THERE ARE FORMS OF GRIEF THAT CANNOT FULLY MOVE IN ISOLATION.
S O M E G R I E F A S K S F O R
W I T N E S S
THERE ARE FORMS OF GRIEF THAT CANNOT FULLY MOVE IN ISOLATION.
S O M E G R I E F A S K S F O R
W I T N E S S
GRIEF HAS ALWAYS BELONGED TO THE VILLAGE.
GRIEF HAS ALWAYS BELONGED TO THE VILLAGE.
TO FIRELIGHT, SONG, TEARS SHARED, WITNESSING. AND TO BODIES MOVING TOGETHER IN THE RHYTHM OF RELEASE.
But in the modern world, that village has been lost. We’re left to carry sorrow alone. These retreats are a return to ancient remembering. A place where grief can move through the body and back into belonging.
WHAT CALLS US TO GATHER
WE’RE NOT GATHERING TO FIX GRIEF.
WE’RE GATHERING TO GIVE IT A PLACE TO BELONG.
Here, we remember grief is not only pain.
It is praise for what we love
WHEN GRIEF IS GIVEN A PLACE TO BE, LIFE BEGINS TO MOVE AGAIN.
T H E E X P E R I E N C E
ARRIVAL
Over one to four days, we enter into a shared rhythm of slowing down, listening, and release.
We begin by arriving on the land — leaving behind the noise of daily life and crossing a threshold together.
Through grounding practices, sound, and silence, we prepare the body to remember what it has carried.
RITUAL
As the retreat unfolds, we move through a series of rituals and somatic practices designed to call in the layers of grief we are offering up — including The Five Gates of Grief.
We open the body as a vessel of expression, allowing grief to move through tears, sound, tremor, and breath — until it finds its way into a central ritual of powerful release.
Between rituals, we care for the body through nourishing meals, quiet reflection, body care, and communion with the land.
Evenings bring gentle movement, journaling, and silence by the fire — space for the day’s experiences to settle.
NOURISHMENT
INTEGRATION
We close with integration and renewal — a series of small, grounding rituals that weave back what has been opened, helping you carry the medicine of grief into the heart of your life.
T H E C O N T A I N E R
Date: October 2026
Location: Vancouver Island
Investment: TBD
T H E E C H O E S
“I came carrying a lifetime of unspoken sorrow — and left feeling light, seen, and whole again.”
Ritual Participant, 2025
“Powerful work. My group and private sessions with the Grief Tendress helped me open to reality — to have the pain acknowledged and witnessed. The grief of the past 18 months has been profound, and I know now that to feel it is to heal it.”
Participant, 2025
“I didn't know how much I needed to be witnessed until this circle. The ritual helped me breathe again.”
Participant, 2025
FAQ’s
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Retreats may be 1, 2, or up to 4 days, depending on the offering.
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Retreats are currently hosted on Vancouver Island, BC, and occasionally in other locations.
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No. Retreats are open to all, whether you are beginning or continuing your grief tending journey.
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We use song, movement, ancestral honouring, community ritual, and somatic practices.
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Details vary by retreat. Full information will be provided at registration.
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No. Retreats are live, in-person gatherings and not recorded.
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Retreat pricing varies by length and format.
BINDI— THE GRIEF TENDRESS™
IS A GRIEF GUIDE AND RITUAL FACILITATOR DEVOTED TO RESTORING GRIEF AS A SACRED AND NECESSARY PART OF LIFE.
Her work is shaped by a lifetime of personal loss and deep reckonings with sorrow, rupture, caregiving, survival, and becoming— experiences that prepared her to walk alongside others carrying profound grief with tenderness and care.
Bindi creates grounded, embodied, trauma-informed spaces where grief is welcomed rather than pathologized, and where women are supported in remaining connected to life while carrying what they love and what they have lost.
She’s trained in grief ritual facilitation and grief tending through the Darkwoods of Grief lineage inspired by Francis Weller, is a Grief Recovery Specialist through the Grief Recovery Institute, a certified women’s somatic educator, and a certified ancestral healing guide.
Through workshops, circles, retreats, ritual spaces, and 1:1 grief tending, Bindi helps women develop a more compassionate and sustainable relationship with grief, one that allows sorrow to be honestly tended while creating greater capacity for vitality, meaning, connection, and aliveness over time.
O T H E R S U P P O R T S
PRIVATE GRIEF TENDING
For grief that asks for individualized care, companionship, and deeper support.
SPACE FOR SORROW
Online Monthly Ceremonial Community Grief-Tending Circle for Women
RETREATS
In-person Immersive ceremonial spaces where grief is witnessed in community.