Facilitated by Death Doula Katie Rose Whiting
Assisted by Celebrant Demelza Mary Pearce
£21.00
Saturday 14th June 2026
5.00pm–6.30pm
Hastings Castle, East Sussex
A gathering within the Mid-Summer threshold at Hastings Castle, a place shaped by wind, sea, stone, and centuries of witnessing endings and beginnings.
Mid-summer arrives as a turning point in the year: the sun at its height, light stretched to its fullest reach, and yet already carrying the first quiet turning toward decline. It is the moment where abundance and impermanence meet. Where life is most luminous and therefore most visible in its transience.
Across many traditions, midsummer is a time of fire, celebration, and threshold crossing. The blaze of the sun mirrors both vitality and its passing nature. It is a reminder that nothing stays at its peak, and that presence itself is the art of being alive within change.
This Death Meditation and Grief Circle invites us into the heart of that midsummer paradox , fullness and fading, arrival and letting go.
We gather at Hastings Castle to sit with the turning of the light, exploring how endings are already woven into moments of brightness. Rather than resisting this truth, we will listen for it gently as something natural, cyclical, and deeply human.
Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and simple ritual, this space becomes a meeting point between grief and vitality. Not as opposites, but as companions in the same living process.
We will explore how life continues to move through us even as things change, even as we release, even as we are asked to begin again.
Through stillness and gentle ritual, we will:
Acknowledge cycles of death, renewal, and seasonal turning
Reflect on midsummer as a threshold of fullness and impermanence
Honour what is complete, what is fading, and what is emerging
Connect with the aliveness present within change itself
Rest in presence, without pressure to fix, resolve, or become anything other than what is here
A space for witnessing. For softening. For remembering that even at the height of light, we are always in motion, becoming, releasing, and returning to life again.
Zoom 9.45am -11.15am 21GBP
As we move toward Midsummer and the longest days of the year, the earth is alive with fullness. The roses bloom, the evenings stretch golden into dusk, and nature reminds us of the sacred cycles of life, creation and becoming.
And yet for many mothers, this season can also bring us closer to what has been lost.
The babies we carried.
The pregnancies that ended.
The children we long for and miss but have not yet met.
Children who died as adults.
The mothers we ache for.
And perhaps even the younger parts of ourselves that still long to be mothered, held and loved more tenderly.
This Mothers Grief Circle is a gentle space to honour all experiences of maternal loss and longing, whether your grief is recent, many years old, spoken aloud or quietly held within.
A place to pause together beneath the light of approaching Midsummer and honour the love that remains.
We will gather in intimate circle to acknowledge the lives that passed through us, the dreams we carry, and the tenderness of living within the sacred cycles of birth, loss, motherhood and transformation.
Through quiet sharing, reflection, meditation and simple ritual, we will make space for whatever is still moving within us, while allowing ourselves to be held by the warmth, abundance and deep maternal energy of the season and to be held in the presence of the Great Mother who holds all cycles of life and loss.
You are welcome exactly as you are.
I look forward to welcoming you x
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