One-to-one sessions
Mindful Genealogy
Explore your family tree through genealogy, awareness, reflection and personal discovery.
Mindful Genealogy · with Iuri Silvestri
Heal Your Present by Understanding Your Past
Discover the stories, family patterns and ancestral connections that can help you understand your personal journey. Explore your family tree with Iuri Silvestri through a thoughtful combination of genealogical research, mindfulness and reflection.
20+ Years of Genealogical Experience · Association of Professional Genealogists Member
What is Mindful Genealogy?
A family tree is more than a list of names
Every family hands down more than surnames and dates. It passes on stories, silences, habits, loyalties and ways of seeing the world — some spoken aloud at the table, many never named at all.
Mindful Genealogy brings together two things Iuri has practised for decades: rigorous genealogical research and the quiet attention of mindfulness. When you explore your tree with awareness, you begin to recognise the themes that return across generations, to understand your heritage more fully, and to feel a deeper sense of connection and belonging.
It is an invitation to reflect, not a verdict on who you are. The aim is understanding — and, from understanding, the freedom to choose how the story continues.
You may recognise
Do any of these feel familiar?
Generations pass down more than DNA. These are invitations to reflect — not labels, and not diagnoses.
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Repeating Patterns
Explore recurring themes in family stories, relationships and life experiences — the ones that seem to return across generations.
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Unexplained Feelings
Reflect on emotions and personal experiences in the context of your family history, and the stories that were never quite told.
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Disconnection
Reconnect with your heritage, your identity and a deeper understanding of where you come from.
How a session works
A guided journey through your ancestry, in three parts
A face-to-face conversation — online or in person, subject to availability — designed by Iuri over many years of practice in genealogy and Qigong.
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Step 1: Breathing and Grounding
A few short breathing exercises to arrive in a calm, focused state — the right frame of mind for looking at your family story with openness.
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Step 2: Family Tree Analysis
Together we go through your tree, noticing recurring themes, inheritances and repeating patterns across generations. You can bring a tree you already have, or we build one together.
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Step 3: Reflective Practices
You receive personalised suggestions, mindfulness and meditation exercises, and practical next steps — then we close with a short meditation.
Meet Iuri Silvestri
Twenty years of listening to family stories
Iuri Silvestri is a professional genealogist who brings together classical studies, a History degree from the University of Venice, more than twenty years of genealogical research and a long practice of Qigong. His method grew out of all of these — and out of hundreds of conversations with families and their descendants.
- Classical studies — Latin, Ancient Greek and Human Studies
- A History degree from the University of Venice
- More than 20 years of professional genealogical research
- Member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
- Hundreds of families researched across Italy, Istria and Dalmatia
- Guiding descendants — mostly from North America and Australia — to their ancestral lands
- A long journey of learning and teaching Qigong
Explore the services
Three ways to meet your family story
Each experience starts from the same place — genuine genealogical research and a calm, reflective attitude — and leads somewhere different.
Honouring your roots
Ancestors
Discover ways to honour your ancestral heritage and reflect on the connections between generations.
Group experience
Ancestheater
Explore the meeting point of genealogy, expressive movement, creativity and Qigong.
Client testimonials
Real stories of family tree discovery
In their own words — people who explored their family story with Iuri, one-to-one or in a seminar.
I had the pleasure of attending the I meeting and seeing the professionalism of Iuri Silvestri. I arrived driven by the simple curiosity to know something about my ancestors; but thanks to the preparation of Iuri I realized that there was much more to discover … things that belonged to me and that I had never considered before that … I left the meeting with a heart full of gratitude and a beautiful feeling of belonging to the inexhaustible flow of life .. I thank Iuri Silvestri also for all the precious suggestions to bring harmony and peace to my daily life.
What a delightful experience. Iuri intentionally opened and closed the session and created a safe space in between to explore my needs around ancestral healing. He was attentive to my history through questions and reviewing my family tree beforehand. It felt like he cared about what I was there for, and he supported me. He was also an attentive listener, linking together different things I shared about my history and what I was looking to accomplish. My favorite thing was the tactical takeaways. He provided wonderful tips / ideas to celebrate my ancestors and to expand my family tree. Grateful for this experience! "Sometimes the children cannot solve the problem. The grandchildren can."
This was a life changing experience. Not only was he able to see and verbalize patterns of my family history he was able to so articulately put the pieces of the puzzle together with such crystal clear clarity. His insight was spot on, and intuition was incredible. It was a truly lovely experience that I will be forever grateful for. If you are looking to learn more about your heritage, patterns of previous generations, and how they may be impacting you currently while releasing judgement, pain, and fear...this is the experience for you. He makes it so easy to comprehend, with a beautiful opening and closing meditation and breathing exercises so you begin and leave grounded and at peace. A truly amazing experience.
I had a wonderful experience with Iuri. His knowledge of genealogy is fantastic and he is a very kind person. I loved some of the suggestions he made for me to further my family research and get a deeper connection with my ancestors. He also gave some wonderful ideas to start sharing family history with my daughter. Highly recommended if you have even a tiny interest in your family tree!
From the blog
Ancient words, new reflections
Ancestheater
This unique project combines genealogy and theater. Through preparation that combines elements of Qigong and expressiveness, we become capable of creating a fantasy family tree.
Mindful Genealogy
Mindful Genealogy is the bridge between psychology and genealogy — it explores how your family’s emotional history shapes your present life.
New and ancient words about ancestors
Never born, never dead, the ancestors abandoned their shells, but their souls are deep within us, never leaving our side. Quotes from many traditions, and Iuri’s own recommendations for honouring your ancestors.
Ready to Discover Your Family Story?
Begin with a free 30 minutes consultation. You do not need to have a completed family tree — just an interest in exploring your roots.