Honoring loss, love & the hard parts in a whole new way.
A 40-day Healing Journey
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You’ve lost someone or something sacred to you.
It may have been moments, months or eons ago, but there’s nothing stopping the waves of overwhelm, depletion, futility and disillusionment that come along with it.
Oh, love. That’s right. That’s grief.
Our world demands you "get over" grief promptly, tidily and alone - otherwise you’re “doing it wrong.”
But Love demands something different: that you honor your experience and all you cannot keep. That you grieve your losses with Grace and do the hard work of learning to live in a changed world.
It’s wild, painful, and utterly transformational soul work.
Grief & Grace is a journey for those who are ready to move through their initiation in a whole new way.
Welcome, beautiful soul. We’re so glad you’re here.
You’re living without something you deeply cherished: a loved one, a marriage, a baby or pregnancy, a home, relationship or identity. It likely won’t be "all better" in 40 days’ time - or ever.
But with the right kind of support, you can meet the pain of grief with grace. Just imagine...
Keeping more of the love while easing some of your suffering.
Getting grief out of your head & body... and transforming it to something hopeful and strong.
Being kinder to yourself, no matter what you are feeling?
Experiencing less trauma & more connection… and even finding pleasure again.
Not having to hold it all together.
Being held in your grief, exactly as you are… in other words, not having to do this alone.
This magic is available to you, and 40 days turns out to be the perfect amount of time for it. Will you join us?
Our Process
Grief & Grace is designed to spiral you through a measurable transformation.
It won’t “get you over” your loss, and it’s not about “fixing” or “bypassing” your process. Instead, it’s a deep dive into your process, your expression and your embodiment of grief.
Using our transformational evidence-based tools & soul-inspired experiences such as:
Body
Breath
Sound & voice
Healing ritual
Community
Safe space
You will be able to integrate this initiation more fully, on all levels of your being.
This is where the healing happens.
Throughout your 40 day process, you will receive:
Pre-recorded video modules and a beautiful PDF workbook for journaling and reflection.
7 sacred ceremonial experiences including transformational breathwork, a guided shamanic journey and a step-by-step process to give anything you loved a Good Death
An online library of micro-practices, guided meditations, activations, sound healing tracks and bodywork techniques you can experiment with and build into self-care - that you will actually use
Guided videos teaching you exactly how to create ritual for yourself on your own terms
Access to our private Facebook village
Optional 1:1 sessions with Jess or Ankhara Rose: grief doula sessions, sacred sound healing, private breathwork, intuitive coaching or private Sister Circles.
All easily digestible because you’re already exhausted.
All materials take into account the mental, physiologic and real-world demands of grief and loss. While this course is structured around 40 days, there is NO required timeline, NO “falling behind” and NO videos lasting longer than 15 minutes.
You’ll be transformed in how you hold grief, past and future losses.
You can carry grief forward more lightly; with more love and less suffering than you have been able to so far, using practical and simple tools.
You’ll receive support that honors you and your Beloved, and helps you explore who you are (now).
You’ll feel a tangible connection with the legacy and spirit of what’s passed and know how to reconnect anytime you want.
You can find vitality and even pleasure and joy moving into your next iteration, your rebirth (when the time is right).
HOW THIS WORKS
THE 7 SECTIONS OF OUR GRIEF & GRACE JOURNEY
PART ONE: Shedding What’s Not Needed & Burning the Bullshit
Shed the culturally-inherited bullshit as we investigate the normalized grief illiteracy around you and its impacts on your tender human experience. Explore, unlearn and discover a new framework for grief, grace and transformation. Identify your unique grief styles, the dimensions and tendencies of normal human grief, and illuminate the dance of grief and trauma.
PART TWO: The Honoring Story & Erecting an Altar
Finally speak about your loss freely, loudly, and articulate its toll on you. Move the energy of grief up and out of your body. Learn to listen inward, hear the howl of your heart and intuitively receive the instructions, requests and answers you’re seeking. Build a legacy altar and place your Beloved in its care for the duration of our journey.
PART THREE: Find Your Mooring & Assemble Your Dive Kit
Within a spirit of experimentation and micro-practice mastery, discover the embodied, spiritual and interpersonal tools to remain steady no matter when or how the waves of grief come for you. Build a library of transformational pain coping practices that are right for you, and map out a practical, supported plan for using them.
