Calling all Black Sheep, Cycle Breakers, Deep Feelers, Changemakers and Visionaries...
If any part of you knows that you are here for more than surviving pain, imagine for a moment:
⚜ How it would feel deep in your bones to know exactly how to care for
yourself in the midst of grief and loss in a way that creates trust in the process.
⚜ .Shedding layers of shame and self-pathology as you claim your unique path.
⚜ Reclaiming loss and grief as an inherent part of the spiritual path.
⚜ Releasing the sorrows of those who came before you, freeing yourself
from unconscious loyalty to suffering as a form of love.
⚜ Transforming grief into power, wisdom and medicine that not only heals you, but gracefully brings healing to your lineage and the world around you.
If any part of you knows that you are here for more than surviving pain, imagine for a moment:
⚜ How it would feel deep in your bones to know exactly how to care for
yourself in the midst of grief and loss in a way that creates trust in the process.
⚜ .Shedding layers of shame and self-pathology as you claim your unique path.
⚜ Reclaiming loss and grief as an inherent part of the spiritual path.
⚜ Releasing the sorrows of those who came before you, freeing yourself
from unconscious loyalty to suffering as a form of love.
⚜ Transforming grief into power, wisdom and medicine that not only heals you, but gracefully brings healing to your lineage and the world around you.
The Phoenix Process is a compassionate, soul honoring approach to grief tending that provides ancestral, spiritual and psychological support through
the transformative waters of grief.
As the cycle breakers, lineage healers and Holy Outsiders…
We have always felt different.
Held the shadows of grief no one else would name.
Felt deeply the suffering of others around us.
We carry not only our own grief, but that of our ancestors and the collective.
We feel the weight of the world's suffering because we care so deeply.
For us, grief isn’t just about what we have lost,
but also what we came here to change.
Grief is a universal human experience that transforms the psyche,
heals consciousness and awakens us to the deeper meaning of our lives.
In a world that has forgotten the holy realms of grief, we are often left alone,
without the spiritual refuge and ancestral wisdom to nourish us.
Our ancestors did not grieve without spiritual support.
They took refuge in ritual, offered their sorrow to the land, sang mourning songs, turned their grief into prayers and held grieving as a sacred rite.
It was a part of spiritual practice.
Not separate from it.
Even with so many personal development tools and practices at our disposal,
we have lost our connection to the old ways of grieving.
Ways that root us into the timeless wisdom of nature and those who came before.
Grief is not linear in its nature.
It is an evolutionary journey through the spiral of life.
Our ancestors knew the ways of honoring loss as an initiation.
They laid stones on the earth, offered tears to wild flowing waters and, held by the grandmothers, they sang songs by sacred fires.
They took refuge and knew how to care for themselves during these times
of individuation and change.
We come from ancestors who were also lineage healers, visionaries,
cyclebreakers and Holy Outsiders; their magic lives in our bones.
This is part of what we came here to remember and re-awaken in this world.
Grief is not the end of the story,
it's a gateway to remembering who we truly are.
the transformative waters of grief.
As the cycle breakers, lineage healers and Holy Outsiders…
We have always felt different.
Held the shadows of grief no one else would name.
Felt deeply the suffering of others around us.
We carry not only our own grief, but that of our ancestors and the collective.
We feel the weight of the world's suffering because we care so deeply.
For us, grief isn’t just about what we have lost,
but also what we came here to change.
Grief is a universal human experience that transforms the psyche,
heals consciousness and awakens us to the deeper meaning of our lives.
In a world that has forgotten the holy realms of grief, we are often left alone,
without the spiritual refuge and ancestral wisdom to nourish us.
Our ancestors did not grieve without spiritual support.
They took refuge in ritual, offered their sorrow to the land, sang mourning songs, turned their grief into prayers and held grieving as a sacred rite.
It was a part of spiritual practice.
Not separate from it.
Even with so many personal development tools and practices at our disposal,
we have lost our connection to the old ways of grieving.
Ways that root us into the timeless wisdom of nature and those who came before.
Grief is not linear in its nature.
It is an evolutionary journey through the spiral of life.
Our ancestors knew the ways of honoring loss as an initiation.
They laid stones on the earth, offered tears to wild flowing waters and, held by the grandmothers, they sang songs by sacred fires.
They took refuge and knew how to care for themselves during these times
of individuation and change.
We come from ancestors who were also lineage healers, visionaries,
cyclebreakers and Holy Outsiders; their magic lives in our bones.
This is part of what we came here to remember and re-awaken in this world.
Grief is not the end of the story,
it's a gateway to remembering who we truly are.
While our modern, personal psychology has become more complex,
our soul's needs for wisdom in times of grief remains unchanged.
This is what has been missing for so many of us.
The Phoenix embodies this ancestral wisdom in its mythological journey of regeneration.
In older versions of this myth passed down through ancestral oral traditions...
The Phoenix gathered its tears, which had turned into myrrh, along with the ashes of its old self and its heart prayers.
They shaped it all into an egg, which represents renewal.
It placed this egg on the altar of the Sun God as an offering for its new life.
