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Movement for Grievers

Sun, Dec 21

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Portland Grief House

Movement for Grievers is a gentle, guided movement class designed to support those navigating loss. This class offers a compassionate space to connect with your body, process emotions and experiment with the ways they get stuck in the body while in community. No dance experience necessary.

Movement for Grievers
Movement for Grievers

When & Where

Dec 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM GMT-11

Portland Grief House, 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203, USA

What

Movement for Grievers is a gentle, guided movement class that explores how grief lives in the body — and how movement can help us stay with, process, and shift the emotional weight we carry.


Led by a professional dance artist who is navigating the loss of her own mother, this class draws on somatic practices to support participants in connecting with their bodies, noticing what’s present, and allowing space for whatever arises. There is no choreography and no expectation to move a certain way — just invitations to tune in, breathe, and move with intention.


Sessions will include guided movement, stillness, breathwork, and optional opportunities to share or reflect. The focus is not on performance or technique, but on presence and care — for yourself and those around you.


Open to all levels of mobility and experience. No dance background is necessary. Comfortable clothing is recommended; chairs and mats will…


Tickets

  • Movement For Grievers

    From $15.00 to $25.00

    • $25.00

      +$0.63 ticket service fee

    • $20.00

      +$0.50 ticket service fee

    • $15.00

      +$0.38 ticket service fee

    Total

    $0.00

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    All grief is welcome here.

    All are welcome here.

    This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-affirming place.

    The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline (1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988. If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

    Finding Us

    Our spaces are open for gatherings & designated open house hours. 

    The Atlanta Grief House Nickerson Cottage at Legacy Park Decatur 500 S. Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030 Notes on finding us: GPS will take you to the center of Legacy Park. The Nickerson Cottage is a stone building with raised bed gardens on the south side of Legacy Park's campus. If you enter campus through the south entrance it will be the first cottage you come to. You can park in any of the surrounding lots. If coming in the evening you will see the string lights on our front porch. Nickerson Cottage is largely wheelchair accessible.

    The Portland Grief House 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203 Notes on finding us: We are the green house on the corner of N Fessenden & N Allegheny Ave. Enter through the gate at the corner.

    Wilderings, operating as The Grief House, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN  84-4336786) and all donations are tax deductible. 

    The Grief House works on and serves communities on land that is the unceeded territory of the Muskogee, Cherokee and Creek peoples in Georgia and the Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Siletz peoples in Oregon.

     

    We honor them as we live, work and serve grievers on these unceeded lands. 

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