Sunday evenings, June 2026 – December 2026
6:30PM – 8:30PM EST
Private Link shared only with participants
Sliding scale: $15/$39/$55
$15 Holding Space – supported access, for those who need to make a lower contribution but still have full access (limited availability)
$39 Grounded Griever – for those able to pay the full rate and supportive and balanced contribution
$55 Sharing Griever – for those resourced and can pay it forward to contribute to future accessibility
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/online-grief-reiki-womens-circle-tickets-1990002741770
Gather online with death doula and grief educator Adrianna, and somatic 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 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 release meditation with optional reiki support from Esné.
Grounded and centered let’s 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 heaviness of it.
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.
We will close the circle with a brief check-in, that could be with a word, an emoji, or an insight, before we log off to see if anything has shifted or was released for you.
Your facilitators:
Esné Almassi, Founder of Natural Esné, Healing the Shadow Self
www.naturalesne.com | connect@naturalesne.com
Esné is a Certified Clinical Hypnosis Specialist & Somatic Practitioner, Intuitive and Usui Reiki Master who supports people in working with grief, stress, and emotional overwhelm through grounded, body-based approaches.
Her work focuses on helping people feel more present and regulated during emotionally difficult periods. She draws on somatic practices, nervous system awareness, and trauma-informed tools such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and guided inner reflection to support emotional processing in a steady, accessible way.
She is a clinical hypnosis specialist trained with the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy and a member of the International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapists (IAIH). Her work integrates mindfulness-informed and hypnosis-based approaches that support reflection, emotional regulation, and gradual change at a pace that feels safe and manageable.
Her facilitation style is calm, structured, and grounded in creating a sense of safety, presence, and non-judgmental space. Participants are never required to share and are invited to engage in whatever way feels most comfortable for them.
Connect:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natural.esne/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/natural.esne/
Adrianna Prosser, aka Lady Death Doula
Death Doula and Grief Educator, Honours Bachelor of Social Work Candidate, HBFA
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 an Honours Bachelor of Social Work Candidate 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 curious conversation with her: @LadyDeathDoula on TikTok, Instagram, SubStack