Ancestral Coaching
Exploring ancestral reconnection as a source of healing, courage and vision
The Call
There is no escaping where we come from, though much of modern life urges us to try.
In a world marked by injustice, environmental collapse, disconnection, and rising anxiety and depression, the roots of our struggles have clear histories, but often remain hidden from us.
If we reach back far enough we find that all of us have a natural longing and capacity to be in deep relationship with the people and places we come from, even if that part of us has been hidden under a blanket of forgetfulness for several centuries now.
And beneath the daily grind, many of us sense that gentler, more resilient, more conscious and life-serving ways of living are possible ~ we just don’t know how to find the path back.
The Invitation
When we turn toward our ancestry – toward the histories and stories that formed us – we gain the power to understand both the gifts and the traumas we’ve inherited.
Facing this lineage allows us to heal wounds that have been passed down generation after generation, to choose differently, and to plant seeds for a more loving future.
In this work, we can become worthy ancestors ourselves, leaving behind legacies of care and courage.
What I Offer
A Glimpse Down the Well
(Introductory Session)
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We begin by exploring your relationship to your ancestors. You’ll be introduced to the holistic map I use as our guide. Together, we’ll clarify intentions and take a first step into the work. You’ll leave with clear next actions, practices, and tasks to deepen your connection.
Walking the Spiral
(Six-Session Series)
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For those ready to go deeper, I offer a guided series traversing the terrains of the holistic map that guides us. Together, we’ll discover the beautiful, mysterious, and resilient aspects of your ancestry while also building the courage and resilience to face difficult histories.
Tending the Web
(Ongoing Exploration)
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Beyond the series, the possibilities expand: designing ancestral pilgrimages, cultivating family practices, creating rituals of healing, or crafting creative projects from the stories you uncover. This is an open field where your curiosity leads the way.
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What We May Explore Together
✶ Sharing family stories you know
✶ Genealogical and historical research
✶ Expanding beyond human ancestry
✶ Finding beauty and wisdom in ancestral practices
✶ Facing ancestral traumas both experienced and perpetuated with care and support
✶ Exploring resilience and healing rituals and how our lineage work supports our work in justice movements
✶ Learning how ancestral stories live in our bodies today
✶ Working with grief in productive ways
✶ Dreamwork and mythic perspectives
✶ Land connection practices
✶ The value of mystery—what we may never know
✶ Practices for transforming our histories into nourishment for the holy world that sustains us
Why It Matters
Studying and relating to our ancestry is critical to the work of decolonization, dismantling racism, sexism, and classism, and creating healthier culture. It shows us how our struggles make sense in context, reminds us we are not alone, and empowers us to act differently.
Who This Is For
This work is for those who feel called to step into their role as changemakers, healers, and visionaries. It is for people ready to face both beauty and hardship in their lineage, to bring compassion to the wounds, and to imagine new futures rooted in justice and care.
It is not therapy, nor is it a “shamanic” practice. It is an embodied education—through mind, heart, body, and spirit. And it is a form of activism: personal work in the service of cultural transformation.
My Intention
I will walk beside you as companion, witness, and encourager—someone with whom you can share discoveries, grieve, celebrate, and stay accountable. My role is to reflect the mythic story of your lineage unfolding, to offer tools and practices to support your exploration, and to help you move at a pace that feels sustainable, with respect and compassion, so that your ancestral journey becomes a source of resilience and vision.
Investment
✵ Introductory Session: $175+
✵ Six-Session Series: $600+
These rates reflect the base cost of my work. A sliding scale is available above these amounts. If you are able to contribute more, your generosity helps sustain this work and makes it possible for me to offer flexibility to others.
A guide for choosing your contribution:
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✵ Community Care Rate ($200+ / $800+): Choose this if you hold wealth, own property, or have access to financial abundance. Your contribution supports both this work and its accessibility for others.
✵ Sustainer Rate ($175 / $700): Choose this if you are financially stable, can afford small luxuries, and want to help sustain this work.
✵ Base Rate ($175 / $600): Choose this if you are meeting your basic needs but have little extra.
Working with Meagan…
Meagan Chandler weaves a whole tapestry with each individual drawing from ancestral inquiry, land-based orientation, gratitude and grief practices, and discovering sacred offerings of a “balm” to an uprooted cultural yearning for deeper tending. She brings together her years as an artist, musician, educator and ceremonialist into the realm of reimagining how to be in relationship again with the land, and the ancestral connections that each of us walk with in a conscious or unconscious way. Meagan offers an embodied and soulful approach facilitating and calling forth the ancestral threads for the individual, familial and collective psyche. She is a masterful space holder with a wide base of compassion, empathy and experience to draw upon. I recommend her wholeheartedly.
~Arisa LaFond (Humanitarian Rolfer, Dancer, Founder of Nectar Arising)
NEXT STEP:
If you feel called to explore this work, I invite you to begin with an Introductory Session. Together we’ll map where you are, where you long to go, and what first steps can carry you deeper into relationship with your ancestors. Contact me to register…