Tending the Five Gates of Grief
Join us for this exploration into tending the Five Gates of Grief. Through ritual, the poetic imagination, writing practices, reflection questions, small group work, meditations, and more, we will enter into a circle of concerned hearts and coax our stories of loss and sorrow into the waiting world.
This five-week series is an invitation to enter the healing ground of grief and tend the river of tears and sorrow that enter our lives in a multitude of ways. We will gather in a virtual community and lean into the commons of the soul. Grief has always been communal. On some level we are waiting for the others to arrive so we can drop into the heart of our grief and allow it to move.
These gatherings will be a soulful and potent way for us to address the wide range of sorrows that we are asked to metabolize. We must honor all the forms of loss in our lives, from the most intimate, carried in our “secret inside flesh,” to those that swirl around us on the winds of culture, the rips and tears to our beleaguered planet, and the lingering losses of our ancestors. We do this to keep our hearts open, fluid, and responsive to this tender and aching world.
The weekly structure will include core teachings on the Five Gates of Grief, rituals to engage each gate of grief, instructions in multiple practices to work with these vulnerable terrains, homework to deepen the material between sessions, and an invitation to share your experience with many others..
This online workshop is hosted by the Rowe Center. The link will take you to their website to enroll in this course.
These gatherings will be a soulful and potent way for us to address the wide range of sorrows that we are asked to metabolize. We must honor all the forms of loss in our lives, from the most intimate, carried in our “secret inside flesh,” to those that swirl around us on the winds of culture, the rips and tears to our beleaguered planet, and the lingering losses of our ancestors. We do this to keep our hearts open, fluid, and responsive to this tender and aching world.
The weekly structure will include core teachings on the Five Gates of Grief, rituals to engage each gate of grief, instructions in multiple practices to work with these vulnerable terrains, homework to deepen the material between sessions, and an invitation to share your experience with many others..
This online workshop is hosted by the Rowe Center. The link will take you to their website to enroll in this course.
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The Five Gates of Grief April 1: Everything We Love, We Will Lose April 8: The Places that have not known Love April 15: The Sorrows of the World April 22: What We Expected and Did Not Receive April 29: Ancestral Grief TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE |
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