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Private one-on-one ritual for somatic opening during the processes of grief, unlocking and opening the heart in a contained, safe, ceremonial space.
This offering is based in a lifetime of traditional music and culture studies, somatic practice, trauma informed support, and the primary experiential knowledge of being born into an ecstatic intimacy with grief and the honing of connective sensitivities.
The mission of the work is to reanimate a relationship with grief and assist in its flow through individuals for the many positive ripple effects this has on our community, ancestors, and the land. It is a devotional act of reconnection.
I have apprenticed with these energetics over many seasons, and now hope to share the medicine brought up from that experience, education, and work in the dark.
The work is deep opening, cleansing and transforming assisted by ritual, kinetic and sonic experience. It draws from ancient connective technologies that give meaning to my entire body of music work, but in this setting are practiced in their pure, potent form.
The ceremony involves land connection, herbal support, trauma-informed anchoring, preparatory diet, conjunctive practice, lamentation, solo and conversational integration, and thanks giving. It is a ritual experience bolstered by the support systems of the participant and shaped to work with their thresholds and personal relationships with the more-than-human world.
To meet with and let grief flow through the body is an important process of both expressing our living love to what has been lost and allowing these massive energies moving through us to not stagnate so that the relationship may be allowed to transform into a new form that is both physically and emotionally sustainable. It is a crucial energetic process for the health of both the griever and that which is being grieved.
This process includes a 90 minute orientation phone call, a private 4 hour session that involves preparation, ceremony, rest and integration following the experience, and finally a 30 minute integrative discussion a week following the rite. The cost of the work is $850 for the combined six in-session therapeutic hours over three separate days that are spread out over a few weeks time.
This is an opportunity for connecting with and honoring what we have been separated from, and reflection and integration to unearth and hold what we are connected to. To reweave.
Please reach out to connect, ask questions, and discuss working together: contact@laurelpremo.com
“The session was so embodied, holy, tender, honest - an experience of deep witnessing, more than witnessing. The way she holds space is immaculate. The way she is land is so strong.”
TESTIMONIAL
"Oh, what an impossible task to put into words my experience with Laurel. Grief is such a raw, primal and sacred space to be in, and we are usually not in it by our own choosing. I had been in a portal of grief for a while, and really wanted to be held in an deeper way, to honor what was dying. I find our world does not make space for this, and yet it feels impossible to hold it all alone. When I found Laurel's offering (and truly, it is an offering to this world), I felt an immediate sense of being held. Grief is a mystery and I didn't know where it would take me, but from the beginning of our communication, I felt held in the safety of a container that I knew would be wide enough for whatever came up for me. In the ceremony, we entered another time and space. Laurel weaves together sound, word, ceremony, land honoring, and ancestral connection in a way I can only describe as deeply embodied. I felt taken care of, nourished, held and deeply witnessed in my grief. She was able to create a container that felt safe enough for me to touch the deepest expression of my grief, and then supported me in integrating and returning. One of the greatest gifts of our time together for me was the bone-knowing that we are not meant to cross these terrains alone, and allowing myself to receive this was a threshold of its own. This is a gift to everyone who knows grief, in any form. Thank you, thank you, thank you."
-Anna Kelley, Clinical Psychologist and Reiki Master