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Sacred Healing, FromSoil2Soul
FromSoil2Soul is a regenerative healing practice. Our holistic, trauma-informed approach applies cognitive, somatic, and nature-based practices to support individuals to regulate and replenish their nervous system to build greater resiliency. Tending nature is the seed of healing - the touch point for soul remembrance, and ecological repair. The act of caring for something or someone that cares for you, nourishes reciprocity - a sacred bond that feeds our ability to thrive.
FromSoil2Soul practices are reciprocal and deeply devoted to witnessing, resourcing, stewarding, and celebrating both soul and soil — their healing is symbiotic.
By tending grief in the landscape as we tend to individuals and weave back into shared ritual as a community practice. This way, we are composting loss into growth, anguish into nutrient, and depletion into mineral vitality. This is tend grief at the nexus of people and place. And here, all forms of grief are met - from personal anguish to climate catastrophe, cultural erasure, ancestral or familial disconnection.
Slow down, listen deeply, and rediscover your place in the sacred web of life. This work draws from ancient traditions and emergent practices — ancestral reclamation, regenerative land stewardship, mysticism, herbalism, and embodied listening — to restore the deep relationship between people and place.
What I call “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 that begin with bearing witness. 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.
Let’s connect and get YOU Resourced.
—With Care, Devorah Brous, Creator of FromSoil2Soul
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Devorah Brous
Herbalist | Ritual Facilitator | 2x Nonprofit Founder
@Dev.Brous (she|her) is the Creator of FromSoil2Soul.
FromSoil2Soul is a regenerative healing practice at the intersection of soul remembrance and ecological repair.
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 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, FromSoil2Soul.
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).