Braiding Grief
A 4-week ritual container devoted to grief, soul, community care & rest
Cohort 2 Details
Sunday 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21
2 hour sessions @ 9-11am PT / 12-2pm ET
Replay access for 30 days
Sliding scale pricing: $50-$300
If the sliding scale is inaccessible, contact [email protected] to discuss trades/barter or financial assistance.
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What past participants are saying
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I was surprised at how uplifting it was! I kinda expected it to just be really heavy and emotional for most of it, and it was, but not in the same way because of the amazing support from the community. By the end of sessions, even when I was having hard or hurt feelings, I still felt lighter and more fulfilled because of the ritual.
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This space helped me feel how healing and transformative grief can be when I grieve in community, connect with my ancestors, and open up my broken heart to make room for more love and connection, as painful as it can be at times. I’m so grateful for this space- it came during a time of so much grief and loss in my life, and it gave me a community that I really needed in my life.
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The tenderness and permission that this group provided for me has been so helpful. It reminded me that grief is fluid and that is okay - it gave permission or reminded me that I will continue to live a meaningful life while continuing to process all the grief I have been holding. It was just a reminder that I really needed.
Who is this for?
This is for all grievers – whether your grief is fresh or ancestral, clear or unspoken, flowing or shrouded by numbness.
This is for people who are tired of masking how they really feel and want to process grief and suffering, so that it doesn’t consume them, so that they can breathe again.
This is for those who want to recover a sense of aliveness and access deeper resourcing amidst immense personal and political unrest.
This is for those who want to engage in creative, somatic, and spiritual practices to express what words alone cannot and cultivate life force energy in service to their path and collective liberation.
Our Journey
Guided by the alchemical stages of transformation, you’ll engage with teachings, spiritual / somatic / creative practices, and community care to process grief.
We’ll also create grief braids — physical expressions of the love, losses, and longings in our hearts that can become devotional artifacts of healing and remembrance.
Week 1: Nigredo (Blackening) – The initiatory descent into the dark, the realm of soul where rest and unrest co-exist; naming grief and inviting it in as teacher and guide
Week 2: Albedo (Whitening) – Purification through preparation of the materials for our grief braids; cleansing and clarifying
Week 3: Citrinitas (Yellowing) – Braiding as a gesture of care, continuity, and meaning-making; transforming through creation and creating through transformation
Week 4: Rubedo (Reddening) – The return to aliveness and connection; integrating grief to revitalize the heart and awaken purpose
These stages will anchor our process, inviting us to honor grief not as something to endure, but as a catalyst for growth, creativity, and rebirth.
“Remember that grief is the growing up of the heart that bursts boundaries like an old skin or a finished life. That grief is gratitude. That water seeks scale, that even your tears seek the recognition of community. That the heart is a front line and the fight is to feel in a world of distraction.”
— adrienne maree brown
One profound byproduct of tending to grief is the ability to experience deep, soul-satisfying rest.
In our grief, we acknowledge how trauma, loss, survival, and forgetting can fragment memory, sever connection, and disrupt the flow of aliveness within us.
Through ritual, we step into a time outside of time and collaborate with the unseen realms (ancestors, spirit, the land, the universe) to transmute suffering into clarity and pain into power. We open our hearts to feeling, allow our bodies to express what’s gone unspoken, and are held by a community that understands the depth of this work.
This alchemical process restores meaning, returns us to joy and gratitude, and matures us into people capable of birthing new worlds.
In the spirit of love, compassion, and liberation, we grieve to invite the disparate parts — of ourselves, our community, our relationship to the land — to come together as a greater, stronger, and wiser whole.
What to expect
4 weekly 2-hour community grief rituals
Somatic, creative, and spiritual practices to resource the bodymind for encounters with grief
A handbook with education, resources, practices, and suggestions for aftercare
Guidance creating your own grief braid
A heart-centered politicized community container to navigate the terrain of grief and loss
Space for reflection, questions, and support
Option to book 1:1 grief support with Cassandra at a sliding scale price exclusive to Braiding Grief participants: 30 mins for $30-60, 60 mins for $60-120
