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Dates
Monday 01/19/2026 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Pricing
$54.00 Honoring our Grief: Half-Day retreat
This half-day gathering is an invitation to set aside time and space to explore our grief as sacred.
Primarily
associated with sadness, grief is expressed as a wide collection of
emotions. Encompassing an emotional spectrum (including confusion, rage,
love, yearning, despair, and hopelessness) grief is often
suppressed, hidden, or rushed in our world. Beyond emotional expression,
this unacknowledged grief has physical, cognitive, social, cultural and
spiritual dimensions.
Our culture champions resilience and
forced positivity, while pathologizing mourning and authentic sadness. Unexpressed grief can have long term consequences on our immune systems
and our cardiovascular health. Unacknowledged responses to grief often
impact our familial and social relationships. During this workshop,
participants are invited to acknowledge and process personal and
societal grief.
We will use gentle movement and guided
meditation to explore how grief is stored in the body. Together we will
create a non-judgmental space to share, journal, reflect, and
acknowledge our disenfranchised personal and collective losses.
Leveraging tools including mantra, naad (sound), movement, and rest, we
will allow ourselves grace to acknowledge our grief. This half-day
gathering is an invitation to set aside time and space to explore our
sacred grief authentically, rather than bypassing or shaming ourselves
into inauthentic positivity.
Manju Sadarangani
Manju's yoga practice is grounded in a desire for equity, justice,
emotional and mental well-being. She brings her spirit of play, body
positivity and radical self-love to her Kundalini & Nidra classes.
Born in India to a yoga teacher mother, Manju is committed to authenticity in the studio. A Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance,
she connects deeply with the feminist, spiritual and historical
foundations of yoga to counter problematic cultural appropriation. She
relishes creating a safe space for all using breathe, color, naad, and
mantras in her classes.
Manju invites you to consider yoga as a tool to recharge, resist and rebel.