Reclaim Your Heritage
Ancestral and Collective Healing for the Korean Diaspora
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About Daeyeon Jun, ND
Hello, I'm Daeyeon (she/her), and I'm an ancestral lineage healing practitioner, ritualist, and naturopathic physician. My work focuses on healing individual, ancestral, and collective trauma for Koreans and the Korean diaspora (any and all with Korean ancestry including mixed-race Koreans, adoptees, and those whose ancestors left their ancestral lands many generations ago).I weave my training in ancestral lineage healing, ritual arts, Internal Family Systems, somatic psychotherapy, and holistic systems healing to provide an effective and supportive framework for healing the fragmented parts of ourselves. My framework offers a way for us to address and integrate cultural, intergenerational, and historical traumas and legacies that go beyond our personal and individual trauma. It also gives us an opportunity to reclaim the gifts and medicines from our heritage and resource ourselves in relationship with our ancestors.
What I Offer
I offer workshops, collective rituals, retreats, and individual sessions. You’re welcome to book a free 20-minute call to see if this work is right for you and ask any questions. Sliding scale is available for those impacted by economic injustice or the oppression of capitalism. Sessions are available in English or Korean.
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Summer 2025 Series (Recordings)
A 3-part series exploring ancestral connection, spiritual and cultural reclamation, and Korean indigenous cosmology.
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Reclamation Journey to Korea — March 2026
Return to Our Ancestral Land
March 23–March 29, 2026 (arrival in Korea by March 22)
This is an invitation for members of the Korean diaspora who feel a longing to return to the land of your ancestors, your lineage, and your spiritual-cultural inheritance. It is a call home to the unseen threads of connection that have never stopped holding you.For many of us in the diaspora, Korea holds complex emotions: longing and confusion, belonging and estrangement, beauty and heartache, rupture and resilience. Whether through displacement, adoption, migration, assimilation, poverty, patriarchy, war, or colonization – in your life or generations upstream – something in our connection to land and ancestry was interrupted. But interruption is not the final chapter of our stories. Something within us remembers. The land remembers us, too. And when we return with intention, we are met by spirits of the land who remember us, by ancestors who have been waiting for us, and by the parts of us we had to forget in order to survive, and that can now be welcomed home in the presence of a greater holding.This March, a small circle of 5 to 8 diaspora Koreans will travel together to Taebaek Mountain – one of Korea’s sacred sites where threads of our indigenous cosmology remain alive. We will stay at the base of a mountain that has held our people for millennia, learn from the spirits and sites that predate dynasty and empire, and listen for what becomes possible when we return as descendants ready to reclaim what is already ours.
What This Journey Is
• Land-based, spiritually centered, earth-rooted return for Korean diaspora.
• A small, intimate container with attention to ritual safety.
• Rooted in indigenous Korean cosmology and Cheonjiin (Heaven–Earth–Human / 천지인).
• Reconnection through land, ritual, daily practice, ceremony, and shared presence.
• Space for those carrying questions around identity, belonging, rupture, and return.
• A blend of structured offerings and spacious time for wandering and integration.
What Makes This Journey Unique
Diaspora-Centered
Created specifically for Korean diaspora, including adoptees, mixed-heritage Koreans, and those estranged from culture or language.Rooted in Place
We will stay at the base of Taebaek Mountain, visiting sacred sites such as the Cheonjedan (Heaven's Altar/천제단) at the summit.Relationship with Land, Ritual, and the Unseen
We will engage with more than the physical landscape: well ancestors, mountain deities, animal spirits, and the divine spirits of Heaven and Earth that have guided our people since before written history. These beings are part of our inheritance and become more accessible when we return with intention and attunement. Through through prayer, heart-centered practice, energy work, offerings, and ceremony, we will attune to the more-than-human world. Ritual participation is optional and ritual safety is prioritized.Anchored and Guided
I will hold the anchor for the journey, tending the emotional, ritual, and ancestral terrain and offering interpretation, context, and guidance where needed.I will be joined by local Korean partners who will offer teachings, practices, and cultural-historical grounding.Co-Woven with Participants
Your intentions and longings will help shape how we move, listen, and orient together. While I will hold a clear anchor and structure, the experience itself will emerge from what the land and group ask for, and the shared field we create together.Small, Relational, Spacious
This is not a retreat or packaged tour with back-to-back programming. We will follow a rhythm of in-breath and out-breath — times for an offering and opportunities to dive deep (in-breath) and integration, movement, rest, and optional offerings (out-breath).
