The Honoring

A Ceremony for Mothers and Their Beloved Unborn

A two-part, in-person ceremony to honor, witness, and Tend.

The Honoring

With this ceremony, we will create a space to acknowledge what happened, in whatever way it lives in you. A space to bring dignity and right relationship to the lives that were not carried forward, and to the women who experienced that loss.

Both miscarriage and pregnancy termination are so often shrouded in guilt, shame, avoidance and secrecy. All of which live in our bodies, even many years later. We have found that these experiences need witnessing, honoring and care. This ceremony brings that healing to those places.

Held by nature and the elements, this ceremony is a gentle and potent way to honor our experiences of miscarriage or abortion, and to honor our beloved unborn children. What we experience as a result of this work is a softening, deeper acceptance, peace, and more spaciousness in our bodies.

This ceremony has been passed to us through Sarah McLean Bicknell, and Cher Bear Lyons before her. It is rooted in a lineage of ceremonial work that honors the deep, often invisible layers of grief, love, loss, and memory that live in the body.

The work is held in community, but is deeply personal. It is designed to open a ceremonial container, tend what arises, and then close the container with care. Because of the nature of this work, full participation across both in-person gatherings is required.

Space will be limited to protect the integrity of the container.

The Ceremonial Arc

This is a three-part ceremonial journey held over two in-person gatherings with a period of personal inquiry, contemplation and integration in between.

PART ONE - The Ceremony opens

Friday, October 9th, 2026
5:00-8:00pm
Private Home in Sebastopol, CA

PART TWO - Personal Integration
Two weeks of at-home practice

This period offers space for what has been opened to gently move, settle, and integrate in your own time and rhythm.

PART THREE - Closing the Ceremony
Sunday, October 25, 2026
11:00am–2:00pm
Location TBD (in wild nature)

We will close the ceremonial container together, honoring what has been tended and creating space for integration and return.

PLEASE KNOW:

Because of the nature of this ceremonial work, attendance at both in-person gatherings is required.

If you can't make it to the closing ceremony, we will need to schedule a private closing for an additional cost.

This is not a drop-in experience. It is a held passage.

This might be for you if…

You have had an abortion or miscarriage that you still think about.

You desire to be in ceremonial space with the other women.

You feel like you had an abortion or miscarriage that was not properly tended.

You experience shame or guilt around your abortion or miscarriage.

You feel alone or confused around your experience.

You desire more peace and acceptance around your experience.

Your experience feels like a secret that is ready to come out of hiding and be held with care.

You wish to honor the spirit or soul of your beloved unborn.

Your body is holding memories or stories that want to be known.

this is the space for me

$555

IF THIS IS AN EXPERIENCE YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO HAVE, AND FINANCES ARE THE ONLY THING IN THE WAY, PLEASE REACH OUT.

Your Facilitators

Charlotte holds ceremonial space with deep listening, intuitive seeing, and a steady reverence for what moves beneath the surface of words. Her work is rooted in shamanic practices that honor the intelligence of the body, the unseen threads of relationship, and the quiet ways healing unfolds when something is truly witnessed. She brings a grounded, compassionate presence to this ceremony, tending the energetic field with care so that what arises can be met with safety, dignity, and respect.

Jessica creates spaces of integrity and gentleness, where what is tender can be witnessed and allowed to transform. She is a student of constellation work, dreamwork, ceremony, and service with Sarah Maclean Bicknell. This immersion has shaped her ability to trust the intelligence of the field and to be with the complexity of what is.

This ceremony is also deeply personal. After moving through her own experience of pregnancy loss and receiving profound healing through ceremony, she felt called to help carry this work forward with presence, integrity, and respect.