Join us for an intimate day retreat to honor sorrows together, experiencing the profound medicine of collective healing that makes grief more bearable through shared vulnerability.
We’ll engage in various rituals designed to open pathways for honoring, releasing, and alchemizing the sorrows within your heart.
These sacred experiences not only provide deep healing in the moment but also equip you with enduring tools to lean into grief throughout life's journey—teaching that our capacity to grieve mirrors our capacity to love.
All types of grief are welcome here
We may feel grief from the loss of a loved one, and it can also include the loss of relationships, shifts in identity and lived experiences, the diminishing of vitality through illness, and more. We also acknowledge the grief arising from the collective, ancestral wounds, and environmental crises or trauma.
This is for you if you wish to:
Seek refuge to heal from death's deep impact on your life
Learn to work with grief as a teacher through gaining powerful tools
Clear the cloud of sorrow to live fully again
Perform sacred rituals to honor & release your grief
Be truly seen and heard in compassionate community
What to Expect?
Craft altars to honor the deaths in our lives
Have somatic release to move any stagnant energy inside our being
Conduct talking and listening circles to share our stories
Receive teachings on navigating death and grief
Experience healing from the physical and spirit guardians of the forest
Tend to our soul through sauna and plant bath energy cleansings
Create nourishment in the community through guided ritual
Reset our nervous systems through sound healing
Partake in optional plant medicine allies, such as rose, blue lotus, and more
About your facilitators
Shaina Garfield is a Death Doula, Grief Guide, Ceremonialist, and the founder of Leaves With You. With her devotion to the sacred continuum of life and death, she extends compassionate support to all beings navigating the dying and grieving processes. Her mission is to cultivate a profound connection with the Earth and the Divine, fostering harmony within the web of life.
Shaina’s approach is deeply rooted in ritual, which she believes is essential for transforming grief, reclaiming spirit, and honoring the profound mystery of death. She offers group and individual grief sessions, hand crafts natural macrame coffins, plans and facilitates pre and post death funerary rituals, and more. Her services are not only for the dying but also for those who experience losses of all kinds throughout life.
Beyond these services, Shaina provides an array of nurturing offerings including Blue Lotus Ceremonies, Rose Healings, and Sound Healing. Through her heartfelt work, Shaina Garfield is reshaping the way we honor and embrace the cycles of life and death.
Stefanie Frank is Founder & Director of ESKFF Nest, Healing Arts refuge and retreat center, Woodstock, NY. Visionary retreat leader, community builder, collaborator, host, and facilitator of spiritually diverse transformational immersive healing art experiences.
Hudson Valley Pscychedelic Society Co-coordinator.
Stefanie's board of directors positions include COSM, Brooklyn Community Healthcare Network, ICEC, HUGS & the ESKFF@Mana Contemporary Arts Center.
Co producer of Permajam festival 2016-present, focusing on Permaculture, live music, prayer, support of indigenous ways & nature education.