Nils Voulfson offers grief tending through community grief ritual in the Austin, Texas area.Check out the other pages on this website to learn more.
ABOUT GRIEFIn the west, we’ve lost touch with grief. We don’t allow ourselves to feel it, we don’t give it the attention it needs, and often we don’t know how to support those in grief. We are missing a warm and compassionate village.Some of us may experience grief as a melancholy or numb feeling that permeates our lives when we’re not distracting ourselves or chasing the next high. Others may experience it as an intense tornado of emotion that only a few are let in on.In these often lonely experiences of grief, we miss something so important - we miss that grief is life force.Grief is vital energy moving us towards aliveness, integration, truth, wholeness, care and love with immense passion of heart.We miss that grief was never meant to be experienced alone.
This great longing we have to be held, supported, and witnessed in our grief is our birthright.Francis Weller on Grief:“There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture.
Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life force. It is riddled with energy.An acknowledgment of the erotic coupling with another soul, whether human, animal, plant, or ecosystem. It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness.
Grief is alive, wild, untamed. It cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still.
We move in jangled, unsettled and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul.”
Next Event:GRIEF AND JOY
Community Grief Ritual
October 12th - 1:00pm-5:00pm CDT
Facilitated by Nils Voulfson in North Central Austin
OCT 12 GRIEF AND JOY RITUALRegistration and info below~ “Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.” Francis Weller ~Come tend grief with us in community on October 12th, from 1-5pm!Through song and connection, we’ll drop into a night of welcoming the sorrow in our lives to be seen and held by the circle.It is rare in our society that we welcome the depth of our loss, grief, and pain. And we need it to also reach the depth of our joy.We cannot live to the fullest extent without this intimacy with grief. We become small, flat versions of ourselves when we do not welcome this primordial force that is often bubbling, longing for our acknowledgement.This gathering is happening on the weekend after the 2 year anniversary of Oct 7 and the start of the Gaza war. There will be space to honor the intense emotions that are coming up, in a somatic way, in response to this conflict.No grief is too small, and no sorrow unworthy of witness and compassion. If you are drawn here - you are welcome.Come weep, release, and rejoice with us as we honor Grief.This grief work is heavily inspired by the grief tending lineages of Sobonfu Some, Martín Prechtel, and Francis Weller and Nils has received training with Josh Fox and Siobhan Asgharzadeh. You can see their work on their websites: foxhealing.com, and griefpilgrim.com.Important
Please fill out the short form linked below to register. This is a free event.Reach out if you have any questions -
I look forward to step into this space together.
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Reconnecting with vital life force ~coming back to a state of aliveness in the body.
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