SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED FOR THOSE WHO REGISTER

Grief and mourning are often incorrectly considered synonymous. But grief is what we feel when confronted with loss. Mourning is how we process those feelings. Every traditional culture honors grief as a threshold, not an indefinite state.

Grief is an awakening portal. Mourning is the passageway through.

Except most of us have lost our traditional mourning rituals. As moderns, we are steeped in an anti-death culture that obscures grief. We lack ways to honor loss as a natural part of life; we lack processes for channeling the strong energies of grief. This leads us to become trapped in our own ongoing, agonizing thoughts and feelings.

Mourning is inherently embodied — energetically shifting and transmuting the energies of loss & sorrow into gratitude & grace. Mourning rituals are creative and collective and celebratory. They include wailing, song, dance, prayer, the elements, nature, community (and more wailing).

With attention and care, we can understand loss as a natural part of the cycle of the universe, we can revive our innate understanding of how we specifically need to mourn, and we can release grief -- allowing it to be the portal to wisdom & compassion — to awakening — it's always been known to be.

Over these 3 weeks, we will explore both current and traditional relationships to grief & mourning. Each of us will touch into the particular losses that we have not yet fully mourned. Participants will be invited to independently explore the mourning practices of their ancestry as well as others that might feel resonant. Finally, we will craft personal, unique, embodied, expressive mourning rituals to release our grief.

Come, let it all out!