Jennifer Lewis
The Holding Field
Meeting Death - Embracing Life
Immersive weekends of reflection, presence and deep connection
A month-long solo retreat on Dartmoor changed me in a profound way. During that time, I came face to face with my own mortality. This became an opportunity to be with beauty and with the preciousness of each breath as well as to move through a spontaneous process of deep reflection and letting go.
If we are not in touch with our mortality, we can live as though death is far away, irrelevant or something to be ignored. If we are not connected to our Ancestors, we can lose humility, perspective and the felt sense of belonging in the continuity of life and death.
Death and transformation have been constant teachers throughout my life, beginning during my pre-natal time. In the last ten years through depth therapy, shamanic work, retreats in South America and self-enquiry retreats in the UK I have explored death in many ways — ego death, symbolic death, death and rebirth across lifetimes and the mystery of what remains when familiar identities fall away, what doesn't die.
From all of this, I now offer weekend retreats that invite participants to gently turn towards death as a pathway into greater aliveness, clarity, and meaning.
In small groups, we move through a compassionate, trauma-informed, carefully held program to explore different aspects of death and dying together. Through shared presence, reflection and honest, non judgemental connection, space opens within which life can be felt more fully.
At its core, this work is both powerful and deeply life-affirming.
The retreats are supported by an experienced team and by the strength of the group itself - through active participation, the co-created community becomes a place of healing, insight and transformation. Participants' integration is held in sharing Zoom calls after each retreat.
These retreats are currently offered to closed groups.
You are welcome to email me if you wish to express an interest in future open retreats.