The daugh­ter of Pol­ish-born Jews who sur­vived the Holo­caust, Ellen Kor­man Mains began prac­tic­ing Bud­dhist med­i­ta­tion at nine­teen. Since 2006, she has spent over two years in Poland research­ing, pro­mot­ing dia­log, and deep­en­ing per­son­al and ances­tral con­nec­tions. She leads med­i­ta­tion retreats and work­shops on ances­tral heal­ing in both Europe and North Amer­i­ca, and guides indi­vid­u­als in cul­ti­vat­ing com­pas­sion­ate self-aware­ness. Win­ner of the 2018 Nau­tilus Sil­ver Book Award and a 2019 Inde­pen­dent Pub­lish­er (IPPY) Bronze Medal.