Direct Spirit Guide and Ancestral Channeling Activation Group Intensive
Become your own Medium
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No prior experience with spirit guide connection, ancestral work, channeling and the like is required for this program. This offering meets everyone where they are in their journey.
“During one of my sessions I found myself shaking quite a bit. I began thinking about my dad and I was hearing a voice. I asked the voice, is this my dad, and it said yes. I started weeping, like sobbing howls, and felt him all around me. I received clear information about why he passed away in the way he did, something I had been specifically seeking for a long time. He told me the reason directly. Then I heard a voice say, “There is a cry buried deep deep inside of you, and until you let that cry out, you won't be able to find your voice,” and I just started crying deeply. Then my great great grandfather came to me and told me a lot of details about our family lineage that I didn’t know about. And he told me the root of anger in our lineage. I was asking very specific questions and was receiving very specific answers. At some point, I began feeling like I was floating on a wave in the ocean and I had the realization that it was my ancestors all supporting me. I asked them about my path and they said I am to do wonders. In another session I felt at one point like I was transcending into the spirit realm. I remember feeling something literally being pulled from my crown; it felt like part of my soul was being pulled out but I started to feel like it was the part I was TOLD was me being pulled out. It was very powerful and revealing. I also felt several hands on me and knew that it was my guides, and felt my energy go “vroom”. It felt like my skin was breathing”
Overview
This immersive 6-week group offering is designed for individuals who:
Feel called to receive clarity of who their specific guides are
Want to experience direct connection, communication, and presence with their ancestors and/or other spirit guides (including non-relatives and multidimensional beings) - tangibly see, hear, feel, get messages and guidance from their guides and loved ones directly
Want to cultivate an ongoing relationship with and receive tangible support/guidance from their spirit guides, ancestors & higher self in daily life
Need to clear energetic blocks, fears, skepticism, or programming/beliefs that have impeded connection
Want to grow an awareness and comfort in the continuation of life after the physical journey ends and greater understanding, information, trust, confidence, and rootedness in their relationship to the spirit realm
And for some, feel called to heal wounds, resentment, pain or grief related to loved ones who have transitioned (and experience peace, clarity and comfort with them, and know that they are well), as well as embody the gifts and blessings from their ancestors
Want to continue connecting with loved ones who have transitioned into a different form (passed on but still present)
Are seeking to be in community with people who have similar intentions, share experiences and feel seen
Through a sacred and supportive container, participants engage in transformative group sessions and private healing sessions that activate their personal connection to the spirit realm and empower them to become their own channel, while also understanding their relationship to their lineage and guides. This work invites an alternative to going to a medium to hear what your loved ones and/or guides are saying, what they look like, who they are, what their energy feels like, how they’re doing, and messages and support they have for you - so you can have the experiences yourself, if desired.
This offering also supports participants in developing foundational channeling and intuitive skills for their own ongoing practice. Once the connection is activated during sessions, each person learns to sustain a personal relationship with their guides through specific practices unique to them. As you will see in the various client examples on this page - the ongoing connection people experience brings a level of love and support that is deeply grounding and healing. (Testimonials shown are from individual client work.)
Each personal experience outlined here are from people who either never had direct contact or they did once and pushed it away. Each person came with different blocks, stories, intentions - in this work we are mindful of each persons journey and always aim to ensure that their specific challenges are addressed and goals are achieved, as well as highlight the overlaps and shared experiences many people go through on this path.
Over the course of the program, we work with subconscious deprogramming and reprogramming, trauma clearing/healing as needed, intention-setting, emotional release, and support and techniques to understand what comes through in sessions. Participants are guided to actively invite their spirit guides, ask questions, observe responses and pay attention to what they see, hear and feel (and trust in it). Support is provided for everything that surfaces in both group and private sessions.
*Integration support: transformative tools, practices & excercises to continue developing connection, interpret communication accurately and receive guidance in everyday life
*Ancestral healing work (where applicable): energy clearing, forgiveness, compassion, finding comfort in your ancestors peace where they are, healing unresolved relationships with ancestors when needed; as well as calling in the positive elements of your lineage
*A sacred, confidential, trauma-informed container
*Cultivation of intuitive development and spiritual growth throughout the entire journey.
The same container and experiences occur in both the virtual and in-person offerings.
