Grief-Tending Retreat

Whether you are carrying your own grief, supporting others through loss, change, facing hard realities, or simply open to this universal experience – you are invited to gather for a community experience of presence, ritual, and intention.

Join Michelle Marks for a weekend retreat in nature for reflection, community, embodied movement and somatic practices, meditation, writing, and ritual. Our weekend will be a container for honoring, allowing, and witnessing grief in how it impacts our lives from the personal to the collective. We will explore what our culture has taught us about sorrow, how it moves through our bodies, and what it is like to create space for all of the ways grief wants to be seen and held.

In connection we will learn more about the anatomy of sorrow, how grief affects our lives, relationships, and our sense of self. This offering is for anyone who is seeking time to settle into an experience with time for your nervous system to soften. There will be time to sit in the presence of others – this is often where healing happens. We recognize ourselves in one another, and are no longer in isolation with the human experience of grief. Each participant will be coming with their own exploration in the realms of grief – and that is welcome. There is no goal or place to get as much as learning to tend to what lives within us all. Our time will be a balance between structure and spaciousness, levity and depth, the subtle and the sacred, internal and external practices.