Tirzah Firestone
Embark on an experiential journey to heal your ancestral legacies, discover untapped vitality and spiritual resources — and quiet the turbulent outside world to connect with your sacred purpose.
Each of us holds tremendous power to change not only the trajectory of our own life — but the collective experience of our larger world, even during these times of uncertainty.
Once you understand your own trauma history and the challenging historical patterns your ancestors engendered, you begin a journey that releases enormous healing potential that can benefit you and many others.
Untying trauma knots in your personal and ancestral history sets you free — and energizes you to become more powerful and compassionate as you create a future aligned with your soul’s purpose.
Experience Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Fireston's 9-module journey into the healing of your ancestral legacies — and discover untapped spiritual resources as you dismantle personal and intergenerational trauma patterns, so you and your lineage can reach your fullest, most radiant expression.
This transformative course lead you through guided meditations, embodied exercises, and personal contemplations to support the ancestral healing work you’ll engage in.
This transformative course also includes two sacred ritual practicum sessions to take you deeper into ceremonial ancestral healing work.
You’ll delve into a rich synthesis of teachings from the fields of depth psychology, neuroscience, and Kabbalistic and mystic wisdom — and benefit from Tirzah’s wisdom as a Jungian psychotherapist and spiritual elder.
As you’ll discover, each of us comes into this world with specific tasks — sacred repair work that’s deeply connected to the wounds and challenges that have befallen us and our bloodlines.
When you explore and heal these wounds, you can better accomplish your sacred work — honoring your soul’s calling, deciphering your soul’s unique code, and becoming all that you’re meant to be.
And once you’re equipped with the wisdom of your ancestors, spiritual guides, and allies, you’ll be able to see your life from an expanded perspective — complete with the hope, courage, resilience, and compassion you need to better navigate your life and bring healing to our world.
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- Insights into your ancestral history — which may be affecting you more strongly in these challenging times — and how you can access the ancestral plane to help you move forward
- Usable practices to build your sacred space and empower your body, mind, and spirit
- How to view family trauma patterns in their historical context — and move past the control they have over you
- How trauma residue patterns of fear, shame, greed, hypervigilance, and spiritual resistance are passed down through families — and show up in larger societal patterns in the world (including racism, colonization, and patriarchal oppression of women)
- 2 ritual practicum sessions to take you deeper into ceremonial and ritual work
- Ways to delve into your genogram (intergenerational family map) to study family ruptures and pathologies — and uncover resources, positive allies, and encouragement for your life today
- Meditations to access the ancestral plane and create relationships with your loving guides and ancestors
- Skills to deepen your connection to wise guidance — and steer clear of negative influences
- The potent transformational fields that Kabbalah and Tibetan mysticism bring to ancestral healing
- Ancient mythic stories to help you align with your sacred purpose and effectuate change in the world
- The powerful truth that you were born with a sacred purpose — and how to quiet the turbulent world so you can connect with it
- How your ancestors’ life experiences and wisdom can help you survive — and even thrive — in chaotic times like ours
What You’ll Discover in These 9 Modules
In this 9-module transformational intensive, you'll be guided to deepen your understanding of your ancestral trauma legacies — to gain clarity, courage, compassion, and access to your authentic Self.
Personal and Collective Transformation for All Levels of Expertise
This 9-module course is for anyone seeking an experiential understanding of their trauma legacies and how to transform them.
Community leaders, teachers, therapists, spiritual practitioners, and other professionals can augment their work by bringing these intergenerational healing modalities into their clinical and organizational practices.
The Beauty of On-Demand
This course features teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices from Tirzah. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to deepen your ancestral healing. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Please Note: If you have not experienced Tirzah’s teachings before, you’re welcome to take this next-level training but we ask you to complete the foundational 7-module Ancestral Wisdom for Walking the Path of the Holy Being program on your own as a prerequisite. It will be included in your registration and can be completed before or in tandem with this advanced intensive.
