How do I know if this class is for me?

Grief is universal and holds a large continuum of experiences.

Throughout our life we will face grief through experiences that are life altering and devastating, seemingly smaller grievances during transitions and change which can be equally filled with hardship and pain, and then there is a collective grief which often goes unnoticed or feels out of our control through ancestorial wounding, destruction of the earth and war torn countries we see or hear of daily in our news outlets and through friends and family across the globe. 

This class is to help you meet your grief, hold it, and begin to process or integrate it through your body. 

Working with grief in this way can feel very empowering. Using the body to interface with grief creates space. In the space there is the possibility of hope, change, trust, nurturing, and acceptance.

It’s important for us to relearn and remember how to interface with grief and loss in a way that is honoring and not something that can be fixed, hurried, or ignored, because it can't. 

Grief is sacred. Grief is our own and no one else can define how we experience or express our grief. There is no “right” way to grieve, however there are compassionate, holistic and integral ways to tend to grief which have been lost to our western world.  

Grief tending, together, is potent medicine.

Learning to acknowledge one another’s grief in a way that is supportive and helpful has also been lost. Whether you are the griever or know someone grieving, what we do best is avoid it, we distract ourselves or others from it, or try to put it off until we have time to face it, we don't know what to say or how to ask for help. 

We have a lot to learn about grief. This course is a steppingstone to bringing grief back into the normality of life. We cannot deny that life is about beginnings and endings. We celebrate one and disappear in the face of the other. We are told to “buck up”, that our emotions are “too much” or "inappropriate”, we have to fit our grief into a box so we can't get back to productivity, we hear unhelpful messages, we have little to no cultural, religious or spiritual reference for ritual and ceremony to honor our losses.  

This workshop is for you if you are ready to tend to areas in your life that are tender, chronic, and even festering. 

We can experience grief and loss in the thresholds, the liminal spaces, and the unexpected: 

Death of a loved one 

Loss of relationship 

Infertility 

Miscarriage 

Divorce 

Separation

Loss of business

Moving

Loss of job 

Empty nest

Health

Caregiving  

Aging —mobility, agility, strength 

Injury 

Ancestral wounds 

Collective Pain (environmental, violence, war, child trafficking, abduction)

and the list goes on…