Walking with Grief in Nature - Edmonton walking group

A place to nurture your heart, body and soul with group connection and gentle gigong practices. * No previous qigong experience required.

We live in a world that teaches us that when we are experiencing emotional pain, we should "stay strong", "keep busy", "grieve alone" and "not burden others with our feelings", and we learn at a very young age that our feelings are not welcome, and can be labeled as "too much" or "too sensitive". Unfortunately, these messages interfere with the natural flow of emotional energy/grief through our bodies, and hence prolongs our suffering.

Truly honouring our broken hearts and our grieving bodies through authentic connection with others and movement promotes the natural flow of our emotions and a healthier grieving process. We are not meant to grieve alone - our nervous systems are created to need the in-person connection of others humans to co-regulate one another. And there is never more important time to connect and co-regulate with other humans than during painful and scary times of loss/grief.
Come join us for a nurturing group experience that your body and heart will not forget! 🥰

This workshop is facilitated by Kimberly Robbie, local Grief/Loss Specialist and Self-Compassion coach, and Jaime Mattae, from Golden Qigong here at Roots on Whyte!

This workshop includes:

• 60mins - grief/loss education, and group connection and sharing (in a casual group circle set-up)
• 10 min break
• 60 mins - intro to qigong, it's relation to healthy grieving, and gentle qigong practice.
• 20 mins - wrap up, questions.
  * Chairs and handouts/pens provided.

What to bring:

• comfortable clothes, indoor shoes, water bottle (NOTE: no outside beverage or food are allowed in the Conference Room. There is a sink in the room for re-filling bottles).

Registration: $55.11
(low income fee available - please ask)

A safe space to share and connect with others who are grieving all types of loss, including death, ends of relationships, betrayal loss, health loss, loss of pet, job loss, moving, infertility, miscarriage, retirement, financial loss, and ANY big life changes.

Just as we are meant to celebrate life's joys together in connection with others, we are also meant to grieve life's losses/changes together in connection with others. Our human nervous systems need quality, in-person connection to co-regulate one another. We are not meant to grieve alone, although our world (and family) teach us early to "stay strong", "not burden others with our feelings", "grieve alone", and "keep ourselves busy/distract ourselves", and that our NORMAL emotions of grief are "too sensitive", "too much" and not welcome. These messages only keep the emotional energy of grief trapped in our bodies, prolonging our struggle.
The intention of this group is about the exact opposite of what we've been taught - this is a safe space to come as you are, whatever your heart and body may be feeling, and to share and connect with others who are also grieving. As we share space and stories together, and practice simple self compassion practices, we see how very similar we are and how very similar the pain of grief feels for us all, regardless of the nature of our loss(es).

This is a drop-in group running monthly on the following Tuesday evenings from 7:30 - 8:30pm.