30 Dec Leticia Leyva
Leticia is a mother, weaver of ritual, grief tender, and keeper of thresholds initiated into grief tending through the lived experience of the breathless birth of her firstborn son and the sacred unraveling of her own womb.
In the years that followed, she was further initiated into the profound terrain of loss, love, and remembrance through the passing of a beloved aunt, additional early pregnancy losses, and walking alongside families navigating stillbirth and postpartum bereavement as a birthkeeper & grief tender.
Through tending to her own grief, Leticia was guided by teachers and mentors in the field of grief work, including Francis Weller, Martín Prechtel, Debra Kilby, and Kelly Meehan who prepared her to hold space for other bereaved hearts through the practice of ritual and ceremony.
As a daughter of her Mexica and Pueblo ancestors Leticia carries the grounded remembrance to hold grief not as burden, but as a blueprint for beauty in form.
As a reflection of this, her path has been shaped by the unseen birthing of souls who did not stay, the flickers of life that passed through, and the sacred labor of return through separation. Through personal loss and communal holding, Leticia has learned: Grief is not something to heal. It is something to honor. To witness. To offer back to the Earth in beauty. In this communal ritual, she comes not as teacher but as mirror. A midwife to what aches but still sings. One who has died inside herself many times, and now lives not from survival, but from sacred stillness. She holds space. She listens to what aches beneath language. And offers it back to the Earth, in reverence.
Leticia Leyva will be holding a Group Grief Ritual.