Warm welcome! I'm an Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner and a tender of the earth, the ancestors, and the thresholds of life, death, and grief. I have a background in anthropology, yoga, birthkeeping, herbalism, gardening, and permaculture.
I believe deeply in the power of ancestral healing as a path to reclaim wisdom along our lineages, find our soul’s purpose, and connect with the wise earth. I offer grounded, compassionate facilitation that supports people in connecting with their loving ancestors. I work with people of all backgrounds and I'm especially inspired to support women+ who are going through big transitions, such as grieving, death of a loved one, pregnancy and birth, and parenting.
I was first introduced to ancestral healing at a workshop in 2016, and deepened into the work in 2021 after my mom and aunt died on the same day.
That experience initiated me into a sacred relationship with grief and the cycles of birth, life, and death, and I've been on a deep journey of unearthing profound comfort, connection, and support for grief and loss with the ancestors and with the natural world.
I deeply appreciate that this work is centered around cultural repair and dismantling systems of oppression, and I strive to incorporate those themes into sessions. I hold decolonial, anti-supremacist, anti-racist values that I believe are essentially aligned and must be integrated with ancestral healing. I'm a descendant of Ashkenazi Jewish and Western European people, including Scottish, English, Spanish, and German. I’m a cis-hetero racialized as white woman with a lot of privileges, which used to keep me in a frozen state of guilt, shame, depression, and spiritual bypassing. I’m dedicated to using my privilege to do my part to compost systems of oppression and am on a lifelong journey of learning and action.
In addition to ancestral healing work, I facilitate women's circles, including a grief circle for mothers who have lost their mothers, and I'm a volunteer grief tender with the Center for Conscious Living and Dying.
I live in Asheville, North Carolina, on the ancestral lands of the ᏣᎳᎩ Tsalagi (Cherokee) with my partner, daughter, and many other than human kin. I love to connect with my ancestors through song, dance, gardening, and time in nature by the waters and on the mountains.
Listen to my podcast interview with Ann Odom to hear stories of ancestral healing and personal experiences of how meaningful and transformative relationships with our ancestors can be!
Kathryn's calm, inviting and warm presence allows me to sink in, dive deep and access my ancestral lineage in a way that I never thought was possible.
She has a deep commitment to and understanding of this work, which makes her both knowledgeable and credible (especially to someone like me who had no idea this work existed).
What struck me most about Kathryn's skills was her ability to take anything I shared, and navigate, pivot, question or pause in order to help me deepen into the experience. I have loved my sessions with her and feel that it has been one of the most interesting and healing aspects of my spiritual journey.
Jenn W.
Trainings and Credentials
Deep love and gratitude to the many teachers and mentors I've had the privilege to learn from
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Women's Archetypes Story and Song Circles with Katherine Parker and Jennifer Armstrong, 2025
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Voices Rising Women's Choir with When Women Come to Pray, 2025
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Foundations of Ritual with Ancestral Medicine, 2025
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Ancestors and Cultural Healing with Ancestral Medicine, 2025
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Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner Training with Ancestral Medicine, 2023-24
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Raising Radical Kids with Ancestral Medicine, 2024
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Direct Care Training with the Center for Conscious Living and Dying, 2024
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Grief Immersion for DeathWorkers with Inviting Abundance, 2023
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Grief Work Training with the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death, 2023
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Ancestral Lineage Healing Course with Ancestral Medicine, 2022
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training with Racial Equity Consultants, 2021
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Whiteness at Work training with Desiree Adaway, 2020
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Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive with Ancestral Medicine, 2016
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Herbalism self-study and attended the Southeast Women's Herbal Conference, 2012-2016
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Birth Doula Training with The Matrona, 2013
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Permaculture Design Certificate with Oregon State University, 2012
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Yoga Teacher Training, 500 hours with Yoga Shala of Portland, 2010-2012
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BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2006
The ancestors are the wisdom of your heart.
They are the knowing in your bones.
About Regenerate Ancestral Healing
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re•gen•er•ate
1) (of a living organism) regrow (new tissue) to replace lost or injured tissue
2) reformed or reborn, especially in a spiritual sense
When I was considering a name that embodies the heart of ancestral healing, I waited for inspiration to strike. One evening while I was at a Mamuse concert, it did. The musicians asked the audience to call out words and phrases that they would craft into an improvised song in support of Palestinians. Someone called out REGENERATION, and I knew instantly that this would be the name of my practice.
When we engage with ancestral healing work, we are initiating a process of repair, of reclaiming what has been lost among the generations. We are not only asking for healing for the generations who no longer walk upon the earth. We are asking that the healing ripple down through us, the living, so that our descendants, the future generations, may be born to lineages that have been repaired, rebirthed, regenerated.