Who This Journey Is For
You may be a good fit if you:
• are part of the Korean diaspora
• feel pulled to reconnect with land and ancestry
• have questions around belonging, identity, rupture, or return
• want a spiritually centered, earth-based, animist experience
• are open to emotional complexity and collective care
• prefer a small, intimate group settingKorean language is not required. Interpretation and cultural bridging will be offered.
Who This Journey Is Not For
This journey is not a good fit if you:
• want a sightseeing tour
• prefer polished programming with a set schedule
• are uncomfortable with simple lodging or slow pacing
• are resistant to emotional or ancestral work
• are unwilling to navigate group process
• are in emotional or spiritual crisis requiring intensive support
• do not identify as part of the Korean diaspora
Logistics
• Dates & Location
Core Journey: March 23–29, 2026 (7 days)
Optional Extension: Up to 3 additional days
Primary Location: Taebaek Mountain (Gangwon Province)
A sacred region in Korea’s central mountain spine, home to ancestral altars and the broader Taebaek mountain range
Arrival Point: Seoul, exact location TBD, arrival in Korea on or before March 22
• Group Size
5–8 participants for intimacy, depth, and relational spaciousness.
• Physical Considerations
- Light-to-moderate walking
-Optional 4–5 hour summit hike (alternate non-hiking option available)
-Weather might still by wintery in late-March
-Simple Korean guesthouse-style lodging
• Meals
Simple Korean meals and local home-style dishes will be provided. Most dietary needs can be accommodated with advance notice.
• Cost
Final cost will depend on group size and will be shared soon. It will include:
-lodging
-transportation during the journey
-meals
-offerings including ceremony preparation
-teachings, facilitation, and interpretation
It will not include airfare to Korea. A deposit and payment plan will be available.
• Pre-Trip and Post-Trip Calls
- 2–3 pre-trip calls for intention, orientation, and preparation
- private group chat
- post-trip integration call
These are part of the journey and support grounding and building trust.
How to Apply
Applications open soon.Application will include:
• your connection to the Korean diaspora
• your intention or prayer for the journey
• what you hope to unburden or receive support around
• your relationship to group spaces
• practical considerationsAfter reviewing your application, I will schedule a conversation to ensure mutual alignment and safety.To receive the application, use the Contact form or email [email protected].
A Note on the Seed Journey
This offering is a seed journey— the first of its kind. By joining, you help plant and tend what may grow into future journeys for the diaspora. Together, we will experience what becomes possible and how this offering wants to evolve.
Offerings
Reclamation Journey to Korea — March 2026
March 23–March 29, 2026 (arrival in Korea by March 22)For more information, click on the button below or join the interest list.
Summer 2025 Series (Recordings Available)
Reclaiming Our Spiritual-Cultural Inheritance as Korean Diaspora
You belong to something older.
Something more ancient than history.
Something more enduring than erasure.
Something too true to be forgotten.
Something sacred—kept alive by a longing older than living memory.Before imperial projects crossed our mountains and landed on our shores
Before religions and patriarchy were weaponized to sever indigenous spiritual transmission
Before colonization and erasure rewrote our history books and silenced our ancestors
Before war tore kin from kin and scattered us across the world
Before empire tried to swallow us whole—and then settled for parts.
Our ancestors honored the heavens, bowed to the earth, and communed with all beings. They knew where they came from, who our founding ancestors were, and how to live in harmony with the sacred order of things. These animist, relational, and indigenous ways of being are ours to reclaim.
An Invitation to Meet Your Longing
This series is an invitation for Korean diaspora to gather in shared ritual space—to feel into our longing: a longing for something older, more enduring, and still alive, even across generations of oppression and trauma.When we allow ourselves to be present with that longing, we begin to attune to the field of ancestral presence that surrounds us—like a current that has always flowed beneath the surface, waiting for us to turn toward it.What might become possible when we reach toward our ancestors with the intention to connect?And what shifts when we do this in a collective space—with others who carry a resonant ache?Through ritual and shared presence, we will enter a deeper terrain of ancestral knowing—one that remembers us, even when we've forgotten that it is where we come from and where we belong.
This series is an invitation for Korean diaspora to gather in shared ritual space—to feel into our longing: a longing for something older, more enduring, and still alive, even across generations of oppression and trauma.When we allow ourselves to be present with that longing, we begin to attune to the field of ancestral presence that surrounds us—like a current that has always flowed beneath the surface, waiting for us to turn toward it.What might become possible when we reach toward our ancestors with the intention to connect?And what shifts when we do this in a collective space—with others who carry a resonant ache?Through ritual and shared presence, we will enter a deeper terrain of ancestral knowing—one that remembers us, even when we've forgotten that it is where we come from and where we belong.
