Bright Shadow creates spaces for community, healing, and reconnection for those grieving losses to and of the natural world.
Our offerings integrate shared story, somatic practice, outdoor play, and ceremony. We welcome all parts of self – light and shadow – exploring connection through collective grief and expanding our capacity for love, purpose, and awe.
Headwaters Retreat
A three day immersion into the expansive aspects of grief and loss, equally into joy and awe. This flagship offering is for folks who have lost a loved one to an outdoor pursuit and are ready to open to holistic healing. A blend of outdoor movement, somatic practices, shared story, optional individual counseling, ceremony, and community building in nature, join us for a breakthrough weekend.
Council
In this monthly online gathering we honor our individual and collective joys and losses. Each council includes a grounding exercise, a prompt or poem related to grief and joy, to light and shadow, and open time for participants to share - speaking from the heart, listening with the heart.
There is power in hearing the words of others, there is healing in being held by a community of witnesses. We invite you to join us.
Community
Bright Shadow is a co-created endeavor. We welcome and appreciate the diversity of human experiences to help us learn from one another and foster a community oriented approach to healing. We invite you to follow along through social media and blog posts, and also reach out to share your own insights, learnings, and gifts to this ever growing community.
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” John O’Donohue
