Honouring Spirit Babies: Grief ritual for perinatal loss

Sunrise grief ritual for women who live with perinatal loss.

The breadth and depth of perinatal loss is a mycelium network of emotions and experiences. Whether your loss is recent or long past, no matter how small your baby, you are welcome to honour and safely share as we meet, make and ritualise our spirit babies.

When loss happens, it is too often the case we feel isolated in our experience. This is a communal space for grief; a place to metabolise and make with our hands, put our love into action, cultivate compassion and create bonds of remembrance for our treasured souls who flew.

This series of three rituals invites you to tend the wounds of loss, practice what it means to meet in our shared humanity without fixing, without the check box of "healing" - simply being with what is.

Come, connect, make, move, listen and share. You and your grief is so very welcome.


21 NOV 6am - 8am // Locating loss 
A sunrise circle and ritual to acknowledge and tend the parts of us that fractured, ruptured, splintered off in loss.

28 NOV 6am - 8am // Umbilical Twine
A sunrise circle, making a twine umbilical cord from plant fibre representing the physical and spiritual bonds with our beloved babies.

5 DEC 6am - 8am // Womb to Womb
A sunrise ritual which will weave in the elements of our two earlier rituals. A practice of re/imagining and re/claiming grief. Together we share and open the apertures of our hearts to allow greater compassion and love into the wounds. We celebrate our entanglements with the wider world and offer our sorrow to the Mother who holds us all.


In this ritual series, we seek to normalise the depth and breadth of perinatal grief.
All of what you feel is welcome. We will share and participate in the art of ritual, explore tools for being in right relationship with grief; we neither push it away, nor draw in it. We accompany ourselves and each other, sharing in our collective knowledge, skills and experiences, whilst practicing the necessary art of 'not fixing'. 

This is a series of three rituals.   Each ritual is a sequence of experience that builds on the other, booking is a commitment to attend all three. There are no discounts for attending two of the three. Please note this ritual series is community grief tending, not group psychotherapy. I encourage you to request/seek additional supports in ways that feel appropriate and right for you.

We begin and close on time to protect the integrity of safe containment.

Co-Facilitator: Emma Beattie [she/her] - Before & After Life
Emma has worked, studied and volunteered in caring and deathing since 2020.  She brings an animistic, post humanist, creative and poetic lens to caring, dying, death and grieving. Her death and dying work and studies intersect a long line of lived experienced with personal loss. Her professional origins reside in strategic thinking, storytelling and social impact. She offers practical supports, education and facilitation for people, families, and groups via term courses, workshops, community meets and retreats. Emma is a member of Amitayus Home Hospice Service, Palliative Care NSW, National Loss & Grief Association (NALAG), the Natural Death Advocacy Network (NDAN) and is an advocate for Compassionate Communities Australia.

Supported by Lyn Kemp, Amitayus Home Hospice Service and clinician Kylie Duncan (counsellor, psychotherapist, social worker)

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We possess the profound capacity to metabolise sorrow into something medicinal for our soul, and the soul of the community. The skill of grieving well enables us to become current—to live in the present moment and be available to the electricity of life.

- Francis Weller