An Ancestral Healing Journey;
From Wounds to Wisdom
Deep Time Liberation
An Ancestral Healing Journey
Reaffirming, Restoring and Reclaiming
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
About Our Retreats
Deep Time Liberation delves into the exploration of how our ancestral legacy and historical beliefs influence our present lives. Once we understand the need for committing to our individual and collective healing, the pathway to healing appears. We can then recognize and acknowledge the experiences and history clouding our perceptions causing us to continually cause harm to ourselves and others because of our reactions. Identifying the genesis of our suffering comes in part from the intergenerational and vicarious traumas known or unknown, past or present. The attachments, the delusion and the aversion that we’ve experienced blocks the portal to healing and the way out is through the recognition and honoring of our historical harm. Deep Time Liberation will engage you in rituals, story-telling, drumming and discovery through the lens of Insight Meditation practices.
"Deep Time Liberation is how we experience the influence of our historical past and the possibilities of our potential future in the present. The insights that arise have the power to heal the generational and collective trauma of Black people from the African Diaspora." Devin Berry
Deep Time Liberation: An Ancestral Healing Journey, is a journey to healing for people from the African Diaspora. This journey holds specific significance to healing intergenerational and ancestral wounds that have not been seen or addressed in ancestries of a people stolen from their land, their language, and their stories. As Deep Time Liberation (DTL) leads the way towards individual and collective healing, it also guides participants through an arc of reclaiming their ancestors' dream and exploring legacies of traumatic patterning, while sourcing resilience. Grounding these journeys in mindful awareness and compassionate reflections, they allow the participants a depth of wise view and skillful responses.
Bearing witness to our intergenerational suffering, our hearts open to deep healing. Integrating mind-body movements along with the power of the drum allows for an energetic shift in viewing some of the difficult aspects of historical harms and cultural conditioning. Our healing begins when we engage in the medicine offered from our ancestor's wisdom, which heals ourselves and future generations. As our intention to restore ourselves back to wholeness, we reclaim our birthright, leading to our Deep Time Liberation!
Embracing The Power of Ancient Wisdoms
Walking In The Footsteps
of The Ancestors
Deep Time Liberation Experience
Deep Time Liberation retreats came into existence as a response to a call from the ancestors. The seed vision for these retreats arising from the mind and experience of a native sone of the south a few generations removed. In these retreats we explore the intersections between ancestral trauma and collective and individual healing. Our journeys include creating and engaging in ritual and ceremony, drumming, storytelling, meditation, education and trauma resolution work as well as taking a deep dive into historical lineages and family behavioral patterns. This results in opening doorways for present day healing and for creating and cultivating community and collective well being around the re-interpretation of our story, our resilience and our joy.
Guest
Hosts
9AM PT | 12PM ET
Liberation Sundays is a sacred gathering held on the first Sunday of each month, created for people of the African diaspora to pause, breathe, and come back to the wisdom of our ancestors. Rooted in collective healing, we gather online to honor our journey toward freedom and deeper alignment with who we are called to be. Through meditation, reflection, song, and community, we create space for the sacred to meet us just as we are.
This is a donation based offering. All are welcome. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Liberation Sundays is sponsored by Peace At Any Pace and offered by the Black Wisdom Celebration Circle.
Please Check Below Calendar for Dates!
Honoring The Legacy
of Our Ancestors
Expanding Timeless Wisdom
and Experience
We honor our ancestors by calling them in. “We Are Because They Are”, acknowledges the sacred connection we hold together as it pulses through our veins with stories yet to be told. We identify the genesis of our suffering, coming in part from the traumas and attachments we've experienced, known or unknown.
Peace At Any Pace is dedicated to health and wellness and connecting people to their ancestors and their collective healing. Through meditation, movement and skillful facilitation, we help our participants in exploring the depth of their well-being, finding peace and balance in their lives. We believe that connecting to our ancestors is an invaluable life-long journey that can bring clarity and understanding in all of our lives. Our retreats are designed to be an inclusive, safe, brave and nurturing environment where our participants make meaningful heartfelt connections.
