Description
With Chaya Leia Aronson and Althaea Collins
Hosted by Jonah Ruh Roberts
Ravenwind, 544 Gilman Pond Rd, Unity, NH
“Grief has never been private; it has always been communal. Subconsciously, we are awaiting the presence of others, before we can feel safe enough to drop to our knees on the holy ground of sorrow.”
– Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
An invitation to come together in community to offer our tears to Earth…
Why is collective grieving so important?
Unprocessed grief compounds and becomes toxic emotional energy. We are witnessing unprecedented global tragedy every day alongside navigating the inevitable losses of our human experience. If we do not allow ourselves to fully grieve, this energy can cause harm to our bodies, perpetuate intergenerational trauma and violence, and continue the destruction of the planet. There is a holding, a witnessing, a knowing that our grief is not for us to bear alone. Many cultures have shared community traditions around grieving, which could sometimes last for days at a time. We as Western ritualists aim to co-create spaces that honor the wisdom of our lineages and the many generous teachers who have brought their practices to the West.
How we will be accessing the Love beneath Grief?
For this ritual, we will allow our grief to surface and move through practices of song, story, movement, and authentic relating. Our ritual space will be held by live music, group song, elemental altars, and the compassionate witness of one another.
Date: Monday, October, 14th
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Schedule:
10:00 am – 12:30 pm: Weaving our web with relational practices, song, story and movement.
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Potluck lunch
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Grief Ritual
This ritual is for you if:
- You are human and wish to grieve in a held container in community.
- You understand that grief is both a personal and collective experience and you’re willing to hold your grief as a way to heal both self and community.
- You understand that this space will be one piece of healing and are willing to seek ongoing support such as co-counseling, bodywork, nature connection, medicine ceremony, therapy, dance jams, etc.
- You are willing to be with your pain or discomfort and be witness to others’ without needing to fix it.
Please bring:
- Journal
- Water bottle
- Snacks
- Comfortable clothes
- Potluck lunch dish to share
Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN is a mother, partner, lover and ecosensensual earth worshipping clown goddess. Chaya maintains a private practice offering Maya Abdominal Massage, Holistic Pelvic Care and Health, Movement and Sexuality coaching for over a decade. Chaya has also facilitated a number of transformational and alchemical rituals related to grief, wombs and eros. She has great passion and skill in supporting people and relationships to have clear conversations about desires and boundaries and to unpack our wounds and traumas gently to find more capacity for love and pleasure. She has a private practice, Your Sacred Pelvis, where she sees clients in person and virtually based in the Northampton, MA area.
Althaea Collins is a violinist, violist, singer/songwriter, teacher, and healer guiding people into direct, communal, and transformational encounters with music. She is passionate about bringing audiences, clients, and students into aliveness and authenticity through music. Her offerings and projects include holistic classical concerts, sound healing journeys, vocal improvisation workshops & song circles, and compositional sound projects for dance, film, and podcasts. She is currently working on her first full album of original music, titled Welcome Home. Malin currently serves as the Viola Instructor at Amherst College and lives in Northampton, MA.
