A WORKSHOP ON GRIEF FOR YOGA THERAPISTS
Katrina Taee • December 1, 2019
Using the Surviving the Tsunami of Grief to explain grief
Today, I gave a workshop to a lovely group of yoga therapy students who had come together on a weekend of training, to look at death and dying as part of their programme of learning. We started the day by watching the short film called We, The Bereaved
by Copper Productions. It is a very moving short film, in which a group of grieving people have been interviewed and share openly about their own experiences of grief at different points after the death of their loved one.
Many topics raised in the film are covered in our book,Surviving the Tsunami of Grief. I used the stunning illustrations by Ruth Thorp, to explore the tsunami metaphor and how it relates to grief. We looked at the period of shock following the death of a loved one and later, the ways in which grief impacts people: physically, emotionally, socially, practically, spiritually as well as their core identity. The group brought their own rich experiences to the morning and I was struck again, how we can always learn more about grief from each other and that starts with conversation and opening up the topic. Someone commented afterwards that she understood herself, and her experiences better now and that is exactly what Wendelien and I hope our book does for readers.
Our 3rd Reprint has just arrived with new foreword
Liz Gleeson's new short animated film about some of the common experiences of grief.
Authors of Surviving the Tsunami of Grief, Wendelien McNicoll and Katrina Taee attend the official launch of Liz Gleeson's Shapes of Grief Education Programme in Greystones, Ireland.