This is a grief ritual encoded in ancient myth.
In the same way, we too are able to weave prayers from the ashes and tears of our losses that will seed the emergence of our renewal.
For the Holy Outsider, these prayers are the medicine for our lives,
our ancestors and those who will follow.
Your courage to honor and tend to what could not be grieved breaks the ancestral patterns, releases unconscious vows to remain loyal to suffering and
opens the way for the flourishing of your essential nature.
The Phoenix Process is rooted in a map of the very specific transformation that the psyche undergoes during grief and loss.
This is a soul level, nature based, generative way to process grief.
A method.
A remembrance.
A way back to ourselves.
When we can learn to see grief not as something that needs to be healed or a problem that needs to be solved, we can cultivate a rooted, authentic quality of self-love and compassion that will carry us through anything.
Our ancestors knew that grief was holy and their practices slipped away for
reasons we may only now begin to understand.
While grief varies in intensity based on our losses, there IS a map...
A light in the midst of the darkness, that reminds us that we, like the Phoenix, will rise carried by the prayers in our hearts and the wisdom of our ancestors.
Let us transform these earthly wounds into something beautiful.
our soul's needs for wisdom in times of grief remains unchanged.
This is what has been missing for so many of us.
The Phoenix embodies this ancestral wisdom in its mythological journey of regeneration.
In older versions of this myth passed down through ancestral oral traditions...
The Phoenix gathered its tears, which had turned into myrrh, along with the ashes of its old self and its heart prayers.
They shaped it all into an egg, which represents renewal.
It placed this egg on the altar of the Sun God as an offering for its new life.
This is a grief ritual encoded in ancient myth.
In the same way, we too are able to weave prayers from the ashes and tears of our losses that will seed the emergence of our renewal.
For the Holy Outsider, these prayers are the medicine for our lives,
our ancestors and those who will follow.
Your courage to honor and tend to what could not be grieved breaks the ancestral patterns, releases unconscious vows to remain loyal to suffering and
opens the way for the flourishing of your essential nature.
The Phoenix Process is rooted in a map of the very specific transformation that the psyche undergoes during grief and loss.
This is a soul level, nature based, generative way to process grief.
A method.
A remembrance.
A way back to ourselves.
When we can learn to see grief not as something that needs to be healed or a problem that needs to be solved, we can cultivate a rooted, authentic quality of self-love and compassion that will carry us through anything.
Our ancestors knew that grief was holy and their practices slipped away for
reasons we may only now begin to understand.
While grief varies in intensity based on our losses, there IS a map...
A light in the midst of the darkness, that reminds us that we, like the Phoenix, will rise carried by the prayers in our hearts and the wisdom of our ancestors.
Let us transform these earthly wounds into something beautiful.
Logistics
When:
Thursdays
March 5, 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 2026
9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CEST (Paris Time)
*Sessions will be approximately 1.5 hours*
Where:
Zoom
(link and recordings will be sent to all who register)
Exchange:
Pay in Full: $375
Two Payments: $195
When:
Thursdays
March 5, 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 2026
9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CEST (Paris Time)
*Sessions will be approximately 1.5 hours*
Where:
Zoom
(link and recordings will be sent to all who register)
Exchange:
Pay in Full: $375
Two Payments: $195
The Journey
The Phoenix Process is a 5-week online experiential course in which you will be guided through a carefully curated set of contemplative practices, ritual work and ancestral exploration to help you cultivate a personal practice of grief tending.
Who This is For
⚜ Those who are grieving and would like to cultivate a rooted practice of grief tending that feels nourishing, supportive and generative.
⚜ The black sheep; the ones who see, feel, and carry what others ignore.
⚜ The cycle breakers here to transform inherited patterns of codependency,
silence and suffering into authenticity, love and flourishing.
⚜ Those who feel the weight of ancestral grief and long for a way to honor and release it.
⚜ Mystics and sensitive hearts who long to weave grief into their path of
devotion and sacred remembering.
⚜ The Holy Outsiders who long for a more soulful way to process loss.
⚜ Those who have experienced loss and seek a path that is both spiritually rooted and psychologically sound.
⚜ Those who sense that grief is more than just pain, that it is a sacred
alchemical process, a portal to wisdom and transformation.
⚜ Those who desire rituals, practices and ancestral wisdom that nourish the soul
while also meeting the realities of modern life during these darkening times.
The Phoenix is Rising.
The Phoenix Process is a 5-week online experiential course in which you will be guided through a carefully curated set of contemplative practices, ritual work and ancestral exploration to help you cultivate a personal practice of grief tending.
Who This is For
⚜ Those who are grieving and would like to cultivate a rooted practice of grief tending that feels nourishing, supportive and generative.
⚜ The black sheep; the ones who see, feel, and carry what others ignore.
⚜ The cycle breakers here to transform inherited patterns of codependency,
silence and suffering into authenticity, love and flourishing.
⚜ Those who feel the weight of ancestral grief and long for a way to honor and release it.
⚜ Mystics and sensitive hearts who long to weave grief into their path of
devotion and sacred remembering.
