Ancestral Prayer Circles

What is an ancestral prayer circle?

Ancestral Prayer Circles are Hamaima’s signature offering. The concept was born at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in 2020, where Hamaima created the prayer circles with her friends Mayan Shamans Walter, Izaias and Izabel. The circles are happening if possible outside in nature around a sacred fire.

For the Mayans the fire is the main medicine as they consider the fire “the ear of God”. Hamaima merged her way of connecting with the plant spirits with the Mayan Cosmovision, which is beautifully held and embodied by her Mayan family even when this work is offered in other parts of the world.

During the ceremony our prayers are carried and amplified by the spirit of the fire, devotional music, medicinal offerings, and communal presence, so we can harmoniously weave our energies together with the ancestral spirits of the land.

We intend to create a judgement free and safe container, where we recognize each other as our own healers and teachers. A co-creation where we share our prayers, gifts and talents.

Why is ancestral healing important?

Your mother and father are your most direct connection to your ancestral lines.

This link to your family allows you to be born into that specific line and needs to be understood and respected.

Remembering and honouring our ancestors is a practice that will help us to live a healthy, happy and empowered life.

We might find it easy to pray for a beloved ancestor of whom we have fond memories, but it can be difficult to pray for someone who has caused harm to either directly ourselves or a family member. We might have been told stories about their negative impact on the family and a lot of resentment is still held towards them.

Of course we have the right not to honour those ancestors. However their impact on the ancestral line will be undeniable, discordant energies will pass through the entire line and held by your children if not addressed.

Therefore I urge everyone to find forgiveness and love in their hearts for those who have done wrong. If you keep holding resentment healing of this ancestral line will not be possible and the ancestral Karma will be carried on and beyond.

Let’s pray for the deceased, for ourselves and for generations to come so that we can alleviate as many dysfunctional and abusive patterns as possible, so that they will end and no longer plague any member of the family line, directly or indirectly.

Your ancestors love you and the greatest joy you can bring them is to fully step into your power, share your gifts and talents, tread with love, gratitude and respect on Earth and celebrate this gift of life.

Why does ancestral healing work?

There is possibly nothing more powerful than remembering and praying for our ancestors - the ancestors that go many generations back as well as our living ancestors. Our parents are our most direct ancestors and therefore hold the key to dissolving ancestral karma that stretches back through time.

Because of this it is important to focus on the relationship with our parents (alive or on the other side), to understand, accept and respected the energies that are involved. We might find it hard to pray for those ancestors who are/were abusive to other family members or ourselves, to pray for those who we think “have done wrong”.

However at some point, either whilst they are still amongst us or once they have passed on, they will have come to understand how their behaviour affected those around them. And even more so they want to support your healing work by sharing their wisdom and blessings with you.

How to discover forgiveness in our hearts for our ancestors?

To find forgiveness in your heart, remember the contracts you have made before you came and pray for your ancestors with the deepest love and gratitude in your heart. They seek your forgiveness, your loving remembrance, your prayers and songs and you will soon feel their supportive presence with you in each and every moment.

Let’s not hang onto, but rather dissolve our ancestral karma WITH the help of our ancestors, let’s heal those discordant energies in our family line so we will no longer pass on the trauma, pain and disempowered stories that existed in our family for many generations.

It is time to take responsibility, step out of the victim mentality, accept and love especially the difficult energies and create a better future for ourselves and our children.

Once again it is up to every single one of us to do this work as nobody else can do it for us.