This is a meditation on family, ancestry, and land. I suggest folks stand to face their birthplace, but that’s optional. It’s good to at least know the compass directions so one can somatically sense the map. The sequence builds a branching web of historical memory and myth, imagining the lines between our body and our birthplace, through our parents and extended families, known and unknown, through layers of displacement, back to our ancestors’ places of origin, feeling for the place where our lineages began, before displacement. Feeling for the distance we’ve come from indigeneity. For each step in the instruction the practice is to make imaginative contact, feel the resonance of that contact in the body and allow the felt sense to move through you as much as is within your resources and capacity to process with compassion, clear witness, and embodied presence.