Singapore
Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive
March 26th - 28th, 2027
OVERVIEW
Ancestral Lineage Healing is the practice of relating directly with your ancestors to support personal, family, and communal transformation. It involves safely establishing relationships with wise and vibrant ancestors and enlisting their participation to deeply heal your lineages as they speak through your life today.
If you’ve participated in various kinds of personal healing work and you’re seeking greater breakthroughs, ancestral healing may be for you. This approach weaves helpful elements from psychology, nature-based traditions, and diverse healing practices. Patterns rooted in intergenerational cycles and inherited pain can finally find resolution. Coming into relationship with well lineage ancestors can serve to re-establish obscured blessings, improve relationships with the living, and encourage clarity of purpose.
Learn a lifelong framework to relate in direct, safe, and empowering ways with your family and lineage ancestors.
Establish connections with ancestral guides and work in partnership with them for lasting personal and family healing.
Join with your ancestors to support the resolution of generational, structural, and systemic wounding.
Three full days with teachings, personalised attention, and time for live questions.
More than a dozen substantive guided practices in circle with drumming, song, offerings, and more.
Small breakout groups for intimate sharing and processing, anchored by trained practitioners.
Safe and potent containers for genuine and reciprocal contact with your ancestors.
Co-create a tangible offering of beauty for your ancestors and the larger prayer of communal harmony.
WHAT TO EXPECT
We’ll gather for dedicated time in group over three full days.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday | 9:30 am – 6:00 pm daily
(Morning session: 9:30 am – 1:00 pm • Lunch break: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm • Afternoon session: 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm)
There will also be breaks before and after lunch. We provide seating, but we encourage you to bring cushions, pillows, blankets, or anything else you need to feel fully supported and comfortable in the space.
Teachings and experiential practices will be led by Michelle Ayn Tessensohn and Lyndal Walker, certified practitioners and endorsed teachers of Ancestral Lineage Healing as taught by Dr. Daniel Foor. Together, our approach is methodical, safe, psychologically grounded, and culturally inclusive.
Those new to ancestor work, adoptees, and people with a tough or complicated experience of family are welcome. This work bypasses recent troubles and ongoing friction with family and relatives, allowing you to receive deep support and healing without reliving family strife.
For those raised with deep reverence for family and ancestral traditions, this work is held with the utmost respect. We do not ask descendants to judge or carry their ancestors' burdens. Instead, we work in partnership with the ancient, elevated lineage elders to bring care and healing to past hardships through your family lineage. This honours the sacrifices of those who came before you and allows dormant blessings to flow clearly through your lineages to you and your living family life.
THE SANCTUARY
Our gathering takes place kampung-style in a bungalow set within peaceful, shared, expansive grounds, just steps away from Pasir Ris Park and the beach. During the extended lunch break, you can wander along the park connector through to Lorong Halus Wetland, where kingfishers, herons, and grebes nest among the reeds.
Nearby, Sungei Api Api flows through Pasir Ris into the Straits of Johor. The river is named after the api-api mangrove trees that line its banks, with api meaning fire in Malay. According to local folklore, the api-api tree takes its name from the fireflies that clustered along its branches, lighting the way for fishermen returning home through dark, winding estuaries.
Getting here:
Take bus number 403 from Pasir Ris MRT station (EW1) and alight at Pasir Ris Park (Bus Stop number 77129). The bungalow is about a 6-minute walk from the bus stop.
Changi Airport is 20 minutes away by taxi for those travelling from overseas.
If you are driving, there is parking available at the bungalow.
“This three-day ancestral healing intensive with Lyndal and Michelle was a rich, deeply held and profoundly respectful experience. The teachings were both heart-led and beautifully grounded in the technical framework of Daniel Foor’s ancestral healing work, giving me enough structure and guidance to move through the process with clarity while still honouring the mystery and depth of the work.
Working within a group added another powerful dimension. I leave with deep gratitude for Lyndal, Michelle and Eliza Beth, and for the beauty, integrity and reverence with which this work is carried and shared. This was powerful work, held with great tenderness, wisdom and respect. I feel honoured to have been part of it.”
Jen Karlich, Melbourne, Australia
DETAILS
Dates: Friday, March 26th – Sunday, March 28th, 2027
Timing: 9:30 am – 6:00 pm daily
Venue: Tee Side Chalet, 125 Pasir Ris Road, Singapore 519121
Pricing:
Early Bird: $702 (10% discount) when paid in full by December 31st, 2026
Standard: $780. Option to select monthly payment plans are available at checkout for a limited time.
Benefactor: $888. Pays for your place and directly helps fund scholarships.
Reservation: A deposit of $200 reserves your place at the Standard price. The remaining balance of $580 is due by February 26th, 2027.
Scholarships: Scholarship applications are welcome from anyone who is low income or unemployed. Indigenous applicants from Southeast Asia, particularly Singaporeans, will be prioritised.
Meals and Accommodation: Price and scholarships cover the three-day group container. Travel to and from the venue, meals, and accommodation are not included.
Refund Policy: All payments are non-refundable from January 1st, 2027. After this, you may transfer your payment as a credit or gift to another person.
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BENEFACTOR
What are the benefits of Ancestral Lineage Healing?
Ancestral Lineage Healing addresses patterns at their root, allowing the vitality, wisdom, and gifts of your bloodlines to flow back into your daily life. While every journey is unique, participants often experience benefits across several areas:
Emotional Well-being: A grounded sense of peace and balance, with a greater capacity to enjoy life and be fulfilled. This is accompanied by quiet confidence, inner resilience, and deep relief from isolation and loneliness.
