Opening to Grief – Making Space for Love, Loss, and What We Carry
Part of The Body Remembers Freedom Series
with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Sponsored by New York Insight Meditation Center
This session invites us to gently open to grief as a living, embodied experience. Through meditation, reflection, simple movement, and welcoming our voices, we practice meeting sorrow with compassion rather than avoidance. By honoring what has been lost while staying connected to ourselves and one another, we discover how grief, when welcomed, can deepen our capacity for love, connection, and belonging.
This workshop is part of The Body Remembers Freedom, a monthly series that brings together meditation, dharma, and embodied practice in a way that is relational, grounded, and alive. Each session includes time for meditation and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay, a playful and powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to access the wisdom of the body.
Participants are supported to be:
More grounded and connected to their bodies and to one another
More accountable to themselves and to community
Reconnected to joy, creativity, and inner resource
Better able to meet life, and themselves, with compassion and presence
In times that can feel scary, overwhelming, or isolating, these gatherings offer a place to put the phone down, release accumulated stress, and reconnect with what feels trustworthy and alive. We gather to remember the sacred in ordinary experience and to be held in the support of community.
No experience with meditation or movement is required. You are welcome exactly as you are, with curiosity and a willingness to be present.
The Body Remembers Freedom is offered monthly on the first or second Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 pm ET and is offered in a hybrid format. During the InterPlay portion of the evening, Linds Roberts guides participants joining on Zoom, while Kaira Jewel guides those attending in person. The full group then comes back together for the closing practice. You are welcome to register for a single session, select multiple dates, or join the full series at a discounted rate.
Sessions are recorded and shared with all registrants after the program, so you are welcome to sign up even if you cannot attend live.
Register for one session or the full series (at a discount!).
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