12/13/2025
DEATH/ALIVENESS Café
January 4th at 2pm, Big Hill Books
Start the year with mirthful discussion, resource-sharing, writing, moving and thinking around death (abstract and literal) and the aliveness it provokes. We may imagine our own memorials -- some people write their own eulogies/obituaries --fantasy, fictional, or real. All for living a joyous, intentional life. Tea and cake.
Limited to 8 people so please register (only 2 spots left. Drop a YES below and I will DM you about saving a spot).
Deeper Specifics: Modeled after the Death Cafés of Swiss sociologist and anthropologist Bernard Crettaz, this is a small gathering for people of all ages and backgrounds. I facilitate a safe, open discussion with shared curated readings and other resources in an effort to normalize talking about and planning for death. Half-way through, I lead the group in a series of Brain Gym® exercises – simple meridian-crossing movements, done sitting or standing, which activate blood flow to the brain, increase nerve synapse connectivity.
We consider our memorials:
🪦How we would like to be remembered?
🪦What elements would we like to include? (music, people, readings)
🪦What are Green/Eco- friendly body disposition options?
🪦 and much, much more.
The embodied acts of writing, laying down, resting, dancing, choosing, imagining, can add calm aliveness to ideology around death -- and life. Research studies show how engaging with these topics without judgment, with mirth and movement, improves people’s relationships with death.
Can’t make it? Contact me for upcoming workshops.
