Facilitated by Rev. Rhetta Morgan, Elle Zaspel, Amy Mermaid Isakov, Meghan Anne Dwyer, Naila Francis, & Joachim Francis
Pay-What-You-Wish
Laurel Hill West, Conservatory
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In times of grief and upheaval, singing together helps us to metabolize our sorrows. We sing to move our sadness, our rage, our longing and all that’s heavy on our hearts through the body. And we sing to find connection in our grief, to remember we’re not alone. This welcoming, nonjudgmental space will include group singing, embodied toning and vocalizing, as well as space to share your griefs out loud and offer your own medicine songs. All losses, from the personal to the collective, are welcome. Join us to help turn our sorrowing into a communal balm.
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Salt Trails is a Leeway Foundation Award-winning interdisciplinary collective of healers, artists, ministers and activists, several of whom work with grief and death. Since 2021, the collective has been offering community grief rituals to the public. Salt Trails emerged from a collective desire to destigmatize and normalize the human experience of grieving, reclaim grief as sacred and vital to our collective healing and offer public grief spaces where we can witness and validate each other’s sorrows as a reminder that we are not alone.
Salt Trails Members
Rev. Rhetta Morgan is an interfaith minister, facilitator, artist and singing healer whose work encompasses the intersections of spirituality, creativity and activism to contribute to a more just world. Elle Zaspel is a licensed social worker, grief therapist, and a former co-founder and death doula with the Philly Death Doula Collective. Her work and personal life center justice and liberation. Amy Mermaid Isakov is a shamanic teacher and ritual artist. Her work is rooted in helping as many people as possible return to the truth of interconnection in these times of dire beauty. Meghan Anne Dwyer is a ceremonialist, shamanic guide and yoga teacher whose work is in service to the body and the Earth. Naila Francis is a grief guide and tender, death midwife, poet and interfaith minister. She believes in the work of grieving as a portal to fully inhabiting our aliveness. Joachim Francis is a musician, artist, worship leader, drum circle facilitator and super-awesome dude.