Grief Magic self paced study
Join our Self Paced Study of the Grief Magic course for just $40 per month for 12 months! You’ll get a lifetimes access to a seasonal library of resources for attuning to your grief, your magic, your joy, and your ecosystems that you can move through at your own pace!
This library contains access to all the guest workshops and course materials in the live Grief Magic course for a fraction of the cost and time commitment. You’ll also get invitations to monthly grief studios and seasonal book clubs! Cancel anytime.
a seasonal library of grief magic resources
We are ecological, cyclical, magical, creative, grieving, joyous, and powerful beings living under systems which tell us we are none of these things.
I created this course as a way to provide a steady, gentle flow of nourishment for your grieving, joyous, magical, creative, and powerful self… to affirm the wisdom of your animal body, to welcome you as you are into each season, to support you as you attune to both yourself and the ecosystems you are a part of.
I am often approached by people who are seeking grief support and don’t know where to start.
I curated Grief Magic’s self paced library for those who want an ecosystem of support in their grief tending, magical, and creative practices in troubled times.
This course follows the wheel of the year and is meant to be perused at YOUR pace for years to come. It's better thought of as a curated library than a course. Go as deep into those aisles as you want, or touch in with just one of the prompts or resources or workshops and know the rest is there when you're ready.
The self paced study is a great option for you if…
You want to find ways to link your creative practice and grief process
You are interested in grounding your creative, magical, and grief support practices in the seasons
You are looking to hunker down with resources, rituals, and your creative process on your own, rather than participate in the community or collaborative aspects of the course
You’re not really a zoom or online calls person (except occasionally)
You want to move through materials at your own pace
The live class filled before you were able to sign up
What’s included
Each season*, you’ll receive:
An audio recording and PDF summary handout of seasonal/ ecological stories and inspiration for grief and creative process
Recordings of all bonus workshops and studios with guest instructors
Invitations to the live book club sessions as well as a group chat on discord
A PDF of with creative prompts drawing inspiration from each season
A PDF guide to a grief ritual or practice inspired by the season
A PDF list of additional resources
Access to a discord specifically for other self paced study participants
1 year membership to monthly live grief studios
Invitations to monthly live study halls in which to read magical texts alongside one another
Additional bonus recordings of exercises and materials released throughout the year
*There are 6 seasons included in the course, beginning in April 2025 and moving through April 2026 - see the main course page for a more detailed outline of seasonal themes!
What’s not included
Live or recorded access to Grief Magic Cohort zoom sessions (besides recordings of bonus workshops with guest instructors and book club sessions)
Cost
$40 per month for 12 months or one payment of $400 $340 for those who select one payment and sign up by June 15th with the code GEMINI
What participants are saying
“only half a season in, and my heart + spirits been blossoming in ways it hasn't since childhood…
from folklore + myth to politicized somatics to quantum physics, it's so much more than i expected. i can't attend the live classes because of my baby, so it's so nice to have the library to watch at my own leisure, and the discord to connect to and chat with everyone else through…. I've done grief work through therapy, body work, a death doula course, and haven't encountered anything as full-bodied, inspiring and as rich a community as this. the creativity and geurilla mysticism be flowin!
@motherwortandrose is as true and rooted in what they speak to as it gets.”
— Brianna, Grief Magic Participant
Meet our guest magicians/Instructors
Danica boyce
Danica Boyce is a writer and educator in vernacular spirituality, folklore and song. She’s called to labour at the dream of undoing the wounds of imperialism by sowing love and connection to the living world.
For the past seven years Danica has been producing the popular Fair Folk Podcast, a research-based show making information about traditional cultures of Europe available to folks around the world.
