Tuesday March 10th @ 4pm pacific / 7pm EST
Roots of Ritual '26 Grief Tending Foundations Training Open House
with Josea & jane
If you have felt the call to grief tending & grief ritual work, but not known where to start, welcome home. It is time. 🌀
Join us for this live Q & A:
The world has never needed more grief tenders than we need right now.
Just look around… I believe things are only going to get worse before they get better. 💔
I believe that community based grief tending is at the heart of collective liberation.
People are suffering ~ the earth is suffering. We need all hands on deck with deep alchemy skills to support the collective death & rebirth happening ... and we need it right now.
If you have dreamed of building a thriving Grief Tending practice that sustains you deeply, serves your community & supports collective liberation, you are for sure in the right place.
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN for Roots of Ritual Grief Tending Foundations Training 🌀
begins MARCH 24th ✨
This program is our 4 month professional training designed to support you to grow your capacity to tend grief & trauma with confidence in both 1:1 and group settings.
For $3000 usd or 6 payments of $500 usd you will be immersed in a 4 month initiatory journey designed to:
- Build your capacity to stay present when grief intensifies - learning to recognize the signs when someone is moving deeper, and developing somatic skills to hold space with confidence
- Tend your own ancestral and personal grief so it stops getting activated when you're holding space for others - learning to differentiate between what's yours and what's theirs
- Trust yourself to hold the full spectrum of human emotion - rage, despair, terror, ecstasy - without needing to fix, soothe, or manage it
- Understand the difference between grief and trauma - and know precisely how to work with each in the moment, reading the signals in someone's nervous system
- Build sustainable practices for staying grounded and vital while doing deep work - so you can serve from overflow rather than depletion
- Be held in a circle of practitioners who understand this work intimately - where you can bring your own grief, your questions, your edges, and be met with fierce compassion
- Bring these essential healing practices to your community - knowing you're part of a growing network restoring grief literacy for this and future generations
Weekly live discussion calls, pre-recorded learning material, small groups for somatic practice & discussion & includes access to our other programs & courses.
Max 40 participants ~ we are getting close to full ~ LEARN MORE & APPLY HERE NOW ~ solidarity pricing available for Black, Indigenous & People of Colour
Meet the Team
Josea Tamira Crossley
Team Lead, Mentor & Founder of Dark Woods of Grief Community
For over 20 years, I’ve been working with grief & trauma. Through practices that work with the nervous system & rewiring the brain learned through my studies in Somatic Therapy, Attachment Theory, Deep Nature Connection, Craniosacral therapy, Shamanic Study, Tibetan Buddhism and Yoga, I’ve learned to support people to completely transform how they experience the world and themselves. As a survivor of severe childhood abuse, learning these skills was a matter of necessity.
In terms of walking through the dark woods and returning with gifts, I am a living, breathing example, and this work is my offering to you.
It is my mission to create spaces in this world where people can experience enough safety & belonging, and can gain enough skillfulness to be able to heal.
The body does the rest.
I am deeply and forever grateful to my mentors Elizabeth Claire Burr & Sonara Medicine Wolf, and for my teachers Francis Weller (author of the Wild Edge of Sorrow), Mariah Moser (Opening to Grace Relational Somatic Psychotherapy), Peter Levine & Diane Poole Heller, Irene Lyon, Jon Young, and for the influence of Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Martin Prechtel, Gabor Mate & Robert Moss.
I currently live, respectfully, as an uninvited guest in the seaside mountain town of qathet, BC, on the traditional territory of the Tla’amin people.
Jane Spielman
Team Elder & LGTBQ2S Community Lead
Jane worked as an educator for 50 years, but is still deeply excited by and involved in focusing on creating educational spaces where students are immersed in rich natural environments that encourage their own questions and ways of knowing to drive curriculum. She helped build trauma and healing informed school programs all over New York City that got to the root of what was in the way of student’s learning. When her wife of over 3 decades fell ill, she began her study of caregiving and grief. Jane believes that learning how to grieve and face trauma in safe-enough spaces is essential to physical, emotional and spiritual life; and is absolutely essential in the process of discovering the gifts we have to offer the world.
Jane has studied with Zen and Tibetan Buddhist masters, hospice providers and is a graduating student in the Dark Woods Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training. Her work is grounded in these lineages as well as Somatic tools, Internal Family Systems work & Reiki.
Jane is a Jewish anti-Zionist who believes we were born for these times, and a lifelong activist, with a focus on allyship in anti-colonist struggles. She is also a proud lesbian who has always represented and collaborated with other LGBTQ2S folx.
Jane has built her own active practice in Sow the Seeds of Healing to support individuals as well as groups in somatic grief and trauma work.
Tuesday March 10th @ 4pm pacific / 7pm EST
Roots of Ritual '26 Grief Tending Foundations Training Open House
with Josea & jane
Join us for this live Q & A: