Braiding Grief

Register for Cohort 5

Braiding Grief is a 6-week ritual container devoted to transforming your relationship to grief, rest, and soul work in community.

Guided by the alchemical stages of transformation, you'll create your own grief braid — a physical expression of the love, losses, and longings in your heart that becomes a sacred artifact of healing and remembrance.

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 those who are tired of masking how they really feel and crave spaces where their truths, contradictions, and big emotions are welcomed.
This is for those wanting to metabolize and release grief, so that it doesn’t consume them, so they can breathe again.
This is for those who want to recover a sense of aliveness, access deeper spiritual resourcing, and embody authentic leadership amidst immense personal and political unrest.
This is for those who want to engage in creative, somatic, and spiritual practices to cultivate strong life force energy in service to their path and collective liberation.

Winter 2026 Cohorts

Cohort 5

Sundays 1/4, 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8
1-3:30pm PT / 4-6:30pm ET
Replay access for 30 days
Sliding scale pricing: $500 - $1,000
Payment plans and reduced-rate spots available (prioritizing those most impacted by systemic oppression)

Register by 1/2
Cohort 6

Sundays 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 4/5
1-3:30pm PT / 4-6:30pm ET
Replay access for 30 days
Sliding scale pricing: $500 - $1,000
Payment plans and reduced-rate spots available (prioritizing those most impacted by systemic oppression)

Register by 2/27

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: Opening Ceremony
Week 2: 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 3: Albedo (Whitening) – Purification through preparation of the materials for our grief braids; cleansing and clarifying
Week 4: Citrinitas (Yellowing) – Braiding as a gesture of care, continuity, and meaning-making; transforming through creation and creating through transformation
Week 5: Rubedo (Reddening) – The return to aliveness and connection; integrating grief to revitalize the heart and awaken purpose
Week 6: Closing Ceremony

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.

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Testimonials

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.
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.
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.

What to expect

Six 2.5 hour community grief rituals with optional office hours at the close of each session
Somatic, creative, and spiritual practices to resource the bodymind for encounters with grief (song, movement, myths, meditation, etc.)
A Braiding Grief Handbook featuring grief education, resources, practices, and tips for aftercare
Guidance through the sacred practice of grief braiding
A soulfully politicized container to navigate the terrain of grief, loss, and rage amidst polycrisis
A rest-affirming culture that promotes slowness, reflection, connection, and healing
Option to book 1:1 grief support with Cassandra at a sliding scale price exclusive to Braiding Grief participants

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Why ritual?

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.

Held by a community that understands the depth of this work, we can open our hearts to feeling and allow our bodies to express what’s gone unspoken.

Things that weren't possible or were difficult to shift in our day-to-day rhythms get an extra boost of support in ritual. This alchemical process restores meaning, returns us to joy and gratitude, and matures us into people capable of birthing new worlds.

By returning to our rightful place in the eternal dance of life-death-rebirth, we show up in our day-to-day lives wiser, rooted in a fuller understanding of what living well means to us.

With the right lens, we remember and feel how all of it serves a greater purpose.

“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

Community Grief Artifacts

This community gallery shares art created by Braiding Grief participants. The intention of hosting these art-ifacts permanently on the website is to interrupt the invisibilization of grief and honor how grieving brings us back to life, beauty and creativity.