Dori midnight
Dori Midnight is a community care worker, ritual artist, theologian, writer, and deep listener oriented towards collective healing and liberation. For over two decades, Dori has woven rituals and practiced intuitive, community based healing in one-on-one sessions and in radical movement spaces, in collaboration with the seen and unseen, plants, stones, songs, and more. Dori offers workshops on rituals and remedies for unraveling times, re-enchanting Jewish ancestral wisdoms as a liberatory practice, and queer magic and healing. Supported and inspired by a wide web of dreamers, witches, artists, and web workers, Dori’s work is also rooted in feminist, decolonial and abolitionist scholarship, queer liberation, and disability and healing justice work. Dori has been in deep cahoots with movement work for Palestinian liberation, prison abolition, and queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice. Dori lives on the occupied lands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc, by the Quinnehtukqut River, also known as Northampton, Massachusetts.
naila francis
Naila Francis is a certified grief coach and death midwife, an interfaith minister and a writer/poet. As the founder of This Hallowed Wilderness, she helps people transform their relationship to grief and loss through holistic, heart-centered individual support, workshops, community grief tending and rituals. Her work is often informed by her love of poetry, nature and community. She is also a co-founder of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective normalizing and holding space for grief through community rituals. An ardent joy enthusiast, Naila believes in grieving well as a liberatory practice that deepens our capacity for pleasure, connection and compassion.
You can follow her on Instagram and Facebook @thishallowedwilderness and learn more about her work at www.thishallowedwilderness.com
peia luzzi
Peia Luzzi is an American born song collector, writer and multi-instrumentalist based in the mountains of Appalachia.
Like water from a deep well, she draws inspiration from her ancestral roots of Celtic and Old World European folk music. With a voice that dances nimbly from Child Ballads and 17th C. Irish laments, to Scottish Waulking Songs, and Bulgarian mountain calls, she has traveled & studied extensively over the past 12 years to reconnect with her own ancestral song tradition. With three studio albums to date and international touring since 2014, Peia has acquired a dedicated and diverse following around the globe.
Tom Hirons
Tom has been storytelling publicly for over 15 years and writing for much longer. In 2015, he co-launched Hedgespoken travelling storytelling theatre and Hedgespoken Press and these are often his main focus, elliptical approaches to changing the world, blessed with plenty of Trickster and a good helping of unfathomable magic.
Essentially a cheerful fellow driven to apoplexy and grief by the madness of our times, Tom is calmed most effectively by walking on Dartmoor, by sleeping in the deep greenwood and by the sound of true words spoken.
Tom hopes his work provokes you into a deeper relationship with this marvellous world, or sings a remembering song to you, or inspires some kind of cathartic fit that takes you home via the stars… There's much to lament and grieve, and much to be angry about and take action against, but to be alive is an incredible thing. We do not know when death or disaster will take us, so let us live fully while we may and nourish the web of life around us as much as we possibly can.
Camille Sapara Barton
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports organisations to flow through transitions. Their work creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. Camille supports people to reduce stress and increase resilience, while navigating change. They also offer trauma informed facilitation and consultancy to support cultural workers, funders and those working with socially engaged topics.
Camille’s movement practice explores the interplay between bodies, words and vibration by weaving dance, clowning, somatics and sonics. Their work aims to deepen ancestral communication technologies and grow imagination gardens.
Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024). Based in Amsterdam, they designed and directed MA Ecologies of Transformation (2021 - 2023) which explored how embodiment and socially engaged art making can create change through the body, into the wider world.
Xenia Marie Ross Viray
Xenia Marie Ross Viray (she/they) is an imagination healer, frequency artist, and creativity catalyst. She is the eldest of three sisters, and her name means kindness to strangers. Born as a brick-and-mortar fashion business, Myths of Creation is a container for experiments, art, writing, and gatherings at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and meaning-making. Xenia guides spirited innovators who want to bring their natural genius into form. Her offerings include Create Your Cosmology: a course in Authentic Belief Creation, Imaginal Temple, a creative mystical mentorship, Emanate: Business School for Mystics, Garden of the Imaginal Substack, and an evolving cornucopia workshops which you can find at MythsofCreation.com and @mythsofcreation on IG.
Perdita Finn
Perdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the feral fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. They are currently at work on their next book together Circles Not Lines: Spiritual Community Beyond Patriarchy. To find out more about her devotion to “ecology not theology” visit wayoftherose.org
In addition to extensive study with Zen masters, priests, spirit workers, and healers, she apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic. Perdita Finn now teaches popular workshops on Getting to Know the Dead. Participants are empowered to activate the miracles in their own lives with the help of their ancestors and recover their own intuitive magic. Her book Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World is an intimate journey through her recovery of these lost ways. She speaks widely on how to collaborate with those on the other side, on the urgent necessity of a new romantic animism, and on the sobriety that emerges when we claim the long story of our souls. Her next book is The Body of My Mother.