Over a period of 6 weeks this program includes:
Initial intake and personalized plan: to clarify your unique goals, challenges and intentions for this journey
3 private 1:1 sessions: Each person will receive three private sessions during the 6 weeks - the sessions include Quantum Root Energy Healing sessions, spirit guide channeling activation process, identification and energetic clearing and release of blocks (emotional, mental, spiritual, subconscious, etc), energetic calling in of desired results, intuitive counseling and coaching, deeper processing work, integrating new awareness, support in understanding what is coming through and what you are experiencing during and after sessions, grounding in your power and confidence, practices tailored to your personal journey
6 guided weekly group sessions: The group sessions are meant to cultivate community, normalize spirit communication & connect with others on similar journeys, including discussing common challenges and fears and sharing of experiences within the work. This group space also includes somatic & ritual practices, facilitated discussions, community witnessing & sharing, guided meditations, collective energy work, spiritual guidance, and opportunities for individual “hot-seat” coaching facilitation (if desired). Participants are invited to offer insights that come through in discussions that may be helpful to another person in the space as well. Community agreements will be created together to ensure integrity, safety and confidentiality.
Educational component: Group discussion topics include understanding spirit guides vs. ancestors, identifying your role in your lineage and your relative position in relation to your guides, understanding the common blocks to connection and their origins, learning the types of guides you have, recognizing how guides appear outside sessions, support interpreting what is experienced at every level, learning your Higher Self’s role as a guide, learn how to interpret, how to trust, how to be actively involved in the relationship with guides, understand all the various ways guides can show up, and expansion of understanding of the continuation of the life journey, shifting the concept of “losing” someone into a transformed way of connecting
What This Offering Includes
“I reached out to Selome because I was feeling called to do ancestral connection and healing work, to develop connection with a spirit guide and heal the difficult connection with my father who had passed.
When we started the spirit guide who came through in my sessions pretty quickly was my maternal grandmother. What ended up happening was this connection to her, feeling her presence with me, hearing messages from her during sessions and outside of sessions, noticing her sending me signs, and just feeling a connection to something higher than myself. I also see her in my dreams now, and see and feel her when I partake in my practices like yoga or meditation. I was shocked at how straightforward it was for me to develop this connection with her! I remember in one of the sessions I heard her say “I’m looking for a place to land” and we discovered that was her way of telling me to create an altar so we can connect there. I also asked my grandmother for another sign that she was watching over me. And she started sending me messages in the form of birds, like anytime I was struggling, a bird would fly into my line of vision. I felt her energy communicating, “I am watching”. And I felt suddenly just stronger, emboldened, connected.
There were times where I felt my grandmother orchestrating things too. I noticed a palpable shift in my relationship with my mom, where she would reach out to me and it would feel very different. It felt like she was genuinely trying to hear me. There was a lot of healing there and I know that this work and my grandmother had something to do with it.”
“And then I thought, since my grandmother had transitioned into being a spirit guide, maybe my dad would be the same for me. And in working with Selome, I realized I don't have to connect with the spirit of my father in the same way but that he could be a healing point, and not necessarily a spirit guide. And during our sessions I was able to let go of a lot of the resentment, anger, frustration, hatred that I felt towards him. And it felt lighter, I felt like I wasn't energetically carrying all of those hurt feelings from childhood anymore, and was able to let him be in his own humanity as a spirit and as somebody who has transitioned. And it felt powerful to forge this kind of connection with him that was more of a connection through forgiveness.”
“I came to Selome to connect with my spirit guides because I haven’t been able to connect with them and I had been wanting to for a long time. During our sessions I was able to fully connect and not just that, but I got such clear and amazing communication from a specific guide who was not a relative. Many amazing things were revealed to me. I saw a guide very clearly and heard him say, “I’ve been here all along” and he told me very specific things about myself and my lineage. He was dancing and had very happy energy. I also had this feeling that someone was putting a blanket around me. Her energetic work did wonders on me. I am so grateful!!”
"I discovered and connected with my spirit guides in my sessions and healing work with Selome. I connected with my grandparents and great-grandmother — I never met them in the physical world and actually didn’t know anything about them until I opened up to this work. During the sessions, I could see and hear them, and they shared their stories with me. When the healing journey got difficult, they would remind me of my power and strength, supporting me through those moments. They continue to remind me that I’m protected, safe, and loved. I continue to connect with them through my meditation practice and they speak to me often. Forming relationships with my ancestors has been the deepest form of love I have ever experienced."
