Description 

Grief can feel isolating and overwhelming, but it is also deeply human—something our bodies are wired to move through together. In a world that has forgotten how to grieve in community, this gathering is a return to ritual, to connection, and to the possibility that grief, while painful, can also be a teacher—tender, transformative, even generative.

As we wind down from the holiday season—a time that can stir up complex and challenging emotions, memories, and stories—we invite you into a space where you don’t have to hold it all alone.

This ritual is an invitation to experience the power of moving through grief in community. We’ll spend time in stillness and sound, with nature and with each other. There will be gentle invitations for writing, sound & movement, a co-created altar of natural objects, and shared music to hold what words can’t. Personal and collective losses are welcome here.

Details

We have a suggested sliding scale of $15-$35, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds! Please contact us at info@theludo.co for support. 

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early to check in seamlessly, as we will not be able to permit entry once the ceremony begins.

• Doors at 5:45 pm
• Event begins at 6 pm
• Ceremony at 6:15 pm
• Closing at 8:30 pm
• Optional integration at <The Space> in Charlestown (address and more information will be sent to registered attendees) 

We invite you to bring photos of loved ones &/or any meaningful objects and offerings for the altar.

Water and some yoga mats and cushions will be available on site, but please bring anything that might make you more comfortable.

Facilitator Bios

• Facilitator: Becca Phillips
  Becca is a practicing massage therapist, public health professional, and an experienced facilitator of compassionate touch, authentic relating, and conscious community events. She views the expression of grief in community as a portal to experiencing our full humanity and a critical tool for connecting our inner and outer worlds in through embodiment, expression, and love.

• Facilitator: Gabrielle Fiedor
  Gabbi is a poet, educator, and dancer passionate about the ways language and movement can transform grief.

• Facilitator: Matt Krolick
  Matt is deeply fascinated by what it means to live as an embodied human. A humanoid robotics engineer by trade, he explores the intersection of science and spiritual practice, drawn to both the mechanics and the mystery of how the body and subconscious mind are inseparably intertwined.

• Vocal Toning: Selah Almquist
  Selah is a reiki practitioner who integrates vocal sound healing, ancestral ceremony, improvisation, somatic practices, and her mental health training in DBT and mindfulness to support embodied healing and emotional regulation.

• Sound Bath Artist: Abby Frechette
  Abby is a meditation guide, licensed massage therapist, Reiki practitioner, and sound bath facilitator based in Massachusetts.

• Reiki & Physical Care: Daniel Montoya
  Daniel is a Reiki Master Teacher and filmmaker devoted to the path of light. For fifteen years, he has offered Reiki as a path to deep rest, healing, and spiritual connection. Through compassion and intuition, he holds space for those seeking to reconnect with their essence.

About the Hosts

The Ludo

The Ludo is a Post-Materialist Playground for more conscious, creative, and connected ways of living. 

Through coaching, classes, and community gatherings, we’re on a mission to bridge the space between what has been and what could be, the personal and the collective, and the sacred and the mundane.

Check out our upcoming offerings here! 

Collective Effervescence

Collective Effervescence is a Boston-based conscious community collective for mindful and mind-expanding individuals to reconnect with what it truly means to be human in urban community. We exist to strengthen the cohesion of adjacent communities and gatherers, while organizing substance-free, low cost/donation-based events to connect authentically through contemplative practices, ritual, shared presence and food; exploring grief, music, play, movement, authentic relating, collaborative art, and compassionate touch in community.

Explore their calendar for more programming like this!