This is a 3-4 hours workshop that Paikea offers twice a year. Ancestral relation is a big missing piece for many, and the right relation will bring profound healing and guidance.  In this 3 hours workshop, you'll learn the biological evidence of generational trauma As well as blessings. You'll be emboldened by the sheer number of ancestors. Each of us is a living altar, carrying their DNA and continuing the stories they began. Why pray to spiritual masters only, when your own ancestors are eager to help, and they understand your human experience intimately?  

We'll practice safe connection (Everyone has loving wise ancestors, also many who aren't in peace - think of the last 5000 years of human history!). We'll process our trauma and emotions with psychotherapy tools that really work, like Attachment Theory and complex-PTSD. We'll practice the five Love languages to build better relation, with ancestors and with ourselves. We'll build a despacho - offering to the fire. Bring pillows if you have some, also gifts for Earth like flowers, seeds, sweet things.

BIO: Paikea Cheng is an acupuncturist, regenerative medicine practitioner, and wild foods educator. Before acupuncture, she earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science and another masters in Electrical Engineering, along with Fellowship training in Genomics.  Guided by a deep passion for serving people and the Earth, Paikea has traveled widely to learn from traditional healers (Guatemala, Colombia, Thailand), as well as Earthskills communities across the United States which taught her nature knowledge and ancestral living skills.   Paikea listens and guides people towards true health with three essential relations: 1) Intimacy with the natural world and our belonging in it 2) Reconnecting with the body and "inner wilderness" – gently exploring childhood, societal, and ancestral traumas to recover wholeness within. 3) Find community and others that nourish and play with you. So Paikea weaves the latest advances in medicine with a holistic, heart-centered approach. You can find her work in her Kentucky farming community and nationwide https://www.Paikea.Love/events 

Upcoming and Past Dates
Usually twice a year around Mother's Day, and Halloween. Check Events page

Feb 20, 2025 Florida Earthskills Gathering
April 19, 2025 Earthskills Rendezvous, SC
Nov 9, Lancaster, KY

Nov 2, 2024  Clear Creek Schoolhouse, KY
Oct 5, 2023 Earthskills Rendezvous, SC
Jun , 2023  Saskatoon Circle, WA
May 14, 2023  Mother's Day Edition, KY
Feb 5, 2022 Florida Earthskills Gathering
May 8, 2022 Mother's Day Edition, KY
Oct 29, 2022 Centered in Lexington, KY

Resources and a Poem

See Handout

To All Wounded Men in My Lineage 

by Paikea 

To all the wounded men in my ancestry,

I offer my life as a warmer story.

One day, you'll remember:

Touch and affection hold more power

than guns and grit in your guarded tower.

You’re not addicted to sex—

you were starved of tenderness.

You don’t have a drinking problem—

the world failed to quench your thirst for love.

It's not weak to talk about feelings

or to ask for help—

even if your father, and father's father

never modeled how.

Oh ancestors, I honor your sacrifice.

Without you I wouldn't exist.

But life is no longer a fight to survive.

We are here for all hearts to evolve.

Hear me now. 

Do not harden no more.

I am a living altar for you —

offering flowers and new stories,

offering Love to warm your core.

A todos los hombres heridos en mi linaje,

ofrezco mi vida como un nuevo paisaje.

Un día sabrán, con claridad:

el cariño y el toque tienen más poder

que las armas o la dureza al proceder.

No eres adicto al sexo—

te faltó ternura, te faltó afecto.

No es que tengas un problema al beber—

es que el mundo no supo tu sed comprender.

No es debilidad hablar del dolor,

pedir ayuda también es valor—

aunque tu padre, y el padre de él,

nunca supieron mostrar su papel.

Oh ancestros, honro su sacrificio.

Sin ustedes, yo no habría nacido.

Pero la vida ya no es solo resistir,

la nueva misión es aprender a sentir.

Escúchenme ahora, no endurezcan más.

Soy un altar vivo,

ofreciéndoles paz,

calor y amor de verdad.