Honoring Life & Death
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An evening of sacred reflection, sound bathing, journaling, and meditation with Kim Beller & Alexis Abbate.
We invite you to explore the one thing we all have in common: we are here, we are alive, and one day, we will die.
Our society tends to avoid conversations about death and dying, which can be a disservice to us and our human experience.
When we allow ourselves to talk about death with curiosity, tenderness, and reverence, we open the door to experience life more fully. By holding all of life’s cycles with reverence, including the beginnings, the endings, the grief, the joy, the uncertainty, and the beauty, we can perhaps learn to live with greater intention, contentment, gratitude, and joy.
Join us for a meaningful evening in an intentional space for tea, conversation, reflection, pondering and contemplation around life, death, and what it means to be human.
Our time together will include:
• Savasana (corpse pose) and a soothing sound bath with Alexis
• Journaling prompts from Kim’s book, 'death tending' and quiet writing time
• Guided conversation and time for reflection
• Meditation
• Space to ask questions, listen, share, or simply be
Alexis will share stories from her experiences with her dog Ruby and their volunteer work alongside hospice patients, and how those experiences have transformed her own relationship with death and dying. She will also share aspects of her yoga practice and tools that have helped her become more comfortable being in conversation with death, cultivating a deeper sense of presence, acceptance, and connection with the natural cycles of life.
Kim, an end-of-life doula, will share experiences, stories and reflections from sitting at the bedside of people who were actively dying, and the discoveries that ultimately inspired her soon to be published book, death tending.
Through her work, Kim brings tenderness, curiosity, and experience to the mystery of death and dying. She invites us to consider how conversations about death can become an invitation to live with more intention. In her book, 'death tending', she weaves together art, yoga, meditation, contemplation, and practical reflection as ways of preparing for and planning around the end of life with curiosity and grace.
Book recommendation:
We highly recommend Pema Chödrön’s 'How We Live Is How We Die', a beautiful companion for anyone wishing to explore impermanence, mortality, and the way we meet each moment of our lives.
We’re grateful to partner with our local, independently owned bookstore, Pomegranate Books, where you can purchase a copy to read before or after our gathering. (Optional)
Together, we’ll embrace and make space for the conversation our culture so often avoids and, perhaps, in doing so, make a little more room for living.
**Wear comfortable clothing, bring a journal and pen, and a yoga mat. (We have some mats to share if you need one)
We invite you to explore the one thing we all have in common: we are here, we are alive, and one day, we will die.
Our society tends to avoid conversations about death and dying, which can be a disservice to us and our human experience.
When we allow ourselves to talk about death with curiosity, tenderness, and reverence, we open the door to experience life more fully. By holding all of life’s cycles with reverence, including the beginnings, the endings, the grief, the joy, the uncertainty, and the beauty, we can perhaps learn to live with greater intention, contentment, gratitude, and joy.
Join us for a meaningful evening in an intentional space for tea, conversation, reflection, pondering and contemplation around life, death, and what it means to be human.
Our time together will include:
• Savasana (corpse pose) and a soothing sound bath with Alexis
• Journaling prompts from Kim’s book, 'death tending' and quiet writing time
• Guided conversation and time for reflection
• Meditation
• Space to ask questions, listen, share, or simply be
Alexis will share stories from her experiences with her dog Ruby and their volunteer work alongside hospice patients, and how those experiences have transformed her own relationship with death and dying. She will also share aspects of her yoga practice and tools that have helped her become more comfortable being in conversation with death, cultivating a deeper sense of presence, acceptance, and connection with the natural cycles of life.
Kim, an end-of-life doula, will share experiences, stories and reflections from sitting at the bedside of people who were actively dying, and the discoveries that ultimately inspired her soon to be published book, death tending.
Through her work, Kim brings tenderness, curiosity, and experience to the mystery of death and dying. She invites us to consider how conversations about death can become an invitation to live with more intention. In her book, 'death tending', she weaves together art, yoga, meditation, contemplation, and practical reflection as ways of preparing for and planning around the end of life with curiosity and grace.
Book recommendation:
We highly recommend Pema Chödrön’s 'How We Live Is How We Die', a beautiful companion for anyone wishing to explore impermanence, mortality, and the way we meet each moment of our lives.
We’re grateful to partner with our local, independently owned bookstore, Pomegranate Books, where you can purchase a copy to read before or after our gathering. (Optional)
Together, we’ll embrace and make space for the conversation our culture so often avoids and, perhaps, in doing so, make a little more room for living.
**Wear comfortable clothing, bring a journal and pen, and a yoga mat. (We have some mats to share if you need one)
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507 Castle Street, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28401
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