In this deeply personal and powerful episode, we explore the sacred relationship between tattooing and ancestral connection—how the markings we wear can become conduits of remembrance, healing, and reclamation.
We speak to the spiritual truth that your ancestors are not gone—they are within your blood, bones, and DNA, and they are waiting to be acknowledged, honoured, and welcomed into your life. Through the act of ancestral tattooing, we open the door to this connection and embody it in living form.
Together, we journey through:
• The energetic presence of ancestors in our cells and spirit
• How ancestral trauma is passed through epigenetic memory, and how conscious reconnection brings healing
• The revival of cultural tattoo practices as acts of resistance, restoration, and sacred continuity
• The role of tattooing in initiating identity, restoring lineage dignity, and ending generational silence
• The importance of calling in only the “well ancestors”, and assisting in healing those who remain fractured
• Reclaiming lost European tribal tattoo practices and honouring multicultural lineages with integrity
• How marking the skin with ancestral symbols becomes an act of deep reverence, activation, and transformation
This episode is a call to all those who feel the pull to remember where they come from. To honour the ones who walked before. To reclaim a sense of rooted belonging in a time of mass disconnection.
Tattooing is not just personal expression—it can be ancestral invocation.
You are the current bearer of your bloodline.
You are the voice of those who came before you.
And what you do now echoes both backward and forward across time.
Contact Shane... shanetattooer@gmail.com
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Title music: Ngā Tai Tawhito, Kiki Pounamu https://smarturl.it/kikipounamu