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Hello friends,
The morning after the conversation I had with
Britton about the power of WATER for the Element Sessions she emailed me to say that she had woken with a sense she wanted to share a little more with us all around the healing and holding power of water when it comes to grief and loss.She offered to share with us a practical embodiment practice, a water ritual, as a way to honour our loss and express our grief, a way to be with our heartbreak, which has been immense for us as a species this last year and personally for each of us in many different ways.
And so a few days later we met again and recorded this beautiful offering. Easkey explores how our relationship with grief is closely associated with ebb, a sense of withdrawing inward, a feeling of emptiness, a sense of murkiness. How neither ebb nor grief are valued or allowed space in our society. How the process of grieving is one of making space for what wants to emerge.
She speaks about water as a holding element. As a memory keeper. How so many world myths around loss and death and grief involve water, how today this continues in rituals such as the paddle out ceremonies of surfers and other ocean going people.
She shares here a simple yet powerful way of creating one’s own water ritual, which can be supportive as a way of honouring a loved one, a loss within ourselves, a loss in our world and is also a way to enhance your connection with the water.
To listen to my full conversation about the WATER Element with Easkey, you can head here:
And if you’d like to read more suggested water rituals, I’d highly recommend Easkey’s fascinating book Ebb & Flow.
Thanks to Easkey for her wonderful wisdom around this powerful element.
Layla x
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