An online intensive with Daniela Hess & Jacob
Learn the foundational tools and practices to be with your grief — in a conscious, healthy way.
An invitation
The pain of grief is inevitable. The unnecessary suffering can be optional.
Grief is a universal experience, touching each of us at some point in our lives — yet many of us struggle to navigate this profound emotion. When we don't know how to grieve, we typically reach for whatever numbs: we isolate, over-eat, seek highs, become sedentary, or distract ourselves in countless ways. These unconscious patterns become habits, and the habits become a cycle of pain and avoidance. But grief was never the trap. Grief is the river, not the knot — and the river can be learned.
In the Grief Course we guide you through an intentional process, bringing knowledge, tools, guidance and support to move through your own journey of grief. Grief is unfamiliar ground for most of us. It helps to cross it with someone beside you — and with someone who knows the way.
Grief isn't something we strive to "heal" from — that's one of the myths we'll help you put down. Grief is about honouring, integrating, and ultimately living fully alive.
Grief is not the pain. It is the process that helps you move through it. — Jacob
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Daniela & Jacob introduce the Grief Course — one minute.
Where there is change, there is grief. The Grief Course
The path
Four sessions that move from understanding, through the mind's quiet objections, into the body and the voice, and finally into your own integration.
Grief as a process rather than an isolated feeling. Together we clear up the myths and misunderstandings — because allowing the process begins with understanding what grief is, and what it is not.
Meeting the beliefs and emotions wrapped around the loss. Guilt and regret can, all on their own, stop the natural flow of grief — truly acknowledging these thoughts and feelings is the key to getting it flowing again.
Somatic voice work connects you with your body in an accessible, reliable way. The body and the nervous system hold the keys to flowing with grief — and new somatic tools give you a fresh way to express it.
Lift the head, relax the shoulders, sound the grief outward.
Through conscious integration you weave the new insights and practices into your life — continuing your grief journey in your own unique way, knowing it is okay to embrace and allow the process.
Who it's for
Whether you're mourning a loved one or a beloved pet, facing a divorce, the end of a friendship, a job loss, disconnection from community, or children growing up and moving out — this course is for you. We teach the principles of the grief process that apply to all of it, whether life-altering or "everyday". You'll learn how to allow, attend, acknowledge and integrate — and to move through the sadness and worry that grief carries.
Your guides & educators
Daniela has served as an educational and spiritual mentor to thousands of students and clients over the past 25 years. She has led many group grief courses and worked 1:1 with the bereaved, helping people around the world navigate the complex terrain of grief — a dynamic, insightful and compassionate guide.
Jacob is an international educator who has held space for thousands moving through deep inner work, blending the psychology of emotional wellbeing with spirituality. A gifted pianist and singer, he explores the healing effects of music with a special focus on the human voice. Navigating his own grief, he developed a somatic way of meeting the stuck energy of grief in the body, so it can move again.
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An honest note
This is not therapy, and it doesn't replace it — it will always remain valuable to have someone who knows you. And it won't always feel good first. If you're willing to meet what's been waiting, what's on the other side is a different kind of peace.
You don't have to cross these waters alone. Begin when you're ready
One payment, lifetime access, and you can begin the moment you're ready — there's no cohort to wait for.
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