Ritual Elements

Grounding Rituals

The Grief Body

A return to steady ground.

Grief can leave tension lodged deep in the muscles, or stir the body into a state of high alert. In this guided practice, we use breath, progressive muscle relaxation, and moments of stillness to gently move through the anxiety, shakiness, or overstimulation that can sometimes rise when grief is tended to.

The practice isn’t about silencing feelings - it’s about giving your nervous system the care it needs so you can stay connected to yourself. We may also use “butterfly hugs” - a soothing bilateral rhythm - to bring you back into a sense of safety and presence. This is an anchor you can return to at any time, both here and beyond the session.

Reflective Rituals

Hello Grief Writing Practise

A conversation on paper.

This writing ritual is a way to give voice to what has been unsaid. You may choose to write to your person, your grief, your past self, your future self - or even to someone in your life now, expressing how you wish to be held or what you wish you could say aloud but cannot.

Optional prompts are available if you’d like a gentle nudge, but they are never required. The focus is on listening inward, letting words arrive in their own shape and pace. What you write may surprise you - grief often holds truths we didn’t realise we were ready to name.

The Sound of Grief

Permission to take up space in your own way.

So often, we are told to “quiet down,” to “stay composed” - particularly after the core grieving is done, once the funeral is over and the world has moved on. Yet grief continues to live in the body, and sometimes it needs a voice.

We begin with a grounding soundscape - a soft backdrop of layered tones and textures - before moving into guided vocal expression. The sound may come raw and unrestrained: guttural, keening, or wild. Or it may want to be soft: a long sigh, a whispered word, the barest hum. The sound of grief is different for everyone, and in this space, all of it is welcome.

Whispers from the Hollow

A quiet doorway inward.

Here, we create space to sit with your grief - not to fix it, but to listen. Through guided visualisation, you’re invited to meet yourself without masks, without censorship. It is a gentle peeling back of layers until what remains is simply you: raw, tender, whole.

The feeling is intimate, like leaning across a kitchen table with a warm mug in hand - unhurried, spacious, and deeply human. Sometimes what emerges is memory, sometimes insight, sometimes nothing more than the comfort of being seen, even by yourself.

Creative Expression

The Shape of Grief

When words aren’t enough.

Grief doesn’t always speak in language. Sometimes it moves in colour, line, and texture. In this ritual, you are invited to listen to your grief through your hands, letting shapes, strokes, and marks emerge without the pressure to “make art.”

The process is an unfolding - what has been held inside finding its way outward in form. Each mark becomes a trace of feeling, a record of where you have been in that moment. What emerges may reveal both what is heavy and what is beginning to shift, showing you landscapes of yourself you might not yet have seen.

Sacred Makings

Fragments of Grief, Threads of Light

Keeping grief close, letting it shine when it will.

Grief lives with us always, but it does not always catch the light. When it does, it can take our breath away - because grief is love with nowhere to go.

In this ritual, you’ll create a beaded suncatcher strand. The beads you choose - each colour, each texture - are infused with memories as you work, threaded slowly and with care. As the strand takes shape, you may find yourself recalling stories, moments, and details you thought you’d forgotten.

When the light catches the crystal, it might feel like your person is near… or like they are thinking of you. It becomes a quiet, constant companion in your space - a shimmer of beauty that holds both love and loss.

Roots of Remembrance

A living thread between past and future.

This ritual blends making with tending. You will paint a small pot, plant a symbolic seed or bulb, and nestle it into soil. As you work, you are invited to reflect on what you wish to honour, what you wish to carry forward, and how your grief might one day become something new.

The growth may be slow, hidden for a time, but it is always happening. Even when the seed rests in darkness, there is movement. This living piece becomes a reminder that you, too, are shifting - that your grief can be part of something that continues to live and change alongside you.