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£35.00
Wednesday 25th March 2026
2.30–4.30pm
Durbar Hall, Hastings
Part of The Good Grief Festival
This event forms part of The Good Grief Festival — a programme of gatherings, talks, and creative offerings exploring loss, change, and what it means to live alongside grief in thoughtful and life-affirming ways.The festival invites open, courageous conversations about death and dying, while also celebrating resilience, connection, and community. This meditation offers a quieter, contemplative strand within the wider festival space — a place to embody and gently integrate what grief and renewal mean to you personally.
About this Meditation
As we move closer to Beltane — the ancient festival of fire, vitality, and life in full emergence — we gather at a powerful threshold in the year.This is not yet the height of summer’s bloom, but the unmistakable quickening. The sap is rising. The days lengthen. What has lain dormant through winter begins to stir with intention. There is a sense of becoming.This guided Death Meditation invites us to explore the intimate relationship between endings and aliveness — how what has been released, grieved, or completed becomes the very ground from which new vitality rises.Rather than rushing toward brightness, we will pause at the threshold. We will listen for what is shedding, what is transforming, and what is quietly ready to ignite.Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and gentle ritual, this space honours both the embers and the flame — the grief that remains and the life that insists on returning.
What We Will Explore
Through stillness and simple ritual, we will:Acknowledge cycles of death, fertility, and renewalHonour what has been composted through loss or changeConnect with the subtle ignition of creative and life force energyStand at the threshold of becoming — without pressure to perform or bloomAs Beltane approaches, we remember that fire does not only destroy — it also clears, warms, and calls life forward.
£35.00
Wednesday 25th March 2026
2.30–4.30pm
Durbar Hall, Hastings
Part of The Good Grief Festival
This event forms part of The Good Grief Festival — a programme of gatherings, talks, and creative offerings exploring loss, change, and what it means to live alongside grief in thoughtful and life-affirming ways.The festival invites open, courageous conversations about death and dying, while also celebrating resilience, connection, and community. This meditation offers a quieter, contemplative strand within the wider festival space — a place to embody and gently integrate what grief and renewal mean to you personally.
About this Meditation
As we move closer to Beltane — the ancient festival of fire, vitality, and life in full emergence — we gather at a powerful threshold in the year.This is not yet the height of summer’s bloom, but the unmistakable quickening. The sap is rising. The days lengthen. What has lain dormant through winter begins to stir with intention. There is a sense of becoming.This guided Death Meditation invites us to explore the intimate relationship between endings and aliveness — how what has been released, grieved, or completed becomes the very ground from which new vitality rises.Rather than rushing toward brightness, we will pause at the threshold. We will listen for what is shedding, what is transforming, and what is quietly ready to ignite.Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and gentle ritual, this space honours both the embers and the flame — the grief that remains and the life that insists on returning.
What We Will Explore
Through stillness and simple ritual, we will:Acknowledge cycles of death, fertility, and renewalHonour what has been composted through loss or changeConnect with the subtle ignition of creative and life force energyStand at the threshold of becoming — without pressure to perform or bloomAs Beltane approaches, we remember that fire does not only destroy — it also clears, warms, and calls life forward.