A Self-Guided Mourning Ritual:
With optional temporary tattoos or ribbons to memorialize, honor, and grieve your loved one
This ritual bundle includes:
A four week* journey with:
- simple and somatic breathing exercises (guided video)
- gentle movements (guided video)
- memorial creation for your beloved (step by step instructions)
- temporary tattoos to apply each week or instructions on how to locally source ribbons or find symbolic objects in your home
- carefully curated guidance on how to digest your grief (non-dogmatic, non-prescriptive, somatic informed)
- additional gifts (soundscapes, bonus animal inspired movements, optional activities to soothe the nervous system)
- resources for continued support
*Each ritual is easy to follow and only takes a maximum 1 hour per week…
…you can also choose to complete these rituals over 4 days or 4 months or stick with our suggested 4 week timeline.
$22 for the ritual bundle
$44 for the ritual bundle & temporary tattoos of your choosing (dog, cat, big dog, tree)
Select your option below to pay & gain access to the ritual:
purchase guided mourning ritual
When you’re experiencing the death transition of a Companion Animal (Pet), Human, or circumstance:
Grief is something that we can’t see, and that makes acknowledging and feeling it all the more difficult: this temporary mourning ritual can help by giving you permission to take time out of your day to metabolize and essentially digest your grief. Grief bruises the heart, but we can’t see that, thus these temporary tattoos or ribbons are a way to see the unseeable, to have a reminder of what’s going on beneath the surface.
This ritual using temporary tattoos or ribbons is a physical memorial to your loved one and loss. And a reminder to you. This carefully curated and simple ritual has the potential to help you to recognize all that you’re dealing with as you navigate grieving and honoring your beloved animal/human/change of circumstance, while living your everyday life.
These rituals and accompanying temporary tattoos are kid friendly, in fact we encourage you to apply them as a community or family, together.
We originally created this ritual and tattoos for animal companion grief, and then expanded it for all circumstances that need to be mourned. This is why we have 3 variations of temporary tattoos for animals, and the tree of life and death represents all other unmet grief needing to be processed (personal or collective i.e. ecological grief). You can also source your own ribbons or clothing to represent a beloved human, a big life transition, or any type of grief both small and large.
“Lana’s work was the outlet that allowed for the healing that I needed. The rituals are natural, and having to remind myself to take part in the mourning process was very necessary to allow myself to get past the loss with a positive outlook on the future- not just to forget and move on like so many of us do when we lose a loved one.
The rituals allowed me to muster up all the wonderful memories and stories about Goji- and the temp tattoos (which I applied to the inside of my wrist) allowed me to share those with others. A great, positive conversation starter to keep him in my life, and it opened me up to sharing more positive stories about him instead of devastating facts about his sudden passing. Thank you so so much for creating this mourning ritual and safe space for those of us that lose four legged family members and have difficult time coping.”
-Allison Wellborn, Restaurant Manager
“The precise and yet fluid exercises and rituals that Lana shared with me after my mothers passing are invaluable. Her reflections on and connections with grief and the cycle of life has allowed me to co regulate with the earth and begin the life process of loving my mother from behind the veil as much as I did on this plane. Her style of creating rituals you can mix and match and do in your own rhythm and timing is also inspiring and beneficial to whatever your grief process is.
I love the music she includes in the grief rituals as well, and the colors and ideas for alter’s – she really is using all the senses to connect you to your body and to spirit while co regulating and taking care of our own bodies through grief.
Again, her connection to energy, earth, cycles and her own authentic self makes the intensity of grief manageable and at times beautiful.”
Carolyn H.
“What seems like only yesterday when I lost Oliver, now has now turned into over six months. I knew when I began the grieving process it was going to be a very difficult one, but devastating is more accurate. He was a true companion that only brought me joy.
My first inclination was to bury it deep and try to move on, but I quickly realized that was going to be to no avail. It wasn’t until I connected with Lana and started opening up about it, that I was truly able to begin healing the loss of my four legged friend. Lana soon became a staple with whom I engaged with and she helped me appreciate life’s cycle. Her encouragement to change my perspective of only focusing on the loss, to a positive one of focusing on him as a gift truly helped me begin to heal. Her approach even incorporated temporary tattoos which offered me happiness on days I didn’t think I would have any and kept me working the process and thinking of him with a smile.
I am now able to celebrate his life and appreciate the cycle in a way I originally didn’t think possible.”
– Ben S.
A Digital Memorial to the ones we have loved, and will always love.
Just send me a photo of your loved one if you’d like them to be remembered and honored here:
A beautiful Pelican who we found after their physical transition. (First Video)
I only knew this teenager water bird for a few hours, I tried to rescue them, but they ended up dying in my hands. It was beautiful and sad and big: after making this memorial I wasn’t sure what to do… then an essential worker, a fly came by, and told me they’d take it from there. (Second Video)
