Sunday, October 24th, 2021
10:00am-1:00pm Pacific
1:00pm-4:00pm Eastern
Regular: $60 USD
Support a Scholarship: $75 USD
Scholarship: please email me - [email protected]
Personal grief. Collective grief. Ecological grief. These are too much to carry on our own.
Within the arms of our ancestors, gathered in community and companioned through ritual, may we be witnessed and carried by one another. May we express our heavy hearts as both prayer and offering to Spirit.
Join me for a 3 hour grief ritual - a transformative container to meet our heartbreak within the embrace of our elder ancestors.
Our time consists of somatic grounding, visioning, ritual writing, group sharing, prayer and offerings. There will also be time for a solo (off-screen) ritual offering in a way that is personally and ancestrally meaningful to you - dance, movement, drawing, singing, meditating, chanting etc.
*More details for preparation will be sent to you upon registration.
How do I know if a grief ritual is a good idea for me?
1. You already have other helpful resources of support in your life - whether that be good friends, supportive family, other community circles, therapist, spiritual practices etc - and this offering is in addition to those.
2. You are not in acute overwhelming grief (i.e. you don't feel "out of control" with flooding of emotions, and your daily living is not currently taken over by your grief - this invites a different type of support at this time)
3. You have self-awareness of your emotional and somatic capacity. In other words, you are able to track if you need to take a pause and you have practices that support you in grounding/centering if needed. These will also be structured into the ritual as part of the group process.
4. You already have connection with Spirit and ancestors in some way, and you recognize that calling in the Sacred and relationships of these ones is a significant source of support, and expression of your love/care as an offering that nourishes the wider ecology of beings, in however you understand that.
5. You are open to being present with not only your own grief, but witnessing and being present for others' grief. You are open to sharing with others, and feel it would be supportive for you to be witnessed in this way.