Join Linda Thai and ahlay blakely in Monterey, CA for a week-long Grief + Psychodrama Structures Retreat.
Save the date for July 31 - August 6, 2025.
We’re slowing down… letting the ritual simmer longer, holding sacred witness to one another with tender care, and allowing space for deep integration. Join ahlay blakely and Linda Thai for six nights and seven days of weaving ourselves into the delicate fabric of our apprenticeship with sorrow.
You are invited to step into ritual time—a space where the clock is set aside, and we move at the pace of breath, of grief, of song. Together, we will weave song, poetry, movement, sacred listening, sacred holding, witnessing and being witnessed. We will share in the fullness of the circle and in the intimacy of smaller groups, holding space for what longs to be seen and felt.
This ceremony is shaped by many streams of wisdom—Joanna Macy, the professional mourning women of Greece and Italy, the keeners of Ireland and Scotland, the Mikonenet of Jewish lineage, the late Sobonfu and Malidoma Somé, Francis Weller, Martin Prechtel, Stephen Jenkinson, the immense weight of grief in our times, the whales, and so many more, including the lineage of Al Pesso and Diane Boyden whose work allows us to access and somaticize symbolic representations of Ideal Caregivers and Ideal Societies so that we experience the grief and relief of being deeply real to another.
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