Grief Support
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
— Vicki Harrison
If you are experiencing grief, new or old, the following Sága Circle members would be honored to support you. Learn about the various modalities and services available to you below. Please feel welcome to contact any Sága Circle member individually or to reach out to Sága for an introduction or recommendation. Practitioners are listed alphabetically by first name.
TIMBo Group for Women, EMDR or Psychotherapy
with Psychotherapist Alex Murray-Golay
TIMBo (Trauma-informed mind and body) combines movement, breath, guided meditation, and a workbook-based approach to explore and better understand emotions such as fear, shame, and grief. Learn more about Alex, including how to contact her, below.
Alex Murray-Golay is a licensed clinical mental health practitioner who believes in the power of the mind-body connection and the capacity to recover and heal.
Alex started working in the field of psychology and mental health in college, and has continued her practice over the past 20 years. Through this journey, Alex recognized that trauma is at the heart of all symptoms, and that people can recover when they connect to their bodies and create new responses. Through her specialty in trauma, Alex has worked with severe and persistent mental illness, in crisis centers, residential treatment and emergency rooms, and is currently in private practice. She specializes in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and TIMBo (Trauma Informed Mind and Body).
Alex became certified in EMDR in 2013 and uses it daily in sessions with patients. This allows the right and left brain to become “unstuck” and to fully process traumatic events. She is currently finishing the 100-hour training in TIMBo, which combines movement, breath, guided meditation, and a workbook-based approach to explore and better understand emotions such as fear, shame, and grief. Alex launched New Hampshire’s first TIMBo group in Peterborough in September.
Connect with Alex:
Email: alexisgeorgina@gmail.com
Instagram: @messycook
Email Alex to learn about upcoming events ↠
Energy Healing and Death Doula
with Carla Mora of Hindsight with Carla
Carla Mora has been on a path of ascension since her boyfriend passed from cancer in 2016. That difficult experience of loss was the catalyst that put her on a path to discover her own healing gifts, heal herself and be of service to others as an Ascension Assistant.
She founded Hindsight with Carla to offer tools of transformation, self-care and healing through Energy Healing work, Past and Present Timeline Reharmonization, Sexual Trauma Healing, Ascension Support, Shadow and Integration work, Womb Wisdom Intensive, Death Doula services and more. She offers her services one-one-one or in group settings, and sessions can range from single meetings, to a day of care, to weekend retreats and longer term guidance.
Carla has traveled to many places in the world and worked with many healers, including shamans in Peru and Russia, from whom she gained insight and shifts in perspective. She has studied many different concepts to help on her own healing path and to share with others, and has attended many classes and seminars to build her tool kit over the past five years. Carla holds her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification from the Kula Collective and is a certified practitioner in the Usui System of Reiki.
Connect with Carla:
Email: hindsightwithcarla@protonmail.com
Website: ascensionassistant.com
Facebook: @HindsightwithCarlaMora
Instagram: @Hindsight_with_Carla
Check out Carla’s upcoming events here ↠
Grief Healing Circle
with Carol Cleary of CarlyGirl
Carol hosts The Healing Circle once a month for those who are grieving to find comfort and talk in a safe place. It is by invitation only. Please contact Carol (see below) if you would like to attend.
Carol Cleary founded CarlyGirl from a place of profound grief and healing after losing her daughter in a tragic car accident. She embarked on a decades-long journey to heal herself and others, and along the way, Carol became a reiki master, an astrologist, an angel card reader, and a grief counselor.
Over the years, Carol started working with herbs and essential oils as a holistic healing practice. She began handcrafting oils for other people and giving the oils as gifts. At the behest of her friends and family, Carol decided to start the CarlyGirl business in 2017 in an effort bring her intuitive healing and essential oils blends to more people.
All of CarlyGirl oils are hand-blended, using organic essential oils from Mountain Rose Herbs. Each oil has been infused with healing reiki energy, angelic intentions, and a bit of magic.
Carol hosts The Healing Circle once a month for those who are grieving to find comfort and talk in a safe place. It is by invitation only. Please contact Carol (see below) if you would like to attend. Carol also hosts a monthly New Moon Intention Circle from 7-8:30 on the night of the New Moon, as well as other intentional events (see the link to her events below).
Connect with Carol:
Email: clearycc@tds.net
Website: carlygirlhealing.com
Facebook: @carlygirlhealing
Instagram: instagram.com/carlygirlhealing
Check out Carol’s upcoming events here ↠
Reiki Meditation Class or Private Reiki Treatment
with Ivor Edmonds of Sága
A Gendai Reiki Master and Usui Level II Practitioner, Ivor channels universal energy to heal the body, mind and spirit, inspire confidence, release stress and deal with grief. Learn more about Ivor, including how to contact him, below.
Ivor Edmonds, MHA, YACEP, C.Qg, Reiki M is a healer with 20 years of experience working with homeless populations, victims of violent crime and trauma, gangs, the mentally ill, and seniors.
