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The Medicine of Grief: A Journey Through the Fire and the Holy Dark
The Medicine of Grief: A Journey Through the Fire and the Holy Dark
A Four-Session Container with Yocheved Sidof
Thursdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23 9 am PT | 12pm ET
All sessions are 90 minutes and will be recorded.
The Jewish calendar does something radical in the summer. It sets aside three weeks — from the 17th of Tammuz to the 9th of Av — for grief. A full-bodied encounter with what is broken, what has been lost, what we carry without knowing we carry it.
This four-session container moves with that calendar. Each week, we enter more deeply into the energetics of grief, letting it speak, letting it move, letting it do what it knows how to do. Drawing on Jewish mystical wisdom, somatic practice, and collective trauma integration, each session offers teaching, embodied practice, small group witnessing, and time to harvest what arises. Together we become a medicine field.
Behold a container primed for the stoking, gazing into, and honoring of the holy flame of grief. When we arrive at Tisha B'Av, something will have shifted. Grief, it turns out, has something to teach us. We come to find out what.
Session 1: Sensing Grief as a Force | The Medicine of Rupture
We begin at the breach. The 17th of Tammuz marks the moment the walls were broken through, and we begin here, with rupture itself as our teacher. This session introduces grief as a living force with its own intelligence. We learn to sense it in the body, meet it with presence, and discover what becomes available when we stop turning away.
Session 2: In the Narrow Place | The Medicine of the In-Between
We have now entered the narrows between breach and the return to wholeness—bein hametzarim. This session explores what happens when we don’t rush toward comfort, but inhabit the particular medicine of liminal space: the grief that lives in suspension without resolution . What it means to be held by a container that doesn't rush toward comfort. We receive the wisdom of the in-between.
Session 3: What Is Burning | The Medicine of the Fire
As we enter the Nine Days, the field intensifies. This session moves with the crescendo. What rises when we have been present long enough, what can no longer stay beneath the surface? We sit with what is burning down and what needs to burn. This is the alchemy of full contact: grief allowed to move all the way through.
With fire as our ally for destruction, transformation and rebirth, we enter the Nine Days. During this period of acute mourning, we bear witness to what is burning down all around us. In previous sessions we cultivated our awareness and capacity to be-with, now, we experience the alchemy of full contact: grief that is allowed to move all the way through.
Session 4: How Grief Speaks | The Medicine of Presence
The medicine of the Ninth of Av is radical presence as the tradition holds the fullness of collective loss. Here, we are invited to marinate in the peak expression of grief, knowing that integration will lead us into love/wholeness as the month unfolds into Tu B’av just six days later. In this closing session we ask: what has grief been teaching us? What does it want us to know?
ABOUT YOCHEVED SIDOF
Yocheved Sidof is a spiritual teacher, mystic, and midwife of the unseen — weaving Kabbalistic wisdom, trauma restoration, and embodied presence into encounters with the depths of the self.
Her work lives at the seam between Mystery and Memory. Through embodied Torah, somatic practice, collective witnessing, and pilgrimages to ancestral lands including Poland and Israel, she guides individuals and communities into the places that feel unholdable — the grief, the rupture, the inherited stories — and stays with them long enough for transformation to take root.
A graduate of Thomas Hübl's Timeless Wisdom Training, advancing toward certification in Collective Trauma Integration Facilitation, a certified teacher of Jewish meditation, and a PhD student in Transpersonal Research, Yocheved brings rigorous training to work that is fundamentally transmissive. She is the founder of Ohmek, a spiritual home for depth seekers, and the host of Underneath the Underneath, a weekly class in Torah and embodied mysticism. She lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with her husband and five children.
The Medicine of Grief: A Journey Through the Fire and the Holy Dark
A Four-Session Container with Yocheved Sidof
Thursdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23 9 am PT | 12pm ET
All sessions are 90 minutes and will be recorded.
The Jewish calendar does something radical in the summer. It sets aside three weeks — from the 17th of Tammuz to the 9th of Av — for grief. A full-bodied encounter with what is broken, what has been lost, what we carry without knowing we carry it.
This four-session container moves with that calendar. Each week, we enter more deeply into the energetics of grief, letting it speak, letting it move, letting it do what it knows how to do. Drawing on Jewish mystical wisdom, somatic practice, and collective trauma integration, each session offers teaching, embodied practice, small group witnessing, and time to harvest what arises. Together we become a medicine field.
Behold a container primed for the stoking, gazing into, and honoring of the holy flame of grief. When we arrive at Tisha B'Av, something will have shifted. Grief, it turns out, has something to teach us. We come to find out what.
Session 1: Sensing Grief as a Force | The Medicine of Rupture
We begin at the breach. The 17th of Tammuz marks the moment the walls were broken through, and we begin here, with rupture itself as our teacher. This session introduces grief as a living force with its own intelligence. We learn to sense it in the body, meet it with presence, and discover what becomes available when we stop turning away.
Session 2: In the Narrow Place | The Medicine of the In-Between
We have now entered the narrows between breach and the return to wholeness—bein hametzarim. This session explores what happens when we don’t rush toward comfort, but inhabit the particular medicine of liminal space: the grief that lives in suspension without resolution . What it means to be held by a container that doesn't rush toward comfort. We receive the wisdom of the in-between.
Session 3: What Is Burning | The Medicine of the Fire
As we enter the Nine Days, the field intensifies. This session moves with the crescendo. What rises when we have been present long enough, what can no longer stay beneath the surface? We sit with what is burning down and what needs to burn. This is the alchemy of full contact: grief allowed to move all the way through.
With fire as our ally for destruction, transformation and rebirth, we enter the Nine Days. During this period of acute mourning, we bear witness to what is burning down all around us. In previous sessions we cultivated our awareness and capacity to be-with, now, we experience the alchemy of full contact: grief that is allowed to move all the way through.
Session 4: How Grief Speaks | The Medicine of Presence
The medicine of the Ninth of Av is radical presence as the tradition holds the fullness of collective loss. Here, we are invited to marinate in the peak expression of grief, knowing that integration will lead us into love/wholeness as the month unfolds into Tu B’av just six days later. In this closing session we ask: what has grief been teaching us? What does it want us to know?
ABOUT YOCHEVED SIDOF
Yocheved Sidof is a spiritual teacher, mystic, and midwife of the unseen — weaving Kabbalistic wisdom, trauma restoration, and embodied presence into encounters with the depths of the self.
Her work lives at the seam between Mystery and Memory. Through embodied Torah, somatic practice, collective witnessing, and pilgrimages to ancestral lands including Poland and Israel, she guides individuals and communities into the places that feel unholdable — the grief, the rupture, the inherited stories — and stays with them long enough for transformation to take root.
A graduate of Thomas Hübl's Timeless Wisdom Training, advancing toward certification in Collective Trauma Integration Facilitation, a certified teacher of Jewish meditation, and a PhD student in Transpersonal Research, Yocheved brings rigorous training to work that is fundamentally transmissive. She is the founder of Ohmek, a spiritual home for depth seekers, and the host of Underneath the Underneath, a weekly class in Torah and embodied mysticism. She lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with her husband and five children.