Jordan Lyons

In a culture where men are expected to be either stoic or warrior, prince or apologist, many men have learned to keep their wider range of emotions in. Or they let them out in reactive bursts, bringing confusion and damage to those around them—human and otherwise.

A grief and praise ritual is a transformational space where that-which-is-aching-to-be-expressed can be let out and let go. In the offering of your wild expression to the shrines, it becomes food for the otherworld and a direct message to your ancestors. Your willingness breaks a dam within you, so that the water of life may again flow through your being unhindered.

Grief and praise are siblings of a kind. We only grieve that which we love, and deep-rooted love that is alert to consequence has the grief of this will not last in the marrow of its bones.

On this night, we will use our voices to speak to that which matters. The ancestors are old and hard of hearing; we may need to shout. 

BIO

Jordan is a grief tender, ritualist, and chef. His work and life strives to cultivate relationships, communities, and cultures of healing, transformation, and reconnection with this living world and her natural rhythms and spirit. He shares his love of food and nourishing others by tending the hearth. He tends to individual and collective grief as our deepest teacher and guide in this time.