Grief Tending

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Grief Tending

Metabolizing our Losses

Indigenous Elder Rita Blumenstein explained that if we don't find a way to release our grief, the toxins build up in us until we can't think clearly. Here Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff teaches us why this is important, and shares a grieving song to help us get in touch with and move through grief.

Related Practices:

See Allow Yourself to Grieve. See Clean Your Heart. See Coming out of Shutdown. See Escaping the Prison of the Mind. See Self-Compassion. See Open Your Heart. See Feel Your Feelings. See Working with Betrayal and Other Emotions You Don't want to Feel. See The Cure for Loneliness. See Learn to Set Clear Boundaries. See Becoming a Real Human Being. See Collapse.

Who taught us this?

Ilarion Merculieff is the President of the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways. He was raised in a traditional manner on the Pribiloff Islands in the Bering Sea, where his people have been living for 10,000 years. The Unangan culture created the most densely populated linear shoreline in North America, and travelled to the tip of South America in their single and double-hulled kayaks. Ilarion's traditional name, Kuuyux, means an arm extending out to the world. He brings ancient Indigenous ways of Knowing into modern times. He is the Convener of Wisdom Weavers of the World, a collective of 13 indigenous elders from cultures around the globe that met in Kauai in 2017 to prepare a message for humanity and continue to work to share the messages of Indigenous people globally. He is the author of Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People.

Who taught us this?

Ilarion Merculieff is the President of the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways. He was raised in a traditional manner on the Pribiloff Islands in the Bering Sea, where his people have been living for 10,000 years. The Unangan culture created the most densely populated linear shoreline in North America, and travelled to the tip of South America in their single and double-hulled kayaks. Ilarion's traditional name, Kuuyux, means an arm extending out to the world. He brings ancient Indigenous ways of Knowing into modern times. He is the Convener of Wisdom Weavers of the World, a collective of 13 indigenous elders from cultures around the globe that met in Kauai in 2017 to prepare a message for humanity and continue to work to share the messages of Indigenous people globally. He is the author of Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People.

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