Healing Grief & Expanding Pleasure

I am honored to offer this in-person daylong ritual called, "Healing Grief and Expanding Pleasure”. This is a healing space to ritualize and embody grief, provide it a healthy outlet, and allow for it to move through, clearing space to let in more love, more wellness, and more PLEASURE. Open to all humans.

This process-oriented workshop is a powerful opportunity to embrace your grief and bring it to the light, so that it can be tended to with intention and care. We can accept it with equanimity, allowing growth and transformation to unfold. The pain can turn into praise, the wound can turn into a blessing, the sorrow into strength, and the depression into freedom.

In order to alchemize something so dense into something so beautiful we can use our senses, breath, and pleasure center to help it move through, so that our nervous system doesn't get blown out and the trauma doesn't cause disassociation.

Participants leave this one day experience with new tools to build resilience , let in more love, and live a life with more pleasure and ease. As well as a gorgeous MOSS ART piece to anchor it all in, and bring it to your home. You deserve a safe space to grieve, release, and heal. This is some potent medicine to deal with some intense times.

Imagine moving through life with a enhanced sense of lightness and inner peace. A sense of coming back home to yourself. Come clear out inner space so that you can have the best year ever! Join me, I'd be honored to have your presence.

***Space is very limited and registration is filling up on a first come, first serve basis. I have some sliding scale spots available, contact me directly to inquire- [email protected].***

The definition of grief that I’ve found most useful and objective is from a SF based therapist that specializes in grief and healing named Lyn Prashant. She defines grief as, "A mental and emotional experience, usually triggered by traumatic loss, that has physiological correlates associated with deep pain."

Grief is a buildup of big emotions and unconditional LOVE with no place to go. Grief is love honoring what it misses. We are collectively grieving right now in this pandemic. We are missing many things. Life is forever different.

Saying yes to the pain of grief is saying yes to the expansion of love. We deserve more love. This happens if we follow the thread of grief to its core and allow our brilliant body to release and free it, letting go completely. This clears us out to be able to give and receive love again. It guides us to your essential goodness within. We shift from suffering to sovereignty. From reaction to rebirth. From crying “the ugly cry” to crafting moss art!

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"Elisabeth Becker is a rare gem. I recently attended her one-day workshop, Healing Grief and Expanding Pleasure and found the space she created, inside of which I could examine, experience and come to terms with grieving, to be safe and expansive. Also, Elisabeth is a model of freedom and self-expression and profound, deep listening." Joan B.

"I attended Women Healing Grief and Expanding Love Around The Mother Archetype about 6 weeks after my husband passed away. We were in the midst of a long and arduous journey to parenthood when he died, so I came into the container with a massive amount of grief. Grief for the loss of my true love, grief for all the babies that had come and gone, and now grief for having to chart a new course to have a baby without my partner on this earth. I arrived achingly tender, on the verge of tears, knowing that I was only able to leave the house to be with a group of people because Elisabeth was holding the space. She lovingly welcomed me with the true embodiment of the mother archetype, the energy of wise and ancient mothers mixed with an attuned and deeply resourced present-day facilitator. I appreciated how Elisabeth didn’t set herself apart from or above the group, instead she acknowledged her own path of healing around grief, and brought just the right amount of her own stories, tears and lip quivers to the circle. Her grounded, radiant energy was a beacon of safety and comfort through all the dark places we explored, as she led us from the gnarliest depths back around to the light. I love how we spent a small amount of time talking, and more time meditating, feeling, connecting, moving, writing, resting, doing rituals and eventually, creating. As a ceremonial spaceholder and teacher of relaxation myself, I was delighted to truly have the time to integrate in stillness with gentle touch and angelic sound healing. I highly recommend Elisabeth’s offerings for anyone wanting to move through grief while being held in love and guided back to the beauty of life. I will be forever changed and am grateful for this gift."~Britt Fohrman

"Elisabeth led a grief workshop that really helped me process several topics in my life (friends and family who've passed, lost relationships or jobs, life changes) some I didn't know I needed to honor. She guides you on your own journey using techniques that really help you open up to the experience, even if you're someone who can't let go with other people. I highly recommend exploring her coaching and grief workshops." -Sarah T.

"I highly recommend attending Elisabeth's Grief Workshop. She holds a safe, supporting and growth potential space for reflecting on such an integral aspect of our lives- Grief. Especially in this day and age, we need to go there to be able to feel and grow with love. Elisabeth is strong, fierce, and so nourishing. She is simply authentic and has the gift of tapping into her own experience as she guides others to do the same." -Joanna H.

"Elisabeth's presence and compassion with individuals and groups is truly remarkable. I attended her "Grief, Healing and New Beginnings" workshop and the space she held for me and the group to be authentically and vulnerably expressed was truly remarkable. No matter what I was facing, her care, warmth and support was present throughout my process. She is gifted and can powerfully channel her gifts into the support she provides." -Trevor J.

I have been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of Elisabeth's healing care and love and there is nothing like it. Her compassion and depth create a sense of safety that allows you to go to the depths of your emotions and be met and seen fully there....and that is where healing happens. She has the practical skills needed to facilitate healing one on one or in groups but more importantly, she cares and her caring and compassion can make magic happen. If you're looking for support in moving through grief or any other difficult piece of your life, I highly recommend getting in touch with her. - Leah R.

"This workshop had a profound impact on me. I came with very low expectations, thinking I would learn a more powerful context around death. So I could be more present with loved ones who are passing and to support loved ones who lose someone. But what I got was just how much grief I had stored up inside me that I never processed. I wasn't aware that I even held this all in. So when I got to process it, It felt so beautiful to get to say those words I always regretted not saying. I never thought I would have the chance to really complete that. And I did. My heart feels so much lighter. This course really did touch my soul. I have never heard of anyone doing this type of workshop before. Elisabeth has an amazing gift to share to the world with this workshop. She is so gentle and loving and strong. Since this, I have referred two friends. And will for any friend or family that loses someone." -David B.

"I attended Elisabeth's "Grief, Healing and New Beginnings" workshop in January 2017. I went into not quite sure about what grieving I needed to do (no one close to me has died in recent years, for example), but I found that I had there were other areas of my life that I needed to grieve the loss of. Through her gentle guidance and clear vision about the process, I was able to tap into those parts of me I had been not aware that I was covering up. By the end of the day I had released much of the deeper wounds I had been carrying. I was truly surprised at the huge shift I had in my own healing. Elisabeth is the perfect person for grief counseling -- she is knowledgeable and caring, and I highly recommend her to anyone seeking help with the transition of loss." -Michelle P.

"I just went to a Grief Workshop that Elisabeth led in mid-January and it was AMAZING! At first I thought I didn't have anything grieve over since no one in my life died recently, but there is actually so much else to grieve over than a loved one passing. There's grieving over big life transitions, losing your job or house, losing a relationship, etc. I got so much out of working with Elisabeth for myself, I got to start the new year off feeling 10 times lighter! Plus, she offers ongoing support in addition to day workshops. If you're thinking of doing grief counseling for ANY reason, Elisabeth is your woman!" -Kerry S.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

San Francisco, United States