Sunday evenings starting June 2026
6:30PM – 8:30PM
Private Link shared only with participants
Sliding scale: $10/$39/$55
$10 Needing Nourishment – for those who need to receive extra support (limited availability)
$39 Grounded Griever – for those able to pay the full rate
$55 Pay-it-forward Griever – for those resourced and want to pay it forward to those who need a lil more support
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/online-grief-reiki-womens-circle-tickets-1990002741770
Gather online with death doula and grief educator Adrianna, and EFT and reiki practitioner Esné Almassi to help metabolize your grief with fellow grievers. Weekly topics to help us tap in, but open to all types of grief; women only, trans women are women.
- 21 June Father’s Day – grieving fathers, male parental figures, grandfathers
- 19 July Grief in the body – grief around aging, mobility issues, our own mortality, and lives we could have lived or wanted to live, but didn’t. How grief shows up in the body physically.
- 16 August – Bereavement vs Grief – grief is us looking back, but bereavement is the future we will never have because of loss. Grieving futures and timelines that will never be.
- 20 September Cancer Awareness Month – grieving those we have lost to illness, or those who live with the effects of illness.
- 18 October Women’s History Month – grieving woman-centred loss (abortion, still-birth, child estrangement, infertility)
- 15 November Domestic Violence Awareness Month – grieving identity, timelines, our our bodies pain. Grieving the secondary losses that comes with abuse survivorship.
- 13 December Grief during the holidays – deathiversaries, anniversaries, holy and holidays; the memories of the past are heavy during certain dates.
What to expect:
Grab your mug of tea, make sure you’re in something comfortable, and find a quiet space that might even have some dim lighting and cozy blankets. Maybe you sit on the floor with a yoga mat and pillows, maybe you login from your bed, or even in your favourite chair so you can feel supported and relaxed.
Adrianna and Esné will open the circle with brief introductions and the theme of the week as the container for our grief. You are free to say as little or as much as you want during any part of the circle. Participation is not mandatory; sometimes our grief just wants to be with others that “get it”. That’s ok, after coming into our virtual rest stop for grief and letting your hosts know you’re here, feel free to turn off your camera after checking in. But if you want to leave your camera on to deepen connection we encourage it.
Esné will create a reiki connection with participants and lead a grounding ritual rooted in Emotional Freedom Tapping after introductions from the group. Adrianna will invite you to light a candle, LED or flame, to honour our grief this night and lead the group into a grief share about where we are at with our grief journey. We can share stories, resources, and challenges, and share the weight of our grief while learning about how to metabolize it to lessen the weight of it.
The last ten minutes Adrianna will lead a somatic grief release to end the evening with Esné energetically sending support to participants, and a brief check-out to end the circle before we log off.
Storytelling is an important task in mourning and that grief work is hard, we are all gathered here to bear witness and hold space for each other with respect and humility, love and empathy. Reminder that as people are sharing, the only thing required is to listen respectfully. This is holding space. Online we can express ourselves silently by using the reactions buttons (a heart or thumbs up) or other gestures when someone has finished sharing.
Your facilitators:
Esné is a Hypnosis Specialist and Somatic Practitioner who offers grounded, practical sessions focused on revealing and healing the subconscious self – otherwise known as the ‘shadow’. Using modalities such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), channeling and hypnosis, she guides sensitive people to heal old patterns and traumas, and embark on a new chapter of spiritual evolution. Esné is a twice-certified Master in traditional and modern Usui Reiki, and practices shamanic energy work, in combination with Master Plant dieta retreats in the Peruvian Amazon. Esné has ongoing training with the Amazonian jungle ‘Master Plants’ within the context of the Shipibo shamanic tradition. She facilitates Ayahuasca retreats within Peru and abroad. Additionally, she is deepening her work with the subconscious at the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy, licensed by the Department of Education in the US, as she is a recent graduate as a Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist program. Follow her for more events and service offerings: @Natural.Esne on Instagram, Facebook
Adrianna Prosser, aka Lady Death Doula, Death Doula and Grief Educator
You might have seen Adrianna on CTV’s The Social as a special guest talking about the Death Positive Movement, or heard her on CBC Radio One across the country talking about grief and bereavement, or in Canadian Business Magazine as a death industry disruptor, or liked one of her TikTok videos sharing her journey as a Death Doula. Adrianna’s brother Andrew died by suicide in 2010 and his death catapulted her life into death work and mental health advocacy: she became a suicide awareness trainer and interventionist. She toured her one-woman show Everything But the Cat… for 10 years about suicide loss and bereavement, utilizing her storytelling background to create inclusive space to open a dialogue around death and dying. In 2019 Adrianna’s coworker Roberta asked if she wanted to go to Disneyland and South Korea to celebrate getting off chemo for stage four breast cancer; Roberta had a year to live and wanted a companion to get through her bucketlist and of course Adrianna said yes and embraced being a Death Doula for her friend. Holding liminal space and being comfortable in the discomfort has led Adrianna to become a hospice volunteer and grief counselor. She is currently in a fast-tracked Bachelor’s of Social Work to become a grief therapist to complement all the training she has done as a death worker. Her practice is anti-oppressive, radically feminist, and magically authentic to ensure she centers her companions where they are at on their care journey. Join the death positive conversation with her: @LadyDeathDoula on TikTok, Instagram, SubStack