Soul Sabbatical
A 7-month Immersive Journey (Jan-July)
Grief. Held.
A seven-month online cohort (Jan-July 2027)
After the unthinkable has happened, your world will never be quite the same. Your body aches, and your heart is depleted.
For those navigating the loss of a loved one, a relationship, health, identity or direction. When you feel numb, overwhelmed, unsafe, mistrustful, or hollowed out - as though you no longer belong —
enter this sanctuary.
Take time to tend what you carry, with a cohort to return to. Face grief without losing connection to yourself or the people beside you.
Book a fit call: https://cal.com/devorah-brous/15min
Designed for those navigating loss — before, during, or after the loss of a loved one, the transition of an identity, mourning a relationship, or a new diagnosis. Are you:
Experiencing overwhelm, not quite sure where to turn next
Navigating loss(es) and seeking a sacred, grounded support system
Longing for structure that honors body-mind, heart, and spirit
Craving guidance that is both practical and mystical
Ready to meet your grief as alive
Generously attuned to other people’s needs often before your own (by necessity or by orientation)
Soul Sabbatical
Grief is held in relationship. Take seven months to tend what you carry, with a cohort to return to. Practice facing grief without losing connection to yourself and the people beside you.
Some losses leave a crater. Our goal is not to fill it, but to sit at its edge and behold its full measure. Other losses change the ground so slowly that one barely notices how hard it has become.
Here, you’ll have the chance to speak of what happened, sit without words, and have your loss acknowledged without being asked to make it smaller. We listen, witness and honor what each person carries. Connection is at the heart of Soul Sabbatical; ritual is one of the ways we make room for it. You return to the same cohort. Accountability means returning to your intentions and the practices you are building, not meeting a deadline for healing. A rhythm of pausing, tending and building.
Soul Sabbatical
Some losses leave a crater.
The goal here is not to fill it in, but to sit at its edge and behold its full measure. Others change the ground so slowly that no one notices how hard it has become to stand. You can speak of what happened, sit without words, and have your loss acknowledged without being asked to make it smaller.
We listen, witness and honor what each person carries. Connection is at the heart of Soul Sabbatical; ritual is one of the ways we make room for it.
You return to the same cohort. Accountability means returning to your intentions and the practices you are building, not meeting a deadline for healing.
Together, we listen, witness and honor what you carry.
Soul Sabbatical
Curriculum with my Original Frameworks
1:1 Grief Tending
Regenerative Herbal Support
4x/wk Community & Connection
Home Practice & Integration
Your Soul Sabbatical: A 7-Month Journey for Rest, Ritual, and Regeneration
In ancient times, a sabbatical was not a luxury. It was a law of survival.
Farmers were commanded to let the soil lie fallow—to rest the land, to let the Earth breathe again after seasons of extractive harvest.
Both were acts of grace and forms of repair. Grief requires an intensive energy output, care-taking, and overextension. Your nervous system may have become like overworked soil—stripped of minerals, tired from carrying more than it was meant to sustain.
To fallow is to pause.
It is to remember that life continues in the unseen—that regeneration happens in the dark, below the surface, when nothing appears to be growing.
The Soul Sabbatical is a seven-month immersion in the ancient rhythm of rest and renewal. It begins at the threshold of winter—a time to lay down what’s heavy and root deeply into what is true.
A Seven-Month Arc
Your Soul Sabbatical consists of four micro-seasons of grief tending:
Fallow — The Rest | Sow — The Release | Tend — The Listening | Harvest — The Integrating
FALLOW - I guide you into deep stillness to ground, listen, and reflect. This is a season of rest, to compost, and clear.
SOW - I guide you to surrender, scatter, broadcast seed, and breathe into your new reality with specificity and intention. This is a season of possibilities.
TEND - I guide you to cleanse, clear, and set new boundaries. This is a season of nurturing and balancing minerals with customized herbal support for your nervous system, digestion, sleep.
HARVEST - I guide you to unearth what nourishes you and glean wisdom from what has ripened as you create an anchor project. This is a season of integration, and gratitude.
Previous FromSoil2Soul Anchor Projects have varied widely. Some have included growing a fruitful, climate-resilient, memorial garden and ecosystem in harmony with our earth. Some host a Ceremony of Life ritual. Others have written poems and made film shorts to share in community. Your project grows from what matters to you, it’s not an assignment to turn grief into something useful.
Root Down to Rise Up, in the spirit of the ancient Sabbatical.
Join my most immersive, mindSHIFTING and groundMENDING offering, the Soul Sabbatical.
