Returning to
Lineage
Ancestors, Endings, & Transformation
A 4-Part Intimate Live Series with
Dr. Minerva Arias
Begins June 23, 2026 | 8:00 pm Eastern | 75 min
What remains when everything changes?
Many of us have inherited stories that teach us to fear endings, resist change, and seek closure.
But, every thing has an end. Every season eventually shifts. Every identity, relationship, role, and chapter reaches its threshold.
Yet across generations, traditions, and ancestral wisdom, one question remains:
What remains?
Returning to Lineage is an exploration of endings through continuity, remembering the thread that connects us to ourselves, our ancestors, and one another through life’s many endings and beginnings.
Only
6 Spots
You May Find Yourself Here If…
You are moving through a season of change and can no longer return to who you were before.
A relationship has ended.
A death has happened.
A belief has unraveled.
A chapter of your life has come to an end.
A loved one has transitioned from their body.
A version of yourself is being asked to loosen its grip.
You are curious about what your ancestors knew about endings that many of us have forgotten.
You are longing for a deeper relationship with lineage, and the wisdom it carries.
You know that something continues, even after it ends.
Or perhaps you simply feel called to be here and do not yet know why.
The Journey
Over four gatherings, we will move through reflection, ritual, guided discussion, embodiment practices, ancestral inquiry, and contemplative exercises designed to help us engage more deeply with endings, continuity, and the wisdom carried through lineage.
I. The Threshold
II. Memory Lives in the Body
Endings, Identity, & Change
What happens when life asks us to become someone new?
Together, we’ll explore ending as thresholds rather than interruptions, using reflection, guided discussion, ritual, and embodiment practices to examine what is shifting and what is being called forward.
III. Returning to the Ancestors
Embodiment, Lineage, & Remembrance
The body carries memory.
Through somatic practices, reflection, and inquiry, we will explore how personal, familial, and ancestral experiences live within us and shape the ways we move through change.
IV. The Return
Relationship & Discernment
Ancestor relationship is a practice of continuity.
Together, we will explore ancestral connection through a guided practice, reflection and discussion, and everyday approaches to continuing cultivating the relationship with the Egun (Ancestors) who walk with us.
Integration, Continuity, & Becoming
What remains?
In our final gathering, we will weave together the insights, practices, and questions that emerged throughout the series, creating space to reflect on what endures and what wishes to be carried forward.
How We Gather
Start Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Time: 8:00 pM ET / 5:00 pM PT
Session Length: 75 minutes
Schedule: Four Tuesdays
(ends July 14th)
Location: Live via Zoom
Limited to 6 participants
Sliding Scale: $444-$555
payment plans available
Note: Sessions are not recorded in order to preserve the integrity of the experience.
In many contemporary frameworks, endings are often approached as something to quickly move beyond.
Yet many ancestral traditions understood endings differently.
As part of a larger cycle of continuity, relationship, and becoming.
Returning to Lineage explores what becomes possible when we remember that something remains, after an ending.
About Dr. Minerva, Ìyá Oyaladé
Dr. Minerva Arias is a scholar-practitioner, Priestess of Oya, and founder of Sagrada. Her work lives at the intersection of ancestral wisdom, embodiment, continuity, and the many ways human beings navigate endings and transformation.
Drawing from Ifá-informed cosmology, ancestral traditions, somatic practice, end-of-life care, and psychology, she explores how lineage, ritual, and relationship can help us understand life's transitions differently. Her work invites a deeper inquiry into what remains, what continues, and what is carried forward after endings.
As a solo mother and priestess, Minerva's work is shaped by her own experiences of loss, change, devotion, and becoming. Through Sagrada, she creates spaces that honor the wisdom of our ancestors, the intelligence of the body, and the threads that connect us across generations.