New 1:1 offerings
Care for long grief & qigong for grief and rage
Dear one, dear all,
I have two offerings I would like to share and invite you to receive. They're inspired by my own practices at the moment and are very different kinds of care, as I've been learning ways to integrate personal and collective death and grief care in my daily life and doula work.
What the two kinds of grief companionship share is the virtual, one-on-one format. The mono-attention and intimacy of this kind of encounter is best for my energy right now. I will share some group offerings soon.
Reconnect: care for long grief is a series of four one-on-one sessions focused on sustainable grief care for a loved one who died years ago. This package is for those who learned to adapt without their person or pet, but with the passing of time feel as though they've lost touch with the spirit and presence of their loved one in the story of their life. Tailored to fit your schedule, this series takes place across August and September with the intention to dedicate late summer and vital energy toward growth, fruition, and manifestation for living with long grief.
Qigong for grief and rage is a short one-on-one talk and movement practice that introduces some of the qigong forms I've been practicing lately. Focused on the heart, lungs, and liver, these simple forms have helped to alchemize the intense energy of grief and rage I experience as a witness to violence and so much preventable death on this wounded planet. This is a solidarity offering for urgent care in Gaza – to sign up you make a donation to an organization on the ground delivering life-saving food and aid.
More information about both offerings below. If you know of someone personally who might benefit from this type of support, kindly forward this message their way.
Death and grief are great teachers, but most is learned from the dying, grievers, and carers. We learn on our own but we learn best together. Whatever your situation is, come see me for any death and grief care. I am here to help.
With love and in solidarity,
Staci
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Reconnect: care for long grief
Two or four, 60 min 1:1 sessions tailored to your schedule
in August and September
Online via Zoom
English, closed captioning available
€190 including VAT for two sessions
€300 including VAT for four sessions (for the price of three)
Reconnect is a series of two to four one-on-one sessions focused on sustainable grief care for a loved one who died years ago. This package is for those who learned to adapt without their person or pet, but with the passing of time feel as though they've lost touch with the spirit and presence of their loved one in the story of their life. It's possible to get back in touch with your loved one, and yourself, but it takes some effort to clear back the overgrowth.
The death of a loved one creates an empty place. Imagine this space with ground in the landscape of your life. If you fill or cover that spot, it’s not easy to witness the flowers that are able to grow and bloom in its place. Grieving over time means tending to that place with intention and discovering new ways to nurture the relationship. Through guided exercises, prompts, and rituals, this series gives attention to how such a place can be cared for in meaningful ways.
Within the container of our sessions across August and September, I aim to help you feel connected and resourced. My companionship style is compassionate, imaginative, structured, and action-oriented. In that spirit, Reconnect will support you in many ways, but namely it offers you:
a place to be in continued fullness of your loss
a renewed sense and reassurance of your continuous bond
grief education, literacy, practices and tools for both the spiritually-inclined and the neurobiologically-based
new ways to cherish memories of your loved one; encouragement in finding rituals for connection and medicine in the everyday and for tender anniversaries
awareness of unsettled issues and support in finding closure, for healing is not a destination but a life-long journey
a widening and attunement with your specific ecology of the seen and unseen
increased compassion and attention for the sacredness of life
To begin this series, write to me (staci.bushea@proton.me) and briefly introduce yourself and your loved one with Reconnect in the subject line. I will respond as soon as I can with a scheduler to plan our first meeting. Like with any new offering, I'm not sure how many will feel called to this, but my heart can only handle maybe max six participants across these two months. If need be, we will find a new time frame together or I will refer you to another death/grief worker that might be able to help.
If you are in the throes of acute grief and trying to get your bearings within the first six months and year after a death, I'm here for you too. Please book a free discovery call to see if there's a way I can help but in a different time frame, rhythm and budget.
To learn more about me and my holistic deathcare practice, visit stacibushea.care. Keep in mind that I'm just one cog in the wheel of healing arts. This offering does not intend to substitute any legal, medical, psychiatric or other professional services but is complimentary to other kinds of care you might also receive.
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Qigong for grief and rage
30 minute 1:1 session tailored to your schedule
Online via Zoom
English, closed captioning available
Solidarity offering
Qigong for grief and rage is a short one-on-one talk and movement practice centered on a handful of qigong forms that help alchemize strong emotions toward balance and next action.
I've been learning qigong as a layperson for awhile now and I'm really enthusiastic about the various modalities of Chinese medicine because it centers life and it's for everybody. The subtle yet powerful practice of qigong helps us process emotions in the body through slow, repetitious movements that ask for our attention, humility, and patience. These simple forms that I'd like to share center the heart, lungs, and liver to make sure energy doesn’t become stagnant in these vital areas. Practicing them as preventive care as well as when strong emotions arise has helped me to feel more connected to myself and the world, and empower me with more physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual flexibility and strength.
Lately I've been more focused on the body and bottom-up processing, since we're far past the point of intellectual analysis. At a deeper level, I want to at least have some dominion over the reality of my senses, to continue to bear witness to suffering but resist numbness and shutting down, to move through personal challenges, and to be more present where I am and with what is asked of me in the moment.
I know so many of you can relate to this. So, if you are searching for a new way to be with grief and rage and to support yourself in transitions between engagement and rest, please consider this solidarity offering.
To receive a link to schedule a session, make a donation of at least €10-25 to a mutual aid organization on the ground delivering life-saving food and aid in Gaza, like Reviving Gaza x The Sameer Project, Grassroots Gaza, HEAL Palestine or another vetted org of your choice. Then make a screenshot of your donation and send it to me (staci.bushea@proton.me) with Qigong for grief and rage in the subject line.
*this offering is also available to anyone on the front lines for Palestine or the polycrisis in general, just say so in your email.
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A client shares what it's like to work with me:
"The genuine care that comes from you, Staci, makes me feel safe and accepted the way I am and with what I bring. Although it felt intimate, because of the knowledge you shared it felt also like I was learning something. I could really sense that you speak and work from the heart and that behind all that you share is a deep source of knowledge, experience, and intuition... and most of all a need to really connect. I am truly inspired by the sessions and also a lot by the references and sources you share. I feel you bring in the past and present very beautifully and actually made the imagined future also present, if that makes sense. So from my heart: thank you for all of that."