About this Class

This 4-session series offers a sustained, community focused container to explore our relationship (or lack thereof) with Death. I intentionally use the word Death, not to stoke fear or be provocative…I use it because so many have a negative or traumatic associations with the word, and for understandable reasons. Not all of us have witnessed or will experience an “easy” or “just” death. It’s complicated, it’s personal, it’s inescapable, this dying. What if we could create more room and less fear around this word/experience of “Death”, while also honoring the grief, anger and uncertainty that will likely be stirred? So, much of our pain comes from the delusion that Death is not part of Life itself. We can consciously turn towards our mortality and create a conversation with Death, well before our actual dying. We can learn to build capacity, cultivate curiosity and self-compassion to face our fears, ideas and historical experiences of Death. While knowing that none of us will really know how or when we will die and how we will ultimate receive it. We can learn to hospice ourselves, our loved ones and the World through a myriad of inevitable endings (and beginnings). In allowing Death, as is, we become fuller, more mature and our life takes on a type of moment to moment enlivenment that only comes from when one knows nothing is forever. Gatherings are online every other Saturday, all times are PST: 1/17/26: 10:30a - 12:30p : Session 1: Getting Real with where You are at 1/31/26: 10:30a - 12p : Session 2: Opening to Death/Committing to Life right now 2/14/26: 10:30a - 12p : Session 3 : How do I want to Die? 2/28/26: 10:30a - 12:30p : Session 4: Being with Grief & Cultivating courage Each session is participatory and builds on each successive gathering, inclusive of writing prompts, collective conversation, small groups, body based practices/inquiry and suggested home practices between each session. Sliding scale tuition options available. Choose based on financial capacity at bottom of registration form. Big thanks to Worts and Cunning for the model. You will find 3 price tiers when registering for the class: The top price class ticket is the actual cost of the class. The middle price is for those who are able to meet their basic needs but have little-to-no expendable income. The bottom price is for those who struggle to meet basic needs and paying for this class would still be a significant hardship.