Community Grief Rituals
April 17th-19th, Taosatva, Taos, New Mexico
In intact cultures with active grief practices, grieving is a communal activity. A community grief ritual is an opportunity to gather and open together to that which is too much to feel on your own. To experience the love that you are and release the unavoidable grief involved in being human.
These rituals create a portal for the members of the community to enter a liminal space to access their open hearts, connect to the presence of helping & healing ancestors, and to release the burden of aloneness: These rituals are engaged regularly at times of:
loss
death
transition
unmet needs
unfulfilled dreams
illness
change
failure
betrayal
ancestral traumas
environmental change
social injustice
rupture and violence in our personal relationships, communities, and world.
Resting With the Cracks is a community ritual weekend devoted to grief as a gateway into soul, essence, and aliveness. Rather than pushing grief away or trying to resolve it, we gather to gently rest within it—allowing the places that have broken open in us to reveal their hidden intelligence.
At the heart of our time together is a Dagara style community grief ritual, a shared space where what has been carried privately can be held collectively. Through simple but powerful ritual forms, participants are invited to give voice and body to their grief, while being witnessed within a compassionate field of love.
The weekend is designed with spaciousness and care so that people can soften, settle, and open even in the midst of groundlessness. When we stop bracing against the pain of loss, something unexpected can begin to emerge: a deeper current of life moving through us.
Throughout the weekend we will explore grief through several supportive doorways:
Meditative practice that invites presence with what is here
Movement and embodiment practices that allow grief to move through the body
Deep rest as a radical act of allowing and integration
Connection with the land and elements of the high desert around Taos
Grief education and reflection to help reframe our relationship with loss
At a time we are inundated with the devastation of our country, world, and the earth it's so important that we remember we are not alone. That we come home to ourselves and move through it all together. Now is the time we gather. Together we will gently question the conditioning that tells us cracks and grief are something to fear. Instead, we explore how the breaking-open moments of our lives may be invitations—life asking us, again and again, to open further.
This is not about fixing grief or reaching closure.
It is about discovering that even within sorrow, joyful life continues to stream through the opening.
In a culture that rarely makes space for grief, coming together in ritual allows something essential to be restored: our capacity to feel, to be witnessed, and to belong to the great cycles of life.
You are welcome whether your grief is recent or long-held, personal or collective. All that is required is a willingness to arrive as you are.
Come home rest in the cracks.
Come listen for the life moving through them.
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Sliding Scale $300-$600
Limited partial scholarships available, apply here.
Limited recieve/reparations tickets available for those in financial need, $255. Register now to receive.
Space is limited to 24 registrants. .
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Friday 5:00pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sunday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
After Ritual Integration Circle (virtual): Dates TBA
Held in Taos, NM at Taosatva
Bring your own lunch for Saturday and Sunday. A refrigerator will be available. There may be a local, organic catering option to purchase