Meet Kari Grady Grossman

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kari Grady Grossman. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kari below.

Kari, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

Finding my purpose has been a journey, not a guided tour. Life has a way of pointing out what you need even when you don’t know yourself, which is how I found myself in 2020 starting my 3rd career after a decade in online media and another in international humanitarian aide. My father died during CoVid and that’s when I discovered I had some healing to do with a dead person. Thus I found my way to Ancestral Lineage Healing, took my journey of discovery through my own intergenerational trauma and became immersed in a modality that reconnects us to a deeply meaningful and historic human experience of ancestral wisdom. The liberation I experienced was so profound I decided to embark on a course of study to become a practitioner and founded Ancestral Streams in 2024 to offer the service of Healing Your Heritage. My first client was my daughter. She was adopted from India at age 2 and does not know anything about her birthfamily but inherited a multi-generational burden of anxiety which conventional therapy could not touch. After witnessinng her transformation, I decided to specialize in Ancestral Healing for Adoptive Families. I’m one of the only practitioners in country with that specialty. Since most Americans are ancestral orphans with lineages converging from around the globe in their DNA, I get to travel around the world and through time on a daily basis. This fulfills my passion for helping others, cultural connections, travel and making a difference on an individual and global level.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I think I mostly answered this in my first response to finding my purpose.

Since Ancestral Healing is ritual based therapy, I have also incorporated earth based ceremonial rituals to honor lifes passages. Life transitions can be hard on a human because it often involves letting go of a part of us that we feel attached to, so we can open into new beginnings with clarity and conscience. As anyone who has ever tried can attest, letting go is not always easy. It is helpful to invoke the sacred and the spirits of our ancestors to support us with grace through these life transitions, and to implant the milestone memories firmly in our mind, so we can reference them when things get cloudy. All cultures throughout time have enacted rituals to mark these rites of passage to support the journey of life and enrich the human experience.

In addition to this psycho-spiritual approach to healing, I teach an embodied practice of therapeutic Kundalini yoga to explore how consciousness lives in our body. In this “yoga of awareness” we focus on our relationship to Prana, or life force energy, to build vitality and increase calm. Private yoga instruction offers a space to reconnect with the innate healing wisdom of your body, allowing us to target specific health challenges.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Open Mind. We live in a left brain dominated world where organizing tasks, logic and reasoning are considered valuable and right brain skills of intuition, imagination and creativity are devalued. These are the very skills we use to develop a relationship with our ancestors who are in the spirit world. Overcoming suspicion and doubt about your own intuitive perception skills requires an open mind. God didn’t make us with a right brain and left brain so that one could dominate the other. Dive into quantum physics and epi-genetics for all the scientific evidence the human intellect has been able to grasp so far about energy bodies and inheritance. Trusting intuition as a guide to healing requires an open mind. The joy of these magical encounters is real. I rely deeply on my own ancestors for guidance as I’m holding my clients in a trance state.

Deep Listening & Compassion. To be a healer you have to love people on their human journey, compassion helps them feel safe to drop into a trance state. Our Ancestors lived in a different time and place and most likely spoke a different language so communicating with them is non-linear. I help people make sense of it by listening deeply to their stories no matter what form they take, and asking questions that will help the client release their minds desire to control the outcome and allow the ancestors to do the healing work for them.

Cultural Competency. I like to say I travel around the world and through time all day long. As Americans most of us have DNA made from a diaspora of lineages. Our people come from all over the globe and many don’t know anything about their people beyond grandparents (if that), so I have to understand the global history of human conflicts and migrations to be able to put stories into context and give the left brain something to google. In many ways Ancestral Lineage Healing is also the work of cultural repair.

Tell us what your ideal client would be like?

My ideal clients are people who are curious about their ancestry, have a spiritual understanding of life and the cosmos, and want to transform deep family dysfunction or interpersonal patterns that feel stuck. This desire mostly starts to surface at mid-life because by that point people have tried many other modalities and still don’t feel liberated from the past. This need tends to strengthen in particular for women before and during menopause.

Contact Info:

• Website: www,ancestralstreans,com
• Instagram: ancestralstreams
• Facebook: Ancestral Streams

Image Credits

Jennifer Folsom