Wendy Black Stern – Transform Loss Into Life Reimagined

We begin this journey by co-creating a safe space for your grief to be felt, expressed, shared, and healed. Together, we’ll create a virtual circle that offers unconditional love and acceptance — where all experiences and feelings are acknowledged and validated.

You’ll learn to be a witness for yourself and others, cultivating compassion, self- awareness, and connection. Trust will be created to invite greater vulnerability and authentic sharing.

And, we’ll explore the relationship between our thoughts, emotions, spirit, and physical bodies to create a learning community in which our grief serves as a catalyst for personal growth and transformation.

In this session, you’ll discover:

An understanding of the group’s sharing guidelines, fostering a greater sense of safety and connection to others who are grieving

A feeling of connection within community that creates a safe container for vulnerability and sharing

How somatic movement and mindfulness open the door to self-discovery, acceptance, and the release of difficult emotions

How gentle yoga therapy practices can support you in bringing old wounds to the surface to be transformed into self-understanding, love, and gratitude

An overview of the philosophy and primary teachings of mindful grieving

30 minutes of gentle movement to help you integrate the week’s teachings, your emotional shifts, and new self-discoveries

Opening to the belief that you have to “feel it to heal it,” you’ll dive deep into somatic exploration to cultivate greater presence and awareness of the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and spirit within you. You’ll learn how to track your emotions, including where they “live” in your body, and to courageously lean into your feelings, rather than avoid them.

You’ll also explore the art of holding sacred space for others and the power of being witnessed in your authentic expression. Through shared experiences of loss and a compassionate group presence, you’ll come to know and love yourself more fully.

In this session, you’ll discover:

How to feel your grief and notice the emotions and sensations held in your body, so you can move through and release them

Tools for cultivating greater awareness of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies

How to witness yourself and others and serve as a mirror and sounding board — which can ultimately open you to loving yourself more fully

The value of grieving in the collective, which offers you a reflection of your true nature and the light that can grow out of the darkness of grief

30 minutes of gentle movement to help you integrate the week’s teachings, your emotional shifts, and new self-discoveries

When our hearts break open, there’s an inherent opportunity to explore our shadow aspects — those parts of ourselves we hide from or keep out of the light.

This week, through mindfulness practices and somatic exploration, you’ll learn to illuminate these shadow selves as pathways to supporting, loving, and accepting who you truly are.

Self-love is also born from acceptance of your loss — one of the most challenging aspects of the grieving process. Yet, when acceptance is connected to honoring and loving oneself through grief — regardless of how painful the circumstances — powerful transformation can occur. You can not only move through your grief, you can stop resisting yourself and your life, which opens the door to true peace​.

In this session, you’ll discover:

Greater self-understanding, compassion, and self-love through gentle yoga therapy and somatic movement

A safe space in which to explore your authentic relationship with yourself and release old stories and self-limiting beliefs

A greater understanding of the word “acceptance,” and support to release resistance to howyour life is now

How to listen to your heart’s desires as you explore your relationship with acceptance, forgiveness, and self-love

30 minutes of gentle movement to help you integrate the week’s teachings, your emotional shifts, and new self-discoveries

The journey of grief can be a catalyst for personal growth and transformation — when we’re able to sit quietly with ourselves and receive the wisdom that can only come from within.

This week, you’ll explore what you’re learning about yourself and the world, not in spite of your grief, but because of it. You’ll learn how to open yourself to the teachings of your loss and its hidden gifts.

You’ll be supported to shed the armor that protects your heart so you can be fully seen and loved for who you are.

In this session, you’ll discover:

The hidden teachings and gifts within the grieving process that enable you to allow more love and life to flow in

Increased clarity and awareness of what you’re learning about yourself, your relationships, and the world as a result of your loss

How you can bring the teachings of your grief more fully into your life as a pathway to gratitude

Your internal and external resources for accessing your inner wisdom and a greater sense of freedom in your life

How to be vulnerable as you explore the teachings of your shadow selves

An understanding of how you guard your heart, so you can become aware of when this is serving you and when it’s not

30 minutes of gentle movementto help you integrate the week’s teachings, your emotional shifts, and new self-discoveries

When you experience a loss, a part of you dies — the person you once were before undergoing a metamorphosis. The identity crisis inherent in this process calls for you to grieve the loss of the old you… and at the same time, to be aware of and open to the potential of who you’re becoming​.

This can feel stressful, painful, scary, and vulnerable, but ultimately it has the power to lead you to profound transformation and a newfound sense of purpose. From this powerful place, you feel greater love for and a deeper connection to yourself — gifts that can ripple outward to touch the lives of others.

In this session, you’ll discover:

Support to explore the evolution of your identity through your experience of loss

The “Tunnel of Terror” as a metaphor to better understand your personal evolution of identity

Gentle guidance and support to grieve the parts of yourself that have died as you open to new parts that are ready to be birthed

Your true heart’s desires and your emerging path and purpose

An increased awareness of your inner spark and resiliency

Greater authenticity as you explore who you are now, as a result of your loss

30 minutes of gentle movement to help you integrate the week’s teachings, your emotional shifts, and new self-discoveries

This week, you’ll discover how grieving can open you to passion, purpose, and even a willingness to change. The new you, percolating beneath the surface, needs your attention, and you’ll receive support in stepping out of your comfort zone to try on this new identity.

You’ll learn tools and practices for gaining courage to breathe life into the parts of yourself that are ready to emerge… exploring what brings you joy, connects you to others — and yourself — and ignites passion and purpose.

In this session, you’ll discover:

Guidance to explore your dreams, desires, and fears around change

Mindfulness and somatic movement practices to explore where you’re holding back and how to let go

The blocks that hinder your process of change and how to help your soul’s purpose be realized

Greater awareness and support to live the change you desire

30 minutes of gentle movementto help you integrate the week’s teachings, your emotional shifts, and new self-discoveries