Embodied Grief Alchemy Retreat and Training

The Embodied Grief Alchemy Retreat and Training is designed to support you to ride the waves of Grief with Grace, to help you reclaim the parts of you that have been fragmented by trauma and loss, and teach you how to share the gift of Grief Alchemy with your community.

Rooted in the intention to cherish life, honor death, and educate the children well, Yemaya's retreats, workshops, and trainings restore the Earth ways - the ways of the Great Mother.

With her 30 years of Somatic Trauma Healing Bodywork practice and Embodiment Mentoring and her distillation of trauma into a Grief Alchemy methodology, Yemaya aims to awaken emotional intelligence, inviting organic deep exhales, and to always infuse the space of sorrow with laughter, love, and wild grace breakthroughs.

The art of mourning needs to be taught early in life, so there is no need to exert ourselves to attempt to keep things under control. Our bodies would be healthier, our minds would be free from attachment to the past, our energy would be focused on co-creation and play, instead of protecting and herding, and emotions would flow like water unencumbered.

It is a sacred opportunity to be in the presence of others devoted to freedom, heart healing, and the embodied experience of acceptance, wholeness, and curiosity. Within the circle, inclusion, inter-generational inspiration, and respect are honored, and fierce compassion is shared as a guiding force. Participants not only gain powerful new tools but also experience an organic homecoming to the essence of who they truly are.

The methodology:

-Healing through the waves-

You will learn how to listen, ask, and respond to others - and yourself - authentically as you move through healing from loss in its many faces, and will befriend the art of mourning. Together, with the power of movement and ritual, we will transform suffering into profound presence, resistance and numbness into connection and wild grace.
You will also learn the foundation of the Emotion Codes and an overview of The Emotional Anatomy.

-Healing through the storm-

You will have the chance to practice level 1 of Bones of Freedom Somatic Trauma Healing Bodywork, which has the power to unlock deep-seated patterns of body and mind, and unwind the old emotions out of the nervous system and muscle contractions.
You also will have fun, dance, play in the water, snorkel, swim, eat delicious food, learn Hawaiian Prayers ( Pule ), rest in the jungle, and awaken to a luminous ocean view and incomparable sunsets.

-Healing with bright mind-

You will have the chance to deepen your understanding of the grief journey with Yemaya’s long expertise in grief and trauma work:
*The Grief Maps will help you find your way out of the labyrinth of endless sorrow and the overwhelm of the Grief Bundle.
*The Grief Clans will help you connect the dots between Old Grief and Fresh Grief.

-Healing with clear energy-

You will participate in a Dagara Tribe African - inspired Grief Ritual and experience the power of community grieving together. This powerful ritual will help you clear your field of stagnant emotions you have been storing away to function until there was a time for you to feel held in a nurturing, and safe space to deepen into your own freedom of expression as a fully integrated human.