COMMUNITY KEENING CIRCLE
a ritual to honour grief
“Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force.... It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul.” - Frances Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Grief is really about what matters most to us. It’s important.
Join us for this unique community ritual to honour grief. To honour the pain in your heart by sharing stories, and engaging in somatic movement, expressive and soothing practices.
Bring a Community Keening Circle to your community
“Grief tending is sacred work. While we can, at times, feel so alone in our grief, grief also binds us together in ways no other experience can. No one who loves anything in this impermanent world escapes it. Grief strips us to our core, takes us deep into what makes us human, to what matters to us most. It’s rocky, wild terrain. You don’t have to travel it alone.”
— Wendy