BALIK~DIWA

Ancestral Healing Apprenticeship with Spirit

(Held within the Soul Alchemy Lineage)

Balik~Diwa (returning to spirit / essence) is a three-month virtual ancestral healing apprenticeship for those who feel called to deepen their relationship with ancestors, spirit allies, and their own embodied knowing.

Formerly offered as Soul Alchemy: Journeying to Meet the Healer Within, this work has evolved into Balik~Diwa to more clearly reflect the initiatory, relational, and lineage-based nature of the journey. This is not a process of becoming someone new, but of returning — to the diwa, the spirit and essence carried through body, ancestry, and lived experience.

Balik~Diwa is held within the Soul Alchemy lineage which is a body-centred, ancestral, and relational way of healing that honours remembrance over mastery, relationship over extraction, and responsibility over performance.

This apprenticeship is intended for those with prior experience in healing, helping, ritual, or community care practices who are ready to engage ancestral work with care, consent, and discernment.

LANGUAGE NOTE

*In Hiligaynon and other Visayan languages spoken in Panay (Jen’s Maternal Lineage) the word diwa is also understood to mean spirit, inner essence, or life force.

The word balik (to return) is commonly understood across Filipino languages, though in LllHiligaynon it is often expressed as pagbalik (returning) or pagpauli / pauli (to come home).

A more fully Hiligaynon phrasing of the same idea could be:

  • Pagbalik sang Diwa — the act of returning to spirit

  • Pauli sa Diwa — coming home to spirit

For this apprenticeship, Balik~Diwa is used as a shared, poetic title that remains legible across Tagalog and Visayan contexts, while honouring the ancestral understanding of diwa as spirit and essence.

Who This Apprenticeship Is For

  • Healers, helpers, artists, caregivers, and space-holders

  • Those called to ancestral healing for personal, familial, or community reasons

  • Individuals ready to relate with spirit and lineage in grounded and ethical ways

  • Those seeking clarity, sustainability, and deeper listening on their healing path

This is not a certification or credentialing program.
It is a lineage-rooted remembering.

Holding the Lineage

Balik~Diwa is primarily guided by Jen Maramba, with invited guest wisdom keepers and facilitators offering focused teachings that complement the Soul Alchemy lineage. All teachings are held within a coherent ancestral, embodied, and ethical container.

This apprenticeship honours sovereignty, consent, cultural boundaries, and the understanding that ancestral healing unfolds over time and in relationship.

Through Balik~Diwa, participants will be invited to:

  • Re-member and clarify their sacred path and purpose in this lifetime

  • Develop relational care with ancestors and spirit allies aligned with wellness, integrity, and liberation

  • Learn to listen to the body as a site of ancestral memory and guidance

  • Explore sacred contracts, callings, and limits connected to their healing path

  • Practice being a sacred witness ~ to truth, grief, and discomfort, without bypass or urgency

  • Cultivate ethical boundaries in ancestral and spiritual work

  • Build a supportive community of healers and helpers

  • Hold space for personal and collective grief as we witness ongoing colonial violence, ecological crisis, and systemic harm

  • Develop personal rituals and foundations that support sustainable healing and wellness care

  • Connect with Guides, Ancestors and Sacred Tools to support their pathway of Lineage Healing

  • Participate in collective and personal ceremonies that honour commitment ~ to self, ancestors, and life

Apprenticeship Flow

Month One — Balik | Returning to Ancestral Relationship

  • Deepening connection with known and unknown ancestors

  • Exploring ancestral gifts and patterns carried through the body

  • Establishing ethical foundations for ancestral listening

  • Witnessing collective ancestral grief within the realities of ongoing colonialism, genocide, capitalism, and earth extraction

  • Somatic grounding practices to support safety, discernment, and presence

Month Two — Diwa | Listening to Spirit and Inner Knowing

  • Cultivating relationship with spirit allies and guides aligned with care and integrity

  • Developing intuitive listening through body awareness and nervous system regulation

  • Learning to discern between guidance, imagination, projection, and ancestral memory

  • Exploring how spiritual relationships support this lifetime’s work — and where boundaries are required

  • Strengthening personal ritual and reflective practices

Month Three — Integration | Sacred Witnessing & Purpose

  • Clarifying one’s role as healer, helper, or witness without hierarchy

  • Exploring sacred contracts, vocations, and responsibilities with humility and care

  • Practicing community presence and accountability

  • Integration tools to support ongoing practice beyond the apprenticeship

  • Closing ceremony to honour the journey and commitments made

Statement of Commitment as Facilitator and Co-creator:

My intention for Balik~Diwa, held within the Soul Alchemy lineage, is to offer a sacred space for deep listening a space where you are met as you are, and witnessed as you continue your becoming and being, alongside community.

I commit to holding you in sacred accountability with gentleness and compassion, as you walk your path in relationship with your ancestors, spirit allies, and the gifts you carry. I will support you to the best of my ability to guide, mentor, teach, and hold space - not to shape you, but to tend the conditions in which your unique cosmic gifts may emerge.

Together, we will honour both the depth of this work and the tenderness of our shared humanness, remembering that healing unfolds in relationship, over time.

Thank you for being called to weave with me, and for choosing life.

Nagmamahal, Jen ~Tulay Araw

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BALIK~DIWA is not a path of becoming, but of remembering.
Not a race toward mastery, but a return to relationship
with body, with spirit, with lineage,
and with the life that continues to call us home.

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