Monthly Wailing Ceremony

Monthly Wailing Ceremony
Every Second Tuesday · 6:30 – 9:30 PM

Rose City Grief Tenders

Step into a sacred container for communal grieving and care. Together, we gather around a collective altar, carried by the steady heartbeat of the drum, to move what weighs on the soul. Through ceremony, sharing circle, drumming, poetry and movement, we remember the ancient medicine of grieving - and belonging - in community.

Details:

• Limited to 25 participants

• Please bring objects of strength, sorrow, and beauty for the altar

• Water bottle, tea, journal, blanket are welcome but not required.
  

This space is designed for those who have attended a grief ritual in the past. If you are brand new to grief ritual and wish to attend - WELCOME! - please email us so we can share essential information with you before arriving. The intention of this is to make more space for active grieving together and spend less time setting context and container due to previous time spent in similar containers.

This is an invitation to give voice to sorrow, to wail, to move, and to be witnessed.

Sliding Scale $25 - $75

For questions please email: alyssarosehealingarts@gmail.com

Rose City Grief Tenders

Megan Jeanne has been holding space in the sacred transitional veil as a birth worker for many years. As a seasoned midwife, she has traversed the myriad of emotional landscapes such work invites, walking along side families as they celebrate their greatest joys, confront uncharted territory, grapple with excruciating loss, and navigate everything in between. She is continually awed by the miracle and intimacy of the work she is honored to participate in. Following the thread of sacred transitions, the potential potency of the human experience, and the mysterious unknown, Megan has been led to study Shamanism, working specifically with the Bacsi lineage. This dive into ancient, universal energetic medicine has in some ways felt like a continuation of the space holding and beckoning forth of new(ancient) life that is midwifery. Megan was introduced to grief tending, grief ceremonies, and the importance of reawakening our connection with grief in the West, after having the ultimate honor of sitting with a family member as they chose to transition with Death With Dignity. She has since participated in a grief tending mentorship program, leaning in and developing tools with the guidance of elders and fellow edge walkers. She has attended multiple grief ritual weekends, been studying the works of Malidoma and Sobonofu Some, Francis Weller, and others as she is adding this sacred layer of intimacy into the work she is called to do. She is extremely honored to have the opportunity to meet each participant where they are at and to hold reverence and ritual together.

Ebon Ian is a lifelong multi-instrumentalist, musician, songwriter, and student of the ocean and nature. Finding fluidity in the rhythms of the sea and the natural world have shaped his understanding of life, creativity, and spirituality, teaching him lessons of balance, patience, and interconnectedness. This deep connection influences both his music and healing work.
After a profound spiritual awakening in 2019, Ebon sought clarity and guidance, which eventually led him to an apprenticeship and initiation into the Bacsi tradition of shamanism. In addition to his musical practice, he is a Reiki practitioner and has been deeply involved in grief work, offering support to those navigating loss. Ebon’s journey into grief rituals was solidified after attending a ceremony with Laurence Cole, where he discovered the transformative power of community and belonging in the grief ritual process. This experience led him to pursue a six-month grief ritual mentorship with esteemed elders Laurence Cole, Thérèse Charvet, and Mary Hart. Through all of his work, Ebon remains grounded in the belief that we are meant to walk this path together—guided by spirit, the ancestors, and the support of one another.

Alyssa Rose is a grief guide and life-transition doula in Portland, Oregon. She works with individuals and small groups navigating change and integrating grief. Through her work, she uniquely tends to the body, mind, and spirit of each individual and co-creates beautiful ritual spaces for the deep soul work of grieving. She hosts monthly grief rituals and annual retreats, works with clients one-to-one, and trains other practitioners to support clients in navigating loss. 

With a background in Eastern and Western healing modalities, end of life work, trauma-informed coaching, animist psychology, ancestral medicine, Reiki, Craniosacral Therapy, and Integrative coaching, Alyssa is committed to creating a grief literate culture and developing resilient modern villages. Informed and inspired by the work of Sobonfu Some, Malidoma Some, Laurence Cole, Frances Weller, Stephen Jenkinson, Bill Plotkin, and many more, she studies Earth-based cultures, rituals, and grieving around the world in order to support our remembering and re-invisioning of how to honor and integrate loss as a people.