11/8- Grief Is Love : A Community Healing Event
$55
Healing Together in Harmony
Saturday, November 8th, 2025 | 2:00–10:00 PM Monarch Ranch, Springfield, TN
Join us for Grief Is Love—a powerful community healing event that blends MELD's candlelit group singing experience, Will Sage's live band ecstatic dance, cacao, and ceremonial fire to help us honor love in every season. Set on 10 acres of Tennessee land with a rolling river, forest, pond, and several fire pits, this half-day experience invites you to move your body, open your voice, and find a hopeful way forward—held by music, nature, and community. Our first Autumn event features a special Día de los Muertos remembrance potluck. Dragonfly Nest will be on-site helping create an intentional container to hold grief with care. Additional on-site partners offer mindful witnessing, massage, reiki, sound healing, and intuitive readings. All stages of grief are welcome.
THIS IS A SUBSTANCE FREE EVENT!
Capacity: 100 participants.
In the event of rainy weather, there will be a rain date of November 9th!
Limited scholarship pricing options available. Email thevoicetemple@gmail.com for more information!
The First Season:
Autumn : The Final Harvest & Día De Los Muertos celebration
2:00–3:00 | Arrival and land exploration
3:00–4:15 | Opening Circle & Ecstatic Dance
4:15–4:30 | Dance Sharing Circle
4:45–5:45 | MELD Sunset String duo candlelit concert, with Voice Temple experience.
5:45-6:45 | Día De Los Muertos Remembrance Potluck
6:45-7:00 | Closing ceremony with heart opening cacao.
7:00-10:00 | Choose Your Own Adventure! Dance, sing, jam around the fire. Bring things to burn if you wish! Visit with vendors and enjoy sauna, & cold plunge. Receive massage, reiki, intuitive readings, sound healing, and more.
Important guidelines for this container are:
1.) Every voice, and every stage of grief is welcome - whether you are called to witness or to experience. Grief is not linear. You may be in a space of joy and celebration in your life, and that is welcome just as much as those in heightened stages of grief.
2.) Grief can come in all shapes and sizes. Whether you are experiencing heartbreak, death, life changes, illness, financial challenges or more. All forms of grief are welcome.
3.) We are witnesses, first for ourselves - then for others. This is not about fixing, or advising, this is about creating opportunities for everyone to feel seen, heard, and held. By ourselves first, and then, if we wish - by others.
The intention for this container:
Leave feeling more hopeful, and held by community in whatever you are moving through!
Your Ticket Price Includes:
Admission to Will Sage live band ecstatic dance experience
Admission to MELD Sunset candlelit concert, with Voice Temple group song experience.
Heart opening cacao
Grief witnessing support
Access to additional healing vendors (massage therapists, reiki, sound healing, readings, and more.)
What to Bring:
A chair or blanket for outdoor concert seating
A potluck item that represents a loved one, a memory, a place that you wish to honor. Feel free to bring a card that tells the story of your item! - (Not required but encouraged.)
Día De Los Muertos altar photo or item representing a loved one, a memory, or a place that you wish to honor.
A note or object you wish to burn.
Drums, rattles, or instruments for the fire circle.
✨ This is a co-ed space open to all grief and all journeys. You are welcome exactly as you are.
Location:
Monarch Ranch: 6839 Herbert Shannon Rd, Springfield, TN
This event is curated by Voice Temple, with support from Monarch Ranch, and Dragonfly Nest!
A note from Dragonfly Nest
This gathering invites emotional depth and may bring up tender or intense feelings. At Grief Is Love, we explore how grief and love are intertwined, creating space to honor both within community. Our aim is to offer a supportive environment where you can show up as you are—where both tears and laughter are welcome. Everyone’s grief journey is unique. While all are welcome, we want to be clear about what support is available to help ensure the experience feels safe and grounded.
Trained facilitators will offer limited, as-needed on-site support through compassionate witnessing and grounding presence for participants navigating particularly intense experiences. Although our facilitators are practicing therapists, they are not serving in that role for this event, and the support offered does not constitute psychotherapy. Support will be available only to those with a high level of need and may not be accessible to every participant.We encourage participants to reflect on their current emotional readiness and available supports before attending, and to take responsibility for their own care throughout the event. Please honor your own pace, listen to your body, and take breaks as needed.
This event is not a substitute for therapy, medical treatment, or crisis support. If you are in acute distress or need immediate care, please reach out to your therapist, a trusted support, or a crisis resource. Additional grief and mental health resources will be available on-site and by request after the event.
Above all, this space is meant to remind us that grief is not a problem to fix, but a reflection of how deeply we’ve loved—and how love continues to move through us.