Grief tending is a core offering of Stellar Village!


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Membership is an affordable all-access pass to everything online in the village - grief spaces, Village Hall, community singing, and workshops. Co-create with us!

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What to Expect

The practice of leaning into our grief together, really feeling it in our bodies, bones, and spirits, nourishes belonging and care across all lines of division and oppression.

These Zoom calls for communal grief sharing are led by Oregon-based grief-tender, Sabrina Simon, with the support of a rotating co-facilitator. All grief is welcome, however each call might have the opportunity to focus on a particular flavor or 'gate' of grief.

  • Growing Our Grief Skillset Together

    Open to All Members

    This is our official monthly grief container for members. If you're a member, it's also open to folks in your physical space, or if you have a Family Pass, you can invite friends by Zoom.

    Volunteer grief tenders and tech supporters: please email us if you want to be part of this.

  • Grief & Praise Format

    Somatic experiences of grief

    Adapted from Josea Crossley's Through the Dark Woods Grief Support Group, "Grief and Praise" calls lead participants through the pendulation between gratitude and grief through somatic meditation, writing exercises, sharing, song, and movement/dance. This format helps participants to exercise the importance of emotional pendulation, allowing us to tap into deep spaces without slipping into a state of overwhelm or dysregulation.

  • Fourth Saturdays in Zoom

    Usually!

    10 am - noon Pacific on the Fourth Saturday of each month.

    We reserve the right to be a little flexible. See the Calendar to double-check the dates.

    [For example, we already know that the Saturday of February 2025 is going to be on February 15 instead because Sabrina will be assisting at an in-person grief ritual in Corvallis on the 22nd.]

Grief Space Coordinator

Sabrina anchors our monthly grief experience in the Village Hall, co-facilitating with other grief tenders from our community.

Sabrina Simon

Sabrina is a world traveler, singer, and a Creatrix and contributor towards a new embodied culture. She uses embodiment practices, ritual, song, yoga, breathwork and Thai yoga massage in a beautifully woven form of facilitating emotional release. She values the processes of emotional release through cathartic expressions along with bringing support and safety to the nervous system.

Sabrina was initiated into her grief work by the loss of her son, Jude, during preterm labor in 2022. Since then, she has made her grief her ally and greatest teacher. She aims to bring the conscious tending of grief to her communities and especially to underserved populations.

Sabrina has completed 700 hours of Yoga Teacher Training through School Yoga Institute and the Paramanand Institute of Yoga Sciences and Research; she learned Thai Yoga Massage through Hadadi Thai Massage in Lisbon, Portugal; she studied sacred space holding through the Kula Collective in Guatemala; she is currently completing a year-long Grief Facilitation Training with Through The Dark Woods based in B.C. and she has learned to use her gift of song through many ceremonies over the world.

For those based in Eugene OR, you can reach out to her for more information about her Thai Yoga Massage sessions at [email protected].

Some quotes that inspire us!

“We are born fully knowing how to grieve. We cry naturally to feel better, to unburden ourselves and take a few pounds off our shoulders and souls.

If there is a way for everyone to grieve openly, I believe it will also diminish the blaming and shaming that goes on between the races.”

Sobonfu Somé was the author of "The Spirit of Intimacy : Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships"

“Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.

Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. ”

Martin Prechtel is the author of "The Smell of Rain on Dust."

“My daily practice is to wake and immediately bring my attention to this thought: 'I am one day closer to my death. So how will I live this day? How will I greet those I meet? How will I bring soul to each moment? I do not want to waste this day.' ”

Francis Weller is the author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief.

“Embrace your grief for there your soul will grow.”

Carl Jung

“The only way is by being in community that can feel, and grieve, and strategize, and celebrate. That's the only thing that actually sustains me.

I can only face things because I'm held, and because I'm also holding. Every time someone in our community is killed in this way, it reverberates.”

Prentis Hemphill is the author of "What It Takes to Heal"