Heart Flame: Honouring Our Love & Loss Through Ritual And Ceremony At The Hive
HEART FLAME: Honouring love and loss through ritual & ceremony
Held at the Hive in Penzance
Listening to our grief takes fiery courage. Come listen to what wants to be felt, to move with it and let it be as it is.
A small circle of up to 10 of us. We will gather together for 2.5 hours to journey with our grief.
Ceremony arc:
Circle opens
Welcome, settling and introductions
Group agreements
Guidance to land & connect with the body - this is different each time but can be through sound, movement meditation. Everything is an invitation.
A few minutes each to share what grief you come with today & your intention for coming.
Creating a shared altar together for our love and loss & to carry our intention. The altar is also our witness.
Space to journey with your grief individually. Options to explore different ways of doing this through creativity & ritual. Space to be witnessed.
Returning to circle to close together. Time to ground, connect with what brings your strength, hope, gratitude. A space for songs & prayers.
Sharing of tea, fruits, nuts, chocolate.
Circle closes.
Bring with you:
Water bottle
Back-jack if you like to lean against something whilst sitting on the floor.
Anything that allows you to feel comfortable & held - perhaps a blanket, shawl or scarf
A small nature offering for altar - flowers, leaves, berries (to leave behind, these will be offered to fire or ocean after ceremony)
An item that symbolises your grief - can be a photo or object (to be taken home after)
There are cushions, blankets, mats and bolsters available in the space.
A note on accessibility: The Hive space is up a single flight of stairs.
About Alexa:
Alexa is a soul doula, creating spaces for grief in our community, where we can tend to our hearts and move through life's thresholds together. Initiated by grief as her teacher in her early twenties, after the death of her mother. A decade later she is studying a year-long immersion in grief tending and death doula work. She weaves this with her experience as a yoga teacher and mental health practitioner. She is known for her gentle intuitive presence & deep curiosity for life. Her grief tending events explore ways of being with grief, guided by the seasons, cycles & rhythms of nature.
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