Community Grief Ritual: Reclaiming Vitality & Joy

6191 Highway 9,Felton CA 95018

30 July, 2021

Description

Release to renew your vitality, purpose and belonging. Bring your heart, move your body, connect with your Soul. All of you is welcome. Life is precious and fleeting. One thing is for sure...everything changes. Inevitably, we will face loss, whether through natural or sudden death of a loved one or pet, traumatic injury, illness or change in ability, change or betrayal in relationships, unfulfilled dreams, personal failure, disappearance or destruction of cherished objects, changes of environment, social injustices, devastation in our communities and world, loss of hope. Even positive life changes like having a child, starting a new relationship, a move or new phase of life can bring grief. In these cases, our grief can be bittersweet, as we both release the old and embrace the new simultaneously. Grief shows up in a diversity of ways: shock, denial, longing, anger, rage, sadness, despair. We welcome every kind of grief at this grief ritual. Many of us avoid the grief process, thinking we will drown in it, be overwhelmed with pain, or fear that it means we are stuck, dwelling in the past. Yet all the energy we expend avoiding grief only perpetuates the very suffering we hope to avoid. With our unexpressed grief, we sometimes take to addictive and compulsive behaviors, illness, depression/anxiety, isolation, and shutting down to life. While in the end, avoidance doesn't work, still, there is something intelligent in this turning away from grief. Something inside of us remembers, though we may have consciously forgotten, that we cannot be relieved of our grief in isolation. To revitalize as an individual and as a part of culture, we must share our grief in community, so our joy of living can be renewed, even in the face of loss and injustice. In this ritual, you will: -Co-create a safe and sacred space in community to honor your individual and collective grief. -Learn about different types of grief and ways to identify how it may be showing up in your life. -Expand perspectives on how grief is held in wisdom traditions and indigenous ways. -Express your grief through writing, movement, song, and being in nature. -Experience the healing power of honoring grief by being witnessed and witnessing others without trying to change, fix or solve the grief process. -Open your heart and increase vitality through the liberating energy of forgiveness. -Cultivate a renewed intimacy with yourself and the aliveness that is awakened from choosing to honor and embrace grief as a skill to take into your everyday life. Investment: sliding scale. Sustainer: $350 Your contribution helps sustains the work and assist those who cannot pay the full amount. Contributor: $300 Fill the well. Allow us to meet the costs and fills the cups of the facilitators so they can continue to do this work. Receiver: $200 Be supported by receiving a discount off the full cost. Reserved for those in financial need. Friday July 30, 2019 6:00 pm 9:00 pm Saturday July 31, 2019 10:00 am 6:00 pm Sunday Aug 1, 2019 9:30 4:00 pm* *Followed by optional beach fire at Seabright Beach (Santa Cruz) Held at Felton Community Hall in Felton, Ca. Register by sending a check payable to Dana Schlick to 550 Water St. Suite F2, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 or use the Eventbrite payment system. Please register as soon as possible as we will need to have a minimum amount of folks signed up in order to hold the ritual. If you have any questions, contact Dana Schlick at 831-515-8262 [email protected], or Becca Fresco at (213) 321-3114 [email protected]. 10% of the proceeds will go to Wisdom Spring, a non-profit organization, which uplifts, honors and preserves the wisdom of indigenous cultures through programs of education, travel, cultural, community and scientific exchange. Hannah Idalia, LMFT is a somatic psychotherapist, energy healer, and spiritual guide, specializing in integrative body/mind/spirit methods that lead to deep and lasting transformation.   Since 1997, Hannah has mentored, coached, and consulted thousands of individuals in the areas life purpose, relationships, health, business, and sexuality.   Hannah's gentle, yet powerful and wise presence creates an environment of warmth and safety  that allows individuals to access parts of themselves that may have been hidden or cut off thus getting to the root of creativity and vitality.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dana Mariposa Schlick, LMFT is a holistic psychotherapist, energy healer, ritualist, and alchemist for transforming pain into beauty, vitality and joy. She has a private practice in Santa Cruz with a focus on integrating all aspects of ourselves, connecting with the wisdom of the body, griefwork and ritual, energy awareness, and cultivating deeply fulfillng intimacy. Through her personal journey of healing trauma and deep initiation into the sacredness of grief, she lives and emboldens others to befriend their feeling as the portal to freedom, courageous living, and fierce whole-hearted loving. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Becca Fresco, is a skilled bodyworker, mother of two, caretaker of gardens and seed, beauty maker, and longtime student of Martin Prechtel, author of "Rain on Dust" and indigenous wisdom keeper of grief wisdom. She is passionate about griefwork as the path of creating a culture that is just, whole and vitalized with soul.