A long arc of ritual, study, and collective practice.
This 7-month immersion weaves seasonal cycles, Kabbalistic teachings, embodiment, and plant spirit medicine into a communal practice.
It’s a sacred arc of ritual, study, and healing.
It begins with exploring your taproot.
S L O W down and FEEL.
I guide us through the seasons of the Hebrew Calendar and the Regenerative Change Cycle as outlined in my TEDx talk.
FromSoil2Soul Soul Sabbatical sessions are held weekly online, Fridays at noon PST, for 90 minutes.
Our co-created path has four strong roots:
1) Science-based Grief Tending;
2) Experiential ritual for regeneration;
3) Cleansing with plant-based healing for embodied grieving;
4) Guidance in cultivating your grief relief anchor project and MORE.
During the FromSoil2Soul Sabbatical, you will:
Unearth your tenacity and your innate wisdom as you seek solace.
Click here for more on Grief Tending on your Soul Sabbatical.
Soul Sabbatical is a seven-month immersive cohort with science-backed practices, a rich curriculum for the mind, heart, body, and soul, recipes, somatic practices, and sustained presence in between our sessions. The fromsoil2soul journey includes 28 sessions, plus twice-weekly Grief Garden gatherings, one-to-one accompaniment and private WhatsApp access in an all-inclusive package of live accompaniment, not an evergreen recorded course.
The total investment is $6,000 for Essential or $7,500 for Ultimate. Explore what’s included in each:
Soul Sabbatical Tiers
If you are ready to be met and held — not fixed, or hurried — I offer you presence with impactful tools.
Discuss? Schedule a call here
Ultimate
Weekly, live grief tending from the Soul Sabbatical curriculum
Herbal rituals for integration
Review of your Anchor Project
Guided journal prompts, poetry, home practices, and a curated playlist
Access to the FromSoil2Soul community What’sApp for supportive accountability, connection, and grounded care
Optional twice-weekly entry into the online Grief Garden, a communal sanctuary for shared witnessing and renewal
Three optional 50-minute private sessions each month
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Customization, guidebook and herbal support
An in-person half-day retreat (Los Angeles) weaving sound healing, reiki, water ritual, and embodied practice
A bespoke FromSoil2Soul Herbal Ritual Kit
Ongoing text / email support
Personalized guidance throughout your Anchor Project and integration process
Guided memory book
A custom ritual
Essential
Weekly, live grief tending from the Soul Sabbatical curriculum
Herbal rituals for integration
Review of your Anchor Project
Guided journal prompts, poetry, home practices, and a curated playlist
Access to the FromSoil2Soul community What’sApp for supportive accountability, connection, and grounded care
Optional twice-weekly entry into the online Grief Garden, a communal sanctuary for shared witnessing and renewal
Two optional 20-minute private sessions each month.
Soul Sabbatical Investment
The complete seven-month journey is $6,000 for Essential or $7,500 for Ultimate.
Pay in full, or begin with $1,000 for Essential or $1,250 for Ultimate, followed by five monthly payments of the same amount.
Soul Sabbatical Journey
“Like a root bound houseplant that has outgrown its pot, we replant so you can regrow, and stretch beyond your confines to get unstuck. We metaphorically trim up the roots of any no-longer-effective coping strategies, add compost to your soil, and find ways to adjust the watering and sunlight so you can find your way toward the light again.”
—Dev Brous
FromSoil2Soul Sabbatical
The Soul Sabbatical — A seven-month journey in grief tending with ritual, regeneration, and repair.
This process unfurls with the seasons.
An intimate and transcendent community of practice held with care and depth.
It is an invitation to pause between endings and new beginnings.
FromSoil2Soul Sabbatical Testimonials
Close your eyes. It’s one year after your Soul Sabbatical
You know just how to replenish your soul -- before you become depleted. You are resourced and ready for what comes your way.
You now have ancient and emergent practices to reset your nervous system and replenish your soul.
Through silence and sound, poetry and prayer, stillness and movement, you know how to source grief relief. As you grieve and heal, stretch and grow, you will be held in a habit-building framework. You remember the principles of rest, and all that you unearthed during your mindful pilgrimage into the nature of belonging. You have redefined soul-care.
Your Soul Sabbatical remains a refusal to abandon your soul through times of depletion.
Because, a
Soul Sabbatical is not a luxury.
You’ll remember how to pause and reflect, and how to breathe and unearth grief’s life lessons. Maybe you’ll find a silver lining or redefine your purpose. Because endings are beginnings.
