Healing with the Dead
a one-day Zoom intensive
[art: Elyse Fournier]
In a world in which everything feels broken—from our bodies to our relationships to our ecologies—healing has become an urgent concern of so many of us. In a dysfunctional medical system, it can be impossible to access the care that would help us manage our bodies with grace and joy. Amid the violence of capitalism that turns everyone and everything into a product, it can feel hopeless trying to receive the intimacy and care we long for in our communities. On a planet saturated with human pollution it can be hard to know how the natural world might heal and we as a species might survive. How are all of these prayers woven together? What would it mean if we brought our brokenness to the dead—to those ancestors who endured atrocities beyond our imagining, forgotten cultural collapses and genocides, and extinction events of their own?
Together we will summon the legions of the dead who are wiser and more loving and more powerful than we can possibly imagine. We will bring to them our desperation and our despair and initiate the magic we need for miracles of all kinds. We will create daily rituals that help us manage our worries and we will give voice to our deepest prayers. Most of all, we will discover together that with the dead anything is possible.
Saturday, July 25
Two Sessions: 1- 2:30 pm edt and 3:30 -4:30 pm edt
On Zoom. Recordings sent to all participants
Perdita Finn is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, and with her husband Clark Strand The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. She teaches popular workshops on connecting and collaborating with both the dead and the animate everything. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
Date is incorrect for 2026, I believe.