Health and Self-Care: A kinder, more compassionate relationship with your body, improved physical vitality, and an innate capacity for genuine self-care and nervous system ease.
Family and Living Relationships: Healthier boundaries, improved communication, relief from inherited burdens and heavy obligation, and the softening of interpersonal friction.
Identity and Belonging: A more authentic and cohesive sense of self, harmony within diverse cultural roots and lived experiences, and a lasting feeling of being held, resourced, and accompanied by your lineage.
Purpose, Abundance, and Creativity: Greater courage and clarity to follow your life path, improved financial balance, and the unblocking of your creative, artistic, and professional gifts.
Earth and Nature Reconnection: A restoration of respect, reciprocity, and connection with the land, the living world, and the elements.
Lifelong Guidance and Protection: Direct, reliable access to the insight, wisdom, and protection of your elevated lineage elders, guides, and spiritual allies.
Michelle Ayn Tessensohn
Intensive Co-Facilitator
In Singaporean Eurasian culture, we know the names of our ancestors and where they come from. Some of my forebears were fleeing persecution, while others were missionaries, soldiers, and planters who travelled from Europe to Asia as part of the colonial administration and married locals, including emancipated slaves and indigenous people. Both lineages live within my blood. Early life trauma deepened that inner divide, leading me toward the healing arts.
Reconnecting directly with my ancestors through Ancestral Lineage Healing changed everything. It brought a genuine sense of rootedness and the capacity to be in the world with greater ease. When we enter into healthy relationship with those who came before us, we can live rich and fulfilling lives, regardless of where we come from or what our present life looks like.
I bring thirty years of practice to this work, with certifications in coaching, mindfulness meditation, NARM (relational trauma), and Ancestral Lineage Healing. Since 2020, I have supported courses with Ancestral Medicine and mentor trainee practitioners in their professional certification training.
Find out more about Michelle here.
Lyndal Walker
Intensive Co-Facilitator
As a child, I was full of longing, often moved to tears by songs of people who left and never returned, without understanding why. For twenty years I searched for a resolution to chronic pain, exploring a vast landscape of physical, contemplative, and intellectual healing. Ancestral Lineage Healing answered something in me I didn't even realize I was seeking. It gave me a deep sense of belonging, identity, and personal support that had once felt out of reach.
Coming from a European settler background, I had long struggled to find peace with my family history. I could not have imagined that my ancestors would become the very pathway to my own healing, or that making peace with them could open the door to such profound reconciliation. Returning to Australia in 2024 after a decade in Berlin has deepened my relationship to the land, its history, and the shared healing we all carry.
For much of my life, I was an atheist and agnostic. Inner spiritual connection was not something I expected to discover. Yet it proved accessible, practical, and a source of lasting joy. Drawing on thirty years of practice as an artist, I now dedicate my work to creating thoughtful, beautifully held, and connective group spaces.
Find out more about Lyndal here.
"For a long time, my heritage felt like something I knew about rather than something I belonged to. Ancestral Lineage Healing changed that. Standing on the shoulders of wise, loving ancestors, I have been able to soften heavy family patterns that were never mine to carry, and feel truly at ease with my mixed East Asian and Austronesian roots. Time with my family now holds genuine curiosity, compassion, and connection. Tremendous gratitude to Ancestral Medicine and mentor, Michelle, whose experience and deep knowledge of Asian peoples, history and culture made the work feel genuinely inviting and approachable."
Lee Khar Wei, Malaysia
“The epigenetic inheritance of wounds I’ve been integrating for years settled in not only as insight but as a shared healing work, which I was not anymore doing ALONE - a whole line of ancestors now stood behind my back. What amazed me most was a possibility to invite healing for lineages that may have lacked the personal power to heal themselves. Lyndal’s guidance offers a path to facilitate such healing, even for those of us who initially had no idea where to begin.
Vasi Liska
"Working with Lyndal has been a profound and magical process. Lyndal has brought her intuitive and perceptive presence to our work together, creating a space that feel both safe and authentic. Her approach is precise, yet nuanced—she listens deeply, asks curious and thoughtful questions, and helps draw out insights that feel both like remembering and newly uncovered. Through her engaged guidance, I’ve been able to form loving and supportive bonds with my ancestors in ways I never imagined possible. Her calm and generous demeanor supports deep exploration, while her insightful reflections often illuminate exactly what is needed in the moment. Lyndal’s presence is steady and I’m incredibly grateful for her support, and for the reconnection she’s helped me cultivate with my family lines.”
Sarah E
"I am so grateful for Michelle's guidance when I started my journey to reconnect and repair my ancestral lineages. She holds a solid and safe space, her dedication to healing and the path really inspires me. I felt held and supported both as her mentee and client.”
Dee Zhang Jing, China
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
We hold a limited number of places for people who are struggling to meet basic needs, such as healthcare, housing, food, or childcare. You may qualify if you are living month to month, carrying debt you cannot pay down, or have little or no savings.
We trust you to assess your situation honestly. When people who can afford the Standard price (including payment plans) choose it, scholarship places stay open for the people who need them most.
Scholarship applications close on February 26th, 2027. Places are awarded based on the economic criteria above, with priority given to Singaporeans and applicants indigenous to Southeast Asia. We aim to respond within two weeks of application.
