Grief as a Sacred Invitation: A Poetry Experience at Kripalu

Say yes to your whole heart.

Come explore what the soul knows—how grief is an invitation to open; how heartbreak can foster courage, compassion, and communion; and how our greatest and smallest losses can nourish love, beauty, and inner spaciousness. “Grief isn’t an illness or mistake,” says Mirabai Starr. “It is a natural and sacred response to life’s inevitable losses. It is also a crucible for transformation.” Join poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for a spacious retreat of silence, reading, conversing, writing, and optional sharing. It’s a chance to say yes to your whole heart and to live fully, a chance to co-create a circle of healing.

Read more and reserve your spot here.

In this retreat, you will:

Learn tools to navigate grief and loss.
Explore creative writing to express your inner experience.
Share your experience (if desired) in a supportive community.
Discover opportunities for transformation through the grief process.

You would never ask for this grief,

and yet and you swing open its gates,

not to rid yourself of the ache,

but to grant it full access,

to know the grief completely,

to let it rewrite you, remake you, rebirth you,
to let it teach you what it means to be alive.

—from “Condition” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer