Embodied Grief Practice: Releasing Emotions Through Movement and Eros

I have never known a more liberating thing than moving with grief as an erotic embodiment practice. I am personally moving with a tonne of grief in my life right now, grief for some womb health things I’m going through as those who have been to circle recently know, grief for a friend who recently lost her 2 year old baby, grief for women’s pain bodies with everything being stirred by the Epstein Files.

Eros has been radically misunderstood in our culture as something only available in sex and intimacy with another. Eros is life force, Eros is aliveness. If a woman doesn’t practice moving her grief she goes numb and calls it fatigue and depression when it is actually emotional repression.

A woman needs to let grief move through her voice as she moans and groans and sighs.
A woman needs to stroke her heart and lungs and move her hips where grief lives.

Moving with grief is vital as it lets the heaviness of it shapeshift into something that is akin to pleasure. Moving with grief opens the gates to love, to possibility, to freedom of self expression.

At Oca we move with the seasons of nature. Before we begin a new cycle on the Spring Equinox on friday, we need to tend to the endings of the previous one to let go and make space for new growth. We need spaces in the UK that know how to honour grief like other cultures. We do not heal alone. We heal in community.

With love and devotion,

Francesca xx