All of us will experience grief, multiple times and simultaneously with other emotions and events in our lives. Rarely, is there space to simply notice and hold that grief with others. Whether you have or are experiencing grief of a person, relationship, situation, or a version of your own self, you are welcome here. You are welcome to sit, be still with the grief, notice how and where it shows up in your thoughts, body and actions. 

I am holding space once a month through the summer for folks to come together, sit on the ground (if accessible to you in your body), breathe together, and notice sensations arising from the body around what you are grieving, how it feels in the body and a visualization on putting that grief into the clay. I will guide you through a gentle breathing practice and visualization at the beginning. I will guide some gentle movement and introduce clay as medium to channel, place, store the energy that you notice in your body. This is a way to practice with clay that allows for your intuition to guide your movements, to form the clay.

I believe grief is processed on a profound internal level when shared and held with other people. I believe we are all grieving and many feel the need to do so in isolation. I welcome you to a sacred ground for grieving and space to hold our grief together. Any person is welcome to explore the self in relation to grief and with others. This is a practice of slowing down to feel sensations and moving through them with the clay in your hands. While the focus of the event is not designed to create a specific finished piece, if folks are called to create a grief container out of clay various methods are demonstrated through the practice.

There is no prior experience needed with clay. You do not need to commit to each date. Each class will explore the body, breath and grief in a different way. 

I am excited to host this event at our local natural burial ground. Penn Forest Natural Burial Park is a wonderful, sacred space to explore grief, tenderly, with other humans.