Episode 10: Moving Grief through Work that Reconnects

In the final episode of our first season, we dive into a beautiful conversation about grief, movement, and the Work That Reconnects with Ciara Hefferon and Amy Lister.

Amy Lister is a Registered Psychotherapist and Expressive Arts Therapist, as well as a caregiver, community builder, conscious movement dancer, and facilitator of the Work That Reconnects—a practice that brings people together in community to witness, process, and transform the pain we feel for ourselves, each other, and our planet into active hope.

Ciara Hefferon is a wonderful human, a dancer, a writer, a kind caring being who has devoted the past couple of years to researching and exploring how communities can be with environmental grief more meaningfully.

Amy Lister, Ciara Hefferon, and Layah Jane (featured in an earlier episode) co-facilitated a day-long workshop on January 24, 2026. Together, they held a container that wove 5Rhythms as a movement modality for grief work, alongside adapted, intersecting, and complementary experiential practices from Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects.

To learn more about Amy:

www.amylister.ca

To learn more about Joanna Macy, her work and her legacy:

https://www.joannamacy.net/work

https://workthatreconnects.org/

These podcast episodes are part of my commitment to a fundraiser organized by a close circle of friends who are supporting my journey toward attending the 5Rhythms Teacher Training this year. If you’re curious about why we are fundraising, or if you’d like to support me in this path, you can learn more here:

https://gofund.me/2ee174312

To learn more about 5 Rhythms in the Toronto community:

https://www.layahjane.com/workshops-with-layah

https://5rhythmstoronto.com/classes/

If you have a story you would like to share about how embodied movement became a medicine for you, or if you have any other inquiries, please get in touch at: ⁠

[e-mail]

With care,

Alejandro Zuluaga