Module 1 Clarifying Our Soul's Journey to Empower our Work in the World
How can you become better aligned with your soul’s sacred purpose?
In this opening week, Tirzah will set the foundation for your journey together. She’ll open with a welcome to your new global community, an invocation, and an overview of the course...
You’ll discover the many reasons ancestral healing is so critical now — to your own wellbeing and the planet’s.
Tirzah will guide you to begin thinking through powerful inquiries — including how your soul’s journey corresponds to the unfolding global events, how your family’s unhealed legacies are obscuring your path (and what you can do about it), and so much more...
In this opening session, you’ll explore:
- A brief reading from Wounds into Wisdom, setting the stage for the alchemical work of transforming your dark and dense legacies into compassion, strength, and healing
- A review of Plato’s parable of the acorn and oak tree — and why it’s foundational for both the Kabbalah and C.G.Jung’s mantra “the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”
- What you’ll need to know to enter the imaginal realm as a bridge to the unconscious — and how it can help you access guidance and interact with well and wise ancestors and spiritual allies
- Powerful tools for self-regulation and self-compassion — including four affirmations, butterfly hug, and Hawaiin waterfall
- An altar-building exercise that includes journaling and life mapping
- A guided meditation, What Our Souls Know, to help you create a safe, sacred space in which to do this work
Module 2 Healing Our Personal Family to Heal the Human Family
What are the residues that trauma leaves behind, and how do they get passed on to new generations — affecting entire ethnicities and collective society?
This week, you’ll explore how to wake up to these unconscious influences and find freedom, compassion, and healing power for yourself and the world.
Tirzah will guide you to think through how your personal issues are a continuance of ancestral patterns... and how you can stop what Tirzah calls the trauma train.
We all came into this world to help affect changes and innovations in the collective consciousness of the planet. As you’ll discover, knowledge is power — and bringing unconscious patterns into the light of awareness and compassion can liberate your life...
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Hallmarks of individual and collective trauma — with an eye to your own bloodlines and the larger societal patterns at work in the world (for example, racism, colonization, patriarchal oppression of women and the feminine principle)
- Ways to delve into your genograms (intergenerational family maps) to study their ruptures — and uncover resources, positive allies, and encouragement for your situation today
- How to explore exactly what your family lived through — for instance, were they colonizers or colonized, upwardly mobile or just surviving?
- Ways to outline your personal issues — mental loops, compulsive behaviors, relationship issues, and more — and view them in the context of ancestral (genetic/epigenetic) legacies
- A practice to invoke and connect with your wise and well ancestral guides in your sacred ritual space — and tools to help you sit in their presence and open to their guidance
- A guided meditation, We Meet Again, to connect you with your soul-chain and your wise, well ancestor and spirit guides
Module 3 Facing Our Family Shadows
How do your personal anxieties, fears, and life issues have roots in your family’s history?
In this module, you’ll explore Jung’s concept of the shadow. You’ll also deepen your exploration of the intergenerational shadow with a paradoxical approach called Chod — the 11th century Tibetan Buddhist practice of nurturing, rather than opposing or battling, your enemies.
Tirzah will ask you to bring in one particular life issue you’re working on to class with you — perhaps it’s addiction, OCD, sexual abuse/patriarchal domination, depression, etc...
Whatever the details of your struggle, Tirzah will create a caring, safe space for this practice.
She’ll then guide you to create a personification of your life issue. You’ll enter active imagination to walk the “creature” back into your lineages as you discover more about its gravitational pulls. In this powerful session, you’ll discover:
- The true meaning of the shadow — and how you can discover the shadow of your family and lineage
- Why bringing the unacceptable, repressed, unwelcome aspects of your life into the light of awareness reduces their destructive power — and releases the enormous life energy stored within them
- A practice to locate the core issue/demon as a sensation that lives in your body — where does it live in you, and what does it feel like?
