Ancestral Medicine

In this episode, we start by sharing how we have created something really special for you - The release of  ‘Re-membering’, Sha-Ola’s ancestral song recorded in ceremony. It's a gift that carries the frequency of remembering who you are, where you're from and why you came. It comes with two transmissions directly from the Grandmother, spoken through Suraya. Click THIS LINK to access all three and we would love to hear how they land for you. 

We then explain two very personal stories about how unwell ancestral patterns showed up in our lives. These include a business partnership that turned into a harrowing experience, and a curse that was blocking Sha-Ola's music and how it became a reclamation of his lineage.

We also cover:

• Spiritual bypassing, and why it’s dangerous to only connect to well ancestry without doing the deeper ancestral work
• Colonial Christianity, and Grandmother's words: "I'm not here to save you, but I'm here to give you the tools to save yourself”
• The beauty and gifts of connecting to our well ancestors
• Rest, play and joy as a birthright
• Letting the ancestors guide creativity, work and pricing
• How personal healing ripples through the ancestral line and out into the world

Free gift: Our Ancestral Gift to You - Live Ceremonial Transmissions of Re-membrance

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Podcast art by the incredible Oda Sønju

What if the fear, blockages, and self-sabotage you keep trying to fix are not just yours—but ancestral? 

Sharing personal examples from our own journeys, we talk about why healing work has to go deeper than mindset, and why unwell ancestry can shape your voice, relationships, money, and even the way your gifts reach the world.

We unpack the inner workings of ancestral healing: the difference between well and unwell ancestors, why darkness is not something to fear, and how unresolved trauma and unwellness can strengthen across generations if it is never faced.

We also share how ancestral work is not about bypassing pain with affirmations or willpower, but about meeting what is actually living in the body, the cells, and the spirit.

Ancestral healing is not a quick fix and in this episode we reframe ancestral healing as something cellular, relational, and ongoing. 

Key topics

• Why ancestral work requires facing darkness instead of avoiding it
• The difference between well and unwell ancestors
• Why unwell ancestral patterns can strengthen over generations when not looked at
• Why safety matters when working with ancestral patterns
• Why affirmations and intentions can feel ineffective when they conflict with deeper conditioning
• The impact of colonial Christianity, shame, fear, control, and suppression
• Why allyship without truth and repair can become extractive
• The importance of recognizing harm and moving toward repair.
  

For Deeper Reflection

• Notice where you may be bypassing discomfort instead of facing truth.
• Ask whether your beliefs, habits, or speech feel aligned in your body—not just in your mind.
• When you notice harm in yourself, move toward repair rather than defensiveness.
• Reflect on where ancestral or cultural conditioning may still shape your relationships, work, or creative expression.
• Pay attention to what feels blocked, distorted, or suppressed, especially in your voice, creativity, and emotional life.
  
  

To receive the free live ceremonial recording of 'Re-membering' (Sha-Ola's Ancestral song) and a live transmission from The Grandmother when it's ready, click HERE

Connect with us at:

https://www.instagram.com/suraya_alkebulan

https://www.instagram.com/sha_ola_alkebulan/

To learn more about our work:

https://www.surayaalkebulan.com/

Podcast art by the incredible Oda Sønju

In this conversation, we sit down with Nisha to deep dive into how unwell ancestry operates and the spiritual framework we have been taught for understanding ancestry, inherited trauma, protection, liberation, and the gifts that can emerge through repair.

Nisha shares her personal experience of working with us and how it has helped her move through long-standing resistance, gain clarity around major business decisions, and how willingness, trust, and continued integration became central to her process.

This is a conversation about liberation as a practice: facing what has been inherited, making room for complexity, and choosing to meet ourselves—and one another—with more honesty, care, and responsibility.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Why healing is ongoing rather than a “before and after” transformation
• The role of humility, integrity, and continual learning in spiritual practice
• What it means to be both a student and a guide 
• How inherited family patterns can influence behaviour, belonging, fear, and self-expression
• The difference between intellectual understanding and embodied healing
• Ancestral repair, protection and liberation
• How ancestral healing can support personal life, relationships, purpose, and work
• Why willingness, consent, and care matter in any healing process
• Nisha’s experience of working with us and moving through business resistance and finding clarity
• How we work with people both remotely and in person

To learn more about Nisha and her incredible work >> https://nishamoodley.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nishamoodley

To receive the free live ceremonial recording of 'Re-membering' (Sha-Ola's Ancestral song) and a live transmission from The Grandmother and The Ancestors on how to live in right relationship with them when it's ready, click HERE

Connect with us at:

https://www.instagram.com/suraya_alkebulan

https://www.instagram.com/sha_ola_alkebulan/

To learn more about our work:

https://www.surayaalkebulan.com/

Podcast art by the incredible Oda Sønju

In this second episode of Ancestral Medicine, we go deep into our 18 month initiation that we didn’t even know was happening until after it was over!