Behavior, Health & Mindfulness
(BHM)
Grandparents Program
Generational Healing & Wellness
The BHM Program is a radical offering of healing and liberation to the African-American elder community. Secular in design, this nine week series is based upon the genogram family system theory used for Deep Time Liberation as a source for genealogical family constellation and trauma mapping.
The BHM Grandparents Program includes members of the African American community over the age of 60 who serve in significant familial and community roles such as grandparents, guardians and caregivers. Participants are uniquely vested in healing themselves, those that have gone before, and those yet to come.
Relying on current health studies, breakthroughs in epigenetics, in mindfulness practices and ancestral wisdom technologies from the African Diaspora, this program offers pathways to healing unseen and unacknowledged trauma, while simultaneously improving physical and mental health in our elder communities.
Please Check Below Calendar for 2026 BHM Dates!
Alumni Quarterly Gathering
Breathe, Reflect and Take A Deeper Dive
For New and Past DTL Retreat Members
These virtual gatherings are an opportunity for a continued call to the Ancestors and to learn more about the ways we can enhance and reinforce our personal healing practices. This is our time to openly share and reflect; to breathe and then take a deeper dive into the many useful and restorative tools for any ancestral healing practice. The Deep Time Liberation Alumni Program (The Alumni Program) carries forward the healing trajectory begun on the Deep Time Liberation journey. Once participants have completed DTL, they will be invited to deepen their experience.
Full participation in Deep Time Liberation is a prerequisite for joining the Alumni Program.
Reflections
Asa Salley | DTL 2018
" The Deep Time Liberation Retreat had such a profound impact on me that I have brought meditation into both my classes. Now I have a daily practice with my students. We begin each day without fail with a 5-6 minute guided meditation."
Dwight Dunston | DTL 2021
"I have never experienced the marrying of Ancestral and deep Spiritual exploration. I'm now in more communication with past generations. When I reflect I get emotional about the whole experience being so liberating, human and divine."
Heku Sa Shekhem | DTL 2021
"DTL online differentiates from other online retreats in that it was more personal and relatable to me and has shown me the value in appreciating the Ancestors. I gleaned that from being in DTL.
I can now call on them, recognize them and honor Ancestors from outside of meditation."
Wayne Myers-Taylor | DTL 2021
"It was very interesting to look deeper into my family tree and actually see what they had been through. Before the retreat, I would have only seen the bad side--only the trauma of my family's past and not the fruits of my history."
Participant | DTL 2022
"A deep sense and acknowledgment of our resilience as a people. We are not cursed by what we bear from our ancestors; we are blessed to see what we carry and how we work with it."
Participant | DTL 2022
"What makes us our ancestor's wildest dream is that we have found the channels in which we can dream and manifest beyond anything ever conceived before. Thank you all for making this retreat available and for the opportunity to participate in such a community journey."
Marvina White | So. Carolina 2023
“I discovered intergenerational trauma, a concept I'd never heard of, incredible as that is. Understanding what that is, led to a completely new understanding of WHY my parents and grandparents behaved the way they did. Freed me to embrace them empathically.”
Stella Rae Binion | Louisiana 2024
“I appreciate being given the space to think about myself as a reflection and inheritor of the behaviors of my ancestors...it helped me understand and embody that I am more than just myself and I am more than just my circumstance and decisions, which helped cultivate a dynamic of self-love, self-understanding, and self-forgiveness.”
Marti Paschel | Louisiana, 2024
“Hearing the stories and perspectives from other participants and the facilitators. I experienced shifts over the course of the week in my intention of the ancestor work I’ll pursue after hearing the experiences of others.”
Cedric Orange |
Alabama, 2025
“For the first time, I found it very beneficial receiving guidance on writing a letter to my grandfather who I never knew. I now feel a spiritual connection”
Shesheena Bray | Alabama, 2025
“I feel clear about my next steps upon my return home and will return in the near future. I have so many people in mind who could benefit from this experience.”
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