This workshop will explore how grief manifests itself physically and emotionally in our bodies and utilize the tools of breath work, meditation and chair yoga to help balance the nervous system and move grief through our bodies.
Newly Widowed: Help for the First Year of Widowhood
Echoes in the Mind – Understanding the brain’s adjustment to loss
When someone loses a part of their physical body, their brain is unable to process the change. A person is left with phantom feelings and expectations, and in the absence feels as though the world is wrong, since we can’t comprehend that part of the body is now missing. Similarly, with losing a significant other, […]
Newly Widowed: Help for the First Year of Widowhood
Please join your Newly Widowed community for a discussion of the days’ offerings from the point of view of those who are widowed less than one year. We will also be providing information on how you can stay connected with your widowed community through Soaring Spirits’ programs.
Finding Strength & Connection in Queer Community
This gathering offers LGBTQ+ widowed and surviving partners a chance to be in community and find support among other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Together, we will explore disenfranchised grief, the unique experience of grieving a partner as a queer person, and how community can support healing. Through shared stories and connection, participants […]
Celebrating your Person through Ceremonies, Rituals, and Tributes
Honoring the person you love doesn’t have to end with the funeral. In fact, continuing to express that love through meaningful ceremonies, rituals, and creative tributes can be extremely healing and a vital part of your grief journey. This workshop explores how these practices help widowed people stay connected to their person while also supporting […]
Write Your Grief Out
Anne Gudger—author, podcaster, writing facilitator, former classroom teacher—will share the power of writing as a means to move through grief. She wrote/scribbled in journals to save herself when she was widowed and pregnant at 28. Her stack of journals eventually became her material for her memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, published in 2023. She will also […]