Founding Rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh
Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Call on your ancestors to help you clear anxiety, depression, and stuckness passed down through generations — for greater resilience and the freedom to live your soul’s purpose.
Take a few moments to reflect on the lives of your ancestors, and the kind of experiences they lived through over the generations…
… their adventures, accomplishments, life changes — even the traumatic events they experienced...
How much do you really know about them?
And, are there things in your own life — behaviors, physical health, emotional wellbeing, patterns, or experiences — that seem like they may have been passed down from those who came before you?
Maybe you have a sense of heaviness as a result of something in the history of your family of origin — a weight that keeps you stuck, anxious, uncertain, or lacking direction...
Did you know that the experiences of your ancestors, including the traumas they endured, can be passed on from generation to generation, leaving imprints on those who come after them — including YOU.
And many of us carry our ancestors' traumas — along with our own — in our bodies, hearts, minds, and spirits... even if we’re not aware of it.
The unresolved traumas we hold can manifest as all manner of ailments, including depression, anxiety, somatic and physiological disorders, and more.
Ancestral trauma can also present as a disconnection from our life purpose, social and psycho-spiritual isolation, a feeling that we lack belonging, and alienation from our biological family.
Ultimately, historical trauma may be preventing you from healing, thriving, and living the life of your deepest desires.
It’s time to explore how the trauma you carry with you is impacting your life...
With compassionate guidance, your ancestors can help you release the historical trauma of your lineage, enabling you to contribute to the collective healing of our world.
When you learn how to enlist your well ancestors’ wisdom to release and free yourself of this historical trauma, you can increase your resilience and hear the calling of your soul’s purpose.
In this deeply transformative 7-step journey with author, Jungian psychotherapist, and founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh, Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, you’ll discover a beautifully curated array of practices, processes, meditations, and body-mind connection techniques to help you identify your family’s trauma legacies.
You’ll recognize how your behavior, physical health, and emotional wellbeing have been affected by your own traumas and the traumas that your ancestors endured.
And, you’ll begin to clear and transform the resulting reverberations so you can live a more peaceful and beautiful life.
During this intimate journey, you’ll:
- Discover how to identify your family’s trauma legacies, and how your behavior, physical health, and emotional wellbeing have been affected by your own and intergenerational trauma
- Understand what intergenerational healing has to do with your soul’s journey
- Learn the 7 principles of ancestral trauma healing
- Begin to understand how trauma works, with compassion and without judgement
- Understand that you came here with YOUR unique sacred purpose... and discover how to find and align with it
- Learn to tap into the ancestral plane to call on and enlist your ancestors to help you heal your trauma — and theirs
- Receive the practice of “Active Imagination”
- Participate in a guided meditation to connect you with your “soul chain” and your wise and well ancestors and spirit guides
- Create Genograms to understand your family’s trauma hallmarks
- Discover Heartmath tools for self-regulation, as well as affirmations for the cultivation of self-compassion
- Explore the neuroscience of self-awareness, self-witnessing, and mindfulness — and how it supports the healing of these unconscious patterns
- Discover how you can survive extreme trauma — and be changed in radically positive ways
It’s crucial, at this moment in history, to understand that your unhealed ancestral legacies and family traumas bear a direct correspondence to the burgeoning social schisms in our world today.
When you heal the historical trauma within your bloodline, an inner revolution occurs — your heart and mind are freed and energized to courageously and powerfully show up for yourself...
... and radiate your newfound light as a beacon for hope and healing for others.
In Find Healing & Resilience in Ancestral Wisdom, you’ll learn how to explore and harvest the rich resources of your ancestors — as you undo your family’s traumatic tangles.
Tirzah will take you on a journey to deepen your spiritual work, while expanding your influence in the world from a place of personal awareness and agency.
You’ll be immersed in experiential exercises to help you unlock seemingly impenetrable personal issues — caused by the energy of trauma — and illuminate their connection to your ancestral history and the current chaos of our world.
And, you’ll discover tools to help you meet your soul chain — a pod of souls who’ve intentionally decided to be here at this time and place to effect a particular change on the planet.
What makes Tirzah’s approach so effective is the multidisciplinary, experiential tools she draws on to support your transformation.
You’ll work with your dreams and Jungian psychology... create Genograms, which are "maps" to discover and track the patterns in your inherited legacy... delve deep into the seven principles of ancestral trauma healing... and explore the neuroscientific research around intergenerational trauma.
You’ll engage in practices of Active Imagination... meditations rooted in the ancient teaching of the Kabbalah... Heart Coherence processes... and journaling...
... all of which were designed to open your heart, find forgiveness for yourself and others, and lead from a place of compassion and sovereignty.
