2nd edition
20 December 2025
to 9 May 2026
Meditative, somatic and creative practices for embracing loss
This is a seasonal journey in which we re-embrace grief as a part of life and not an isolated episode. For six months, we create a nurturing and restorative space around our processes of loss, transition, and metamorphosis, acknowledging all their layers:
human loss through death or separation;
the disruptions we experience during our personal transformations;
communal grief for what crosses and hurts us collectively;
ecological grief for the death of living nature that we witness daily.
We begin at Winter Solstice and continue until mature May, in monthly anchor encounters where we can breathe, be in sensitive presence, active listening and with an alive connection with what is falling apart.
What is this journey?
What is the proposal?
We re-embrace grief as profound cyclical and relational wisdom through meditative practice, somatic movement, eco-mythological belonging, and artistic creation.
In a practical and immersive invitation, we embrace life with open arms in its varied dimensions and facets, consciously addressing the processes of grief, understanding that they are already part of the journey and that we coexist with them.
We re-embrace the fertile darkness, returning the mysteries of decomposition, composting and fermentation to our personal and communal metamorphoses. We choose to remain here, too, in the fissures of what collapses. We sit with grief, relearning to walk with it as a porous connection to life and a force for renewal, insurgency, regeneration, and the possibility of creating new worlds, remembering that love and grief are always intertwined.
In a reflective group where we unite internal and external landscapes, we decided not to camouflage or hide parts of life and death just because they are difficult to deal with or overcome.
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Why a Grief Course?
We see this course as a river to which we want to restore flow and containment so that it can be a life force.
We lost the social rituals that guide our emotions and we want to find new ways. In each encounter, we are going to restore grief to its language, giving it a body, slow pace, space to be felt, conscious embrace, and creative expression, reliving this side of life together.
Because loss needs to be embraced with love, given a place in the landscape and in our communities. That's why we come back together, in the warm of a group, where any and all disruption will take place, because we are not meant to experience our grieving processes alone.
We return to ourselves a space-time of remembrance, sharing and creation so that we can explore the deep and sometimes stagnant waters of life, with support, guidance, and care at every step of the journey.
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6 in-person encounters, 1 Saturday per month, from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm
1 weekly online live encounter via Zoom, lasting 30 minutes
Meditation and Inquiry
Somatic Movement
Conscious breath
Ritual Art
Eco-Mythology
Ancestral Herbalism
Transformative Learning
Deep Education
Creative Improvisation
Active Hope
Multidisciplinary practices
Modules
I Life-death-life cyclicity
II Own mortality
III Grief-creativity intertwining
IV Meditation and loss
V Integration and artistic expression of grief
VI Mourning in movement
VII Philosophy of consolation
VIII Ancestral eco-mythological altar
IX Ritualization of grief
X Sacralization of life
What is the invitation?
~ Embracing death as an integral part of life
~ Returning to grief as a collective and communal journey
~ Embracing processes of loss and grief with awareness and creativity
~ Recovering silenced capacities and internal resources that support maturation and the journey through grief
~ Including grief support in your individual, therapeutic, educational, and community practices
~ Dreaming new worlds, sitting with what collapses
We have a place for you if you're looking for
When we sit with what dies, we can finally rest.
Workload
60 hours
48 hours in person + 12 hours online
6 Saturdays in person
from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm
1 meeting per week online
30 minutes live via Zoom
recording sent later
Dates
December 20
January 17
February 7
March 14
April 11
May 9
Location
Practices and online support group
Certificate of completion
One 1:1 online mentoring session after the course
Travel
Overnight accommodation
Lunch (available kitchen with fridge, microwave, stove and oven)
Number of People
Minimum 4 Participants
Maximum 10 Participants
How will it work in practice?
Included
Not Included
Certified meditation teacher, Nuno leads weekly circles and workshops, meditation courses and teachers training, mentoring sessions and private retreats as full time mission.
