Gathering together in a ritual container with other parents can be the balm for a broken heart and nourishment for the soul.   

In my time guiding pilgrimages, many of the moms I have worked with have asked for offerings only for Mom’s who have lost children, and so I have created offerings to hold space for that specific grief. This winter, I was asked if I might also consider including dads, and so we will have an 8 week online container for moms and dads. Here is the flyer and the link to sign up is on my scheduling page.

Our online pilgrimages and in-person retreats are designed to support this grief walk and remind you that you do not have to walk it alone.

Upcoming offerings:

  • August 28 - September 1, 2024: Mother’s Who Have Lost Children: 5-Day Ritual Retreat (In-Person, Colorado)

  • Monday’s 3-5pm Mountain Time, November 18th to January 6th: 8-week Parents Grieving Together (Online)

8 week online Parents Grieving together PILGRIMAGE

Dates: Mondays, November 18th to January 6th from 3-5 MT

Online Zoom Calls

This online pilgrimage brings together bereaved parents’s to explore the landscape of their grief through poetry, ritual, story, movement, sounding and song, sojourns into the wild lands, soul tasks, and council. Each group will be no more than 9 people to maintain the intimacy of the container.

These pilgrimages happen once or twice a year when a group forms. If you are interested, send me an email and I will let you know when there are enough people to create a group.

What to Expect

  • Community of parents who are grieving

  • 8 x 2-hour calls via Zoom

  • Intimate group of no more than 9 people

  • Stories, poetry, council, movement practices, land-based sojourns & ritual practices

Parent’S ONline PILGRIMAGE INVESTMENT

  • $375

  • Pay what you can: I want to make this work accessible to all. Please reach out if your heart says yes to this work and the offering doesn’t feel accessible to you and can find a payment plan that works for you.

MOTHERS WHO HAVE LOST CHILDREN: 5-DAY RITUAL RETREAT

Preparation (Online): August 22 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM MST

Retreat (In-Person): August 28 - September 1, 2024

Integration (Online:) Wednesday, September 4 and 11th from 5:00 - 7:00 PM

This ritual retreat takes place in a mountain sanctuary in Colorado. You’ll spend time with other grieving mothers to explore the landscape of grief through ritual, song, movement, land-based sojourns, and council.

What to Expect

  • Togetherness with others Mothers who are grieving

  • 1 x Preparation Call (Preparing the Soils)

  • 5-Day In-Person Ritual Retreat (Planting the Seeds and Tending the Garden)

  • 3 x Integration Calls (The Harvest)

  • 5 days of beautiful lodging and delicious food in Colorado*

  • Time to step out of the ordinary and into the liminal with your grief

  • A deep dive into one big initiation story

  • Singing, movement, land-based sojourns & ritual practices

*Cost of flights and transportation to retreat are not include

PREPARING THE SOILS

August 22 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM MST

Online Zoom Call

Preparing for a journey is almost as important as the journey itself. Just like planting a garden, the first step is tending to the soil.

In the two weeks before our time in person, participants will be explore what it means to tend to the soil of the inner being in preparation for a grief pilgrimage. There will be guided instruction via emails and zoom calls to begin walking toward our time together.

Planting the Seeds and Tending the Garden

August 28 - September 1, 2024

In-Person, Colorado

For 5-days, we gather together in a remote sanctuary and make pilgrimage into the holy lands of our inner selves, our grief alongside other Bereaved Mother’s.

This pilgrimage together will include:

  • Meditation & Intentional Walking 

  • Movement Practices

  • Forest Bathing

  • Story & Songs

  • Fire Circles

  • Ritual

  • Council & the Alchemy of Community

  • Writing Prompts

DAILY SCHEDULE:

Note: exact schedule subject to change as ritual space does not always abide by linear time.

August 28:

  • 3-5pm: Arrival & Getting Settle

  • 5:30pm: Dinner

  • 7 - 9pm: Opening Ceremony

  • 9pm: Settle Down & Sleep

August 29 - August 31: 9am - 9pm

  • 8:00 - 9:00 am: Breakfast

  • 12:30/1:00 pm: Lunch

  • 5:30pm: Dinner

September 1: oon departure

  • 8:00 - 9:00 am: Breakfast

  • 9:00 am: Closing

  • 12:00 pm: Departure

The Harvest

Thursday, September 5, 12 & 19 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Online Zoom Calls 

There is a wisdom in cultivating a Return that is unique to each individual. In the 3 weeks after our time in-person, as participants re-enter their lives, there will be an exploration on how to best harvest the experience, and how to metabolize and integrate all that had been harvested. 

Retreat INVESTMENT

  • Need a little help: $1500 

  • Feeling solid: $1750

  • Feeling abundant: $2000 

  • Pay what you can: If finances are a thing, and you have a yes to doing this work, please reach out, and we can find payment plan that works for you.

All costs include:

  • Pre & Post Retreat Zoom Calls

  • 5-day residential retreat with food and lodging 

$250 scholarship for moms retreat: There is an anonymous mom who wants you to know that you are loved and supported.