You’ll experience a felt sense that you can survive and transmute extreme trauma, let go of the victim mentality, and emerge radically empowered.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Tirzah will guide you through a unique and original blend of depth psychology; meditative practices; embodied, somatic healing modalities; storytelling; and scientific research — to free yourself of the inherited trauma of your lineage so you can hear the calling of your sacred purpose and bring healing to our planet.
This course will feature teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices with Tirzah. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to start to heal your inherited trauma and experience your soul’s calling.
Module 1: Journey of the Soul — Why You’re in This Life at This Time (March 30)
What is the soul? What am I here for? In this opening session, you’ll begin to develop an understanding of the soul and how its evolution leads you to become the person you were born to be — with the sacred purpose you’re here to fulfill. Tirzah will engage you in discussion and illustrate how the guidance you receive from your unconscious keeps you on your path.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- What intergenerational healing has to do with your soul’s journey
- Why ancestral healing is so critical now to your wellbeing and the health of the planet
- How dreams, physical symptoms, and other messages from inside and around you help keep you on the path of your sacred purpose
- Henri Corbin’s imaginal realm — a bridge to the unconscious — which you can use to access guidance
- The practice of “Active Imagination”
Module 2: The Family Constellation — What Your Soul Family Came to Accomplish (April 6)
Why is family so important? Who is my real family and where do I belong? In this second class, you’ll explore what it means to be part of a “soul chain” — a pod of souls who’ve intentionally decided to be here at this time and place to effect particular changes and innovations in the collective consciousness of the planet.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How your soul is implanted in a particular family with its own particular resources and ruptures
- What sacred purpose your soul family is here to help you fulfill
- Your bloodlines, which are often but not always the family you grew up with
- How to unpack both genetic and epigenetic patterns within your family... so you can harvest their riches and transform their traumas
- A guided meditation to connect you with your soul chain and your wise and well ancestor and spirit guides
Module 3: Mapping Your Legacy — Building Genograms to See Multigenerational Family Patterns (April 13)
What resources can you draw on, both genetically and spiritually? In this class session, you’ll begin to build your intergenerational family maps, or Genograms, to reveal the multigenerational family patterns — medical, behavioral, psycho-emotional, and relational — including both the ruptures and riches that influence you and your children. This is an intensive project that continues throughout the remainder of the course.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- A guided Active Imagination process to meet a well and wise ancestor and access their spiritual guidance
- How your ancestors can energize you in your spiritual work around your family legacies
- The historical traumas in your past and your lineage that beg to be healed
Module 4: Unpacking Trauma & Its Transmission From Generation to Generation (April 20)
What are the personal and cultural traumas you’ve experienced or inherited? How do you identify trauma in yourself and in others? In this class session, Tirzah will guide you to redefine trauma, as she offers a neuroscientific approach to studying the four hallmarks of trauma and how they influence both individuals and entire ethnicities. Although the four hallmarks of trauma are life-saving mechanisms, if they aren't monitored, they can become the very systems that lock trauma into place.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Remarkable stories of trauma transmission and how trauma not only “lands” in subsequent generations, it can also be healed by them
- The process of referring to your family maps and journaling about the trauma hallmarks
- Heartmath tools for self-regulation, as well as affirmations for the cultivation of self-compassion
Module 5: Women & Intergenerational Trauma Legacies — Releasing the Shame of Historical Trauma (April 27)
How do the hallmarks of trauma show up for women? Can the historical traumas engendered by centuries of patriarchal domination be healed? In this class, you’ll conclude your study of trauma’s hallmarks with a powerful discussion around shame. You’ll learn about the tendency to unconsciously recreate past conditions that ensure injury — leading to trauma cycles that are hard to break.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The neuroscience of self-awareness, self-witnessing, and mindfulness — and how it supports the healing of these unconscious patterns
- The healing power of being witnessed and seen through eyes of compassion
- A Heartmath quick coherence technique
- The Hawaiian waterfall cleansing breath practice
Module 6: The 7 Principles of Healing — Stories of Healing From Extreme Collective Trauma (May 4)
Is it possible to transform the effects of personal and historical trauma? To survive life’s heavy blows with more wisdom and a sense of inner freedom? In this class session, Tirzah will share her research from around the world... stories of heroic people who defied normative trauma responses such as hate, vengeance, or being paralyzed by fear. The common themes that arose from these stories are distilled in seven healing principles.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- What the 7 principles are so you can journal about them and discuss them with the group
- Key elements that demonstrate how you can survive extreme trauma and be changed in radically positive ways
- Seven directives for staying morally grounded in this unpredictable world
Module 7: Wrapping Up a Sacred Bundle — Tools, Practices & Inspiration to Metabolize Your Legacy (May 11)
In this final class, you’ll examine the family resources and trauma legacies you inherited... as well as the tools, practices, and inspiration to metabolize your legacy. In a final meditation, you’ll be guided to call in your ancestral allies to help you see your future, further developed, whole, and healed self — to help you project what it might feel like to have metabolized personal and societal injuries and converted them into wisdom you can use to serve the world.
