Sacred Grief - Shauna Janz

04/03/2025

For they too are yearning you.

To have human eyes not just noticing, but aglow in recognition, familiarity, and kinship.

Shining with intimacy.
Tree, stone, river, bee, and hydrangea are yearning to be seen and known by you.

Your presence and gratitude is hungered for.

Grandchild, remember your worthiness; your necessity in the belonging of things. Yearning flows both ways. You are vital. You are missed.

Follow your tender longing and allow yourself to be met.

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I have a few spaces still open for this small group online ritual learning community as we deepen our belonging and skills of relational reciprocity through embodied, energetic and ritual practices with our animate and spirit kin.

Sliding scale pricing, sponsored spot still available. We begin April 16th. Reach out with any questions, all info and registration through this link.

embodied practices to ground your spirit work

03/28/2025

I would love to have you join me and other like-hearted humans exploring and folding ourselves back into relationship with our body and the wide web of kinship, seen and unseen.

Special focus will be on grounding our embodied presence and perceptual field, relating to land and Spirit of place, elemental and tree elders, and an ancestral elder guide of your own lineages.

You know where to find more. Reach out with any questions. If we are new to each-other I welcome a Discovery Call to meet.

sacredgrief.com/p/immanence

02/16/2025

Grief is inherently a deeply relational and reciprocal expression.

However, many of us experience a barrier in our ability to receive support, care, and attunement due to dominant hustle culture and early life experiences that conditioned us to override these needs of emotional nurturance.

By practicing the skills of receiving we are both deepening our capacity to allow the energy and expression of our grief, and expanding our range which allows grief to be witnessed and met in a relational context of support (with seen or unseen kith and kin).

We take a deeper look at the neurobiology of receiving and embodied resiliency in service to grieving in lesson 4 of my upcoming online education and training course, Coming Back to Ourselves.

All the content, skills and practices we cover are for your own relationship to grieving and are also easily transferable to your support role contexts.

9 week online training course
Tiered pricing and payment plans.
Welcome call is next week, Feb 26th.
Over 9 hrs of recorded lessons
Over 13 hrs of live time teaching and group practice (recorded also)

DM with any questions.

Link in usual place. Or here:
https://sacredgrief.com/p/coming-back-to-ourselves

02/14/2025

Cultivating our ability to be in a stable, reliable, trustworthy and attuned relationship with our-self and all that arises in our inner and emotional experiences is at the heart of both secure attachment and our capacity for grieving.

Insecure relating (or disrupted attachment needs) is typically seeded in our developmental years, reinforced by inter-generational influences, and perpetuated in dominance culture. It is important to uplift the adaptive strategies that were, and are, necessary to respond to these realities (past or ongoing), rather than pathologize them. We can do this while also rooting into our resiliency and creating more space for choice as we learn new ways of responding to our grief and expressing it.

We can practice somatic attachment skills to deepen our foundational trust in our embodied relationship with grief.

In my upcoming course, Coming Back to Ourselves, each week I offer a practice path, which includes invitations and videos offering many of these practices for supporting you in your grief, and these are also easily transferable to your support role contexts with others.

9 weeks, online. Pre-recorded lessons and live weekly teaching and practice calls.
We start February 26th. Financial access spots available.

I would love to have you!

L1nK in B10.
https://sacredgrief.com/p/coming-back-to-ourselves

02/12/2025

Our personal and collective healing work needs us to be in our capacity to grieve. The strategies that keep us from our own grief, are born of the same seeds that can separate us from each other and our shared humanity and dignity.

Let's gather to learn and practice the skills of grieving through expanding our capacity to 'be with' what is arising in our body, heart, and mind when grief visits us.

In a dominant culture that perpetuates separation from the wisdom of our body and the wisdom of our heart, many of us have been socialized to rely on our head center to express grief, especially when we aren't feeling safe to be in the vulnerability that grief requests of us.

We may fully understand the story of our grief, the why and how, and make-meaning of our grief, which is all an important part of grief expression, but inadequate on its own. We also need to receive the healing wisdom of feeling our grief through our heart and emotions, and through our body and sensations.

This disconnection of the fullness of grief through mind, body and heart is one legacy of cultural disruptions of community and rituals for grieving.

This is all workable, and this is what we deep dive into in my 9 week online program, Coming Back to Ourselves - Embodiment and Culture in Grieving. We begin Feb 26th.

Video lessons, extensive embodied practice videos, additional resources and weekly live calls on Wednesdays, 4pm PT // 7pm ET. Tiered pricing.