What I Mean by Ancestral
When I use the word ancestral or speak of ancestors, I’m referring to a greater collective field—like a vast body of water—far larger than any one family tree or bloodline. It is the specific river we were born into, a living stream that continuously informs and shapes who we are in the world, whether or not we’re consciously aware of it or choose to engage with it intentionally.As Koreans, we are born into the collective ancestral field of the Korean people—an evolving current and repository of history, unconscious and conscious memory, and psyche that impacts us on many levels, both seen and unseen.This is our shared inheritance—whether we embrace it or not. It includes gifts and grief, resilience and rupture. Even what we did not consciously choose, we carry. It is our birthright, and it is ours to reclaim.
Who This Is For
This series is for anyone with Korean ancestry—wherever you are in your relationship to that inheritance. It is for all of us in the diaspora, including those who have been historically marginalized or felt not Korean enough: adoptees, multiracial Koreans, queer and trans folks, and those who experienced disruption in cultural continuity due to displacement, immigration, or assimilation.
You don’t need to speak Korean, know your family tree, or come with an intact connection. If you carry the ache of disconnection and the longing for something more, you are welcome here.
What to Expect
Each 90-minute session will include:• Emergent teachings — drawn from lived experience and ancestral guidance
• Guided ritual practice and experiential drop-ins
• Time for reflection
• Space for collective inquiryYou don’t need prior experience with ancestral healing or ritual to participate. Sessions will be held in English.
Dates & Times
All sessions are 90 minutes long and held live on Zoom.
· Thursdays at 5:30–7:00 pm PDT / 8:30–10:00 pm EDT / 9:30–11:00 am KST (Friday)Session 1: July 31 (Replay available)Session 2: August 14 (Replay available)Session 3: September 18 (Replay available)Replays are available for anyone who signs up, including those who register after the live session has passed. Each session stands alone—you’re welcome to join one or all. An additional live Q&A session is tentatively planned for October to support those who couldn’t attend live, signed up after earlier sessions, or would like deeper integration.
More About Each Session
1. Returning to Our Origins: Reclaiming Our Inheritance
Thursday, July 31 · 5:30–7:00pm PDT
Together, we’ll explore possibilities for reclaiming our spiritual-cultural inheritance as Korean diaspora—outside colonial frameworks of knowing, and instead as a living relationship with what remains alive in the cracks of rupture and trauma.This session opens our series by rooting us in the deeper invitation: to return to a living ancestral field that has always been waiting for us. We’ll consider ancestral connection as a path for healing, resourcing, and possibility, and reflect on what it means to long for ancestral reconnection as descendants shaped by rupture, colonization, assimilation, and displacement.
2. Restoration of Light: Honoring Gwangbokjeol (National Liberation Day of Korea)
Thursday, August 14 · 5:30–7:00pm PDT
August 15 is Gwangbokjeol (광복절, gwang-bok-jeol, “The Day the Light Returned”)—National Liberation Day of Korea. It commemorates the liberation of the Korean people from 35 years of Japanese occupation.Now, 80 years later, on the eve of Gwangbokjeol, we gather to remember this moment as our ancestors might have experienced it—and to sit with how that liberation remains incomplete. We will explore what spiritual and collective liberation might mean across generations and in the diaspora, and honor the ache of unresolved ancestral longing.
3. Celebrating the Sacred: Tending to Ancestral Ceremony and Holidays
Thursday, September 18 · 5:30–7:00pm PDT
As summer comes to an end, we prepare to honor two of the most sacred days in the Korean ancestral calendar:– Gaecheonjeol (개천절, gae-cheon-jeol, “The Day the Heavens Opened”) — National Foundation Day of Korea
– Chuseok (추석, chu-seok, “autumn evening”) — the harvest festival that celebrates the full moon, family, and abundanceThis session invites us to learn about the ancient Cheonje (천제, cheon-je, “Rite to Heaven”) ceremony, historically offered on Gaecheonjeol, and to understand and reclaim ancestral rites like Charye (차례, cha-rye), traditionally held during Chuseok, from the confines of Confucian patriarchy and rigidity. Together, we’ll reimagine ancestral ceremony as something we get to live into—co-creative, co-evolving, and liberatory.
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