- How to invite a picture (an image, form, being, or creature) from the unconscious as an embodiment of a feeling
- What it means to turn to face your two bloodlines
- The powerful ritual of bowing and joining
Ritual Practicum #1 Feeding Your Demon
In this practicum, you’ll continue to work through the Chod Practice, partnering work with a fellow student and their family material.
Within the loving, safe space Tirzah creates for you and your classmates, you’ll invoke your personification/demon once again to discover what it wants and needs from you. Then you’ll journal about what you uncover and how the demon’s appearance changes...
With Tirzah’s guidance, you’ll dissolve yourself and satiate the demon as you rest in awareness and feel at peace.
Module 4 The Alchemy of Healing: Transmuting the Family Demon
Did you know that your biggest enemies hold untapped sources of support and protection?
This week you’ll continue with the transformation of the demon, asking for its protection and help as you gain further access and listen for its commitments to you.
As you’ll discover, the demon will continue resolving itself through satiation.
In this module, you’ll:
- Meet the demon in its newly personified form
- Discover how the demon’s transformed energy can become a positive and protective presence in your life
- Learn ways to gain access, protection, and help for yourself and your family from your ally, the former demon
- Find out how your personal transformation might impact your lineage
- Begin to ask yourself how far back your connection to your ally might go, and describe the energy around it — perhaps it’s fear, malice, ignorance, obedience, etc.
Module 5 The Power of Dignity & Honor
What do your ancestors know about the trait ofhonor — or the lack of it?
This week you’ll examine your own history of shame and honor — and receive sanction and blessing from your ancestors and allies...
Tirzah will guide you to stand in your own dignity to become an agent of change and blessing for the world.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- Why the shame that often accompanies trauma is also an attractor for further shame and trauma in your life
- How traits like dignity and honor are attractors for similar, admirable traits
- How the ancient mystical term for honor, Kavod, is connected to the dark feminine — and what she may be telling you now in the form of COVID-19
- Three large cultural themes that play on our world’s current social and environmental crises: patriarchy, colonization, and racism
- How the demons of our times result in the large-scale robbing of honor/dignity of entire populations
- How to work through the cultural Chod process step-by-step as Tirzah models how to transform the cultural demons of greed and power
Ritual Practicum #2 Ritual Gathering - Transforming Shame
In this practicum, you’ll once again gather with Tirzah and the class to create a sacred ritual space.
You’ll begin with several practices to strengthen your grounding to the Earth while opening up energetic portals to a larger version of yourself that’s strengthened by honor for your essential being.
Tirzah will guide you in the practice of extending Kavod (honor and dignity), first to your bloodlines, then to your compatriots, and then to troublesome characters in your life.
You’ll then begin to receive the Kabbalistic practice of becoming an Agent of Blessing, Ba’al haBrachah. This begins with learning to open your central channel, called the Middle Pillar in Kabbalah, to receive divine blessing into your own being. With an open fluid channel, you’ll allow the overflow of this energy, transmitting this power to three beings.
You’ll watch the effects of this powerful transmission, before safely coming back from expanded awareness to your here-and-now self — grounded and ready to take this practice into the world.
Module 6 Becoming an Agent of Blessing
In this pivotal session, you’ll discover how to take all you’ve been learning and become an agent of true change and transformation...
As Tirzah will show you, you can enrich your life and rise to your own greatness by tapping into spiritual resources and resilience of the great souls who’ve walked this earth before you.
You’ll turn toward your ancestors to bless and release them from their socially constrained and conditioned contexts... and come to see yourself as much larger and greater than your life’s patterns...
... because your soul’s light is actually your destiny.
You’ll discover practices to:
- Embody grounding and self-regulation
- Open your central channel through chi kung and tai ch i movement — or you can visualize this, instead — and cultivate the energy body to become a channel for blessing
- Step back into your genogram to find family blessings like resiliency, humor, ingenuity, arts, and community-building
- Cultivate courage and moral imagination for these uncertain times we’re facing
- Bless yourself and release your karmic burdens with a guided meditation, emptying yourself to open your internal pathways for Blessing
- Draw on the work of Viktor Frankel to see your life’s “givens” — and explore why they don’t need to define you, after all
Module 7 Ancestors as Portals to The Divine
Ancient myths and legends provide plenty of guidance for this moment in history...
