Oshra’s Rite of Unmarrying

Vivien Claire has a passionate interest in the creative use of ritual in healing and spiritual formation. For more than three decades she has been offering symbolic gesture and poetic speech as potent resources for finding ways through life crises and thresholds of growth.

Vivien sees life giving rites as a sacred art form and a deeply intuitive creative practice. In writing Oshra’s Rite of Unmarrying, Vivien draws on this wisdom to find a fitting rite of passage in a personal crisis.

“Vivien has crafted a thing of beauty distilled from pain and self-confrontation awaiting grace… a tour de force of capturing a journey facing the darkness and coming through the other side.

There are no rituals prescribed for divorce and the rite of ‘unmarrying’ goes a long way to remedy that. When the fabric of our world and connecting through intimate belonging, is torn and ruptured, some ritual enactment of release, ending and containment is important.”

- Rev Peter Fox, Pastoral Clinician and Life Ritual facilitator SA.

“Oshra’s Rite of Unmarrying is a complete guide to the ritual passage of uncoupling. It is a thorough and rigorous consideration, but also hidden in its pages is both the license and encouragement to take any painful life event and to ritually recontextualize it.”

- William Redfield, Wisdom School and Wisdom Work mentor USA.