Name: Honouring Miscarriage
Start: 2024-11-23T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-23T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Pure Yoga somerset

An afternoon to be together, held in a circle of women who are walking the path of tending to the loss of pregnancy through miscarriage.
About this Event

Honouring miscarriage,

Tending Pregnancy Loss

This is an invitation to an afternoon in-person gathering at Pure Yoga, where together, as a safely held and intimate group of women we can weave our circle together through the tending and honouring of the parts of ourselves and stories that need space to be witnessed and held with love and care.

This is a space to be able to show up wherever you are on your journey. Your loss may be recent, or perhaps many years have passed. It may be that you have grieved much or very little. There is no right or wrong way. This is an invitation to simply be with your experience within community, and to honour your story by tending to the threads together.

Oftentimes the spaces to process and integrate after miscarriage are simply not available in our lives, and there can be many misunderstandings within society around this specific journey with grief and all the parts of ourselves as women and within our lives that it can touch, shake, change and transform.

Payment is by donation. This will go towards covering the cost of room hire and materials, pay either through paypal https://paypal.me/elliemannersartist?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB or cash on the day.

The general structure for the afternoon:

1pm-Arrive, brief circle to land.

1:30- A short embodiment session involving movement and breath work to inhabit our bodies and hearts with more gentleness and presence.

2-4pm-Creative processing - we will be working with intuitive collage as a way to be in touch with what needs to be given the space to be expressed.

4pm-Closing circle

-All materials will be provided, you need only bring yourself, wear something comfotable and warm as we will be sitting on the floor and the aim is to be as relaxed and cosy as possible for the afternoon. Bring a sheepskin or blanket/cusion to sit on if you would like to be extra comfortable.

-Tea and cake will be included. Bring snacks/water as needed.

A note on gathering to tend miscarriage:

This offering is held for between 3-6 women who have lost a pregnancy through the experience of miscarriage, this is when a pregnancy ends before 24 weeks gestation. If you would like to have a chat about whether this gathering is right for you before signing up please do get in touch. This will be an informal group, held by someone with lived experience, a midwifery background, and holding a yoga teacher training qualification, I am not a counselor or therapist and would encourage anyone needing support with PTSD or their mental health to seek out the right professional for their circumstance.

About your facilitator:

My name is Ellie Manners, I am an artist, lover of the wilds and midwife by background, now turning my attention towards new endeavours. I have spent many years exploring the meeting place of art, embodiment, and nature, and the creative and healing paths that become available in the dance between these places.