Practices to tend grief Stir Soul & Awaken with the animate earth

  • Memory of Bone offers somatic movement and yoga classes designed to befriend the body by accompanying grief held in the cells. The movement invites slowing down to meet oneself in the sensory immersion in breath, pulse, and nerve. It offers a space to listen to the ancestral stories that the body remembers in its tension and joy.

  • Grief as a river offers grief work where we tend grief through presence, story-telling, and ritual. It is an invitation to journey with grief together and let grief guide us into conversation with the soul of earth. This is grief work as soul work where by allowing in the weight of grief's withered tree, we spark the song of soul.

  • Dreams of Earth offers dreamwork in groups as a somatic body practice where we explore dream images as messengers from the body of earth. It is a space to deepen relation to the wider ecology of being by bearing witness to and embodying dream images.

  • Coyote Writer's Workshop is a place to embrace the trickster of language and find community in creative expression.

Memory of Bone: Somatic Yoga

San Geronimo Valley Community Center

Thursdays 5-6 pm, $20

Memory of Bone supports building body awareness through slow somatic movement with warm mindful awareness.

The class encourages self-compassion and invites awakening to the body’s wisdom through mindful movement.

Slow down to the speed of a meandering creek and embrace your animal body with loving attention during this hour-long gentle yoga flow for adults of all ages.

The flow invites play, feeling, and soulful exploration of your somatic self.

To sign up, email songofthewitheredtree@gmail.com

Upcoming Events

WATER IS LOVE: RIPPLES OF REGENERATION

Film Screening and Community Conversation

BOLINAS COMMUNITY CENTER

BY DONATION

January 11th, 2025, 5 pm

"Water Is Love: Ripples of Regeneration" is a poignant documentary that delves into the intricate relationship between communities and their water sources. The film highlights the challenges faced by various communities worldwide in ensuring sustainable water management and showcases inspiring stories of resilience and regeneration.

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion that will discuss the themes of the film and answer questions from the audience. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about local water issues and discover how you can contribute to water conservation efforts in your community.

Song of the Withered Tree offers practices to accompany the aching places in the human and wider earth body.

Grief, loss, and vulnerability are essential to the human experience but we aren’t born knowing how to hold these experiences with curiosity and warmth. When these parts are felt and held, they mature and ripen the human, awakening the ancestral music of the wise body.  

Each practice invites you to befriend your feeling body as inseparable from the earth’s body.  The Song of the Withered Tree is the soul song of the body’s wisdom born through journeying through the underworld of grief, loss, and surrender to the unknown. 

The wild and untamable territory of grief is a life-long journey of remembrance. It is a journey of deepening into the mystery and awakening to our essential belonging to the animate earth.

Songofthewitheredtree@gmail.com