TESTIMONIALS
"This was one of the most rich and beautiful days of my life. I did not know how, but felt a need to grieve all that I had not for so long… and to look for answers in that unacknowledged pain and sorrow. Sometimes it’s hard to let down and feel safe but Lara held an impeccably clear, loving space for all of us to do just that. I came away having made friends with my sadness and peace with the anger that protects it. I continue to feel a sense of peace as I let the grief walk beside me, no longer judged or hindered by fear. What a blessing!”
~ Erika Indrani Eddy, San Luis Obispo, CA
"Thank you, Lara, for an incredible gift of healing. It will be a memory I will travel with and share with others wherever I go. So glad our paths came together during this time in my life. From a very grateful heart."
~ Jean Edwards, Paso Robles, CA
"This work was very powerful and transformative for me. We sang, we danced, we cried, we yelled, even laughed, and I left feeling lighter, more integrated, and refreshed. I highly recommend it. Thank you Lara for sharing such a beautiful, ancient, communal way to tap into this universal well of grief we all drink from, giving access to new perspectives, through deeper understanding of and befriending of our grief. I cannot say enough about you and the safe space you held communally. You are masterful at what you do, and so clearly and beautifully committed to helping heal the planet with this work. Deep bow of gratitude.”
~ Laura Knutson, San Luis Obispo, CA
“The ritual cleared and cleansed me, the next day I felt a great capacity to hold life and things that were unbearable before. It was a life-changing practice that I intend to make a part of my life on a regular basis. Lara is an extraordinary spirit and a skillful facilitator. The container she created felt incredibly safe and inclusive allowing me to do very deep work. This ritual is a much-needed balm for healing the collective."
~ Jana Holm, Portland, OR
“I found that we are all grieving and we all want and need a community to share and release this and feel the embrace of love. I’ve been needing, wanting, searching for a way to process my loss and grief and I found this Grief Ritual to be perfect for my needs. I found more layers of past grief bubbling up and I was able to let more go more than just what I thought I was grieving. Thank you so much for this amazing work and healing gift.”
~ Cathy Jamieson, Los Osos, CA
“I can’t even begin to say how beautiful, brilliant, deep, delicious, wise, impactful, meaningful, moving, powerful, fierce, profound, real, and deeply healing this gathering was. I spent a year at Kalani-Honua on the Big Island of Hawaii following two years at Esalen so I have experienced many healing events, retreats and workshops, and I have to say that I was so thoroughly cleansed, impressed, moved, touched, wrung out, inspired and lifted up by this Grief Ritual Retreat at Loving Earth Sanctuary that I still can’t believe it. I highly recommend this experience to everyone I know! Amazing work!!! Amazing!!!"
~ Montgomery Norton, San Luis Obispo, CA
“This was a beautiful and profound experience and I’m very grateful to have experienced it with you as our grief tender."
~ Karen Duggan, San Luis Obispo, CA
The Drinking from the Well Retreat opened up the pain of deep unresolved guilt, resentment and anger I held for my mother and allowed me to see who she was and why for the first time. It was a true epiphany that I wouldn't have had without being present in this beautiful circle Lara gave us. I feel I am at peace for the first time in my life."
~ Robin Clark, Coos Bay, OR
"Creating space inside of myself is the greatest gift that I have ever received..... I invite you to consider gifting your SELF by Drinking from the Well with Lara Lwin Treadaway. You will feel spacious and feel so alive and well!"
~ Fran Dukehart, San Luis Obispo, CA
"Thank you for facilitating this amazing day on Saturday! I do feel changed, and I certainly can say this experience feels like one of those "watershed" experiences."
~ Lisa Mayfield, Portland, OR
“This was a safe place where I could show up just as I am and really be heard, with love and non-judgment. When giving empathy, Lara's presence is so attentive and supportive that I can't help but connect with my own experience, letting changes unfold and turmoil come to rest naturally.
~ Lyris Cooper, Corvallis, OR
“Lara creates a safe space where I can be vulnerable and I believe men in this culture need a great deal of support in learning how to express honest emotions."
~ Vernon Huffman, Corvallis, OR
“This is a great opportunity to explore and express your grief, where you can truly go to very deep places and feel safe doing it, being held by a facilitator who is kind, compassionate, powerful and experienced. Lara, you are the perfect person to be facilitating these rituals. I love the combination of your skills and experience, your love and deep compassion for the work, your humour and seriousness with the process, your kindness and the over abiding love that you share."
~ Jack Leishman, Ashland, OR
“You must experience this ceremony to whatever capacity you can. It is simple. It is powerful. And it is moving."
~ Blake S., Corvallis, OR
"So much gratitude Lara for leading this life changing event. The village we created was stronger than I imagined possible, and carried me to depths I've not reached in so long. Gratitude to all my villagers too, for embracing my grief and beauty and strength. May all share in this powerful healing."
~ Öcean Liff-Anderson, Corvallis, OR
"I want more of this experience of community showing up so fully and so beautifully. This is some of what will change the world."
