Name: Tending The Hearth – Winter Grief Ritual Weekend
Start: 2026-02-28T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-01T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Pause Meditation Studio

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Looking to attend events related to death or loss? Whether you’re jonesing for a cemetery tour, searching for a grief circle, or interested in attending an end of life planning workshop, you can find a variety of events, classes, workshops, and gatherings on all facets of death, dying, and grief here.

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February 28, 2026 @ 10:00 am - March 1, 2026 @ 6:00 pm

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						1 1 event, 1 11:00 am - 2:00 pm DEATH IMMERSION A 3-Part Journey Into Mortality, Meaning & Rebirth February 1, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm DEATH IMMERSION A 3-Part Journey Into Mortality, Meaning & Rebirth 🌙 Death Immersion: A 3-Part Journey Into Mortality, Meaning & Rebirth Guided by Paige Haviland — Death Midwife, Grief Guide and Trauma-Informed Reiki Master Teacher Winter is the season of stillness, reflection, and truth-telling. You are invited into a rare and intimate experience: a full-day immersion exploring death not as an ending, but as a threshold — a place where clarity, healing, and renewal awaken. This workshop is tender, profound, creative, and deeply human. It is designed to meet you exactly where you are. Together we move through three transformative rites of passage: ⸻ ✨ PART I — Guided Interactive […] $188
2 0 events, 2	3 0 events, 3	4 0 events, 4	5 0 events, 5	6 0 events, 6	7 1 event, 7 9:30 am - 4:30 pm The Grief Space February 7, 2026 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm The Grief Space A one day workshop providing the opportunity to have your loss seen, heard and honoured. A small group where you be safely and gently supported to begin to process your grief. A combination of simple ritual, working in pairs and letter writing along with somatic work. We will explore concepts of grief and grieving and what is costs us when we don’t know how to actively grieve, something we’re expected to know intuitively but have becoming disconnected from. The intention is that you leave carrying your grief more lightly. $150	8 0 events, 8
9 0 events, 9	10 1 event, 10 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Monthly Wailing Ceremony February 10, 2026 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Monthly Wailing Ceremony This is a monthly offering, happening on the second Tuesday of every month. This offering is designed to support somatically moving our shared and personal grief. We begin to build our container through brief sharing and connecting and then move into movement, vocalizing, wailing, praying, and drumming. We are building community through acknowledging and exploring the shared human experience of grief and loss. $25 – $75	11 0 events, 11	12 0 events, 12	13 0 events, 13	14 2 events, 14 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Dyeing before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death February 14, 2026 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Dyeing before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death In summer 2025, I was in Benin and went to my paternal grandmother’s grave, visiting it for the first time since she died some years ago. Her grave is not just a stone in the ground of a cemetery, but a room within her family’s house, a place where life continues to unfold with death resting beneath us. With my brother, my aunt and my grand mothers’s siblings, we settled in the room, removed the dust, sat, chatted and performed rituals and prayers for her soul to continue resting in peace and wisdom. There, in the presence of her spirit, […] $180, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Dyeing before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death February 14, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Dyeing before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death In summer 2025, I was in Benin and went to my paternal grandmother’s grave, visiting it for the first time since she died some years ago. Her grave is not just a stone in the ground of a cemetery, but a room within her family’s house, a place where life continues to unfold with death resting beneath us. With my brother, my aunt and my grand mothers’s siblings, we settled in the room, removed the dust, sat, chatted and performed rituals and prayers for her soul to continue resting in peace and wisdom. There, in the presence of her spirit, […] $180	15 0 events, 15
16 0 events, 16	17 1 event, 17 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Teeth Become Weapons: Trans Grief and Rage February 17, 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Teeth Become Weapons: Trans Grief and Rage Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space, with the purpose of building connection, skill, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. Our bodies, lives, and very beings are increasingly politicized. Our stories and histories are flattened, made palatable for the sake of survival. Our unique grief becomes increasingly buried and unheard, unshared. What makes it unique? What do we grieve? How does that grief affect us? What prevents us from […] Free	18 0 events, 18	19 0 events, 19	20 0 events, 20	21 0 events, 21	22 0 events, 22
23 0 events, 23	24 0 events, 24	25 0 events, 25	26 0 events, 26	27 0 events, 27	28 1 event, 28 2026-02-28 Tending The Hearth – Winter Grief Ritual Weekend Tending The Hearth – Winter Grief Ritual Weekend February 28, 2026 @ 10:00 am - March 1, 2026 @ 6:00 pm Tending The Hearth – Winter Grief Ritual Weekend A two-day communal grief ritual weekend, held in the Sóme tradition. We will be cooking the ritual through many opportunities to connect with one another as well as ample time for introspection and quietude. We are building community through tending to our shared and personal human experience of grief and loss. This is not a residential weekend it will run Saturday 10-9 and Sunday 10-6. Afternoon and evening meals will be provided. $300 – $500

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Dyeing before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death

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Tending The Hearth – Winter Grief Ritual Weekend

Tending The Hearth – Winter Grief Ritual Weekend

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