Holding Each Other through Grief and Loss - A Ceremony for Tending our Personal and Collective Grief
Join us Friday August 13, 2021 4 - 5:30 PM MDT
for a Community Grief Ritual
with
Music and Ritual offerings
by
Gayan Gregory Long and Marcy Baruch
Gayan has been gifted the medicine bundle of grief rituals and ceremony rites in the Native American Lakota tradition. We are offering this ceremony on a scale of contribution to match what you can pay:
Complimentary, please join us even if you cannot afford it at this time
$15 contribution (not including Eventbrite fees) to help cover costs of this event
An amount that you feel moved to pay for this experiential event
Throughout human history, cultures around the world have recognized that for the deepest healing to take root and grow, death rituals need to be community-centered. In the modern Western world, however, such rites are almost non-existent beyond a funeral, memorial or wake.
Our personal losses and collective pain for the ailing world, leave all of us all touched by grief. Further, the singularly formalized, virtually privatized, shift in death and grief rites, renders the stabs of personal loss and global concerns in our hearts even more gaping. Even more untended by grief-specific ritual.
Our ancestors understood that grief needs to be companioned. It needs the village of others coming together in a circle to listen, to be listened to, and to share in the presence of another. We hope you will join this call for your own healing, and to be one who holds the healing of others.
Our Grief Ceremonies are offered three times a year, in April, August and December. You are welcome, even encouraged, to share this invitation with others. Our Zoom village has the capacity to welcome 150 people. Imagine!! Imagine the power of healing that this seasonal offering can grow into for us, and for others.
We hope that your light will be present for this ceremony.
This course is non-refundable.