PART FOUR: Source Essence & Sacred Dialogues
Here we tangibly honor and energetically activate all that your Beloved created and left in you. Learn to call forth the Beloved’s energy or essence, go on a guided journey to meet the most sacred legacy of your Beloved, anchoring them in your physical body.
PART FIVE: Give It A Good Death
Step into your role as the healer for your Beloved, even here; even now. If a loss occurred unexpectedly, if your Beloved experienced an abrupt or traumatic end of life, or if your grieving was disrupted/derailed/all F’ed up… This is the ritual process for you. Give your loss the blessing, peace, and graceful goodbye it deserves, no matter how long it’s been.
PART SIX: Alchemy, Tantra & the Energetics of Change
Now we dive into the rich darkness of (non)dualities: from pain into pleasure, from the mundane into the sacred, from the human into the divine experience. We’ll explore the Wounds of Grief and what it would mean to allow fierce energies of change to move through you, courageously stepping into the energetic eye of the hurricane. Acknowledge and bring closure to this part of our journey together as humans who know how to integrate, honor, and grow into a new self - no matter what life brings.
GRIEF & GRACE IS FOR THOSE WHO…
are grieving the loss of someone or something precious.
are experiencing anticipatory loss or change, or are in a rebirthing process that requires them to leave something behind.
are not brand new to grief and/or who are ready to hold their grief in a new way. (Very new grief is sometimes better suited to in-person groups or private grief counseling - please reach out if you have questions about this.)
have experienced ongoing loss, grief that was interrupted or not completely integrated.
are ready to go deeper into their truth, can hold space for their vulnerability and explore what may come out of their grief without trying to escape or bypass it.
are interested in being part of a temporary community in the ways that are right for them
This process will especially resonate if you have experience in or curiosity about the Sacred Feminine, and are willing to explore a Sacred Feminine-style healing container.
It is not a good fit if:
You expect a quick fix, a magic pill or someone to rescue you from the pain of difficult loss.
You are not ready to shift the energy of your grief, even slightly.
You are unwilling to consider care from a licensed mental health professional, no matter what.
You may be unable to withhold advice, judgement, comparison or commentary about another person’s grief, loss or healing process.
You cannot agree to general rules around confidentiality, respect or boundaries.
MEET JESS LARSEN BRENNAN & ANKHARA ROSE
Jess & Ankhara co-facilitate sacred healing spaces together and have spent a combined 36 years in coaching, doula care, spiritual leadership, bodywork, breathwork, sound and vocal healing.
Both trained and initiated in the lineage of the sacred feminine, Jess and Ankhara each bring their personal knowledge of grief and a shared, steadfast belief that healing is holy work. Their calling is to hold sacred space and, in practical ways, midwife the return of ancient wisdom and wholeness through unconditional love.
Jess Larsen Brennan is a birth, end-of-life, and spiritual doula for times of loss and transition. She is also a licensed massage therapist and the founder of Held Massage Therapy in New Jersey where she pioneers an innovative approach to massage therapy, nurturing and offering specialized relief to hundreds of grieving people.
During periods of her own deep personal loss, Jess wished for the kind of care doulas provide, supporting grief's intensely-physical and “in the body” nature. She also felt how “companioning” grief support and the sacred feminine could transform the experience, much the way that good labor support transforms a physical birth. She is also the creator of Sacred Rage Circles, an innovative body-heart experience for groups and individuals.
Ankhara Rose is a teacher, coach, intuitive & energy healer, breathwork facilitator, and sacred ceremonialist. She helps women heal & strengthen their relationships with themselves, find and live their authentic truth, and bring the sacred into their everyday lives. She is the creator of Pleasure Portal Breathwork, Sacred Chants: A Chant Writing Immersion for Women, and is a sought-after sacred song writer and performer.
Through the process of moving through her own grief, Ankhara researched, developed and practiced a range of embodiment tools to help calm her nervous system and keep her grounded and connected through the storm. She carries the medicine of radical acceptance, authentic expression and deep love.
Together Jess and Ankhara create beautiful experiences that unfold into initiations of deeper feeling, vitality, and richer relationship to oneself and the Sacred. They have a particular gift for companioning others through the hardest parts of life, anchored in the celebration and embodiment of wholeness, integration, ease and unconditionality.