In this module, you’ll:
- Review how the tools and teachings from this course will help you on your soul’s journey
- Be guided in a final meditation to enlist the help of your well and wise ancestors
- Participate in journaling exercises and a final closing prayer
The Ancestral Wisdom Bonus Collection
In addition to Tirzah’s transformative 7-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Intergenerational Trauma Transmission
Video Dialogue With Tirzah Firestone and Terry Real
Terry Real interviews Tirzah Firestone on the topic of multigenerational trauma, both at the individual and collective level. Tirzah explains how we receive the transmission through different mechanisms, including through our dreams and nightmares, as well as through our experiences. Through a series of stories and recollections, Tirzah discusses her journey of healing and how it’s informed her work.
Terry Real is an internationally recognized family therapist, speaker, and author. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples, individuals, and parents around the country, along with a professional training program for clinicians wanting to learn his RLT (Relational Life Therapy) methodology. A family therapist and teacher for more than 25 years, Terry is the bestselling author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women, and, most recently, The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work. Terry specializes in leading couples on a step-by-step journey to greater intimacy — and greater personal fulfillment.
Healing Our Family Legacies & Changing the World
Audio Dialogue With Tirzah Firestone; Hosted by Lisa Bonnice
Join Tirzah as she details how our family legacies can give us the strength to heal the world. When we do our personal work — creating an inner revolution — we are better equipped for the outer transformation so desperately needed in our world today. The inner work begins with a deep dive into our families’ legacies — their riches and resources, tangles and traumas — because these intertwine within us to form the patterns of who we are and who we are becoming.
During this helpful session, you’ll discover:
- How to identify the patterns of trauma and richness that have been laid down by earlier family members and ancestors — and how to understand their effects upon your own life
- Ways you can make contact with well, benevolent, and helpful allies and ancestors to open new pathways for increasing creativity, health, and spiritual evolution
- The ways you can find keys to open doors to set you free from unconscious compulsions caused by earlier traumas, sexual assaults, injustices, or family separations
Abiding in Uncertainty and Liminal Space: Shechinah’s Voice in Our Time
Video Dialogue With Mirabai Starr and Tirzah Firestone
How do we approach the global phenomenon unfolding in our midst with a spiritual orientation, one that is infused with the wisdom of the the Divine Feminine? Mirabai and Tirzah, dear friends and sisters on the Path, will converse about COVID-19 as a message-bearer for us all and share personal stories about plumbing ancestral and feminine wisdom across the traditions to illuminate this dark time.
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative nonfiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and interspiritual dialogue. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. Her latest book, Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, was named one of the “Best Books of 2019” by Spirituality & Practice. Mirabai is also on the 2020 Watkins List of the “100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People of the World.” She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
What People Are Saying About Tirzah Firestone...
“... forging a uniquely spiritual voice that heals and lifts our souls.”
An explosion of suffering, death, and trauma has overtaken humanity during the past century and shows no signs of abating. Rabbi Tirzah Firestone speaks on every page of this deeply moving book with her heart and mind and from the deepest wellsprings of Jewish tradition to find sources of solace to transform wounds into wisdom. Her book spills over with empathy and compassion, forging a uniquely spiritual voice that heals and lifts our souls.
— Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
“... Firestone makes me think in a broader way, as she will you.”
Tirzah Firestone is a compelling and genuinely fresh voice, revealing over and over again “resonant truths that hold meaning for today.” I am moved by this book. And even when I disagree with her, Firestone makes me think in a broader way, as she will you.
― Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Author of Jewish Literacy and Jewish Wisdom
“... a journey of awakening and healing...”
If we are ever to transform conflict and bring peace to this wounded world, we will need to understand and address collective and intergenerational trauma. In this illuminating and inspiring book, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone interweaves deeply touching personal stories, including her own, with keen psychological insights to guide us on a journey of awakening and healing our traumas. Highly recommended!
― William Ury, Co-author of Getting to Yesa nd author of Getting to Yes with Yourself
“... a shimmering shawl of healing.”
Wounds into Wisdom is a tour de force! Rabbi Firestone has woven together threads of truth about trauma that include her own family’s life experience of trauma inherited from the Holocaust, the new science of the inherited effects of trauma on genetic material and on the brain, studies of the social impact of traumatic events on large groups of people, and the mystical traditions of Kabbalah about the wounded human soul. She has woven these threads into a shimmering shawl of healing.
― Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director of The Shalom Center and author of Godwrestling ― Round 2
“... teaches us how to listen, to ourselves and to others.”
