Lotus Wellness Center

08/14/2025

05/06/2025

Take a well deserved and much needed pause with our monthly Inner Sanctuary series.

Gather in community, where all are welcome. Each month focuses on a different theme and incorporates elements of:

~Guided Meditation~
~Breathwork~
~Embodied Sensorimotor Techniques~
~Weaving in Spirituality & Mindfulness~

Upcoming: May 29th at 12-1pm
Theme: Meditation Station ~ Releasing Anxiety & Worry

No previous meditation or breathwork experience necessary!

Come with an open mind and open heart, learn new skills, and connect with like-minded community!

www.soulfulritual.com/events

04/21/2025

I have a special invitation for you today, if you feel called to dive into the soul work of grief and loss in a gentle, communal and ceremonial way…

Grief work is holy ground…in the depth of the soul… it is not something clinical – to fix, to run from, to avoid…it by no means mean that we are broken or feel too much or are too sensitive…it’s also not something to compare… one’s grief is not bigger than another’s… we experience different petals of grief…and so …who are these communal ceremonies for…those who have:

- Lost loved ones – losing family, friends…those who have physically departed; living grief of loved ones who are alive but no longer in our lives…. Our pets – our soulfilling companions that guide and support us in life…. Pregnancy loss of little souls that did not make it earthbound…
- Grief of unfulfilled desires and situations…the expectations and trajectories of life that fall through the cracks…perhaps unveiling a different path for us
- Grief of illness/chronic pain creating a shift in being
- Grief for exiled..shamed..dismissed parts of us – filled w regret, or shame or guilt
- Our disconnect w nature, w oneness, the soul of the planet…we often forget how intertwined and woven we are with our planet…that our bodies feel the effects
- Grief over the state of the world – our collective struggles and pain
- Ancestral grief and transgenerational trauma

We all experience grief and it is something that is perpetual and annual…we live within the cycles of birth, death, and rebirth…

When grief arrives we enter unfamiliar land... Were entering the underworld…by slowing the world down during deep grief… we recognize that at times we do not know “what” to do and so we enter the unknown…the descent…the belly of the underworld…answering the call of rough initiations – for profound transformation

Grief is truly the work of the soul to experience, have tea with, and grow from grief, pain and sorrow. If we experience grief (and all of us do!) it means we have also experienced joy, love, happiness… it reminds us that we are alive and have come here for the full experience of life.

In our hearts and souls, we feel the emptiness, loneliness within grief…we often feel shame, guilt, and blame for feeling this.. Paul Shepard reminds us that what we attribute to a failure in our personality is a feeling of emptiness where beautiful and strange otherness should have been… we often forget our place amongst the collective… the cosmos.. we are stuck on an island by ourselves, thinking we alone can or need to carry our grief.. we’ve exchanged the cosmology of connection for an ideology of separation…

Together, we must recognize the skillful nature of working with grief – that we can expand our capacity to stretch and hold space for moments of happiness and joy..even if they are punctuated with moments of grief and sadness..

Grief is not what we endure (or try to get through) grief asks us to engage it - dance it, talk about, move it through, bring ritual and ceremony to it, to slow down to its rhythm and let it guide us and show us the way through… - this is how we begin to develop depth.

We also embrace the wings of grief and sorrow through the language of soul:

- Through gentle compassionate witnessing, without fixing or avoiding, but tending to…tuning into…and understanding
- Through creating a sacred container with ritual and ceremony to hold the ground beneath so that we do not freefall when grief sweeps in
- Through creative expression and written word that helps reclaim our Voice
- Through the body’s wisdom and intuitive movement and flow
- Through self-compassion to breath into the crevasses of our hearts
- Through soul food of song, warm and medicinal spices (herbal tea blend), finding our way into a poem or a share

So I extend this invitation to you…to all of us…to sit together in circle…to hold one palm open for the sorrows and pain and the other for our joy and happiness…to learn the language of the soul…to slow the world down in a sweet and gentle surrender… these ceremonies will be held monthly and you are welcome to come to all of them…each one takes on a life of its own and unfolds in its mysteries…

Hold your spot (3 spots left for this in-person event!)
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03/29/2025

What we all need right now is community - rooted in understanding, compassionate witnessing, heart and soul-connections!
Please join in if you feel called...

Sign up: www.soulfulritual.com

02/10/2025

Looking for community? Exploration of self? Mind/body/soul healing?
Join in on our upcoming events!

10/11/2024

I am so deeply grateful and honored to be holding the Honoring Collective Grief in Ritual & Ceremony next Friday, October 18th at 7:30pm at Lotus Wellness Center.

In the last few months (and weeks), there has been so much devastation, deep sense of loss, and collective pain. It feels so relevant to lean into a deepening of holding space for grief in a collective experience through ritual and ceremony.

There are so many paths (some small, some large, and a lot of in-betweens) to grief and loss.

Our hope is to come together to honor and hold space for all of them - and all of the parts of you.

Grief & loss can be held for
~ losing someone/something we love (including an idealization)
~ losing loved ones who depart from this Earth
~ living grief - a relationship/friendship/situation that passed
~ loss of treasured skills capacity due to illness/injury/chronic disease
~ loss of relationships, life dreams, expectations
~ unconscious disappointment, loneliness, lack of belonging, feeling alone in the world, diminished experience of who we truly are, woundedness, soul grief
~ parts of us that we have pushed away, shamed, banished, held in contempt
~ sorrows of the world (collective loss...generational loss...ancestral loss)
~ sadness for Mother Earth and all that she is enduring
~ loss of connection to land, language, stories of the ancestors, rituals and ceremonies held in communities

Grief is not a diagnosis...it is not something to outrun or avoid...
It is something to lean into, holding one hand out for the sorrows it brings, and another hand to hold the beauty, love, and gratitude that it brought...

Grief does not live only in our mind. It flows into every inch of our body...it cradles our soul...at times, it challenges us with our descent journey or initiation... and when it does, we are never the same.

We cannot just talk it through... or wait it out... while some propose that time heals grief... the true healer is compassionate listening, gentleness, and meaningful living with grief and loss - intertwined.

For thousands of years and in so many places around the world, grief is held, cared for, honored, witnessed, and expressed collectively - in community...in sacred and compassionate witnessing...in allowing the tears, the uncontrollable emotions, and raw vulnerability to flow....

Let us remember together...
Let us tend our hearts and souls and hold a ritual and ceremony to our collective grief with:
~ singing / humming
~ poetic & creative expression
~ gentle movement
~ compassionate witnessing of one another

This circle will be kept small to allow for sacred witnessing and sharing

If you are called to attend, please sign up (soulfulritual.com/events) to hold your spot!

09/20/2024

We have been dreaming of adding more body (+mind + soul) nourishing offerings! We are so delighted to share that Shelli will be offering incredible reflexology and reiki services.
Pst...she is also a holistic reproductive health practitioner and labor/postpartum doula !!!