Grief rituals
Grief was never meant to be held alone. For thousands of years, cultures around the world have tended traditions that honor the aliveness, complexity, and village-hearted nature of Grief.
As these cultures and practices become more disrupted and endangered, we find ourselves in an increasingly grief-impoverished society.
Our hearts long for a village of collaboration, reciprocity, and deep kinship bonds; they hear the call of a way of being beyond colonization, extraction, and individualism.
If Grief is not tended to, felt, and related to, it can transform into resentment, numbness, fear, shame, hopelessness, isolation, anger. Untended grief may become the wound from which we react, the cycle that traps us, the cracked and dried heart that cannot feel.
But the village heart remembers – Grief is the balm, the milk, and the honey.
When we commune in ritual, we remember our village hearts.
These rituals are facilitated and supportive spaces for you to be held so that you may feel and honor your walk with Grief.
To do this, we commune together and are guided through activities and experiences that invite us to open and grow our capacity to move through the waters of Grief—waters that can feel too deep and turbulent to approach alone.
These activities and experiences may include:
Building an altar — orienting our attention to Grief, intention, loved ones, Earth
Authentic relating activities — group sharing, connective activities
Embodiment practices — breathwork, bioenergetics, dance
Meditative practices — visualization, gentle “tuning” into your body
Art — drawing, writing
Music and song — singing spells and heartsongs, instrumental music
And more... No two rituals are the same. Each aspect of the ritual is emergent and meets the group right where they are.