Plants to Support Grief and Release
This season of pandemic and change has impacted people and communities differently. And with this much change towards a new normal, many of us find ourselves along a timeline of grief. Whether our grief is rooted in the loss of people, jobs, or normalcy, the impact in our bodies and our minds can feel similar.
Our resident Grief Doula and yoga teacher, Carrie McCann has supported our community with yoga, plants, and conversation around death, grief, and maintaining self love as we honor these very human experiences. She brings this supportive practice to her monthly Moonset Yoga class and shares:
“Grief is a part of life. And it is not exclusive to death. Any loss, transition or change - personal to us or on a global scale - can bring grief. We will all meet grief at one point or another. And we can’t make it only last 6 weeks or look a certain way. Grief can be vast.
Some lifelong and ever changing questions I’ve been sitting with:
— If we all will meet grief, how can we tend to ourselves while we are walking alongside it?
— How can we love on and support each other?
— How do I want to be loved on and supported? What are my needs?”
Carrie recommends sitting with and sipping on Wood Betony during this time.
“Wood betony is a powerful friend for our overactive minds and overstimulated bodies. With an affinity for both our nervous and digestive systems, wood betony can be an ally in grief (and life) to help calm, soothe and ground, especially when we are feeling disconnected and like we need some support coming back into ourselves.”
This conversation around grief and the herbs that support us comes as we anticipate the upcoming integrative yoga workshop Tending to Ourselves. This plant, and others, will be explored through craft teas to accompany a session intended to support release.
Tending to Ourselves: Integrative Yoga for Grief Series
Sundays in September | 9/19, 9/26, 10/3 // 6 - 7:30p EST // A virtual session via Zoom
Lead by Carrie McCann of Moonset and Co.
About this workshop:
This 3-part integrative yoga series is meant to encourage you to listen to your body’s wisdom, acknowledge your inner knowing, and create space to tend to your needs. Together, we will drink curated herbal tea blends, meditate, practice gentle and restorative yoga, and experience community journaling. Each experience is steeped in self-compassion - holding ourselves with love and care.
You will experience
90- minute integrative yoga session
Moonset & Co. grief-centered tea blend
Single herb samples for community tea tastings
Resources for grief and loss
Click here to register and learn more.
Register now with code “YOGAMOTIF” for 10% off.
No matter how you find your grief this season we hope that you may honor this time in ways that feel supported.
