About Two Trees

Janny McKinnon lives and works in lutrawita, Tasmania, and feels a deep love for the land she calls home. Over the past twenty years she has practiced, trained in a taught yoga and yoga therapy. She is now dedicating this space to working with ancestral healing and exploring the sacred Earth based practices of her lineages.

Alongside Two Trees Ritual Healing, Janny is also a jeweller (The Forest Adorned) and has a passion for photography as a practice of seeing and freely sharing the beauty that is all around us.

For a tree to grow strong it grows in two directions equally: upward and toward the light; downward and deep into the dark. Similarly, to become whole, we must first learn to see in the dark. Much of our life takes place in the unseen realms, realms which are often pushed deep in the unconscious mind and held in the body and mind as tension, pain, fears and imbalance. The process of healing is one of re-connection, of bringing light to dark places, and of transforming that which is exiled or hidden. Through this process, we can take root in the whole of who we truly are, and from this grow into our full potential.

Qualifications, Training and Mentorship

  • Rigorous training with Ancestral Medicine. Trainees learn to guide ancestral healing sessions, introductory teachings, and ancestor circles using the Ancestral Lineage Healing method. The training includes learning foundational ritual proficiencies, skills for work with the troubled dead, ways to assist the dying and recently deceased, psychological and cultural layers of ancestral healing, and support for clarifying and living one’s personal destiny with ancestral backing.

  • Cindy Aulby, Journey to the Heart. Body centered counseling and the connected breath.
    cindyaulby.com.au

  • A 4-month (60 hour) certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore a somatic approach to attachment based therapy: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with developmental and relational wounding and healing.

    Teachers including: Stephen Levine, Richard Schwartz, Deb Dana, Pat Ogden, Karine Bell, and more.

  • A two day workshop with Dr. Peter Levine & Efu Nyaki, Embody Lab

  • A 20 hour professional development course with Jessica Maguire, The Nervous System School

    Eight modules dive deep into what research has discovered about the vagus nerve and how it effects the entire human experience, especially following periods of chronic stress, adversity or trauma.

  • A 12 month training course with the Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy. This training focused on the therapeutic applications and benefits of yoga for a wide range of physical and mental health issues.

  • A three year immersive training course with Satyananda Yoga Academy, Australia. This holistic training program offered a strong foundation in yogic philosophy, spirituality, ethics and practice, drawing on the traditions of Tantra and Vedanta.