And as you bring your journey to a close, Tirzah will share why rituals and sacred space are so essential right now — and how they provide a bridge to the divine worlds.
In this final module, you’ll explore:
- Ways to help tip the balance in favor of healthy life on earth
- How to work with two kabbalistic stories: the myth of the shattered vessels and the teaching of the 36 hidden pious ones (Tzaddikim )
- Why both kabbalistic tales correspond directly to the current state of our world — and provide direction
- A guided journey to see yourself as a fully flowered Tzaddikim , who travels back in time to find the kernel of good in your bloodline and the pure heart and effort that became misguided
- How to see through and beyond the outer husks of family patterns and unmetabolized trauma to the light within your ancestral lineage
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Rabbi Dr. Tirzah’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
(Getting Started) Setting & Establishing Your Altar & Community
Orientation Ritual Package From Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Delve into this rich series of exercises and practices designed to support you in preparing for this course and getting yourself set up for the work you’ll be doing over the coming sessions. Through this orientation ritual, you’ll gain clarity on your personal goals and intentions for the course, begin to establish your sacred coursework community, and provide valuable input on the direction of the course.
Wounds Into Wisdom: Preparing for the Journey
Small Group Discussion With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
With this bonus session, you’ll have the opportunity to join a 45-minute small group conversation and speak with Tirzah to prepare for the course. This will be a chance to share resources and explore the question, “What are you bringing?” This special gathering will allow you to dip your toes into all that’s to come, and it will give Tirzah a better understanding of who’s in the course, to better tailor it to the needs of the collective.
Basking in the Holy Dark
Video Dialogue With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone and Vera de Chalambert
Mystics and prophets have long taught that to approach the Divine, we must move through Holy Darkness. In this dialogue, Tirzah and Vera (author, speaker, and spiritual mentor) discuss the forms of the Sacred Feminine through the lens of the world’s great wisdom traditions. Explore how this archetypal power is emerging now to guide us through this global night and transfigure us into who we must become to birth a more beautiful world.
Altar Crafting & Donning a Prayer Shawl
Video Training and Practice From Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
This video meditation and training will guide you through the process of creating three different kinds of altars: an outdoor altar, an ancestral altar, and a stationary altar, at which to deepen your spiritual practices through this course. If you desire further protection and spiritual reinforcement, Tirzah also shares instructions for donning a prayer shawl.
Additional Resources and Materials
Course Bibliography from Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Here are some additional resources and readings for participants to deepen their understanding and study of the work of the Advanced Wounds into Wisdom course.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Nine Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Sessions
Experience a unique opportunity to be learn from author, rabbi, and Jungian psychotherapist Tirzah Firestone — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to gain clarity, courage, compassion, and access to your authentic Self.
Nine PDF Transcripts of Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive session transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
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More Praise for Tirzah Firestone
Author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity & Islam and Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss & Transformation
Author of Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent
Author of The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times
About Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and renowned Jewish scholar and teacher. Widely known for her groundbreaking work on Kabbalah, depth psychology, intergenerational trauma healing, and the re-integration of the feminine wisdom tradition within Judaism, Rabbi Tirzah lectures and teaches globally about spiritual and ancient wisdom practices that are honed to assist us at this critical time in world history.
Rabbi Tirzah’s publications include With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith and The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom.
Her latest work, combining research on depth psychology, neuroscience, and the field of collective traumatology, is highlighted in the award-winning book Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing intergenerational Jewish Trauma. In it, she shares the remarkable life stories of people around the world who have healed from profound tragedy and trauma. The book provides directives for the transformation of all of our injuries — both personal and inherited — into moral wisdom, courage, and compassion.