🔗 in 8io

https://sacredgrief.com/p/coming-back-to-ourselves

02/09/2025

Our grief doesn’t need healing. Our healing needs our grief.

What often does need healing however, is how we relate to our grief, how we access it, what we have been taught about it through our family system and within dominant paradigms, how we show and express it, and how we do so in ways that are life-affirming, healthy and nurturing of connection and relationship.

Grief is relational and a learned skill, yet for many, cultural teachings for healthy grieving have been steeped in dominant narratives informed by capitalist, patriarchal and colonial ways of relating that undermine the soulful and relational healing grief invites of us.

Reclaiming our ability to be in relationship to grief requires us to start by returning to ourselves - to our embodied presence, to our capacity to recognize and be with grief, and to our attunement to what would be most supportive for our unique grief expression and needs.

In this online course we will be guided to take a compassionate look at how our personal relationship to grief is embedded in dominant cultural conditions and strategies born from disconnection. We will explore foundational principles of grieving, and nurture a comprehensive somatic practice based in secure attachment and nervous system awareness that supports our capacity to grieve. We will deepen our resiliency and ability to express grief in ways that align with our unique needs and emotions. We will discover the old stories that no longer serve our grief, and move towards an ethic of grieving as a living and loving practice. We will nurture our grief as an expression in service to personal healing, relational connection, and cultural change.

We begin February 26th, 2025. Registration is now open. Tiered pricing and payment plans available.

Live calls convene Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30 PT // 7:00-8:30 ET

Over 9 hours of recorded lessons, alongside weekly practice videos and invitations for integration.

Queer-celebrating, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive learning container.

Please visit my link in bio to find out more and to register. 🤎
Or visit https://sacredgrief.com/p/coming-back-to-ourselves

02/09/2025

Grieving is a learned skill. Grieving with purpose takes practice.

Thank you to Cole Arthur Riley for the soul-nourishment that has been my experience reading your book This Here Flesh - Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us.

[quote]

Your wails are worthy to be heard.

Aren’t your eyelids
Tired of keeping
Prisoners? Those tears
Are precious
Minerals. Lap them up
Like a medicine -
It’s called healing.

(p. 106)

02/07/2025

What would Love do here?
How would Dignity lead in this situation?
Where do I need to feel first before acting?
Where might my power/privilege as a white person shelter me to what I still need to know, feel and consider?

I am grateful for the web of relations and lineages of care that also inform these practices and invitations, too many to name here, but a few

Thank you Linda Hunter for introducing the inquiry "what would love do here?", so many years ago when we were collaborating in our death education work

01/26/2025

Still space to join me and an intimate group of like-minded hearts for Tending the Taproot - a 3 month community of ritual and practice for somatic resourcing, rituals for grief and beauty, visioning with ancestral wisdom, and peer connection.

Our opening ritual is next Sunday, Feb 2nd at 10am Pacific time (recorded if you cannot make it live).

Weekly live-time offerings are scheduled to attend as you choose, and many are also recorded for later playback if you cannot attend live. The majority of our time is focused on inviting your personal process, resourcing, reflections and visioning time while held in our collective ritual field. Invitations for sharing are always optional - this is a space to fill your cup in the ways you need.

We have a great number of ritual supporters and guests that are also contributing their magic to our time - thank you, Summer Downs, Kendra Hessel, Karishma Kripalani, Meredith Withers, Jillian Ratti and Toni Mendel.

The schedule, details and registration is all through the link below. Reach out with any questions.

Embodiment practices, grief rituals and ancestral reclamation for personal and collective healing

01/22/2025

Goodness, we need to continue gathering together, seeding our prayers, rooting into embodied resourcing, sharing our grief, choosing beauty, and calling in the wisdom of our ancestors, as we traverse these times together.

It's been a year since the last seasonal cohort of Tending the Taproot, and I want to open a 3 month season now as a place of refuge; a communal well to replenish our bodies, minds and spirits in this particular moment when so many forces want to see us numbed out, isolated, fearful and disconnected. Let's be gently defiant together.

My hope is this will be a soft place to land, with a diverse number of offerings each month (many of which will be recorded) that you can choose to participate as you wish.

Thank you for the wonderful Summer .beloved who will be offering a ritual teaching on rites for death (recorded), and to , and who will all be contributing in various ways to support the space and be a part of the Ancestral AMA gatherings.

Monthly tiered pricing. Reach out with any question or if you need to discuss financial access beyond what is offered.

www.sacredgrief.com/p/taproot