In these heartbreaking times, grieving together is essential. The individualism and isolation our of culture creates numbness, apathy, and overwhelm. When we come together to grieve, we clarify our vision and purpose in this time of great change. We remember how to come home to self and the lost notion of community.
We invite you to join us for three days and nights of tending the sacred waters of our e-motions, through ritual, movement, and song. We gather at Earthdance, a beloved place to many and has become home to a lineage of ever-evolving grief work.
Coming together to move, sing, and feel has great power to connect us more deeply to our wholeness and purpose, opening the door to the unique and necessary ways our Soul can contribute to healing on this planet.
If we think of grief as an expression of our love, we remember that grief is one powerful facet of the human experience, inextricably woven with growth, play, pleasure and joy. Rage might arise too. If grief is an expression of love, then rage is an expressed need for a boundary. So let us come together and stoke the sacred fire of our longing, belonging, grief, rage, repressed resentment, hope, fear, and so much more.
ATTENDANCE OPTIONS:
There is an option to attend for the entire weekend, and an option to come for a single day on Saturday, which will be a full day long grief ritual. Kaitlyn Cronin and Mirna McWilliams will co-facilitate this full weekend with Chaya, and Charlotte Althaea Collins and James Bird will support the music and song aspect of the full day ritual on Saturday.
HOST BIOS
Chaya Leia Aronson
Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN has been apprenticing with the womb for nearly 20 years, and has great passion for supporting women / womb bearers to connect to health, pleasure and vitality and can be found mothering, communing with flowers and dancing in her free time. Working with wombs and mothering have been some of her greatest teachers about grief.
She has also been blessed to learn from incredible teachers in her life, including Rosita Arvigo, Tami Kent, ALisa Starkweather, Sheri Winston and Zahava Griss. In grief work, she is influenced by the Dagara teachings of Sobunfu Some.
Kaitlyn Cronin
Kaitlyn Cronin’s work lives in the intersection of mycology, creativity, spirituality and the reintegration of ritual to sanctify potent life transitions. She is a certified death doula and feels pulled to thresholds, transitions and the in-between spaces.
With the mycelial web as her greatest teacher and creation as her devotional practice, Kaitlyn weaves stories through visual art and immersive experience; embedding us into our ecosystems and sparking a remembrance of our interstitial and unique place in the expansive web of life.
Mirna McWilliams
Mirna McWilliams is a ritualist, musician, and facilitator. She supports individuals and groups in tending grief, soul, and the sacred through song, ceremony, and shared presence. Her work is rooted in relationship—to land, to lineage, and to mystery. Guided by a deep love of beauty, she carries songs and practices that invite remembrance, reverence, and repair.
Devoted to the long work of reweaving village, she offers her life in service to the restoration of belonging—among people, and between people and the living world. She is blessed to live in community in the ancient Appalachian mountains near Asheville, NC where her days are filled by the love of tobacco, corn, the flowers, and the luscious waters.