In these heartbreaking times, grieving together is essential. The individualism and isolation our of culture creates numbness, apathy, and overwhelm. When we come together to grieve, we clarify our vision and purpose in this time of great change. We remember how to come home to self and the lost notion of community. 

We invite you to join us for three days and nights of tending the sacred waters of our e-motions, through ritual, movement, and song. We gather at Earthdance, a beloved place to many and has become home to a lineage of ever-evolving grief work.

Coming together to move, sing, and feel has great power to connect us more deeply to our wholeness and purpose, opening the door to the unique and necessary ways our Soul can contribute to healing on this planet.

If we think of grief as an expression of our love, we remember that grief is one powerful facet of the human experience, inextricably woven with growth, play, pleasure and joy. Rage might arise too. If grief is an expression of love, then rage is an expressed need for a boundary. So let us come together and stoke the sacred fire of our longing, belonging, grief, rage, repressed resentment, hope, fear, and so much more. 

In our time together we will explore and create:

• Opening Ceremony 🕯️ Web Weaving Ritual
• Embodied pelvic movement and breath practices to source and move stagnant energy from our centers
• Song as a channel for emotional release and tether to the sacred
• Relational work with our human and other-than-human kin
• Dance and Authentic Movement
• Death and Chocolate Ritual
• Erotic Innocence RItual *
• Day-long grief ritual that will be open to the wider community
• The emergent magic created through our open hearts

*This will NOT include erotic connection with self or other. It is a place to reclaim what is lost when our erotic parts are shamed or violated as children.

ATTENDANCE OPTIONS

There is an option to attend for the entire weekend, and an option to come for a single day on Saturday, which will be a full day long grief ritual.

Kaitlyn Cronin and Mirna McWilliams will co-facilitate this full weekend with Chaya, and Charlotte Althaea Collins and James Bird will support the music and song aspect of the full day ritual on Saturday.

A note about Earthdance:

Earthdance resides in the hills of Western Massachusetts, native to the Nipmuc, Pocumtuc and Wabanaki tribes. The center has held many intimate, beautiful gatherings over a number of years. The site includes beautiful hiking trails, two beautiful movement and ritual studios and a wood-fired sauna, facing a quarry. It is a sister companion to Earthdance, a contact improvisation center next door. It is a sacred place for me and my family, and I am excited to share it in a deep beautiful dive with you.

The retreat includes:

• Food: One meal on Thursday, three meals on Friday and Saturday and two meals on Sunday. The chef is incredibly talented so these meals will be divine.
• Single day Saturday participation includes lunch and dinner that day.
• Use of the sauna
• A bed in the shared dormitory
• Access to hiking the land

Scholarship Application deadline is January 20th. Contact us to apply.