Moving through Grief with Ritual, Community +Ceremony with Jenna Little

The Restorative Pulse

Jenna is a holistic wellness practitioner as a Registered Dietitian, Yoga Teacher, and MA Counseling student. Her mission is to create healing spaces that invites others to come home to themselves and embrace life to the full. She focuses on embodiment practices that integrate the body, soul and spirit and spends her time leading healing groups, teaching yoga classes, and working one on one with clients. She believes that hope is always near and courage is contagious. She also loves to write, spend the day at the beach with her family, or catch a sunrise with coffee. You can read more about Jenna at https://jennalittle.com

In this podcast we discuss:

-The the history, ritual and culture of grief

-Culture+Grief

-How Jenna uses yoga in her healing circles to process grief

-Strategies to process grief

A Commentary from Julie Johnson: I reference the book Yoga for Grief+Loss by Karla Herlbert in the podcast. At the time of recording, I couldn't remember the name of the author. You can purchase the book here. It's a wonderful resource for anyone that would love to learn about how the 8 Limbs of Yoga can support their grief journey. I especially love the ritual and meditations that Karla writes.

**CORRECTION** The difference between Romanian and Romani people: In this episode I reference the influx of Romanian and Romini humans that have appeared in the Integrate community since the capitol insurrection and our addressing of antisemitism. In the podcast, I say "Romanian people" and also want to identify there is a difference between Romini +Romanian ethnicities. Romini= Roma are originally from northern India and that they migrated out of the area sometime between 800-950 AD. Romani, the Rom language, is descended from Sanskrit and closely related to Hindi. Today Romani exists in many dialects, reflecting the paths of Rom dispersion. Some Rom groups, however, do not presently communicate in Romani, although it is likely that they did at an earlier time. Roma have always been bilingual and in many cases are multilingual. In the southern Balkans, Roma speak Romani plus the local south Slavic language or Turkish, Albanian or Greek. Read more from this distinction here: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/persecution-and-politicization-roma-gypsies-eastern-europe

Romanian=people from Romania descend from The Baltics and speak the Romanian language, which is a different culture and ethnicity then the *Romini*

This nuance (our word for 2021) is extremely important to distinguish. Listen to my intro for further clarity on this as well.

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