Yoga of Dying
Thursdays at 1:30 pm on February 5, 12, 19 and 26
This four-part series integrates gentle movement, breathwork, reflection, and interfaith spiritual wisdom to explore the profound connection between remembering our human mortality and living more fully. We want to help participants begin to face their own mortality as a natural part of their lives.
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” –Confucius
Session 1: Embracing Impermanence
Theme: Facing mortality with presence
Focus: Grounding and awareness
Practices include breath awareness, gentle movement, teachings on impermanence, journaling on what is unresolved, and alternate nostril breathing.
Session 2: Letting Go
Theme: Releasing attachments
Focus: Exhale, surrender
Practices include hip openers, guided-release meditation, discussion of spiritual surrender, writing about what to let go of, and lengthened exhalations.
Session 3: Living With Death as a Companion
Theme: Befriending death; legacy and meaning
Focus: Heart-centered practice
Practices include heart-opening movement, reflections on living with mortality in mind, meeting death in meditation, and letter writing for legacy.
Session 4: Dying Into Grace
Theme: Peaceful transition; preparing the inner altar
Focus: Integration and wholeness
Practices include sacred space creation, slow restorative postures, interfaith teachings on holy dying, and a closing ritual of blessing or silence.
“Try to accept the changing seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the changing seasons that pass over the fields. For you know that winter will pass, and spring will come again. Try not to resist death, for it too is a season.” –