Antje Howard
Connecting to the EARTH Mother
The Earth Mother is our greatest common ancestor.
Start off the series with this free guided Art Ceremony, where we reconnect with the earth and remember our relations to all beings on our beautiful planet and beyond.
Introduction: How are you ROOTED?
In this introductory session, we explore, reflect, feel into the sensation, the feeling, and the idea of rootedness. We will meditate with it, find different ways to see and understand roots, and draw our own roots in a conscious art process.
The idea of being rooted in some way is universal to all humans. We all have parents and ancestors, we all were born in a certain place and into a certain culture. But the actual experience can be very unique and individual to each person. Some may feel very strong roots, while others feel uprooted or are searching for their deeper roots. Our relationship and experience of being rooted can have a profound impact on the rest of our lives. This is why it is so important to take a closer look. In our workshop we will do that with the help of a guided, reflective Neurographica drawing process.
The most important function of our roots is that they should nurture us, and give us a good basis for our lives. With this first workshop, you will connect to, and strengthen a whole network of roots, that will support you in all further ancestral explorations.
Ancestral Mandala
Connect to, and explore 7 Generations before You
The Ancestral Mandala offers a creative way to receive wisdom and insights from deep layers of your subconscious. This practice can help you to heal your ancestral lines and stop the transference of dysfunction by tapping into a new consciousness, becoming the creator of your life. You will learn to make space for the seven generations before you and bring them to life in a beautiful and harmonious visual way. First, we will create a grit of all your ancestral connections with 7 past generations. Then, we intuitively explore this grit with the help of lines and colors.
This is a very special and deep process, that includes a meditative drawing as well as an ancestral ceremony and meditation. It will help you become aware of how unique and amazing you are, how many individuals it took to create you, and how you are connected to this large family through invisible threads. You will make those threads visible for yourself, and trace all those connections with the tip of your pen. This is a creative way to honor and create a healing relationship with your ancestors.
Ancestral Lineages
Connect to, and harmonize Your 4 Primary Ancestral Lineages
In this workshop, we focus on the Four Primary Blood Lines and explore them with the help of ceremony, meditation, and the Neurographica drawing process. We will tune into the four directions North, South, East, and West. Then, we will connect each family line to one of these directions and explore them with lines and colors.
This process will help you understand how you are connected to and shaped by these Ancestral Lines. You will explore what energy patterns you receive through each of them, and how they might influence your life. This Art Ceremony will help you establish a creative and healing relationship with your Four Primary Family Blood Lineages. You will receive information/wisdom/knowledge about the state of your ancestral lineages through the colors or shapes, and help heal your ancestral patterns and stories with this practice.
Ancestral Portrait
Connect to, honor, and remember a special Ancestor
In this workshop, we get in touch with one remembered, or known ancestor, in a unique way. We will explore a photograph of that special Ancestor with the help of drawing and thereby create a new and deeply personal connection.
This is a very intimate and deep process, that includes a meditative drawing as well as an ancestral ceremony where we honor one specific ancestor. This will help you understand how you are connected to this ancestor. You will explore how he or she influences your personality and your life. You will create a unique Art Piece to honor and remember him/her.
In order to create the Ancestral Portrait, you will need an actual photograph (or image) of the ancestor. We will draw on top of the (copied) photograph, and create a layered piece of art with it. I will share a tutorial on how to prepare the image for this drawing when you sign up.
A word about Ceremony:
Before we begin with the actual drawing process, I will guide you through an ancestral ceremony and deep meditation. This ceremony serves to create a safe and protected space for your journey. We will also ask for permission from your ancestors, and invite guidance for your individual process. You are invited to create the physical, emotional, and mental space for this ceremony.
Your may for example cleanse and decorate the physical space around you, create an altar, bring offerings for your ancestors, or prepare yourself in any other way you feel called. Trusting your inner guidance in this process will be the first step to take. At the end, we will again close with a ceremony, to ground the energies and bring the creative process to completion.
I will provide more detailed suggestions for these ceremonies once you have signed up.
The Ancestral Arts Series offers a unique and creative way to connect to your ancestors, to ask questions, and to find the answers deep inside your own subconscious mind.
What participants are saying:
Ancestral Arts was a spiritual gift. It put me in touch with patterns of being and doing that were holding me back in my spiritual growth. I found myself better able to see and address the patterns that I was engaged in that I had inherited and were not serving me. The process of just acknowledging my ancestral connections was an exercise in expansion into a much larger view of myself as part of the whole. Being part of the whole gives me a stronger more meaningful relationship to this natural world and my journey within it. The journey back in time to discover ancestral connections was facilitated by the drawing and the guided mediations. Both parts truly added to my sense of myself as part of the continuum of time and humanity.
(Terry)
The ancestral drawing workshop supported my healing journey in regards of my dads death in great ways. It kind of softened the rough edges and soothed my heart. Now I honestly can say that I feel more in peace with the situation. I very much enjoyed to learn the Neurographica technique, which is really helpful for all sorts of clearing processes. Antje showed up in very caring and gentle way during the workshop - like holding your hand whenever there is need for it.
(Bettina)
The Ancestral series was very deep. I received so much information and connection to my Ancestral lineage. Would highly recommend this class.
(Brenda)
I did the Ancestral arts series with Antje Howard and it was so incredible. I love how she infuses it with sacredness. It makes it even extra potent. This form of art has allowed me to dive in deeply into my creative self and her expressions.
(Abigail)
This course is for You if:
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you want to explore your Ancestral connections in a creative way
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you are interested in art as an element of ceremony
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you are ready to heal your Ancestral patterns and family story
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you wish to experience yourself as the creator of your own life
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you desire to deepen your self-knowledge and experience positive change
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you want to learn creative tools to improve your life and nurture yourself