Gatherings

Death is one of the few experiences every one of us will encounter, and yet most of us have very few places where we can actually talk about it. We grieve people we've lost. We anticipate the loss of people we love. We experience endings that change us. Sometimes grief is immediate and consuming, and sometimes something that happened years ago suddenly finds its way back into our lives. I've spent a lot of time close to death, both personally and through more than two decades of working with people through trauma, grief, and profound change. One of the things I've learned is that there is no right way to do any of it.

Death & Soup is an invitation to spend an afternoon making room for our experiences of death, dying, grief, and loss. We'll begin with an embodied ceremony, followed by an invitation to share what you're carrying, what emerged, or simply to listen. You might come with a recent loss, an old grief, someone who is dying, an ending you're moving through, or curiosity about your own relationship with mortality.

There are times when we need to gather. To step away from the noise of our lives, sit among other women, and listen for what has been difficult to hear on our own. To make room for the quieter knowing that can emerge when we don't have all the answers and can't yet see what comes next.

Twenty Crows is an evening gathering for women centered around council, embodied practice, ceremony, and time together on the new moon. We will move and listen, speak and witness, and make room for what is changing, ending, emerging, or simply asking for our attention. Crows have long lived at the edges of the known and unknown—watchful, intelligent, communal creatures whose presence asks us to pay attention. Twenty Crows takes its name from an encounter with twenty of them that stopped me in my tracks and stayed with me.

There are things we long for that are easy to name, and others that live somewhere beneath language. A person. A place. Touch. Belonging. Freedom. Rest. Adventure. A different way of living. Something we've lost, something we've never had, or something we can feel pulling at us without quite knowing what it is. We're often quick to do something with our longing. We pursue it, judge it, dismiss it, try to satisfy it, or convince ourselves we shouldn't want what we want.

The Ache & The Offering is an invitation to spend an afternoon getting curious about the things we ache for without needing to make them happen or make them go away. We'll work with the body, the land, movement, symbolism, and quiet reflection, allowing longing to be something we experience rather than something we need to solve.