Teri Leigh
Ritual
Full-Day Shaman Healing with an Initiated Elder
What We Inherit
Generational trauma
You feel the Grief of your grandmothers, and the silence your grandfathers were forced to forge. You own the survival strategies that kept your aunties and uncles alive but strangle your potential now. Traumas come down the generational line and stick around until they can be alchemized through ritual healing.
What We Forget
Ancestral Assets
Our ancestors went through hard times and learned skills, insight, wisdom, grit, humor, and so many more gifts and assets. Your people were not only harmed, they were gifts, and those gifts are coded into your bone marrow and DNA. Many of them have gone dormant from disuse, atrophied over time, echoing glimmers to you in hints and shudders of brightness.
A dormant gift is waiting for you to pick it up again and put it back to work.
You've done the therapy. You've done the journaling. You've applied the yoga, meditation, breathwork, somatics, and functional medicine protocols. And still, something in you sits there, unmoved. Unhealed.
When you've peeled all the onion layers and you know that you need to get to the spiritual core of your challenge, a ritual shamanic healing opens the portal so that you can commune with your ancestors, tend the wound and claim your inheritance.
What This Day Holds
This is a three-part container, not a single appointment. Ritual work requires intention setting, journey-process, and real-life integration.
The Pre-Meeting
Before we ever light anything, we talk. This is where I listen for what's actually asking to be healed, underneath what you think you're here for. We identify the ancestors, the grief, the pattern, or the threshold this ritual needs to address. I'll also walk you through exactly what the day will hold, so you arrive prepared instead of guessing.
The Ritual Healing Day
A full day, built around the Dagara cosmology I was initiated into: fire, water, earth, mineral, and nature. Depending on what surfaced in your pre-meeting, your day may include an ancestor altar built specifically for your lineage, a grief ritual, a divination, immersion in the natural world, and energy work drawn from more than thirty years of reading chakras and auras. As a Dagara elder, I read your energy, invite the spirits, and let the ancestors build the ritual accordingly.
The Integration Session
A few days after the ritual, we meet again. This is where the day gets translated into your actual life, your body, your relationships, your next right steps. Ritual without integration is just a powerful memory. Integration is what makes it a turning point.
The Dagara Cosmology
Fire
Fire is the mediator between this world and the ancestral one. It burns away what stands between you and your purpose.
Water
Water cleanses, reconciles, and makes peace, including peace with the parts of your story you've been carrying alone.
Earth
Earth calls you home to your body and to community, the place you actually belong.
Nature
Nature asks you to transform, to become the truer version of yourself that's been waiting underneath the coping mechanisms.
Mineral
Mineral holds memory. It's how you remember who you are and why you're here.
TeriLeigh: Initiated Shamanic Elder
I am an initiated elder in the Dagara shamanic tradition, trained intensively from 2006 to 2012 under Malidoma Patrice Somé, the Dagara elder and diviner who spent his life building a bridge between his village in Dano, Burkina Faso, and the West.
I've been reading chakras and auras since 1985. For more than thirty years, I've taught nervous system regulation, somatic practice, and mystical development to tens of thousands of students, and worked one on one with thousands of clients walking through grief, health crises, divorce, career collapse, and the kind of identity earthquakes that don't have a name yet.
I live at the intersection of Grounded Avenue and Woo-Woo Way. I sit in the dirt with you, because that's where the healing actually happens.