Sometimes we don’t know quite what we are grieving. Sometimes we catch a glimpse and then it wisps away as we move closer to it. Sometimes we know exactly what we are grieving and that which we can name is also a taproot to a broader sorrow, too wide to articulate, but felt in the collective. In places we’ve felt helpless or alone, in places that are difficult to fully access on our own, in places asking for witnessing and holding, we remember the wisdom of grieving together. How can we practice deepening into our sorrow, building trust with ourselves and each other as we go, so we can more fully inhabit our experience of being human?

Join us for a three-part intensive exploring both personal and global grief. Our time will include guided meditation, song, small and full group sharing, embodied ritual practice, between session art invitations and readings/listenings, and a nature-based Council of All Beings (as developed by Joanna Macy). Group size is limited.

The breath that keeps us alive. The steadiness of practice. The gathering of allies. The quieting to listen. The Yes—I’m ready. Cupping our hands around that inside us which needs protecting in order to shine.

In this movement lab, we will give ourselves time and space to explore being here-in our bodies, our vitality, our lives-more fully. With the moving meditation cycle—sit. walk. dance. repeat. repeat!—as our weekly form, we will practice slowing down, connecting with ourselves and each other, and breathing into both what is and what is possible.

As waypoints along our journey, we will explore the archetypal energies of the creator, the warrior, the comic, the one, and the poet.

You are welcome just as you are. Please be prepared to arrive on time, participate in between-lab inquiries, and be surprised.