We have forgotten that all our troubles are intertwined. Instead of letting them compost into the fertile soil of creative renewal, we often remain frozen beneath their weight. Letting go is the first motion of creation. It is rarely comfortable. Just as plants release their fruits in the fall — the flesh softening and rotting away so the seed can break free and begin their creative cycle— we, too, must allow ourselves to let go, before the next creative form can emerge.
This is an opportunity for:
🔥 Personal and collective transformation
🌱 Reconnecting to creativity and full aliveness
🏝️ Finding an island in the sea of modern troubles
🌊 Training in grief literacy, collective healing, expressive arts and ritual
Above all it will be a creation of beauty - a feast for the living world, the unseen (including the ancestors and the future ones), and the holiness of life.
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We will turn our hearts towards our voices, our full feeling, our unhindered creative expression - parts of us that we may have exiled, and that are still watching from the edges in deep grief of their suppression. Throughout the ritual there will be guided space to open to the creative mysterious forces, to dream with the earth, and to follow your impulses towards expression.
We will make room for the creative tensions between polarities: the feminine and masculine, the logical and the beautiful, decaying and birthing, right and left, modernity and our indigenous souls. Without a space for tensions to surface, the grief at their core cannot unfold — which is preliminary for peace, or reunion to take root, and for the wisdom of these tensions to carry our lives forward. This ritual will offer space for these tensions to be expressed and honored, though any grief you carry will be welcome.
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When: Nov 6-9th
Where: Salt Spring Island
$350 Early Bird (before October 20th)
$550 Full Price
Facillitators: Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer, Tony Alferez
This ritual will be supported by others of the Salt Spring Grief community including:
Sequoia Lesosky, Belinda White, Stevie Chernish and Cat Gibbs.
For more info on the nature of grief and ritual and the details of the event: www.awakeningwildseeds.com/griefritual
Also check out other Workshops in Ganges, Arts events in Ganges.
