Creative Ancestral Healing Workshop
Book NowThis workshop is designed to initiate your journey to heal trauma passed down through the generations.
- It identifies how intergenerational trauma shows up in the mind and body and how it can effect our behaviours.
- Addresses how to heal from intergenerational trauma through creative practice and offers practical ways to regulate your nervous system through meditation, visualisations and breath work.
- Gives participants an opportunity to share with others in a safe space which facilitates the healing process. By the end participants will have a greater understanding of how intergenerational trauma may have operated in their lives and solutions on how to access embodied wisdom.
About the facilitators
Dr Michelle Nyangereka (CPsychol, MBPS) and Alison Hunte MA MBACP (Accred)
With nearly 40 years combined experience as trauma therapists, Michelle and Alison wanted to diversify their practice and extend their reach. Having written her doctoral thesis on intergenerational transmission of trauma Michelle wanted to apply her academic work to a real-life application for healing on a large scale, not just one-to-one. Realising that healing happens not just on the individual level but in community, Alison and Michelle developed a series of workshops designed to bring people together and facilitate group healing.
Both Alison and Michelle have strong creative practices alongside their work as therapists – Alison as an established printmaker and Michelle as a writer and amateur filmmaker. They have both identified creativity as a powerful way to heal and transform trauma and so wanted to combine community and creativity in their workshops.
Healing and Embodiment black womxn’s day retreat hosted by Satyam Yoga Centre Cambridge
Pictures from Creative Ancestral Healing workshop sponsored by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Land Trust, The Centre for Diverse Leadership in Science and The American Indian Studies Center
What people are saying
“From the beginning to end I can honestly say that this retreat was a wise investment in time, money and energy.
The setting of Satyam Yoga Centre was uncluttered and soothing This put me in a good place which was sustained by the natural congruence and wisdom of the 2 facilitators. I felt I could be open about particular life stories that have been closed for a considerable length of time.
It was clear workshop content created a shared energy of openness, acceptance and safety in the room from all of the lovely sisters in attendance who valued uniqueness over uniformity.
The meditation, movement , drumming and art supported my connection with my body and soul through many life times and I left feeling incredibly contained, peaceful and self assured,
From the heart, thank you. I would love a part 2.”
Judy (Healing and Embodiment black womxn’s day retreat hosted by Satyam Yoga Centre Cambridge)