Healing Through Your Grief

One-one Sessions to Awaken Through Loss

Have you had a deeply challenging time lately and feeling a sense of overwhelm, numbness, shutdown, loneliness or anxiety regularly?  

Have you had a significant loss of some sort either through the loss of the loved one, a big shift in career, location or identity?

Are you feeling the weight of the change that we are going through collectively and unsure of how to take the next steps in your life?

Do you long to feel more alive, connected and fulfilled in your relationships?

All of these experiences can be caused by unexpressed grief that can be both personal and shared. While we often think of grief coming from the death of a loved one, we can be going through grief for so many reasons in our lives. This way of working with grief can help you to understand and feel through your current experience of grieving in order to
live more fully.

Join in this 7 session journey to get a taste of the process of healing through grief that can be nourishing and grounding, joyful and expressive, comforting and connective as well as a growth experience. You will be invited to connect with your body, your breath, your knowing and your creative expression as your guides to awaken latent wisdom that can offer you greater resource and resilience amidst the challenges you face. Inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, somatic movement therapy, nature connection and The Work That Reconnects, this journey will invite you to learn about and move through the directions and layers of grief in gentle and powerful ways. We are all united through our grief and it is in grieving, especially with others, that we are able to remember who we truly are and what we are here to be and do in service to all beings. 

There will be trauma-informed embodied (somatic) movement, breath and meditation guidance in the form of tools and practices that can support your journey as well as an open space to share your experience. You will be supported by the wisdom of the elements, the directions and archetypes as you honor your body, the land and the wisdom that we all carry within us as the living Earth.

Through this healing journey

you will receive:​

• Tools and practices to address grief and that will support you to heal through your grieving process
• An understanding and perspective of how we are all in grief and grieving collectively which can be a liberating and connective understanding rather than debilitating
• An experience of how grieving can open us to our joy, our creativity, the beauty of life and our ability to celebrate and connect more deeply and broadly with our ourselves, our environment and others 
• Learn about and practice cultivating greater awareness with nature, the elements and with the land to deepen your relationship with yourself
• Learn how to resource your own inner wisdom through your body
• Practices to help you boost your immune system rather than draining your energy through emotional repression
• Guidance for your own personal healing practice at home

Each session will generally include: 

• Grounding in together to become more present 
• Personal check in on your emotional, physical, relational and spiritual experience recently through your felt sense and what you need support with currently
• Sharing about the stages of grief through The Grief Wheel with elemental, directional and archetypal guides
• Trauma informed somatic meditation guidance to each address a stage of grieving
• Integrative Body-Mind counseling with whatever arises to be tended to
• Invitation to personal practice each week
• Visual resources for each week

Acknowledgements

 This understanding of grief is inspired by many traditions including the teachings of Joanna Macy, Ph.D, who is an author, teacher, scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. She developed The Work that Reconnects. Hilary collaborated with Grandmother Kaariina Saarinen, a student of Joanna’s and shamanic bloodline chief in the Finnish Sami tradition as well as a pipe carrier in the Moon Dance Lodge. Together they offered an online Grief Wheel Facilitation Training online in the winter of 2021.

There are also threads from Tibetan Buddhism, somatics and nature connection including:

• Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Lama Elizabeth Munson, Lama Tsultrim Allione
• Sky Otter (Bill Pfeiffer), Founder of the Sacred Earth Network
• Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Founder of Body Mind Centering, Christine Cole, Founder of Somatic Body Training
• Embody Lab teachers of the Embodied Social Justice, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and Somatic Attachment Therapy Certifications
• Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief
• Carolyn Griffeth of Earth Keepers Wisdom School
• All clients & students are teachers