Life has inevitable sorrow, losses, and struggles, named and unnamed, for individuals and for communities.  In many traditional cultures throughout the world, communal settings support the full and wholesome expression of grief.  Unexpressed grief may become toxic, leading to illness, depression, addiction, even damaging and violent behavior towards oneself or others.  Let us support one another in presence and compassionate witnessing.  When we welcome the many faces and forms of grieving, we reweave our belonging.  The sacred ritual container allows our mutual flourishing and interdependence. 

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In life it is necessary to grieve those things that no longer serve us in order to let them go. Grief is a common human emotion that impacts us all. It can come to us through divorce, illness, loss of dreams, conflict, death, change and so much more. Grief is an invitation to feel. It invites us to come into the body to shed light on those things that are ready to be released in order to heal. Because of this, we must have ways to move our pain. Grief needs to be regularly felt and released or it begins to smother our joy, creativity, and our ability to connect with our self and others.

Community Grief Ceremony is a safe way to learn how to lean into grieving within and among community. Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through validation, acknowledgement and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing. Each of us has a basic human right to that genuine love, happiness and freedom.

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