Honouring Grief – A Monthly Ritual Gathering in Stroud

This is a closed group, we'll come together monthly for 6 months , Sundays from 09.30am-1pm

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• Sunday 12th October 09.30-1pm, Sunday 9th November, Sunday 14th December, Sunday 18th January, Sunday 15th February, Sunday 15th March
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• You will receive a welcome questionnaire and we are happy to offer a 1-1 chat before the group begins

This circle is for you if you:

 - have grieved in silence  or struggle to connect to your grief

-  never felt you had the tools, space, or permission to grieve at all

 -carry sorrow that feels too much to bear alone

-ache for something unnamed

-long to be witnessed, not fixed

– want to remember how grief and love live side by side

Grief is an expression of love. If we love deeply, we grieve deeply.

Martin Prechtel writes that grief is a form of praise. Without grief, the world cannot renew itself. Grief revives and reshapes us; it is a sacred act. Yet we’ve been taught to hide it, compress it, carry it in silence. Many of us grieve in isolation, believing our sorrow is too much, too personal, or unwelcome in the world.

But grief is not meant to be exiled. It’s meant to be tended, witnessed, and shared.

In older cultures, grief was communal. Mourning was ritualised, embodied, and woven into the cycles of daily life. There were songs for grief. There were fires. There were arms to hold you. Grief was never meant to be walked alone.

This group is a space to begin remembering that.

Grief can arise from many places—death, endings, ancestral pain, unmet love, ecological loss, and the parts of ourselves we’ve abandoned or forgotten. However it shows up, grief is a teacher. If we meet it, it changes us. If we honour it, it softens us. If we walk with it together, it connects us.

Each ritual will be shaped by the season and the group. Together, we will move through practices such as storytelling, song, offerings to earth and fire, conscious breath, meditative journeys, elemental connection, and creative expression. We will arrive into presence, call in unseen support, honour what needs to be felt, and find ways to integrate and return.

This is not therapy. It’s not performance. It’s not a place to fix or be fixed. This is a space to listen and be  in presence with grief , held by a circle that's bigger than us all. To remember that it is sacred. And that you are not alone.

The rituals are also inspired by Veronica and Nika’s individual intimate journeys walking with grief: Veronica following her sister’s death, and Nika following her father’s. 

They have have created this group from a passion and reverence for grief honouring, having both discovered the profound power of grief’s teachings.

Practices include

Water rituals, Praise offerings, Story-sharing, Nature connection, Song and chant, Fire ceremony, Witnessing and shared silence, Ancestral invocation,Clay work, breathwork, and visualisation

These practices draw inspiration from grief-honouring traditions across cultures, especially indigenous and ancestral lineages, while staying rooted in our own intuitive relationship with the land, ourselves, and one another.

about Veronica:

Veronica is a life and grief mentor, coach,  and breathworker. Passionate about remembering our inner wisdom, Veronica’s studies and approach weave insights from Western psychology, vipassana meditation, breathwork, authentic relating, and indigenous ancestral teachings. She holds particular reverence for ancestral practices of reciprocity with the earth, plants and elements, with deep thanks to her teacher Gaspar of the Shipibo lineage. Although she has created home in Stroud, Veronica holds a dear connection to Peru and Mexico, where she used to live.

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