One of the important points [Tirzah Firestone] makes... drawing on the new science of epigenetics, is that trauma and its [effects] are felt not only by those who directly experience trauma, but are passed on to their children and grandchildren. Rabbi Firestone teaches us how to listen, to ourselves and to others. Her book should be read by everyone who wishes personal healing and the healing of this traumatized world.
— Tikkun magazine
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Recorded Class Sessions With Tirzah Firestone
Experience a rare opportunity to learn from author, Jungian psychotherapist, and founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh, Tirzah Firestone — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a video teaching and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to heal the intergenerational trauma in your lineage.
Seven PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Ancestral Wisdom Bonus Collection
- Intergenerational Trauma Transmission
Video Dialogue With Tirzah Firestone and Terry Real - Healing Our Family Legacies & Changing the World
Audio Dialogue With Tirzah Firestone; Hosted by Lisa Bonnice - Abiding in Uncertainty and Liminal Space: Shechinah’s Voice in Our Time
Video Dialogue With Mirabai Starr and Tirzah Firestone
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Find Healing & Resilience in Ancestral Wisdom Virtual Training
We feel honored that Tirzah Firestone has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from an author and Jungian psychotherapist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about healing your personal trauma — and the trauma you’ve inherited from your ancestors, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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More Praise for Tirzah Firestone...
“... helps... uncover suffering and use it to help others ― the final stage of healing...”
Wounds into Wisdom is for anyone who has suffered trauma, either directly or in a family whose generational trauma is buried. It helps readers uncover suffering and use it to help others — the final stage of healing...
— Gloria Steinem
“... an opportunity for particular reconciliation and universal healing.”
With tender compassion and luminous insight, Rabbi Tirzah unwraps the hidden layers of stories, wounds, and wisdom that characterize the global Jewish community. She deftly lifts the complex history of modern Judaism to the light, offering an opportunity for particular reconciliation and universal healing.
— Mirabai Starr, Author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity & Islam and Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
“... profound help to anyone seeking to navigate the path to healing from trauma...”
Rabbi and psychotherapist Tirzah Firestone... offers us the wisdom of a compassionate therapist whose understanding is broad and deep. But she also offers us the spiritual perspective of a rabbi who has found her way to the deeper currents of Jewish understanding... [Wounds Into Wisdom] is powerful in itself but it is also empowering — we can feel how the author has herself lived through trauma, and has even found her way to become a great healer and teacher. I believe [the book] would be of profound help to anyone seeking to navigate the path to healing from trauma — which I believe in some ways, is all of us.
— Rodger Kamenetz, Author of The History of Last Night’s Dream and The Jew in the Lotus
"... offers hope to those whose lives have been shattered by trauma.”
Tirzah Firestone’s Wounds into Wisdom offers hope to those whose lives have been shattered by trauma. The question at the heart of this book is this: Can you emerge from tragedy wiser and more free? Her answer, eloquently stated and illustrated by powerful stories and profound insight, is yes you can. If tragedy haunts your life or the lives of those you love, read this book; it has the potential to change everything.
— Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Author of Minyan and Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent
“... compels one to positive action.”
"Brilliant, beautiful, and compels one to positive action. The people interviewed are so real and lovable...[Firestone’s] writing opens one’s heart to healing and hope. This is a book I will read again for inspiration and for specific principles to live a joyful, liberated life.
— Dr. Anita Sanchez, Author of The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times
About Tirzah Firestone
Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, PhD, is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh in Boulder, Colorado. Ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi in 1992, she is a leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement and a renowned Jewish scholar and teacher.
Raised in an Orthodox home in St. Louis, Missouri, Tirzah’s spiritual curiosity called her to search beyond the confines of her family’s strict Jewish upbringing. She left home to embark on a life-changing spiritual odyssey, chronicled in With Roots In Heaven: One Woman’s Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith.
Tirzah’s passion to share an inclusive and joyous Judaism, as well as her dedication to human rights, led her to serve as a leader in the international movement for Jewish Renewal.
Tirzah earned a doctorate in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California in 2015. Her leading-edge research on the impact and healing of collective trauma draws on the fields of neuroscience, psychology, Jewish literature, and mythopoesis. And her groundbreaking work, Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Trauma, employs interviews, case studies, and her own autobiographical narratives to demonstrate how trauma residue passes from generation to generation and how it can be transformed.
Now Rabbi Emerita of her congregation, Tirzah maintains a private practice in depth psychology, and teaches nationally about modern applications of ancient wisdom and ancestral healing: how to transform patterns of suffering from our past and bring forth clarity, wisdom, and blessings for ourselves and those who come after us.
Tirzah lives in the foothills of Colorado with her husband David. Their grown children live around the country.
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