Making Room for What Is:
A Ritual of Grief & Gladness
Sunday, November 17th, 2024
10-3:30pm
In-person, location given at registration
Do you feel alone, stuck or overwhelmed in your experience of Grief?
Or maybe you are feeling ‘secondary symptoms’ like irritability, depression, or anxiety?
Have you had major (or minor) life transition that you haven’t quite processed?
Are you overwhelmed by the global crises and systemic harms?
Do you want a more harmonious relationship with Grief (even if you’re a little afraid of it?)
If so, this practice is for you.
This is a gentle, beginner-appropriate space for all the things that tend to get unattended and backlogged in our physical, energetic and collective body.
Rooted in sensory pleasure, nourishment, movement, artistic expression, and direct sensing with the land and natural elements, we will practice making room the often dis-located spirits and beings such as Grief, Rage, Anger, Sadness, and Hopelessness, while also practicing remaining connected to Neutrality, Gratitude, Pleasure and Joy and the guiding elemental spirits of the Autumn season.
we at the sanctuary northwest consider Grief ritual a kind of cultural and energetic “hygiene” practice. These typically take place twice a year, once virtually and once in person.
Creating an Earth Mandala as our Grief Ritual Closing, April 2023
TUITION: Suggested Donation $75-$225
***Paying as much as you reasonably can helps to keep these accessible to our whole community. If cost is prohibitive to you, please just contact me to work something out.***
***Scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.***
LOCATION: On the Key Peninsula, about 40 minutes from Tacoma (exact location given upon registration)
DEADLINE: Registration closes Friday November 15.
HOW TO ENROLL:
Submit your payment here either by:
Donorbox (Make sure to click 1-time donation): https://donorbox.org/roots-rhythms
or via PayPal here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thesanctuarynw
or via Venmo @Kate-Fontana-1
Make sure to put “Grief Ritual” in the comments.
2. Email Kate at info@thesanctuarynorthwest.com with the title “Grief Ritual Registration” to let me know you’ve enrolled.
Circling for our Equinox Celebration
“Doing [the Journeying with Grief] series...has made [the anniversary of my father’s death] not easier but less daunting. I can also see beyond the loss and just to the change. The group setting allows you to connect with others in a safe environment and to not feel alone in your burden. ”