fromsoil2soul

tending your inner & outer landscapes

Grief Gardener · Ritual Architect

Rituals for repair, for individuals and communities in rupture.

I am Dev Brous, a certified trauma-informed grief counselor, herbalist, and ritualist. I’m here beside you, to tend your grief with gentle presence and fierce care.

Grief irreversibly alters our landscapes. Sometimes barren as the driest desert. Sometimes raging as an uncontainable wildfire. Sometimes numbing and heavy as a thick fog. You are not alone.

After the unthinkable has happened, your world will never be quite the same. Your body aches, and your heart is depleted. I offer high-touch accompaniment with herbal wellness. ‍ ‍

FromSoil2Soul is a regenerative healing practice. Reach out for 1:1 Grief Support. Or join an online trauma-informed Grief Garden - we meet twice weekly.

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If YOU are:

  • Numb. Burned out. Lonely. Afraid. Overwhelmed.

  • Navigating loss, illness, transition or caretaking parents and kids

  • Seeking to regenerate and unearth after it’s torn you to pieces.

  • Holding guilt and/or shame

For 25 years, I support people navigating loss in a culture that overlooks grief, commodifies pain, and exploits numbness. Through long-form grief accompaniment rooted in herbal ritual, ecology, and ancient mysticism, get support for nervous system regulation and the integration of loss into life.

Your grief deserves pause, and reverence.

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Pathways FromSoil2Soul

Ritual Architecture · Custom

Large-scale immersive, artistic, eco-spiritual rituals and communal experiences for cultural institutions, foundations, companies, events and festivals. FromSoil2Soul serves as lead designer and producer supporting the emotional arc, ritual design, and experience from concept through production. Or, we collaborate. Bring us in as a vendor for any part: creative ritual design, facilitation, immersive activation, guided meditation, reflection and integration. Also offered are ceremonies shaped around your personal journey — from life-cycle passages and communal thresholds to seasonal gatherings, climate rituals and more. Each experience is rooted in relationship, with the land itself as co-facilitator. Book a Call.

1:1 Grief Tending · Individual

Private, trauma-informed accompaniment for people navigating loss. High-touch work combining conversation, somatic practice, ritual, and herbal support to help grief find its place within a changing life. Book a 1:1 session as you move through rupture, release, and regeneration with optional herbal support.

Grief Garden · Twice Weekly / drop-in

An online support lab for you to arrive in a support group, just as you are — tender, numb, overflowing, or uncertain. Tend what has been lost. Regenerate capacity. Hold and be held. Fill this form out to enter the Grief Garden, Monday Mourning (8:30am pst), & Wed. evening (7-8:30pm pst).

newMOONs · Monthly

A monthly in-person gathering around our Herbal SaltBowl, rooted in luni-solar cycles and ancient Hebrew calendar wisdom. This is a recurring rhythm for release, reflection, and renewal. Join the community for free for musings, reminders, and encouraging notes.

Soul Sabbaticals · Seasonal

Embark on an annual pilgrimage in a group container. I offer a 7-wk Mini Soul Sabbatical (Mar-April & Aug–Sept) or a 7-Month Soul Sabbatical (Jan-July). This is a pilgrimage through grief, growth, and embodied renewal with access to the full slate of FromSoil2Soul offerings.

Writings · Soul Remediation

Dev Brous’ essays and field notes on grief, ecology, plants, ritual, and Jewish mystical wisdom — exploring the living relationship between inner loss and the natural world. Click to read my Substack on Grief in Nature and the Nature of Grief

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Because Death Feeds Life, Endings are Beginnings.

FromSoil2Soul is a regenerative healing practice. I offer 1:1 grief tending. I also design and produce large-scale immersive events & custom ritual activations.

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1:1 Sessions

“G*d formed the human (adam) from the soil (adamah) and breathed into their nostrils the breath of life, and the human became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7

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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

  • Listening: Embodied Grieving

    I came to Devorah with intense grief which was causing a real disconnection from my relationships - and frankly I think I forgot how to dream. What I experienced during a Soul Sabbatical was a grounding and transformative process — for my grief, for my relationship, and for my own body. The FromSoil2Soul framework is powerful, poetic, and essential for people who are hurting. — Alexandra Goldstein

  • Soul Sabbatical

    Dev took me leaps beyond what I thought was even possible in a time of grief. She gave me the tools not just to grow food, but to see how the cycles of my garden could be interconnected with all parts of my life - my spiritual and emotional growth, my health, my daily living practices, and eventually the wellbeing of my family and my community during a most challenging time. Embarking on the FromSoil2Soul journey deeply impacted my perspectives. Dev has helped me connect the dots between being a caretaker for my garden, to becoming a steward for our planet. I couldn’t recommend this journey more highly!

    ~Marissa Nadjarian, Founder of www.Philanthroparent.com

  • Grief Relief

    It's difficult for me to find the words to share about Dev & FromSoil2Soul, because my eyes tear up and my heart gets overwhelmed with relief and gratitude for having found them.

    I believe Dev and her circles have saved my life. Her teachings and grief support have brought me solace in times of seemingly inconsolable pain from the inconceivable loss of my beloved son. 

    She guides us by using the plants, herbalism, and the teachings of our Earth Mother’s natural cycles, to help in working through the grief by applying these tools over time, as opposed to trying to avoid it, and just get over it. 

    I watch how her whole body works as a magical listening ear, encompassing her entire being when she focuses on hearing the inner and outer language of another human with a broken soul, thrashed by tragedy. I'm learning how to listen by watching her listen to others.

    The container of warmth provided by the Grief Garden, her rituals, and the monthly newMOON Circles is extraordinary. For me, it’s like a really soft warm blanket against my skin.a

    ~ Lynn Appel

  • End-of-Life Rituals: From Garden to Graveside

    After losing my sister, Cathie Orange, I was overcome with very immense grief. FromSoil2Soul offerings, guided by the founder, Devorah, lovingly guided me back toward healing with a ritual planting of an orange tree with my community. In this beautiful and poetic ceremony that Devorah created for my family and for my community to honor my sister’s memory, we shared an unforgettable, deeply moving, experience that brought a sense of peace I didn’t think was possible.

    Devorah’s warmth, wisdom, and compassion have been a constant source of comfort to me for the past four years.

    We’ve met at the grave for rituals, and we’ve met in the garden. Through the monthly newMOON circles, I found a supportive space to grieve and grow. The Grief Garden has become my sanctuary, where nurturing life helped me rediscover hope. Devorah and FromSoil2Soul have been a beacon of light in my darkest moments, and I am forever grateful.

    —Mary “Mandie” Davis

 

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