Somatic Healing Grief Support Circle- Mother's Day Special Offering
Sat, May 09
|Healing Light Studios
Co-facilitated by Jess and Rach. This supportive, trauma-informed support circle is for those processing through grief. A safe, neutral container to celebrate our love for those that are no longer in physical presence with us, and move through the challenges of missing them.
Time & Location
May 09, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Healing Light Studios, 2717 E Grand River Ave, Howell, MI 48843, USA
About the event
⬇️Please scroll all the way through this page to review the sacred details of this event 🙏
This supportive, trauma-informed support circle is for those processing through grief and seeking support in this. A safe, neutral container to celebrate our love for those that are no longer in physical presence with us, and move through the challenges of missing them together with others walking this path. We will move through somatic practices to ground our nervous systems and help our bodies to digest the here and now sensations that arise through the intense emotions accompanying grief. For those of us that struggle with feelings of being alone in what they’re going through and tend to isolate, yet crave connection and community. This is a safe space to be seen and heard in authenticity as a stepping stone to healing trauma as a collective. Co-facilitated by Jess, (trauma-informed somatic healing practitioner) and Rach, (death doula) who's paths have been inspired by lived experiences through grief and a desire to support. Circle shares are not focused on the stories of our trauma, but what we’re feeling and experiencing in the here and now as we ride the waves of our grief journeys.
🌹What to Expect:
Opening Introduction Circle Grounding Breath Practice/Meditation to soothe and align your nervous system
Optional Circle Share with group to process
A trauma-informed, inclusive safe space where you are encouraged to come as you are and be seen and heard in gentleness
A judgement free zone
Share and connect with likeminded people
Closing somatic healing practice
What to Bring:
An open heart
Desire for community
Willingness to hold space for others in kindness and confidentiality
A photo or relic of your loved one
📍 Important Details
✅ Come just as you are. The most important part is the call to be here ❤️
✅ Plan to arrive at least 15 minutes early to get settled and leave padding for traffic delays (doors open 30 min. before starting) late arrivals cannot be permitted as this causes disruption to the circle. Doors are locked at start time. If you are unable to make it, please send a message through the app or text us to let us know and we can save you a seat for the next circle.
✅Ages 18+ only
✅ This sliding scale offering supports our vision of inclusive, accessible healing. Please choose the rate that reflects your truth and supports our shared values.
✅ Please view the terms for participation in this circle below. This is required to create a safe container for all
💫The Venue
🌟 About Your Facilitators
Meet Rach
Rachel Briggs is a Gem of a Cancer who loves hard and feels deeply. She lives in the woods of Howell, Michigan, where life still feels close to the real things. Rach finds grounding in nature, movement, crafting, baking, dancing, and authentic community, and brings that same presence into the work she offers others. Rachel is an End of Life Doula, grief support facilitator, creative spirit, and mother who has devoted herself to supporting the dying—humans, animals, and dreams alike—and the people who love them through end of life, sudden loss, grief, and major life transitions. Her path deepened in 2020 after finding her mother dead the day after Christmas, an experience that reshaped her understanding of grief, presence, and what it means to keep living afterward. Rachel offers advance care planning, green burial and home funeral support, vigil tending, grief circles, and personalized memorial offerings. For the past six years, she has held space through the Ann Arbor Virtual Death Café and has been involved with the in-person community for eight years, helping create compassionate spaces for conversations around death, dying, and healing. She is forever smiling through it all 😊🚪💫
Join Rach for bi-weekly grief circles, one-on-one support, and private grief support experiences.
Meet Jess,
Founder of Healing Light Studios
Survivor. Space holder. Somatic healing guide.
Jessina Mehu (she/her) is a trauma-informed somatic healing guide, intuitive healer, working witch and single mom whose own path-from surviving domestic violence and deep personal losses to navigating life with CPTSD, anxiety, ADHD, chronic pain and emotional dysregulation has shaped her mission: To make somatic healing accessible, inclusive, and empowering for all. Her passion lies heavily in supporting women through rebirthing journeys and reclaiming their diving feminine power, facilitating rituals, and holding space for trauma and grief healing journeys. She gently and intuitively guides others through the same embodied practices that helped her reclaim her own power-Kundalini yoga, meditation, breathwork, dance, mantra, energy healing, and most of all, sisterhood and safe community. Her approach blends ancient wisdom with modern modalities, creating deeply restorative experiences that foster balance, transformation, and self-reclamation.
* Join Jess for weekly somatic healing classes, circles, 1:1 sessions in-person and virtually
Read more about Jess's story in the blog
Want to go deeper? Work 1:1 with Jess here ⬇️
View our regular weekly classes here ⬇️
Our Mission
To cultivate a diverse and safe community while dismantling the obstacles that hinder access to somatic healing practices for both the community and practitioners. We are dedicated to ensuring that somatic healing and personal growth are available to everyone. Our services emphasize healing and vitality, rather than just physical fitness.
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