She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
Yumi sakugawa
Yumi Sakugawa (she/they) is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan interdisciplinary artist based in Tongva land and the author of several published books including Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe and There Is No Right Way to Meditate. Her multimedia installations have been exhibited at the Japanese American National Museum, the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Her newly released affirmation deck COSMIC COMFORT is now out in the universe.
Lee Datura
she/they) OIC, RCST
Lee is a somatic practitioner and biodynamic craniosacral therapist. Her work centers supporting folks healing from burnout, emotional and physical trauma and creating a deeply compassionate container for learning tools to support the nervous system. She offers 1:1 somatic coaching in person or online as well as group nervous system workshops and courses. She believes healing means coming home to our very nature, that we are fractals of the inconceivable magic of the ecosystem, planet and galaxy around us & that healing happens in relationship.
Website: www.daturasomatics.com
IG: datura_somatics
Damiana Calvario
Damiana Calvario is a Mixed woman of color, daughter, sister, caregiver, community member, survivor, and first generation immigrant. Her practice, rooted in care work and mutual aid, blends together her Mexican roots, mixed upbringing, food as medicine, Curanderismo studies, Traditional Mexican Medicine and western herbalism training.
Damiana’s instagram @laluneria
francis cimarron
Francis Cimarron (they/them) identifies as white, disabled, queer, a solo parent, Jewitch, woodland creature, performing musician, craftsperson, ritual artist, tarot reader, somatic practitioner and educator.
Their primary music project is Mother Marrow, a dark, ritual folk expression, drawing from a symbology deeply interwoven with the natural world, and exploring the ways that relationship can transmute suffering into beauty. Music and art as a communal sacrament is the thread that runs throughout this work.
They have been inviting groups into communal song, leading rituals, and teaching nature awareness and ancestral arts at earth skills gatherings for 15+ years.
Trained as both a birth doula, and a hospice volunteer, Francis continues to pursue further education to better support these transitional times.
faq
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I created this course for people like us! Keeping up is fake! There are no bad students! This course follows the wheel of the year and is meant to be perused at YOUR pace for years to come. It's better thought of as a curated library than a course. Go as deep into those aisles as you want, or touch in with just one of the prompts or resources or workshops and remember this resource is designed to SUPPORT you attuning to yourself, not berate yourself for not doing enough.
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This is for all of us who want to create space for our creative expression- and one of the things that makes this space beautiful is getting to see all the differences in approaches, levels of experience, mediums used, etc. You will not be alone as a beginner or as someone who has been at it for a while!
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Each season*, you’ll receive:
A PDF summary handout (and audio recording) of seasonal/ ecological stories and inspiration for grief and creative process
A PDF of with creative prompts drawing inspiration from each season
A PDF guide to a grief ritual or practice inspired by the season
A PDF list of additional resources
Recordings of bonus workshops with guest instructors
Access to a discord specifically for other slow study participants
Invitations to the live book club sessions as well as a group chat on discord
Invitations to monthly live grief studios
*There are 6 seasons included in the course, beginning in April 2025 and moving through April 2026.
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Live or recorded access to Grief Magic Course zoom sessions (besides recordings of bonus workshops with guest instructors and book clubs)
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You will receive downloadable course materials each season, as they are released throughout the year. I will post them on our course page as well as email you to let you know when new materials have been uploaded.
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As long as you complete your payment plan, you will have lifetime access to the course player and materials. All materials also are downloadable files, so you will have lifetime access to those which you download even if you cancel your subscription.
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Unfortunately, no (unless that cohort is still open, but they usually fill before they begin!). Consider your options carefully and choose the course option that makes the most sense for you!
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Yes, if you are on a payment plan for the self paced study. While refunds for prior months or 1 time payments are unavailable, you can cancel your remaining subscription at any time. Please note, if you cancel your subscription, you will lose access to our course page - so please download materials you wish to keep from prior months.
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Please double check your spam folder. Emails from me should come from the address info@motherwortandrose.com or marajune24@gmail.com. If you still haven’t found anything, please email me to let me know!
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YES. There are scholarships available for those in need- just email me @ info@motherwortandrose.com and let me know if you're looking for a partial or full scholarship. 🌸