Winter's Blessing Grief Ritual

Join us for a simple and effective grief ritual I have been facilitating for over 15 years. It uses the potent and kind gifts of meditation, community, writing, sharing, sound medicine, and releasing.

I like to say that if you don’t know how to feel or how you feel just look at the trees. The exposed branches of the deciduous trees reflect back to us our own bone truth.

Many people don’t know how to feel sad, while others can’t step out of a cycle of sadness that brings them back to where they started instead of somewhere new. When we allow ourselves to fully grieve it takes us THROUGH not back. It leads us into the next. If weeping cycles back to the beginning, then it’s weeping that is missing something. It doesn’t need to stop, it just needs something added to it. It’s like a vehicle with tires on only one side: At full speed you still just drive in circles. But add additional tires, and that same force takes you across the land in front of you. Your body knows how to do the full grieving process, but we’ve been culturally conditioned not to do it. So if you find yourself stuck there are things you can do to relax and feel like you have enough space and permission to let your natural process take over.

Ritual is one of my top ways of supporting, setting the groundwork and (re) learning how to grieve.

Grief carves us up. Picture a canyon carved by water. We grieve in proportion to how much we care. Grieving is what happens when we let our caring dig deeper into our being then before. Those canals are the same canals that your love and empathy flow though. Your ability to be empathic and feel, give, receive, and be love is determining of how intimate a life you live. Intimacy doesn’t just happen between people, we also have varying degrees of intimacy with our own self.

Our dominant culture sucks at grieving. Sad=bad to most people and feeling down is responded to with a well intended “Perk up it’s not that bad!” or “it’s okay.” To which I reply, “YES! It is okay to feel sad, or down, or to cry. Exactly!” Which is not always what people mean, and yet I either say it out loud or in my head to make sure I am clear about how it is okay.

Community is powerful, because like all feelings, grief is not ours personally but ours collectively. It is our grief, the grief that we must all learn to live with as it passes through. Finding confidence in bearing it, allowing it to finish its course with us. Walking in partnership with what Grief has to show and teach us. Keeping these feelings behind closed doors is part of our cultural wounding and isolation that contributes to us feeling bad about feeling a certain way. Opportunities to feel deeply with others are a gift.

We can do this work alone, and some of it we must do alone, but not all of it. The learning is often expedited and the healing profound when we do it together.

*No one turned away due to lack of funds*

All tickets are donation-based (suggested prices on tickets), please join us, make the offering that you can and please join our gathering!

Walk-ins welcome!

About your Ritual Facilitator Sophia Wise One

A professional Medicine Caller for over 20 years, a singer, speaker, and sound healer she is trained in over 20 healing modalities and is a Reiki Master Teacher, Holistic Pelvic Care Provider TM, and Sacred Sexuality Educator. Host of 3 internationally top-ranking podcasts listened to in over 120 countries. She is a conduit of activating and integrating frequencies to clear, awaken, align, and optimize your soul and body wisdom for deeply fulfilling relationships with your self, partners, and the Divine. A mentor for medicine callers who are stepping into the potency of their power. You can listen to all of her podcasts and find out more at Sophiawiseone.com

Live Sound Medicine by Harmony Works' Nicholas Tomaskovic-Devey

An Acupuncturist, sound and light healer, vocalist, musician, Chinese Clinical Herbalist, body worker, certified Katonah Yoga Teacher, and the founder of Harmony Works Inc. It is his great joy to work for collective and individual Harmony on Planet Earth. He is committed to bring the confluence of vibrational medicines together, for the sake of the people at large and for our planet. As a leader, he wants everyone to shine, as a practitioner, he relies on the keen mixture of intuition and time-proven methodology given to him by exemplary teachers crossing cultures and paradigms from around the world.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St. Luke's Church on the Avenue, 800 West 36th Street, Baltimore, United States