As a Master of Gendai Reiki Ho, a Level II Usui Reiki Healer, an E-RYT 200 certified Vinyasa Yoga Instructor, certified Qi Gong and Kemetic Meditation Instructor and soon-to-be-Certified Pilates Instructor, Ivor has taught seminars, corporate wellness programs and classes at Boston Public Schools, Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School’s Reiki Association (2006), St. Francis House, Action for Boston Community Development, Tewksbury Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
Ivor has also created and implemented many programs integrating traditional healing methods in modern contexts, including an ongoing yoga program for the MIT Track/Field and Cross Country Teams. He has worked with patients in hospital settings and with individuals, as well.
Ivor runs classes, workshops, reiki certifications, Qigong apprenticeships and cares for private clients through his Boston-based yoga and wellness studio, Taireiki. A new resident of Peterborough, who has been connected to the area since 2003, Ivor is also Brianna’s partner and the co-founder of Sága.
Connect with Ivor:
Email: ivor@sagamonadnock.com
Website: sagamonadnock.com
Instagram: @sagamonadnock
Check out Ivor’s upcoming events here ↠
Sound Healing
with Marybeth Hallinan of Fundamentally Harmonic
Sound healing is an ancient modality that uses vibrational sounds to ease the central and autonomic nervous systems back into balance. Learn more about Marybeth, including how to contact her, below.
Marybeth Hallinan’s work through Fundamentally Harmonic is a synthesis of a lifelong career as a singer, pianist, educator, director, and intuitive healer; a life rooted in love for her fellow human beings. Music's innate ability to bring people together and to heal have led Marybeth naturally to a place of intentional healing through sound, vibration, and chant.
Marybeth has been known for years as a gifted singer, teacher, director, and guide. Through her wisdom, humor, intuitive strength and grounded presence, she is the perfect companion to your healing or vocal journey. Marybeth's expertise, versatility, and non-judgmental approach ease her clients into their own vocal, empowered self.
Marybeth also founded and directs Two Rivers Community Choir, TraverSing Hospice and Palliative Choir, as well as Voicings Adventure Singing Camp and is an intuitive, trained sound healer. She has spent a lifetime synthesizing voice, vocation, and livelihood — creating avenues to assist others in doing the same.
Connect with Marybeth:
Email: keysofmb@gmail.com
Website: fundamentallyharmonic.com
Facebook: @harmony.nature.healing
Instagram: @fundamentallyharmonic
Check out Marybeth’s upcoming events here ↠
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or “Tapping”)
with Sarah Aborn of SHAKTI Healing Arts
EFT (Tapping) can help you learn to sit with, process and integrate difficult emotions during grief and to ride the waves with more grace. Learn more about tapping here. Learn more about Sarah, including how to contact her, below.
Sarah Aborn is an Embodiment Coach, drawing from two decades steeped in the Healing Arts to help people find freedom in their bodies, mind, and emotions.
Sarah became certified as a Holistic Health Practitioner in 1998 through Heartwood Institute in Garberville, California, and holds certifications in Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue, Shiatsu, and Polarity Therapy. She completed two 200 hour Teacher Trainings in an Anusara Inspired program and Kundalini Yoga, and has been teaching since 2008. She is also trained as a Life Coach and EFT Practitioner.
Sarah's sessions begin by determining what her clients are passionate and purposeful about and what old belief systems need upgrading to support their optimal unfolding. Weaving together conscious breathing, sacred movement, coaching, Emotional Freedom Techniques, and guided meditation, Sarah supports her clients and students in dismantling ingrained patterns that keep them from experiencing their FULL, unlimited, creative potential.
Connect with Sarah:
Email: sacredlysustained@gmail.com
Website: www.sacredlysustained.com
Instagram: @rah.love
Facebook: @Shakti-Healing-Arts
Check out Sarah’s upcoming events here ↠
Yoga Therapy, Sound Healing, Reiki & more
with Shae Sterrett
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy combines yoga, Buddhism, psychology and neuroscience for a truly life empowering experience. Throughout a session, clients may experience movement, meditation, mindfulness, Thai Yoga Body Work and life mentoring to improve mental and physical health.
Shae Sterrett is a holistic wellness practitioner offering a unique collection of services that help people befriend their body, quiet their mind, manage stress, and live with more ease, intention and clarity. Shae offers Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Thai Yoga Bodywork, Reiki, vibrational sound healing, yoga and meditation, trauma informed yoga and meditation, and life coaching as stand alone or collective experiences to support a personal journey and evolution.
Shae curates classes, workshops, retreats and has created the Evolution Life Mentoring program to help people realize a life of wellness that supports the highest version of themselves.
Shae’s credentials are extensive, including Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Certification (600 Hour from Phoenix Rising School of Yoga), Registered Yoga Teacher (500 Hour from Sadhana Yoga School), Thai Yoga Level 1 (from Thai Transformations), Tibetan Reiki Level 2 (from Harmony House of Healing), Vibrational Sound Healing (from Kathmandu Center for Healing), Achology Coaching, Prison Yoga Project, Warriors at Ease (Level I), and the School of Womanly Arts.
Connect with Shae:
Email: shae@shaesterrett.com
Website: shaesterrett.com
Instagram: @shae_sterrett
Facebook: @ShaeSterrettLLC