Death Weaving
you're invited
I stood under a colorful tent while children circled and laughter filled the air.
In front of me sat a group of 50 humans, facing heart-to-heart, sharing their stories of death with one another.
This moment of pure humanity came from a workshop I led at a beautiful festival here in the UK.
I wanted to bring people together to talk about death.
What unfolded created ripples.
I guided people to connect to their bodies and then paired them with a partner to share a story of death from their family and their lives.
I wasn't sure how people would respond to a topic that can cause such deep pain and fractures amongst families and in our hearts.
What I discovered was a group of people a bit hesitant at first, but so hungry for permission to bring up death. To break the awkward ice and to talk about the elephant that is always in the room.
I witnessed people connecting deeply with tears and smiles.
Joy and connection were generated and it opened up space for energy to flow.
The entire weekend was woven with conversations around death.
People kept approaching me, eager to share their stories.
From my experience, anytime I share stories about my grandmothers or experiences I have had with death, people lean in. There is an innate curiosity that people hesitate to admit.
But it’s there.
We have so many generations of clogged energy around this topic.
Many of us are walking around with undigested stories of death that mix in with our own fears of dying and then we shove them into the shadow.
So, I am bringing this event online to allow us to gather across time zones and locations.
It is my intention to share this space for us to bring breath to a story and to examine where it shows up in our bodies.
To see if we can create a little space for honoring those experiences, instead of automatically closing.
I would love to have you join. You can sign up here.
I will share more stories and details about this event and topic as we progress through October.
We have passed through the Autumn Equinox and we are now approaching Samhain (October 31st-November 2nd) a portal of time that is the halfway point between the Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice.
The medicine of this time is to pause. To be in the stillness, as everything continues to get darker. To lean into our mortality.
To honor the wisdom of death and to honor those who have come before us.
This event is designed to create a space to gather in community to do exactly that.
We will gather on October, 23rd @ 11am PST/2 pm EST/8pm CET on zoom. You can join us here.
A replay will be sent out to all who register, in case you can’t make it live.
Let me know how this feels for you.
I am excited to continue this conversation.
Thanks for being here with me.
Sending you love,
Lisa Marie xx
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Oh Lisa, what a valuable gift to those folks! So often people say they don't want to talk about death, perhaps because it scares them or because it makes one re-experience the loss of someone dear. I hear people say "I've always had trouble with death."
But you gave these folks permission while they understood they were in 'safe hands'. Truly life changing for many, I'm sure.
My mother was lucid as she was dying of old age. She said she could feel death "coming from deep inside me, shaking up my world". She was not frightened and indicated the experience was curious/strange but not horrible.
Her words "coming from deep inside me" are most meaningful to me.