Many people feel Grief these days. Some are grieving old relationships shifting, dying, dissolving. Some are grieving their health. Some are grieving the loss of a job, goal or idea. Some are grieving the state of the world.

Then there are those who are grieving the death of an old way of being. Saying goodbye to who they used to be. The “new” has yet not arrived and many feel that they are in between worlds – in a void – feeling grief.

In this Grief Circle we are not here to move beyond this state. We are not here to change anything with our breath, with movement, with psychedelics, with meditation. We are not here to “make it go away” so that we can feel “good” again. We will offer a space with sound, words and silence, energetically supporting Grief to be felt.

Because Grief asks us to feel it fully. It asks us to allow the movement. Grief asks us to honor what was. Grief asks to be felt as the emotional living intelligence that it is. Where there is grief – there is great love

Grief can be challenging to sit with on our own. We can feel that we get lost in the deep river of tears and there is of course a difference between emotional intelligence and emotional indulgence. Emotional indulgence usually happens when our minds are working overtime to find a way out of the grief, or keeping us stuck in stories of the past, desperately trying to figure it out, chasing a solution.

Grief asks us to become quiet and stop all forward movement so that we may dive into the depths, but the intellect usually doesn’t know how to go deep – not like our emotions can. The intellect usually tries to lift us out of the water and dry us off before we’ve really immersed ourselves in grief. Grief that is not allowed and felt can create numbness, dissociation, indifference.

On this evening, we will invite the grief to be felt without an agenda. Our intention is to allow our hearts to touch our grief.

In this circle we will allow the movement of grief. Listen to our own living embodied intelligence. Listen to our Grief.

Welcome.

*** Please bring an item that represents your grief. An item that will be placed on the altar during this Grief Circle. This is an item that you will later burn, bury, give to the waters, or place on your own alter until the right time comes to release it.