Sacred Grief Healing
Let your tears be the river that leads you home
Sanctuary~ for the regenerating soul and blossoming heart
Community~ for awakening wisdom and belonging
Ritual~ for lightening the weight of grief and renewing vitality
Why do you fear turning toward grief? Why, even when you know it's natural to feel sad, do you resist it, put it off, fill yourself with substances or distractions?
Do you feel overcome with debilitating despair, regret, and remorse, and longing for what you've lost and don't know what to do?
Have you been isolating, acting cheerful even though your heart is broken, making authentic connection and intimacy out of reach?
If so, you are not alone. Grief is a perennial gateway of initiation. Welcome!
Grief Literacy
To live is to love. To love is to lose. To lose what we love is a call... to Befriending Grief.
It is inevitable that what you love, you will lose. So many people walk around in denial
of this fact. But if you can really embrace this raw truth, you can truly live, experiencing
the beauty and pain in each passing moment.
You can be your most authentic self, woven into the fabric of the whole human experience. You can claim your true home and belonging.
From the moment you took your first breath, the process of grief and gratitude, love and loss, began. Grief is within this very breath that is keeping you alive just now, if only you will look, see, and trust... that you will live through this moment, and that your grief is a gateway to your aliveness.Grief is a path, a practice, a calling, a relationship.
We are not meant to grieve alone.
To learn more about the Befriending Grief: Ritual of Life, click here.
Voices of Our Teachers
With utmost respect and gratitude for our teachers, we we share the original voices of elders who have been primary influences in the cultivation of the grief literacy skills that we embody in the Sacred Grief Healing community.
Sobonfu E Somé
Martín Prechtel
Why Community Grief Ritual?
The Befriending Grief community grief ritual offers a setting that provides the power and support of community so that grief healing occurs along with a deep sense of belonging to something much bigger than the pain of loss. Because the emotions of grief can seem so overwhelming, being able to access them while alone can be blocked, and the pressure to "keep going" at the "normal" (which is already so fast) pace of life further encourages numbness and/or heaviness that builds without release. In community, however, you are supported by others. The common purpose to feel gives you the necessary strength to venture deeper into the depths of our grief in ways that you might otherwise be unable to. This allows your grief to freely flow through you, liberating you from its weight in such a way that you will emerge from the ritual renewed and ready to face the world with greater presence, able to reconnect to a sense of purpose and move forward in Life, with creativity, gratitude, and joy. Grief is not something that is rid. Rather, it becomes a friend.
Your tears, a river, leading you home.
Voices of Our Community
"I had a hard time going, but made a crack in my understanding of the power of this grief ritual. There was a haze before I didn't even notice. I have clarity now.” DG
"I took the time for the process in this retreat. I can see how I'd swallow the tears, carrying so much shame about my feelings. Before the ritual, I was so scared to feel. I am not afraid anymore. I emptied my vessel to see with a fresh pair of eyes." AM
“My experience was tender and expansive. My grief is still present after the ritual... but different. In the surrender to it, I received a greater acceptance of all of it. The deeper I dive, the higher I fly.” JM
“Thank you for allowing me to feel, and the permission to be real with others. I can now hold my grief and say to it ‘you have a place with me’. I feel so much lighter . . . like a feather.” AC
Hannah Kannon Idalia, LMFT, is an international workshop leader, poet, and body/mind/ spirit holistic health trainer who has been guiding others to wholeness, empowerment, freedom and joy for over thirty years.
Hannah brings a highly skilled and attuned presence which she has cultivated through thousands of hours of service as a holistic psychotherapist, practitioner and teacher of Mindfulness and Zen meditation, various modalities of body/energy work.
Hannah received her master’s degree in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, a specialized study that looks at the influences of one's earliest experiences of embodied life on the psychological, relational, and spiritual experiences that seek to be integrated from injuries into gifts.
Hannah has been able to effect positive change in the lives of thousands of people over the course of her long career. Her experience extends beyond psychotherapy to include multidimensional healing and ritual practice. Hannah brings to her extensive background to create a trauma-informed container in which many grieving souls have been able to transmute their grief into hope and promise for a better life.
Hannah offers community grief rituals, one on one leadership coaching/guiding through her Roots to Wings Leadership program, and embodiment and spiritual Mentoring through her Sensually Zen Practice Sangha.
Hannah’s clients have often noted that just being in her presence offers opportunity for transformation.
When not working in her private practice, teaching her courses, or facilitating the Befriending Grief Rituals, Hannah enjoys connecting with the Sacred through being in nature, writing poetry, singing, dancing, international travel, and, most passionately, continuing her own personal development as a life-long learner, evolutionary being.
Hannah Kannon Idalia, LMFT
Ashkenazi Jew Living in Ohlone Territory
In the Garden; a Grave
All tucked in
This ordinary skin
Of hidden jewels
Of ancient tools
Buried for safe keeping
Revealed by sacred weeping
Come
To taste your heart
Come
A brand new start
Come
Bring your song
Come
You belong!
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