Living Ancestors is a global remembrance movement, founded by Kate Frew Austin and rooted in South Africa – a land carrying both deep ancestral wisdom and the enduring scars of systemic imbalance. It is an invitation for the restoration of right relationship – with self, with others and with the land.
Many are beginning to sense that the inherited definitions of wealth, success and security that shaped the modern world are no longer sufficient for the future we must now create together.
Living Ancestors calls for a sacred redefinition of legacy and inheritance – one that expands beyond family wealth and bloodlines to include our responsibility to humanity, to future generations and to Mother Earth herself. It invites us to move from paradigms of accumulation towards practices of participation.
Living Ancestors invites us to remember that we belong not only to bloodlines, but to the wider web of life.
This work invites a deeper understanding of legacy: one that moves beyond personal inheritance toward collective healing, ecological restoration, and service to generations to come.
Through gatherings, breathwork, story, sound and reflection, we ask how the resources we hold – financial, cultural, creative, ancestral – might be stewarded to contribute both to personal continuity and in service to a more just and life-giving future.
is to recognise that we are not only descendants, but ancestors of a more beautiful future that is still possible if we choose to act now to seed life, equity and regeneration into humanity’s next story.
is to live with the awareness that our choices – financial, relational, ecological, spiritual – ripple into generations yet to come.
is to remember that the Earth is not a resource, but a relative; that wealth can be not possession but contribution; that legacy is not what we leave behind, but what we seed forward.
The work of Living Ancestors is for those who are beginning to question the inherited paradigms of wealth, legacy and belonging, and who sense the call for a return to right relationship.
That wealth is not only financial, but relational and spiritual.
Those who are grieving the loss of home, identity or belonging.
Through gatherings, breathwork, story, sound and ritual, Living Ancestors invites participation in a courageous Journey of Return:
to coherence, integrity, and the inner wisdom that knows what is right.
to coherence, integrity, and the inner wisdom that knows what is right.
beyond roles, ranks, and residues of hierarchy.
to coherence, integrity, and the inner wisdom that knows what is right.
Living Ancestors is a living field where inner shifts ripple outward into new ways of relating, creating and giving. The work is stewarded by Kate Frew Austin in relationship with:
Ceremony holders, grief workers, breathwork facilitators, somatic guides, and sound medicine practitioners who create sacred containers for embodied healing and remembrance.
Land-based and community-rooted leaders cultivating ecological restoration, collective healing, and futures of shared thriving which honour original peoples and their descendants.
Living Ancestors gathers in rhythm — creating spaces to remember, reconnect, and participate in shaping a future worth inheriting.
Sacred gatherings of breath, sound, and story — intimate spaces to return to the body, the land, and one another. These gatherings seed connection and nurture the living field.
Be part of a growing circle of remembrance. Receive updates on gatherings, retreats, and shared reflections as the work unfolds.
