This retreat is a weekend of rest, reclaimed joy, remembrance, and sacred reflection for mothers grieving the living—those loving a child through addiction, mental illness, estrangement, incarceration, or rupture in the family system.
Through practices of embodied movement and storytelling, deep rest, communal song, creative expression, and the healing power of kinship, we create space to meet what has been carried—to feel, honor, and integrate layers of grief while remembering love and reimagining hope that endures.
Guided by movement and voice alchemist Joy Lynn Okoye and ancestral vocalist Sheniqua Trotman, you are invited to move, sound, and express through the arts what words cannot hold—to remember through story and rhythm, to breathe through the ache, and to let body and voice find liberation and become one prayer. Expect to learn creative tools drawn from the SoulEase™ Method, a trauma-informed approach that goes beyond traditional ideas of coping with ambiguous loss.
Within this sacred kinship of mothers and maternal caregivers, we witness and are witnessed, drawing strength from our shared presence and the collective remembrance that freedom—like love—can still rise from pain.
At the heart of this work is the practice of holding grief and gratitude, loss and love, and release and remembrance in the same breath. Within this kinship, sorrow and joy coexist, each deepening the other.
No previous experience in movement, yoga, or singing is needed.