~ Peia Bird, Ashland, OR
"If you want a deeply poignant and absolutely beautiful experience, I most highly recommend this sacred work. If you are at all interested, go. If you are curious, go. If you are doubtful, go. If you think this is for you or if you think this is not for you, go. You will be forever blessed and eternally grateful."
~ Chante Dao, Hugo, OR
“I would highly recommend this event. This was an extremely well held container, a village well created. Lara, your wealth of experience, your authenticity and openness, your compassion, sense of ease and familiarity with grief, led the ritual/day beautifully."
~ Brenda Blair, Ashland, OR
"Lara is a rare gem of a facilitator. I hunt the world for the best leaders - those of impeccable integrity, deep compassion, and powerful skill - and Lara blew me away. She holds her containers with strong containment and protection without sacrificing her innate kindness and Love. Her sincerity, passion, and purpose is palpable, and her genuine connection to her own work and her ancestors fostered a truly remarkable experience."
~ Blake Roberts, Portland, OR
"I wanted to wholeheartedly thank you for the ritual. It was very, very profound. You are gifted as a healer. You have been through the fires and storms of grief and now have emerged as a being of light and healing that this world so much needs!!!”
~ Lesley McClintock, Eugene OR
"Grief work is such a vital part of our lives as full humans, and something so missing from our Western society. Lara brings this sacred technology and offerings back into our remembrance, awakening it from our deep ancestral knowledge. It is amazing what a strong practice these rituals can be for cultivating our capacity to love and hold ourselves and each other through life's waves of grief. It is truly a soul practice, and one I hope continues to ripple back out into the West.”
~ Alexa Lindahl, San Luis Obispo, CA
"Drinking From the Well supported me into going deeper into my grief, while also feeling more comfortable and open with it. I'm not one to grieve in public, yet I was able to allow myself to cry at the altar. Having the loving support of the tribe we created to hold each other as we grieved helped me to open my heart and remember that grief is part of the love we feel."
~ Kali Kathleen Baker, San Luis Obispo, CA
“Thank you for facilitating this amazing day on Saturday! I do feel changed, and I certainly can say this experience feels like one of those "watershed" experiences.
~ Lisa Mayfield, Portland, OR
"I would absolutely recommend this ritual for anyone who is longing for authentic, safe, and reverent engagement of our deepest most profound emotions. This is profound experiential work for both personal and communal nurturance and therefore healing.”
~ Richard Leversee, Morro Bay, CA
“The work you are doing is critical for assisting folks like me that need this energetic movement and soul retrieval plus radical support for it. I know I did some major work and felt so honored to be present for my fellow villagers."
~ Elizabeth Izzo, Portland, OR
“It was all so beautiful. I need to take time to write about it or it will soon be like a dream. Thank you for your depth, your lightness, your clarity, your sense of love and deep profound history of this movement of the heart and spirit needing to come alive at this time!"
~ Bob Banner, San Luis Obispo, CA
"I have recommended this event to many friends already and I have told them it was deeply nourishing and healing on many levels."
~ E. Rho, Corvallis, OR
“This is such important work, no matter where your grief is stemming from. It was very transformational for me and I highly recommend it. Drawing on the wisdom of so many amazing teachers, Lara presents it masterfully.
~ Brenda Johnson, Ashland, OR
“To be part of this sacred ceremony was an honor. To be among the trees and next to the water. To feel the warmth of the fire in the center of this circle of like minded individuals. All of this as the sun rose and rain fell from the sky.
~ Cindy Williamson Valencia, Ashland, OR
“The Women's Circle was profound and moving for me, particularly as we explored topics that rarely come up in normal social interactions but that affect all of us as women. Lara's ability to hold both the group as a whole and each of its participants individually as deep emotions were expressed and shared was truly inspirational.
~ Sofie B., Corvallis, OR
“So moved! So touched! This beautiful night has become one of my most precious memories! I didn't want to leave last night. When can we do it again?
~ Sandra Bailey, Ashland, OR
“I found myself feeling amazed the morning we parted ways, as tears sprang up. I had come to know and care for my fellow Villagers, made friends, heard stories, saw inside their hearts briefly. A true community holds the capacity to experience many things together without busting at the seams. Grief bonds when held with compassion and understanding. Grief shows us our capacity for Joy as well. A community that learns to hold both is strong, resilient, and capable of changing the world. Thank you, Lara Lwin Treadaway, for guiding us."
~ Michelle Madgett, San Luis Obispo, CA
"Thank you for a FANTASTIC, HOPE-FILLED, TRANSFORMATIONAL Gathering!!!!"
~ Rachael R Resch, Ashland, OR
"I cannot suggest enough how much this event changed me. For anyone feeling the loss of another or loss of a dream. This event helped me, in my darkest time, to begin my healing process. Sign up, you will not be disappointed."
~ P. Scott Roberts, Ashland, OR
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