Facilitated by Krista Nelson
Pay-What-You-Wish
Laurel Hill East
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Embrace a journey of renewal in a place between worlds. Join Ecotherapist Krista Nelson for a one-hour immersive journey through the cemetery, where we will walk through a garden of stories—each step an opportunity to reflect, release, and reconnect. This is a sacred space to honor grief not as an ending, but as a passage—where loss becomes a teacher and memory a guide. Through gentle prompts and healing rituals, we will walk together in ceremony, embracing grief as a living, evolving process that moves us from sorrow to grounding, from love to renewal.
In this experience, we’ll explore the stories of loss we carry and reflect on what those stories would say if they were marked in stone. We’ll consider the parts of ourselves that feel solidified, as though etched in time, and how they may be ready to be released. As we move through the ritual, we’ll honor the mystery of life’s unknowns with a somatic gratitude closing—physically expressing our thankfulness for the strength we’ve found in both holding on and letting go.
This walk is an invitation to pause, reflect, and experience the transformative power of grief as it guides us toward renewal.
Participants are encouraged to join Krista for a Lenape Mourning Song workshop immediately following the Grief Walk.
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Krista Nelson bridges the gap between people and the natural world through ritual, language, and deep listening. As founder of Nature as Lover, she invites participants to speak with trees, listen to water, and enter in relationship with the living earth. Krista is a kikehwèt hitkwike, a healer among the trees or ecotherapist with the Philadelphia Ecotherapy project and the Fairmount Park Commission. She honors her Lenape ancestry through weekly Lenape language study under the guidance of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and has recently become an official luwensu wintemakwi, a Lenape language teacher. Krista enjoys playing Native American-style flutes and creating sacred talismans on a canvas of Native American finger weaving. She says both flute and weaving tell the untold stories of her ancestors. She lives in Philadelphia with her five children and six grandchildren.