Grieve and Breathe

Come and join us for this ‘Grieve & Breathe’ session where we will be combining grief tending & a conscious connected breathwork session.

Grieve and Breathe

Come and join us for this ‘Grieve & Breathe’ session where we will be combining grief tending & a conscious connected breathwork session. This session is for anyone who is interested in moving grief through the body using somatic tools, and doing this together in community.

This 3 hour session will include:
1) Introduction to grief tending
2) Widening the doors and learning about the gateways of grief
3) Surfacing our grief
4) Breathing with our grief
5) Settling, integration and close

What is grief tending?
Tending to our grief in community helps us to know that grief is not ours to carry alone. Today’s society is grief and death phobic and there are very few places to tend our ongoing relationship to grief. When untended to we end up carrying our grief around with us. By being able to tend to our grief, it allows us to feel more joy and lightness.

What is conscious connected breathing?
Conscious connected breathwork is a somatic tool for helping emotions, memories and in particular grief, move through the body. We don’t need to cogntively understand why we feel the way we feel for us to be able to move things. Breathwork and grief work are a natural partnership, and one allows the other to flow more easily. There are many different experiences that you can feel in breathwork – some people may experience sensations, some may experience visualisations, and some may feel they have deeply rested. All experiences are welcome.

Your facilitators:

Dr Nicola Stoke (Nic) & Nicola Griffiths (Nicola).

Nic is a medical doctor and has completed the apprenticing to grief training course with elders in the field, Sophy Banks. Both Nic and Nicola have trained in breathwork with a decolonial & social justice lens from Inspire Breathwork. Tools that aim to deal with collective liberation are at the heart of what they do.

Nicola Griffiths is the brains behind Breathfolk, which is a contemporary breathwork and listening practice exploring breath as care, memory, and connection. It aims to create spaces that invite people to slow down, rest, and return to themselves. Through curated sound and guided sessions, Breathfolk brings together breath and deep listening to support collective presence. Nicola’s work offers an accessible way to reconnect to the body and move towards more sustainable ways of being together.