Intended Outcomes + Benefits
Receive specific clarity on who your spirit guide/guides are - including relatives, non-relatives, animals, or multidimensional guides of various kinds
Receive support in activating the channel to connect directly with your spirit guides and/or ancestors (where you will feel, see, hear and receive messages from them)
Create ongoing connection, receiving their guidance, support, presence, healing help and more after sessions
Understand the unique way(s) of connecting with your guides
Know you are not alone, feel continuously supported by beings beyond the physical realm, and grow your trust and belief in the spiritual realm
Receive answers you’ve been seeking
Learning to be proactive vs. passive in this process, be a co-creator and grow your confidence in your ability
Finding comfort in the continuation of life after leaving the physical realm and connect with loved ones who have transitioned
Feel seen and grow with others on a similar path
Clear deep-seated blocks to connecting with the spirit realm (including fears, programming, religious trauma, imposter syndrome, grief, disbelief, skepticism etc)
Heal with specific ancestors with whom you may have have unhealed wounds, pain or grief, and release ancestral & lineage trauma in your system, possibly learn about your role in your lineage (eg maybe your guides are learning from you)
Feel a deeper connection to your Higher Self
Become your own channel of spirit; normalizing having relationship to spirit without another person
Experience clearings, healing, clarity, downloads, breakthroughs, insights
Experience spirit connection as tangible and embodied, bridging spiritual insight with lived experience rather than abstract or purely symbolic understanding
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How Guides Communicate
Identify the unique ways you connect with your guides
Additional Topics Explored
Decolonizing Spirit Contact and Communication
Debunking the medical industry’s label of “crazy” and normalizing our multidimensionality
Not all Ancestors are Spirit Guides
And not all spirit guides are previously incarnated humans
“During one of the energy healing sessions, my father came through with a powerful and comforting message. He shared his experience of what happened after he passed, describing it in a way that brought me immense peace and clarity. I heard him say “When you guys are on earth, mourning our loss, you’re wearing black. But on this side, when we cross over and are welcomed, we’re all wearing white, and we’re happy. When we get here, it’s really nice, bright, and light.
Hearing this felt like a gift. He reassured me that the journey to the other side is beautiful and full of joy, even though the process of letting go can feel scary and hard. He told me that the ending is hard because we’re afraid to let go, that it’s scary and hard, and you feel it, that’s why we cry. This message gave me a new perspective on grief and helped me feel more at peace with his passing. Knowing that he was happy, surrounded by light, and in a place of joy on the other side eased so much of the heaviness I had been carrying. It was incredibly comforting to know that he was okay, and it has been a profound step in my healing process.
In another session I connected with my father’s energy as part of the session and was also able to release some guilt connected to him. In the session he expressed pride and gratitude for everything I had done for him in his final days. This was deeply healing, as I had been holding onto guilt for not doing enough. The sessions helped me release this weight and find peace in my relationship with his memory.
And I’ve continued to connect with my dad and feel his presence and communicate with him in a way that’s been comforting and healing. It’s been beautiful to witness him now, after his transition, as a protector and caretaker of me. I feel his protection in so many magical ways. Despite the immense pain of his final days, I came to realize that his journey, was not just the suffering I witnessed but part of a larger, more beautiful story. I understood that their lives didn’t end there, they are still with me and my family, in new and beautiful ways as spirits. This work also helped me release the trauma I carried, particularly around the medical system and end-of-life care.”
Institutional Partnering
This offering is available to healing centers, spiritual communities, retreat spaces, mental health organizations, campuses and other spaces. To bring this program to your space, please fill in the form below and check the appropriate box.
Cost & Payment Options
There are options!
At RAI we value accessibility and as a decolonial healing organization we’re dedicated to providing a variety of financing options, including payment plans, paying it forward, and 1 scholarship per cohort.
If you have any additional financial questions or concerns, please let us know and we will do our best to work with you!
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Program Cost: $900
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Your Practitioners
Selome Araya | Founder and Director of Integrative Healing Programs & Trainings, Root Alchemy Institute
For over a decade, Selome has provided individual and group healing offerings related to mental, spiritual, emotional, energetic, physical and ancestral health both remotely and in person. She has also trained and mentored practitioners, as well as created original healing techniques, methodologies and trainings. Selome has partnered with various institutions and organizations over the years to offer healing to communities around the world. She is the founder of Root Alchemy Institute (RAI), and is a certified Reiki Master/Teacher, Spirit Medium, Mental Health Holistic Healing Practitioner and Trainer, and many other slashes. She is committed to ensuring “alternative healing” becomes the norm and new standard of care in health and healing - and holistic practices are integrated into mainstream models as the evidence continues to elevate (where conventional models fall short). She holds a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University.
