At the moment I live and work in the West Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire area with my wonderful Collie companion, Bronwen. My journey here has been varied and sometimes traumatic – teaching both inside and outside the classroom, dog walking, foraging and making cordials and liqueurs, as well as management training and assessment. Now my vocation as a Death Priestess and Sacred Elemental Celebrant has brought me to exploring new ways to approach loss and grieving and I am really excited to reach out and help people. I don’t heal, I walk alongside, suggest ceremonies and activities which may help to release emotions, create safe, sacred and brave space, give amazing hugs, drink tea and listen. I am also embracing my crone status and reinvigorating my wild inner child through regular contact and interaction with the forest, the mountains, the seashore, the weather and the elements. I love making lots of noise with my pipes and drum and taking every opportunity to dance with the trees, go barefoot, sing, keen, shout out loud and be creative with what I can find; as well as honouring the wheel of the year. I am proud to be becoming my mother’s savage daughter.
What I do
Celebrant
White Feather Farewells
Release, Remember, Rebuild
Spiritual and Elemental funeral ceremonies at a location of your choice
Celebration of life services
Pagan funerals
Passing over ceremonies
Pet funerals & memorials
Other ceremonies to mark all kinds of endings and give closure
Public and community ceremonies & memorials
Grief companion
Grief Untamed
Dare to be vulnerable
Grief untamed -activities to explore the grief journey in the outdoors through the senses, creativity, sound, mindfulness and movement
Mourning walks – 1 to 1, or as a group activity
Mourning coffee – bereavement support
Grief retreats
Bereavement consultancy – helping schools and businesses devise ways to support those who are grieving
Building grief communities through support and grief circles
Ecotherapist
Natural Reconnections
Disconnect to Reconnect
Reconnecting people with their natural surroundings, themselves and the community of nature
Wild woman of the woods course
Foraging
Natural mindfulness
Spiritual and elemental work and reconnecting to the Wheel of the Year through fun, ceremony and sensory activities
ALISON BROOME 