🌿 WHAT IS YOUR CALLING? 

Grief is unlike any other pain. 

Maybe you’ve wrestled with it yourself, or maybe you’ve sat with others as they struggled through it. Loss has a way of turning the world inside out and upside down. It shatters hearts, challenges our identities, and brings the strongest among us to our knees.

And yet.

You’ve also experienced something unfathomable—how people somehow keep going. How, even when it feels impossible, we slowly find ways to carry the love forward even as we have been crushed by the weight of the loss. How, over time, memories shift from sharp edges to something softer, deeper, and often unexpected.

Maybe you wish someone had walked with you through your darkest days. Or maybe you feel called to show up for others now—with more compassion, more confidence, and more tools.

We’re not meant to do this alone.

Real healing takes time, support, and sometimes, a little guidance. And that’s exactly what we’re here to do.

💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

A 60-hour hybrid certification designed for professionals seeking to deepen their ability to support grief using somatic, trauma-informed, nondual, and cross-cultural frameworks. This comprehensive program combines online learning with a 5-day immersive retreat and a structured integration phase, culminating in practitioner certification and optional continuing education credit.

Grief is not just an emotional experience—it lives in the body, shapes our identity, and asks us to surrender to something beyond the self. The Embodied Grief Educator Certification is a transformative 5 day program that rewires how we understand, process, and support grief by integrating:

• GRIEF & NONDUALITY – Exploring grief through presence, interconnection, and deep awareness
• EMBODIED HEALING – Working with grief in the body through movement, breathwork, and somatic awareness
• SHADOW WORK – Exploring Jungian archetypes and drawing upon a variety of therapeutic tools from parts work to attachment theory
• ANCESTRAL HEALING – Honoring lineage grief and intergenerational healing
• CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES ON GRIEF – Death as transformation
• PRACTICAL GRIEF SUPPORT – Learning how to hold space and offer effective grief education

Learning Objectives: By the end of the program, participants will:

1. Identify and differentiate between types and models of grief
2. Apply somatic and nervous-system-informed grief practices
3. Facilitate grief spaces using trauma-informed, culturally inclusive tools
4. Integrate ancestral, spiritual, and philosophical perspectives on grief
5. Design and present a personalized grief-support framework

🔥 WHAT'S INCLUDED?

🌿 5-DAY IMMERSIVE RETREAT + 25 HRS ONLINE TRAINING – Includes live Zooms, pre-recorded teachings, and integration labs
🌿 ON-DEMAND MODULE LIBRARY – Deep dives into grief, somatics, and nonduality
🌿 GUIDED SOMATIC PRACTICES – Movement, breathwork, and nervous system regulation tools
🌿 ANCESTRAL & NONDUAL HEALING METHODS – Rituals, meditations, shadow work, and spiritual frameworks
🌿 COMMUNITY CONNECTION – Private group discussions and peer mentorship
🌿 FINAL CERTIFICATION PROJECT – Design and present your own grief-support framework
🌿 COMPLIMENTARY ROOM & BOARD – Includes full access to all retreat property amenities

🌿OUTLINE🌿

🌿 DAY 1 – FOUNDATIONS OF GRIEF: THE MANY FACES WE MEET

🍃 THEMES COVERED

• What is grief? Humanizing the grief experience
• Core grief theories: Kübler-Ross, Worden, Dual Process, Continuing Bonds
• Types of grief (traumatic, disenfranchised, ambiguous, collective, etc.)
• Holding space vs. fixing; active listening vs. problem solving
• Introduction to nonduality in grief: presence, interconnection & deep awareness

🍀 PRACTICES

• Journaling & grief mapping
• Small group story share
• Guided somatic grief awareness

🌿 DAY 2 – THE GRIEVING BODY: SOMATICS, PSYCHOLOGY & NERVOUS SYSTEM WISDOM

🍃 THEMES COVERED

• Polyvagal Theory: grief & the nervous system
• Somatic grief release & body-based tools
• The key ingredient often missed in grief work
• Somatic Sensation Sequencing Review
• Attachment theory & Internal Parts Work (IFS)
• Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) for the grieving inner self

🍀 PRACTICES

• Breathwork, vagus nerve activation, movement
• Guided inner parts dialogue
• Dyad work: listening from the body

🌿 DAY 3 – THE UNSEEN SELF: SHADOW, SHAME & IDENTITY IN GRIEF

🍃 THEMES COVERED

• Jungian shadow work in grief
• Shame, guilt, and the “unspoken” losses
• Gestalt Therapy: the Empty Chair
• Narrative Therapy: the grief story we carry

🍀 PRACTICES

• Shadow journaling & dialogue
• Expressive writing: rewriting the story
• Partner witnessing & symbolic gesture

🌿 DAY 4 – LINEAGE, COMMUNITY & RITUAL IN GRIEF

🍃 THEMES COVERED

• Ancestral grief & intergenerational trauma
• Cross-cultural rituals, collective grief & ecological grief
• Socioeconomic & identity-based grief (race, LGBTQIA+, disability, etc.)
• Spiritual, religious, and secular frameworks of loss

🍀 PRACTICES

• Grief altar building
• Ritual: letter to the lineage
• Group ceremony for collective mourning

🌿 DAY 5 – INTEGRATION, SPACE-HOLDING & INITIATION

🍃 THEMES COVERED

• Ethics of grief support & educator responsibilities
• Boundaries, regulation & sustainability
• Initiatory framework: becoming a grief educator

🍀 PRACTICES

• Somatic self-attunement for practitioners
• Student-led grief ritual or creative offering
• Closing circle + certificate ceremony

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🌿 TIME FOR EXPLORATION & REST

While the certification experience is rich and immersive, we also honor the need for rest, solitude, and personal exploration.

Each day includes open pockets of time for you to explore the surrounding area of Kecamatan Kuta Utara, a vibrant region known for its quiet charm, artistic community, and gentle spiritual energy. Whether you're called to visit nearby temples, enjoy a beach sunset, sip tea in a tucked-away café, or simply soak in the beauty of the natural world—you’ll have space to follow your own rhythm.

Our private retreat venue offers calming spaces and creature comforts to support your journey, including:

• Tranquil gardens and lounging areas

• Shared or private accommodations

• Swimming pool access

• Optional massage/spa services (at additional cost)

• Quiet nooks for journaling or reflection

• Healthy, nourishing meals to support emotional and physical wellbeing

This is not just a training—it’s a retreat for your soul.
Luma Via’s approach blends learning and living in a way that allows the material to land more deeply—because wisdom needs both structure and spaciousness to take root.