Spiritual Healing: How Your Ancestors Can Still Come and Help You

At funerals, we speak of our departed loved ones as having "made a transition" and "going home" and in the African tradition, the presence of ancestors are always acknowleged as still a part of our present day lives. However, western philosophy does not really honor and respect the notion that ones ancestors are not "dead" but merely living in another dimension, where their energy is still present and they are still concerned about those whose lives on Earth are not yet completed.  How do you heal a relationship with a parent who has passed away? Can ancestors still help us deal with our emotional traumas from childhood? Our guest today, Natalya Shklovskaya, an instructor of Bhakti and Hatha Yoga, practices Ayurveda and leads workshops on "Family Constellations."  She offers a special kind of spiritual healing, one that involves the whole family, even the members who are no longer residing in physical Earth bodies. She'll share with us her technique for engaging the ancestors to assist in healing the minds, hearts, and souls of those they left behind.  Later, we'll be joined by U.S. Senatorial Candidate Andrea Zopp, who may become the second African American woman in history to serve in the United States Senate. She'll share her views and her plans for change if elected to serve in the Federal government.