The Ancestral Inheritance

What lives within us?

We start where all healing starts: by looking honestly at what you were given.

You’ll learn to see the gifts, patterns, and responsibilities that came down your family line. Then you’ll decide what you want to honor and what you’re ready to transform.

Today’s exercise: “What If I Chose My Family?”
Imagine you chose your own family before you were born. Why did you choose your mother? Why your father? Why this story?

Many people discover something unexpected when they answer. Rage becomes understanding, distance becomes a lesson, sometimes it only becomes a question, and that is where the work begins.

the hero twins

Descending into Xib’alb’a

Long before any of us were born, two siblings walked into the underworld. In the Popol Wuj, Junajpu and Xb'alamke descend into Xib’alb’a, the place of trials, to face what had defeated their own parents before them. We’ll explore this story, one of the greatest in all of Maya tradition, together.

We’ll also look at how many people today read it as a story of ancestral healing: facing what came before us so those who come after us don’t have to. We’ll offer this as one contemporary way of understanding how both previous and future generations heal when we heal, and we’ll hold the story with the respect it deserves.

You’ll leave asking yourself: what is my Xib’alb’a, and what am I ready to face?

kame I the day of the dead

Death, ancestry, and transformation

On the day of Kame in the Cholq’ij, the sacred Maya calendar, we turn toward the ancestors.

Guided by the teachings of the Ajq’ijab’ we work with, you’ll explore what Kame means: death, ancestral presence, and transformation. You’ll learn that in the Maya view, death is not the end of the relationship but a change in how it lives.

You may find that someone you thought you had lost has been closer than you realized.

the ancestors altar

Creating a place of remembrance

Today, we build! Together, and guided by the appropriate traditions and teachings, you’ll create an ancestors altar in your own home. A place to remember, a place to give thanks, a place that keeps the door open between you and the ones who came before.

It doesn’t need to be fancy. It needs to be yours, and it needs to be real. Tonight your home becomes a place of remembrance, and you are ready for tomorrow.

Maya fire ceremony

The Ancestral Fire

This is what we’ve been walking toward.

You’ll join a LIVE Maya fire ceremony, guided by an Ajq’ij (Maya spiritual leader) in Guatemala. Everything you’ve learned, felt, and discovered over four days becomes an offering.

This is a living ceremony, practiced for generations, and you’ll be inside it. A way to honor the ancestors that the Maya have used for thousands of years!

You’ll bring your gratitude, your grief, your intentions, and your names. And you’ll give them to the fire.

The five days are the heart of it. But you won’t walk this path alone, and you won’t walk it once and lose it.

📄 PDFs and written guides for every exercise.
Every reflection we do together will come as a beautiful, printable PDF. Write in it, return to it, and keep it somewhere safe. 

🎥 Lifetime access to the recordings.
Missed a session? Everything is yours to come back to, whenever your heart calls you back. 

🤝 A private community of fellow participants.
You’ll be surrounded by people on the same journey. Share what comes up, honor each other’s stories, and feel what it is to be held by a circle.

💬 Moderators who answer your questions, even outside of class.
Healing doesn’t wait for the live session to end. Questions will come to you, and our moderators will be there to guide you, so you’re never left wondering alone.

Because this work doesn’t end when the five days do. We want you supported long after the fire has burned down to embers.