About
Devorah Brous
Herbalist | Ritual Facilitator | Multi-Media Artist
@Dev.Brous (she|her) is the Creator of FromSoil2Soul.
FromSoil2Soul, is a regenerative consultancy committed to advancing conscious land stewardship, environmental justice, and healing grief of the inner and outer landscapes. Through rituals, courses, collective healing events, this practice is dedicated to celebrating, tending, and resourcing people and place — at the nexus where both hold traumatic grief.
For the past 25 years, my intersectional approach has taken root in ancient and emergent practices for soul-care, earth-care, and community-care. I am 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.
Deeply committed to holistic wellbeing, counter-oppressive organizing, and unsettling, I have trained extensively on facilitation of non-hierarchical frameworks for culture change that center equity, belonging, and empowerment. I have trained with Maia Ferdman (Resetting the Table, Project Manager of UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate). I have trained with Indigenous Bedouin; I’ve engaged in in-depth study of Council practice as well as Non-Violent Communication (NVC). I have served as a coordinator for the Compassionate Listening Project in Israel/Palestine. I have a Mindfulness Teacher Training certificate.
While I have practiced listening all over the world with groups and teams in conflict zones, perhaps most urgent is deepening mindful listening practices right here and now. With two Masters degrees in conflict resolution and development studies, I see conflict and grief as dynamic forces that can deepen counter-oppressive organizing, solidify communication, and amplify impact over time.
Bearing Witness through listening and observing are tools that support soul and soil remediation — and serve as the bedrock of transformative, regenerative healing and organizing.
Book a 1:1. Follow @dev.brous, and check out FromSoil2Soul offerings: courses, and consults or my former column, A Jewitch Herbal. Read Full Bio here.
About FromSoil2Soul
Tending Grief with Herbal Remedies, Ritual, and Earth-Based Practices FromSoil2Soul
FromSoil2Soul offers holistic grief support through group rituals rooted in ancient traditions of land stewardship and earth-based wisdom.
Soul remediation is the sacred art of extracting grief, trauma, and spiritual stagnation from the deep layers of the self — much like soil remediation removes toxins from damaged land. Both practices are acts of restoration. Both begin with listening.
When soil is contaminated — by fire, industry, neglect — this can be met proactively - we feed the land with mycelium, phytoremediators, biochar, and microbes to draw out heavy metals and restore its life-giving structure. through soil remediation
What I call “Soul Remediation” works the same way as soil remediation. When a person carries long-held grief, unresolved trauma, or the weight of stacked complicated anguish, we pause and bear witness. We invite in herbal allies, ritual containers, and sacred practices that extract what is no longer serving, compost what can be transformed, and begin the return to vitality and wholeness.
This work is especially vital at the nexus of people and place — where communities are grieving land loss, ecological collapse, cultural erasure, or ancestral disconnection. FromSoil2Soul is devoted to celebrating, tending, and resourcing both soul and soil — as their healing is symbiotic.
At its core, soul remediation is not about fixing — it is about restoring right relationship. It asks us to sit with what hurts, to witness what is buried and unseen, and to tend the slow emergence of new life from within.
Just as soil doesn’t heal overnight, grief has its own pace. But with patience, and presence, anything is possible.
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Collective Healing Ritual, FromSoil2Soul: Roots and Renewal, Skirball Cultural Center
My Regenerative Change Cycle framework maps an experiential journey to replenish and resource.
Step into the ancient technology of Sabbath-inspired practices. May YOU find restorative ways to FALLOW in the garden, fromsoil2soul.