300-plus ceremonies, de-conditioning at a cellular level and the deepest return to truth - which involved releasing incomes, friendships and complete identities to return to being in right relationship with The Grandmother, the ancestors and ourselves. 

In this episode we cover: 

• Why “truth work” is about more than honesty - it means releasing inherited programming, fear, and false identities
• How colonial Christianity weaponized sacrifice, original sin, and shame to disconnect people from their ancestries
• Why plant medicine, when approached sacredly, is a journey of deep liberation rather than a quick fix
• The power of names as sacred agreements, protection, and our connection back to our well ancestry. 

This conversation also exposes the subtle ways colonized thinking shows up in modern healing spaces - from transactional spirituality to the pressure to “get healed” and move on. Instead, we share how slow, ancestral, deeply rooted transformation cannot be rushed, faked, or outsourced.

If you’re ready to rethink healing, religion, ancestry, and what true reclamation can ask of us, this episode is essential listening.

To learn more about Nisha and her incredible work >> https://nishamoodley.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nishamoodley

Free Gift: Live Ceremonial Transmissions of Re-membrance

Receive Sha-Ola’s ancestral song, ‘Re-membering’, recorded live in ceremony and two transmissions directly from The Grandmother spoken through Suraya. This is our joint ancestral gift to you and carries the frequencies of remembrance and truth. Click THIS LINK to access all three and we would love to hear how they land for you. 

Connect with us at:

https://www.instagram.com/suraya_alkebulan

https://www.instagram.com/sha_ola_alkebulan/

https://www.surayaalkebulan.com/

Podcast art by the incredible Oda Sønju

In this first ever episode of Ancestral Medicine, we are interviewed by our dear friend Nisha Moodley, where we discuss how one dream on a seemingly insignificant night changed the whole course of our lives.

We talk about the rocky introduction to The Grandmother Spirit where we thought our marriage of 16 years could be over for the first time, how nature is the connection back to the ancestors and ourselves and how truth is the most powerful frequency there is. 

In this introductory episode (1 of 3) we also talk about the harms of Colonial Christianity and what The Grandmother has to say about that. 

If you are interested in learning more about what it means to connect, reckon with and heal your ancestry, this is the episode for you.

Here’s what we cover inside this episode:

• Why leaving the city and living closer to nature changed the trajectory of our lives
• How ancestral connection reshaped Sha-Ola’s music and sense of belonging
• Why Suraya’s dream was the unmistakable invitation to The Grandmother spirit
• Our first encounter with The Grandmother and how it made us question our marriage for the first time
• What happened when truth arrived with fire instead of softness

To learn more about Nisha and her incredible work >> https://nishamoodley.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nishamoodley

Free Gift: Live Ceremonial Transmissions of Re-membrance

Receive Sha-Ola’s ancestral song, ‘Re-membering’, recorded live in ceremony and two transmissions directly from The Grandmother spoken through Suraya. This is our joint ancestral gift to you and carries the frequencies of remembrance and truth. Click THIS LINK to access all three and we would love to hear how they land for you. 

Connect with us at:

https://www.instagram.com/suraya_alkebulan

https://www.instagram.com/sha_ola_alkebulan/

https://www.surayaalkebulan.com/

Podcast art by the incredible Oda Sønju

Welcome to the Ancestral Medicine Podcast!

In all of our ancestral lines is deep medicine for us in these times. 

This podcast will include conversations about connecting, reckoning with and healing your lineage. For yourself, for your ancestral line and for the collective. 

We are the living embodiment of our ancestors - we are their reflection, and we created this podcast to help you re-member who you are, where you are from and why you came. 

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CONNECT WITH US:

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https://www.surayaalkebulan.com/