About
FromSoil2Soul Healing
FromSoil2Soul is a regenerative healing practice that tends grief and nourishes spirit at the nexus of people and place. Our intersectional approach is based in ancient and emergent wellbeing practices for soul-care, earth-care, and community-care. My orientation is reciprocal and deeply devoted to witnessing, resourcing, stewarding, and celebrating both soul and soil — where healing is symbiotic, and holistic.
Here, all forms of grief are met: from personal anguish to climate catastrophe: wholesale cultural erasure to displacement from our numbing over-culture; from ancestral disconnection or from loss of direction post-rupture. Find 1:1’s, twice weekly Grief Gardens, twice monthly collective healing journeys, and twice annually - gut/brain cleanses.
My trauma-informed approach applies cognitive, somatic, and nature-based practices to support individuals to regulate and replenish the nervous system by touching nature. This is at the heart of our work together - it is the touch point for soul remembrance, and ecological repair. Our sessions involve the act of caring for something or someone that cares for you - a sacred bond that nourishes reciprocity, and feeds our ability to regenerate alongside.
By breathing deeply, and by oxygenating soils, we weave back into collective ritual where loss is transformed into growth, anguish into nutrient, and depletion into mineral vitality.
My work draws from ancient mystical traditions and emergent practices. My goal: to reclaim and to resource people moving through rupture with deep listening and collective healing rituals that guide us back to tending Earth. My practice is rooted in regenerative land stewardship, mysticism, herbalism, and embodied listening — where healing restores the abiding relationship between people and place. I call this:
FROMSOIL2SOUL REMEDIATION (*read more below my bio)
Let’s connect and get YOU Resourced. Together we will slow down, listen deeply, and rediscover your place in the sacred web of life. Book a session below.
—With Care, Devorah Brous, Creator of FromSoil2Soul
Devorah Brous
Grief Guide | Herbalist | Ritual Facilitator | 2x Nonprofit Founder
@Dev.Brous (she|her) is the Creator of FromSoil2Soul.
FromSoil2Soul is a regenerative healing practice is an intersectional approach that tends grief at the nexus of people and place. I have designed collective healing rituals held at the Skirball Cultural Center (1400 people) as well as online Grief Garden gatherings that meet twice weekly for the past 3 years.
For the past 25 years, I listen closely for ways to tend, as an herbalist, a ritualist, and a mom raising our family on an urban homestead. I am certified Compassionate Bereavement Care Counselor, a trained facilitator and mindfulness teacher, and a practitioner of citizen soil science.
Prior to forming FromSoil2Soul, I served as the founding Executive Director of two mission-driven environmental nonprofits: BUSTAN, and Netiya for a combined 18 years. A bridge-builder with systems-impacted and underinvested communities (indigenous, houseless, and formerly incarcerated people), I bring an undeniable passion for growing community stakeholder engagement through relationship-building, deep listening, and land stewardship.
I have two Masters degrees in Conflict Resolution and Development Studies, and have trained extensively on facilitation of non-hierarchical frameworks for culture change that center equity, belonging, and empowerment. Deeply committed to counter-oppressive organizing, I have trained with Maia Ferdman (Resetting the Table, Project Manager of UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate). I have spent 15 years with Indigenous Bedouin; I’ve engaged in study of Council practice; Authentic Relating; as well as Non-Violent Communication (NVC); I have served as a coordinator for the Compassionate Listening Project in Israel/Palestine; and I have a Mindfulness Teacher Training certificate.
…I see grief in people and in landscapes as a dynamic and emergent force. Bearing Witness to Grief through Listening to People and Place supports transcendence. I call this work Soul Remediation — it serves as the bedrock of regenerative healing, FromSoil2Soul.
Book a 1:1. Follow @dev.brous, and check out FromSoil2Soul offerings: or my former column, A Jewitch Herbal. Read Full Bio here.
What is Soul Remediation?
From my experience as a Grief Guide, the state of the human psyche following a traumatic rupture is like "biologically barren" soil, devoid of the foundational elements—safety, trust, and resilience—needed for healthy emotional functioning.
Much the same, a post-fire landscape is "biologically barren," when the soil's intricate microbial communities are devastated. Scorched earth acts as a profound catalyst for renewal. And for rebirth.
Bioremediation is the targeted application of compost (full of nutrients from fungi, bacteria, microbes) to effectively break down "post-fire contaminants" and rebuild the soil's living ecology. Contaminants are the toxic byproducts of trauma, persistent rumination, guilt, shame, stagnation, and unprocessed anguish. Both soil remediation and soul remediation are restorative metabolic practices that begin with bearing witness and deep listening. Both serve to rebuild living ecosystems, and both tend the foundation of our existence.
FromSoil2Soul Remediation is a healing journey that starts at the microscopic foundational core of the soul — it is a ground-up reboot to restore trust and safety (or the "living soil" of the soul). Working together, you and I restore your landscapes by reintroducing a metaphoric community of “microbes” to resource you: balance, coping, emotional clarity, and hope. We feed the spirit. The human relationships, community support, and spiritual practices that catalyze renewal and "absorb" the toxins of trauma. These relationships are the equivalent of introducing a metabolic community of living organisms into a toxic wasteland post-fire, or post-war.
FromSoil2Soul is about supporting YOU in the sacred art of listening to the land, the water, and your seasons of grief. It’s about cleansing and replenishing you - like feeding the soil with carbon and oxygen so life force can cycle nutrients once again. When we work together, we sit with anguish to witness what is — without judgment. We tend to the mystical emergence of new life from within.
My job is to support you as you root down to rise. YOU are a Phoenix.
Book a 1:1. Follow @dev.brous, and check out FromSoil2Soul offerings: or my former column, A Jewitch Herbal. Read Full Bio here.
Watch: Collective Healing Ritual FromSoil2Soul: Roots and Renewal, Skirball Cultural Center (2.2.25)
My Regenerative Change Cycle framework outlined in my TEDx talk (during Covid) maps an experiential journey to replenish and resource.
Let’s work together and allow the ancient technology of Sabbath-inspired practices to guide you.
Take a Seasonal ReRoot (3 months) or a FromSoil2Soul Sabbatical (10 months).