Creating & Holding Space For Grief & Loss

Over the next 10 days, you will begin the journey of forging a new relationship with the concepts of grief and loss. This new relationship will give way to a new mindset, teaching you how to swim the waters of grief with more grace, surrender, and allowance. Likewise, you will learn how to define grief, make sacred space for it, extract wisdom from it, and use it to honor the ones you’ve lost. Through the use of creative exercises and meditation, you will learn how to honor all of the emotions that come with loss; as well as regain your own footing and come back into the right relationship with yourself. In this way, you will begin the journey of swimming in these turbulent waters with less fear and more trust. Death is a natural part of the life cycle, but that never makes it an easy experience. Rather, the grief of losing someone is strong enough to swallow us whole, spitting out a mechanical version of ourselves who simply survives through each day. So often, we collect the sorrow, sadness, anger, and fear of grief, and tuck them into the corners of our hearts, hoping that’s where they will stay. But it never does. Our grief always finds a moment, a memory, or a picture, and pours out in tears and words left unsaid. And there we are, trying to catch all of our sadness and lock it back into our dark corners. We now know how futile that is, but we can finally do something about it. This course will offer a different path: a path to establishing a new relationship with grief. It has been said that grief is just love with nowhere to go. In our time together, we are going to explore ways in which to give our grief expression, autonomy, and space in which to exist. We are going to honor all of the emotions that come with grief, so that we are living and breathing from a space of awareness and acceptance. At the end of the day, grief doesn’t leave. It changes and evolves over the course of our life, but it’s always there. We can choose to ignore it and wait for life to begin again; or we can invite it in, learn from it, and use it as an opportunity to love deeper and live fuller. Every day, we will meet the many emotions and faces of grief, while welcoming reflection and understanding through the mediums of meditation, visualization, creative imaginative writing, and somatic movement. There is no wrong way to approach this course or its material content; all you have to do is show up with an open heart and explore what lies within.