Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 10 AM - 5 PM
Terra's Temple
3051 Adeline St,
Berkeley, California 94703
Collage by Florian
Nicolle
Heart pain, longing, and loss are inevitable here on
Earth, yet modern American folk often feel intimidated and ill equipped to
navigate the full, transformative potency of grief. We will discuss ways
diverse cultures weave ritual, grieving, and heart-centered community and talk
about how getting good at grieving is one beautiful ritual strategy for mending
cracks in the larger vessel of our humanity. After establishing groundwork for
the importance of grieving well, we will call on relevant elemental powers and
ancestral guides to hold a kind and protective space for grieving.
This sacred tending takes place in supportive community
with ritual precautions to honor the potency and energetic reality of emotional
pain. Participants are held in ways that allow for contacting the heart of
their experience, expressing from this, and moving into ritual cleansing and
return. Losses and heartache of all sorts can serve as obvious catalysts for
grieving, and this type of ritual is also one response to drought, one way to
welcome back rain to California. No need to feel any particular way to attend
and no one will be pressured to cry or anything awkward like that; it is
actually a really nourishing way to spend a day in community.
Fee: Suggested contribution is $120, flexibility as
needed.
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