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Additional Experiences
“One of the intentions I set for my healing journey was to open myself up to spiritual guidance and embrace unseen dimensions. These sessions with Selome helped me release skepticism and call in clarity and connection with my spirit guides. And now I feel their presence tangibly through dreams, signs, and intuitive messages! This connection has become an integral part of my life. I even created an altar to honor them and feel supported by their guidance daily.”
During one session, a client (who was previously blocked from connecting with guides) shared that they felt emotional and started crying, feeling a lot of energy opening in their heart. They then felt their head expanding, and their heart chakra melting open, and felt a sense of expansion in their heart. In that moment, their family dog who had recently transitioned came through, which took them by surprise and brought more tears. They saw the dog moving into the spirit world, along with many others they had known who had passed, including patients they had cared for. They described feeling lighter in both heart and spirit where they used to feel a heaviness in their heart around loved ones in the spirit realm. In the session they felt more open and more at peace with the spiritual journey. They expressed suddenly feeling the spirits around them and knew the spirit realm was real and present. Having been skeptical about such connections in the past, this direct experience shifted their perspective. With gratitude, they gave thanks to the beloved spirits in that realm.
“During one of my reiki sessions I felt (an extra) laying of hands and saw ancestors sending energy. It was really comforting. They explained I'm inherently helping many people in my family. In another session, I remember getting a message from grandma, she told me I could be myself, and showed me images. I also got a message that my tumor was connected to my uterus and womb and my throat chakra, and that not speaking is causing me pain. I also saw ancestors and female energies using plants. And my guides continue to connect with me and guide me after the sessions too!”
I felt my father present in the sessions. I could hear him, reassuring me that he was always there. Then my grandmother came. I can feel they are with me. I also heard a message, they said “you’re here to heal your lineage and carry on your lineage”.
During my sessions with Selome, it was so comforting to have my mother visit me. I could see her sometimes, and I would hear her say “I am always with you”. It’s helped me so much in my grieving process to know that she is doing ok and that I can still connect with her. She has also been showing up in various ways in my life and I can feel her presence often.
A specific example to illustrate healing with a guide who has transitioned includes one client who had some challenges with a grandmother when they were alive, was able to heal things during the sessions in relation to the grandmother, and began to see and feel her grandmother in a different way. During an earlier session, the client had traveled back into a specific memory with her grandmother, and in the memory, saw her grandmother's face as very strict and angry, as she remembered her on occassion. She felt as if she was right there with her grandmother again. After we worked to clear the energy and the pain connected to the relationship, the next time the grandmother appeared in another session, the client saw her grandmothers face again but this time, her grandmother’s face was softer, kinder and even seemed happier, and the energy was lighter. The client was very emotional and was very relieved to have felt this healing with her grandmother's spirit and also to have supported her grandmother’s spirit in being set free from the emotional pain energy that was between them.
In one of my healing sessions with Selome, one of my intentions was to connect with a spirit guide. During the session, there was a part where I felt like someone was with me and I asked who it was. I realized it was my friend who had passed on, and she was trying to show me something. She told me there were a lot of eyes on me and that’s not a bad thing but a good thing. She said not to worry that I’m going to get what I want in life. She said she knows I will get what I want and will help make sure it happens. I could feel her just hanging out with me the whole session. I asked again if it was her and she said, “You know it’s me.” It felt like an energy and frequency of her and I was making out her words from the energy. I could see images of her, too, and it was as if she was a white floating light. She was coming into my thoughts. I asked her to show me blatant signs of her and she kept showing me butterflies (and I’ve seen them a lot since). She was reassuring me that she was watching over us. I also saw a woman with an African scarf who is guiding me.”
“I met a new spirit guide during one of my sessions with Selome- he had a male energy, somebody that felt very very old. He felt like an older healer. He had on some ceremonial garb and was very energetic. I asked him what I could call him and he told me his name was —-!
"During my session, I felt the presence of my mom who transitioned’Then I started to feel the trauma she experienced when she was alive going through my body, I started to literally see and feel the trauma that she experienced during her childhood, and I just started crying. I was seeing how much she had gone through but never realized it. I felt sorry for how I had treated her, but now that I know this, I have gained a lot of understanding of her journey.