A return to the forgotten feminine ways of mourning
This is the ceremony many of us never received.
The one we needed when something ended and no one marked it. When love was lost and life kept moving. When grief settled into the body, the womb, the bones… with no place to go.
Grief As Devotion is a ceremonial space to acknowledge the deaths that go unseen. Not only the loss of people, but the loss of selves, identities, dreams, relationships, and ways of being.
Here, grief is not treated as pathology. It is approached as initiation.
Meeting grief in the body
This ceremony moves beyond story and analysis. We enter through the body. Through breath, movement, sound, and sensation.
Grief is invited to move - without overwhelming, without drowning, without being pushed away. Not to be healed, but to be held.
Together, we explore what it means to:
- honour grief without becoming consumed by it
- tend to sorrow with respect and tenderness
- be witnessed in our grief, and to witness others in theirs
- learn how grief can live with us, without closing the heart to life
This is a space where grief becomes devotion. A living relationship rather than something to “get over”.
Meet your Facilitators
Together, Aaria Clair and Laura Lushington create ceremonial spaces where grief is met with presence, respect, and embodied care.
Their work weaves somatic movement, breath, sound, and ritual into a grounded ceremonial container that allows grief to move without overwhelming - to be felt, witnessed, and honoured in the body.
Rooted in years of experience holding women through thresholds of change, loss, and transformation, Aaria and Laura bring a balance of tenderness and steadiness to this work. Their approach is body-led rather than conceptual, inviting participants out of analysis and into direct, lived experience.
Aaria Clair
Aaria Clair is a ceremonialist, doula, breathwork facilitator and space holder for women navigating the thresholds of life, death, birth and transformation.
Her work is rooted in embodiment, ancestral reverence and the understanding that emotions - especially grief - are sacred medicines when met with presence. Drawing from years of experience in women’s circles, rites of passage, undisturbed birth, and shamanic breathwork, Aaria creates ceremonial containers that are tender, grounded and unflinching.
Her approach honours the raw and holy expressions of grief while offering practices that support regulation, integration and truthful embodiment.
Laura Lushington
Laura is a dance teacher and movement facilitator with over 15 years of experience in ballet and contemporary dance. Her work has evolved from structured classical forms into intuitive, body-led movement that supports nervous system regulation and emotional integration.
Laura weaves somatic movement with sound healing to create spaces where the body can soften, listen, and lead. Her approach invites participants to reconnect with their innate sense of safety, rhythm, and embodied presence - particularly during times of transition and change.
Want to join our next Ceremony or book a private Grief As Devotion?
