Grieving Well: Exploring the Stages of Grief through the Reiki Precepts

— Elisabeth Kubler Ross

• Are you curious about what it could mean to grieve well? 
• Would you like to reframe your grief journey and your relationship to it in community with others? 
• Are you looking to explore grief from a place that is grounded, yet expansive? 
• If you are a Reiki practitioner, are you curious about what it could look like to integrate grief work into your reiki practice? 

In this 7-week journey we’ll explore the Five Stages of Grief through the lens of the Reiki Precepts, the principles that form the foundation of the system of Reiki from it’s Japanese origins.  In this way, we’ll deepen our understanding of what it means to grieve well, possibly even coming to see our grief as a profound friend and guide into the deepest places of our hearts. 

Part workshop, part ritual, and entirely heartful, this gathering will create a powerful container within which to explore our own experiences of grief. 

In doing so we’ll help each other recontextualize grief so that we can see it as the profound teacher and friend that it is, reminding us that, as Francis Weller teaches, “Grief and Love are sisters.”

NOTE: Class Bundle: This class is offered as a series with our April-starting class “Embodied Joy”. See payment options below.

Why This Matters:

In our western culture, grief is often seen as a necessary inconvenience, an interruption of normal life and business as usual, rather than the sacred human rite of passage that it is. 

Within this distorted mindset, the Five Stages of Grief, originally articulated by Elisabeth Kubler Ross in her (1970) book On Death and Dying, are often presented as a linear, formulaic roadmap; a useful tool for navigating out of grief as fast of possible. This view robs us of the incredible clarity and power of this model which was always intended to be experienced as dynamic, fluid, non-linear and deep.

As a pathway to reclaiming this powerful framework into the transformative human experience of grief, we’ll apply the Reiki Precepts, the foundational principles of the system of Reiki as reflected in the Buddhist roots of this practice.

These five simple yet profound principles will support us to:

• Become responsive to what we are experiencing in the moment, rather than what we think (or are told) we should be experiencing.
• Develop a practice to assess what we feel and what we need in a given moment.
• Engage the Stages of Grief through spiritual practices designed to help us remember the wholeness of our True Self.

Investment: Grieving Well is offered at a sliding scale. The actual cost of the class is $295. Tickets listed below that price are discounted and are limited. Select a discounted ticket if paying the full price would represent a hardship for you

*3-month payment plan available on the Class Bundle with the class Embodying Joy

• Up to 12 tickets are available at $295
• 3 tickets are available at $245
• 1 ticket is available at $195
• Class Bundle: This class is offered as a series with our April-start class Embodying Joy. Take $25 off each class when you register for both. Use coupon code TAKE25 to register for each. Find Embodying Joy here.
• Pay-it-Forward Price: $345 (to support scholarships

PAYMENT PLAN OPTION FOR CLASS BUNDLE: To make it easier to join both classes, you have the option to pay over a 3-part payment plan if that makes the class more accessible to you. If you'd like to use this option, select the Class Bundle Payment Plan ticket; this will charge $200 now, and you'll receive 2 invoices emailed 1 month apart.

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