⚜ The Holy Outsiders who long for a more soulful way to process loss.
⚜ Those who have experienced loss and seek a path that is both spiritually rooted and psychologically sound.
⚜ Those who sense that grief is more than just pain, that it is a sacred
alchemical process, a portal to wisdom and transformation.
⚜ Those who desire rituals, practices and ancestral wisdom that nourish the soul
while also meeting the realities of modern life during these darkening times.
The Phoenix is Rising.
Course Outline
Week 1: The Phoenix Process
~ Myth of the Phoenix and Map of the Phoenix Process ~
~ Grief, Loss and Breaking Cycles ~
~ Phoenix Activation and Opening Ceremony ~
Week 2: Ancestors and Rituals for Loss and Emergence
~ Ancestral Grief Practices and Lineage Healing ~
~ The Alchemy of Ritual ~
~ Practical Application of Grief and Healing Rituals ~
~ Community Grief Ritual and Ancestral Healing Transmission ~
Week 3: Phoenix Process Part 1
~ Journey Through the First Four Layers of the Spiral ~
~ Experiential Session ~
Week 4: Phoenix Process Part 2
~ Journey Through the Second Four Layers of the Spiral ~
~ Experiential Session ~
Week 5: Emergence and Integration
~ Tending to the Flames & Feeding Our Prayers ~
~ Integration and Practical Application~
~ Q & A ~
~ Closing Ritual ~
Week 1: The Phoenix Process
~ Myth of the Phoenix and Map of the Phoenix Process ~
~ Grief, Loss and Breaking Cycles ~
~ Phoenix Activation and Opening Ceremony ~
Week 2: Ancestors and Rituals for Loss and Emergence
~ Ancestral Grief Practices and Lineage Healing ~
~ The Alchemy of Ritual ~
~ Practical Application of Grief and Healing Rituals ~
~ Community Grief Ritual and Ancestral Healing Transmission ~
Week 3: Phoenix Process Part 1
~ Journey Through the First Four Layers of the Spiral ~
~ Experiential Session ~
Week 4: Phoenix Process Part 2
~ Journey Through the Second Four Layers of the Spiral ~
~ Experiential Session ~
Week 5: Emergence and Integration
~ Tending to the Flames & Feeding Our Prayers ~
~ Integration and Practical Application~
~ Q & A ~
~ Closing Ritual ~
In this Course, You Will Learn:
~ A map for navigating grief, loss, change and individuation ~
~ A contemplative process for exploring the deeper layers of grief ~
~ Practical rituals for honoring both loss and the ongoing flow of life ~
~ How to access the wisdom and prayers held within your heart when grieving ~
~ How to recognize and meet your deepest needs in times of healing or sorrow ~
You Will Receive:
~ Five approx. 1.5 hour recorded, experiential sessions ~
~ Recordings of each session for you to keep ~
~ Handouts and practical assignments ~
~ A private community group ~
~ A map for navigating grief, loss, change and individuation ~
~ A contemplative process for exploring the deeper layers of grief ~
~ Practical rituals for honoring both loss and the ongoing flow of life ~
~ How to access the wisdom and prayers held within your heart when grieving ~
~ How to recognize and meet your deepest needs in times of healing or sorrow ~
You Will Receive:
~ Five approx. 1.5 hour recorded, experiential sessions ~
~ Recordings of each session for you to keep ~
~ Handouts and practical assignments ~
~ A private community group ~
"Having done all the work with grief that I have done, I have had many opportunities to find ways to approach and be with grief as it has moved in my life in the last four years. The Phoenix process, feels the most alive and enlivening process that I have been able to experience. It feels like a dance of expansion and contraction that gives me energy. connection and possibility without strain or effort."
S.B., United States
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S.B., United States
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"The Phoenix Process has been so beautiful. In so many ways this process has answered a prayer I didn't know I had made, yet I did. I have spent many years afraid of my grief, running from my grief, then not knowing how to approach my grief. The process of tending to my grief like I would an infant, as well as working with the spiral, has felt like a homecoming. It has felt so natural. This process has been such medicine."
A.B., United States
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A.B., United States
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"My frozen heart has melted. I offered up a ritual for something that has been very painful, that I lived with for many, many years. The feeling I feel now, I haven't felt in a long time." K.W., United Kingdom
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"I walk away with so much more awareness of my grief, as well as the depths that are available to me in terms of healing and self-compassion. I have more of a sense of when I am feeling grief in my life, but it feels liberating because now I know how to care for my heart and that there is nothing wrong with me. This has raised so much awareness for me and practices I can use that feel more empowering." J.F., France
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About Your Facilitator and Guide: Dr. Maria Hetényi
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I am a grief doula, psychospiritual mentor, initiated Dagara diviner and Hungarian-American medicine woman with a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
My life's work has culminated in founding the Dreaming Awake Institute and Global Online Community. It is my vision to foster conscious, loving and generative spaces for grief tending, ancestral healing and recovering our sense of interdependent humanity through remembering both the healing technology of ritual and the spiritually transformative nature of grief. You can read more of my story here... |
