Everyone experiences grief differently. There is no hierarchy in grief. Loss is a shared human experience and one we brush aside too often. Feeling the grief of our losses actually helps us put life in perspective and builds our emotional resilience. This is a judgement free zone. Your grief is enough.

Navigating Grief and Loss With an Open Heart

Q: How is somatic movement and embodiment different from other movement practices?

Somatic movement helps us be with our bodies compassionately and consciously. It unwinds the reactions our bodies have to grief offering us freedom and resilience. If you are new to embodiment you can watch these general movement videos first. Jellyfish breath for grief Somatic help for living with disappointment How embodiment is different to exercise

Embodiment led online grief support groups

Have you lost someone or something dear to you?
Are you looking for online grief support groups?

If you are ready to feel grief move through you, rather than define you,
you have come to the right place.

Grief takes the wind out of our sails like nothing else

When my son passed away suddenly in July 2020, I knew I was at a fork in the road. I could either collapse into bitterness and unending suffering and lose myself completely OR I could find richness in the shadows. Guess which I chose?

I am offering an online grief course focused on moving through the various physical - emotional and somatic embodiments of grief and loss.

This course is based on my own experience. I have had many losses in my life and have also worked with many people navigating loss and grief. It has been my daily yoga and embodiment practices that has given me resilience and helped me stay steady in the stillness that pervades all emotion.

Human beings go numb when pain, injury and emotional distress occur. This is especially true when we experience the shock of loss. That is okay at first. But if it lasts too long we disconnect from the only place we actually experience life - our bodies.

I want to help you stay in your body even if you are feeling tremendous suffering. Right now you can feel both the suffering and the vitality of life.

The truth is that Embodiment is a ground of being from which you can experience your grief. Embodiment gives us all the ability to feel grief without it overwhelming us . It helps us open to the gifts hidden in our grief.

Why this grief program?

The more we turn away from our body, the more difficulty we have in coming to terms with the reality of what life is. We can experience grief as movement while we remain anchored in the thing that is certain: In this moment we have this experienced, living body.

Loss, grief, and sadness can be experienced more fluidly when we use embodiment skills that respect and honor our natural neurobiology, support safety in our nervous systems and support an expanded presence of heart.

It's hard to be present to our grief and loss alone. Our bodies can show us how to navigate this frenetic terrain. But we need to find avenues into our embodiment that allow us access to our grief or loss without our emotions swallowing us up.

Embodiment grief support

Embodiment for grief can:

Slow down repetitive or overwhelming thinking
Relieve emotional storms or emotional "ickiness"
help distinguish between sadness and depression
Help your body feel healthier and more resilient during difficult times.
Subvert the need for overeating, taking in too much sugar, coffee or alcohol, shopping or over exercising.
Keep your nervous system balanced so it regulates in the face of grief
knowing when to meditate, when to be aerobic, when to be nourishing
allowing grief and gratitude to coexist

I know the level of intensity of what you are going through can force you to put your own health and well being on the back burner- you have a lot on your plate. But a little focus can go a long way. We can work together to give you ground and gently allow you to feel safe and whole again.

"Your course changed the trajectory of so much in my life. I am so much better able to deal with my emotions, I have tools to connect with my body and accept when grief feelings come up. I have been able to support others through grief with more empathy.

As I prepare to close out another school year and say Farewell to my 6th graders, I feel so much joy for the healing I have experienced this year. Thank you! "

- Alyson Bull, Massachusetts

This is a Pay From The Heart program

The cost for this program is $450. However you are invited to pay what works for you in your life. You may also pay more if your heart can and wishes to help others.

I am inspired to offer the pay from the heart option for this work because I believe there is a power in making decisions that reflect both the reality of our financial situations and the sensing of our heart.

Listening to the intelligence of our heart center is an important skill in working with grief. I also find it offers wonderful guidance.

Of course, I have my own financial needs based on my life circumstances. So, my suggested pricing reflects my needs and the market. Please take time to decide what you would like to offer honoring both your needs and your hearts generosity.

Online grief group program - September 2024

This is an 7 week supportive do-at-home online grief group program that requires you set aside time for personal experiential work (20-40 minutes weekly) and then come together with a group once weekly. Each week will present a new topic.

It begins September 2024. The exact time for our weekly meeting will be set by those in the program.

This program is for you if:

You need support processing grief
You understand that grief is both a personal and human experience no one can escape.
You can be with your pain or discomfort and be a witness to others without needing to fix it.

Navigating Grief and Loss With an Open Heart Program
September 2024

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"In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person who is grieving is considered most wakan, most holy. There's a sense that when someone is struck by the sudden lightening of loss, he or she stands on the threshold of the spirit world. The prayers of those who grieve are considered especially strong, and it is proper to ask them for their help.

You might recall what it's like to be with someone who has grieved deeply. The person has no layer of protection, nothing left to defend. The mystery is looking out through that person's eyes. For the time being, he or she has accepted the reality of loss and has stopped clinging to the past or grasping at the future.

In the groundless openness of sorrow, there is a wholeness of presence and a deep natural wisdom."

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this grief course for?

This course is for whomever is finding themselves in a deep sense of loss. There is a feeling that this loss can't be entirely addressed by talk therapy or support groups. You feel there is a need for your body and heart to come to terms with loss in their own way.

Is my grief enough?

How much of this course is a grief support group?

We have weekly check-in and time to share our personal experience of embodiment. That said, the centerpiece of the classs is a personal and direct experience of regulating your nervous system and deepening your embodied experience of life. This helps navigate the pain and confusion of grief and loss.

All online grief support groups are different and this one is centred on the gentle-yet-powerful benefits of somatic movement.

How is somatic movement and embodiment different from other movement practices?

How does somatic movement therapy work with talk therapy?

Somatic movement therapy allows clients to process information as a whole-body experience. As an embodiment expert, I bring the whole sensory embodiment process to allow clients to anchor themselves. Change happens in this space.

Somatic movement therapy work for grief is the perfect companion to the therapy or grief counselling. Conscious embodiment helps us bear the difficulty of facing and transcending the pain, strain, and trauma.

I am a therapist. Will this help me professionally as well as personally?

‘Somatic Movement Therapy offers the opportunity to align and integrate mind, body, and spirit, and frees the body from stress and tension caused by trauma, grief and injury,

You receive information from your body in a ‘bottom up’ way. This bypasses the state of emotional arousal or cognitive confusion in your brain. Your own embodiment is infectious and delivers both explicit and non-explicit direction to clients, students and patients in grief.

Navigating Grief and Loss With an Open Heart

Embodiment led online grief support groups

Grief takes the wind out of our sails like nothing else