Getting Through Grief: Growth, Grit And Gateways Into New Ways

A 7-Session Journey Through Loss, Love & Becoming Grief is a gateway. It is not something to get over, fix, or solve — but a crossing. A passage between what was and what will be. Through this journey you may: * Feel normalized and validated in the intensity of your grief * Learn embodied practices to move emotion safely through the body * Reduce overwhelm by creating sacred structure around your sorrow * Build resilience through rest, resourcing, and nervous system support * Find creative ways to express unfinished feelings * Develop greater capacity to stay present during dark days * Reconnect gently with meaning, purpose, and aliveness * Experience grief not as pathology — but as profound love in motion Throughout the seven sessions your guide Tess — meditation teacher, conscious movement facilitator, and wilderness rites of passage guide, currently working with the School of Lost Borders — invites you into a compassionate, embodied exploration of grief as sacred threshold. Drawing on decades of Insight Meditation practice, ritual, nature-based wisdom, and body-led process, this journey offers grounding, expression, and gentle integration. Together we heal- at the pace of the heart. Session Overview: 1. Gateway of Grief We begin by recognising grief as an initiation — a threshold that asks something of us. You are be invited to arrive exactly as you are, acknowledging the losses you carry and the courage it takes to face them. 2. Moving It Through — The Way of Water Grief is not static. Like water, it moves, pools, crashes, and recedes. In this session we explore how emotion wants to flow through the body rather than become stuck within it. 3. Grief Altar — When Grief Has Us Sometimes grief grips us so fully that it feels bigger than we are. Here we work with the experience of “grief having us.” You will be guided in creating a simple grief altar or sacred space — somewhere your sorrow can be honored, witnessed, and held outside of your body. This practice can soften overwhelm and lighten the heart by sharing the weight. 4. Phone to the Wind When grief leaves us with unfinished words, the heart can feel suspended. In this session we enter the realm of imagination, ritual, and symbolic communication. Through guided practice, you will be invited to speak what was never spoken — allowing myth, mystery, and creativity to help bring resolution and tenderness. 5. Heartbreak and Dark Days There are days when grief feels heavy, relentless, and without horizon. This session honors those darker seasons. Rather than trying to escape them, we practice staying present to what is here — building the capacity to be with heartbreak without collapsing into it. We explore surrender as strength and sorrow as a form of devotion. 6. Rest And Resilience- The Good Kind Of Giving Up Grief is a long road. This session focuses on building internal and external resources that sustain you along the way. We explore the power of rest, nervous system regulation, and creating a “safe nest” within and around you. Resilience is not pushing through — it is learning when and how to pause. 7. Turning Toward the Light Grief does not disappear — but it does change. In our final session, we gently explore what it means to turn toward your living again. Not abandoning your grief, but carrying it differently. Here we honor the ways love continues, how meaning slowly re-forms, and how light re-enters — often quietly, often tenderly and the gifts we get to carry from having walked our way through grief. This course is for anyone navigating loss — death, relationship endings, identity shifts, life transitions, ecological and ancestral grief, the quiet ache of change- and even the grief of precious dreams that never came to be. Grief is a gateway. You are not meant to walk through it alone. Be warmly welcomed to join us.