WINTER SOLSTICE MOTHER FIRE
Making space for more joy this season by
tending to our grief.
A solstice ritual to bolster your resilience
and strengthen your heart.
Is this you?
Already dreading the holidays because of how much pretending you’re going to have to do?
Trying to “get ahead” of your to-do list to ensure an outcome without once asking yourself, “what do I want to do?”
Feeling a bit more resentful a bit more of the time?
Filling every moment with a task, a thought about a task, or self-reproach about the unfinished task?
Punishing yourself for being exhausted?
Feeling disconnected from your partner and kids?
Consider grief.
Grief is the most underrated source of our exhaustion and stress, and the most isolating experience when we do not honor it.
Grief comes when the body, mind, spirit have been shattered through loss and no one is there to hold it or hear it.
Grief can be consuming, like quicksand.
But grief, when we turn toward it, shows us what we love.
What if we welcoming grief could make you available to more joy?
“The gift of grief is the affirmation of life and of our
intimacy with the world.”
Francis Weller
On this Winter Solstice, join me in ritual so that we might:
Come to understand why grief is so feared in our culture and create a new, more humane context for this universal and essential experience.
Learn how to move slowly and gently with grief and apply that skill to other challenging emotions.
Experience deep rest that doesn’t come at the cost of showing up to your life.
Share in community about our experience, learn from one another, and experience true holding for our authentic selves.
Bring tools to your relationships that foster intimacy without emotional codependency.
Express the unspeakable so that your body doesn’t have to carry it anymore.
Expand your capacity for ALL of your humanness - grief, gratitude, and everything in between!
Details
When: Sunday, December 21, 11am-1pm Pacific
Where: Zoom! Session will NOT be recorded. You must attend live.
What: Two hours of ritualized movement and breath work, Somatic Experiencing, and facilitated grief + praise community connection, plus bonus audio practices for each week of December. *Register early to get all the bonuses!
Cost: $55, AND —> bring a friend / daughter / sister / mother for $75 total
*Add on available at checkout.
About Me
My name is Stacey, and I’m your guide for
the solstice ritual.
I was initiated into this life by loss. I lost my Mother at birth through a planned adoption. I was put into foster care until my new family was able to bring me home two weeks later. I was initiated into Motherhood by loss - miscarriage at eleven and a half weeks followed by weeks and weeks of blood and disorientation. Since then I have birthed two perfect children, and lost two more.
My life has been shaped, not defined, by this grief and the trauma of loss. In the beautiful words of my teacher and friend, Kimberly Ann Johnson, grief is a substrate, and to avoid it is to add to its density, its shadow, its pain. To avoid grief for fear of being swept away by the undertow is to continuously uproot from your human ground. I have found tremendous RELIEF in grieving. I have found a way back home to that place I mistakenly thought was a mistake - my SELF.
Each time I honor the grief (through purposeful practice, deliberate dialogue, shameless screaming into my pillows,) I notice my bones, I notice the earth, I remember my friends, I remember the Sacred, and I feel life moving through me instead of draining from me.
Grief without grieving breeds bitterness, and I can always recognize my unexpressed grief in that bitter tone of my thoughts and words. Grief wants grounding, for the nature of grief is transmutation - compost. Grieving is earth medicine and wailing is symphonic and cthonic. We must grieve, it is an expression of our aliveness.
WHAT YOU WILL GET
A two-hour ritual workshop that will soothe your body, mind, and spirit.
Somatic Experiencing practices to support your nervous system in digesting grief and expanding to hold more joy.
Creative practices to deepen your understanding of your emotions and greater awareness of your needs and boundaries.
Community - first hand reminder that grief touches everyone and grieving together makes us more human, more alive.
The life-changing skill of emotional intelligence and self-respect.
Depending on when you register, you will receive weekly audio practices to support you at various of grief.
Up to four additional practices available to you.
“If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.”
- Stephen Levine
Grief is almost like a connective tissue that binds us to one another and one that must be moved in order to soften. This season, honor nature’s call to slow down. Don’t fight it. Learn to move at a pace that breathes and reconnects you with the web of human life - courageous, tenacious, and alive.