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.
New Summer 2025 Series
I’m offering a special 3-part series exploring ancestral connection, spiritual and cultural reclamation, and Korean indigenous cosmology.
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Offerings
Summer 2025 Series
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.
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 18Replays 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 September 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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