For more than ten years he explores the relation with grief and death as essential field for a mature, safe and free life. Nuno sought answers to his existential concerns in everything society promotes and offers, realizing that outward-looking experiences are important but mostly fleeting.
With a degree in Economics from the University of Porto, he expanded his training with NLP and Coaching international certification. Expanding his knowledge and growing as a Business Manager for several years, he also completed a Master's degree in Sports Science with a merit scholarship. Expanded his mission in the world with his book on human development: "A Prova do José" (Chiado, 2017).
About the Teachers
Nuno Miguel Teixeira
Inês de Araújo e Silva
Woman, mammalian, communicator, eco-somatic educator, and storyteller. Following the lineage of peasant women, artisans, and teachers, weaving educational, therapeutic, and community projects that return to the ancient wisdom of the Earth: listening, presence, sensitive and creative relationships.
Facilitating human development projects with groups and individual support formats, which invite us to repair the deep relationship body-nature through expressive arts, supporting women's health and the creation of communities of sharing and affection.
Inês investigates ancient wisdoms of Iberia, develops experimental studies, questioning modern culture, creating authorial work that intertwines eco-somatics, eco-mythology, eco-psychology, conscious fertility, ancestral herbalism, therapeutic movement, ritual art and the female body.
Marie Manuelle (France)
University Teacher
Incredible. The teacher Nuno is an excellent guide and teacher, simultaneously firm and flexible, straightforward yet very attentive and respectful of the states and rhythms of knowledge integration of his students. The greatest value was the applicability of the course to life and the presence and support of the teacher between sessions.
Foster Hodge (United States)
Entrepreneurial Manager
The group exploration methodology is incredible, such a perfect combination of elements. Offering this kind of depth of meditative and contemplative practice with group sharing and support is truly a sweet spot. I really enjoyed the six-month commitment. The main value was creating and maintaining a daily meditation practice in a much deeper way.
Testimonials
Patrícia Araújo (Portugal)
Psychologist and Therapist
Incomparable to other personal development experiences I've attended. I take with me the responsibility of supporting and caring for the world where I live with greater awareness, emotional expression and vulnerability.
Fátima Caridade (Portugal)
Primary School Teacher
This six-month trip and weekly practice led me to make meditation a part of my daily life. It was truly profound.
I want to join: The Grief Course
Booking and Payment
Register your place by filling out the form.
After submitting the form, you will receive a confirmation and the payment informations.
To formalize your booking, it is required an initial deposit payment of €90.
The remaining amount must be paid before the starting of the course.
For special payment terms, please contact us at meditationhouseporto@gmail.com
Frequently Asked Questions
What language will the course be taught in?
The course will be taught in Portuguese, English, or bilingually, depending on the participants.
What is the teaching methodology?
It's a practical, experiential course in which we share our sensitive, intimate, subjective, and collective experiences to re-create a welcoming space for what we've lost, what we've gone through, and what transforms within us and around us. We will work together on resources to embrace our transformational life processes and nervous system regulation during them through the practice of meditation, somatic movement, art as a form of ritualization and connection to places, living nature, and world stories as ancient keys that restore our deep understanding of life.
Are you considering taking this course online?
No. It's a face-to-face course in a safe and intimate group setting. There are weekly online meetings via Zoom so we can practice supporting our grieving processes together, from our homes.
Is this training certified by DGERT or another entity?
No. At the end, a certificate of participation will be provided as a personal symbol of course completion.
How much time do I need to dedicate to homework?
There is no homework.
All creative proposals are included in the course schedule.
What if I can't complete the entire program?
Ideally, you should consider the required level of commitment. Participating in all modules and completing the course is essential. The in-person portion of the course is experiential, and the practical exercises are unique.
Are we better prepared to support people through grief processes?
Yes. These practices are exceptionally supportive for people already working in therapy, education, and others-supportive professions, as well as for anyone who wants to develop a sustained relationship with loss, the transitions, and transformations we experience throughout life, individually and collectively.
What if I want to drop out of the course?
We do not refund the money invested. Each case is evaluated individually.
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1 Day Immersion
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