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Dates
Monday 09/07/2026 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Pricing
$108.00 Honoring our Professional Grief: One-Day Retreat

This gathering is an invitation to set aside time and space to explore our professional grief as sacred. From many of us in this town, the political climate has meant a deeply profound personal impact. Our professions, our institutions, our life paths have been impacted by the political reality in Washington DC in permanent and indelible ways. While there are resources for re-charting our professional careers, there is a vacuum. This gathering is an opportunity to acknowledge and honor the emotional cost of this change in our professional aspirations.

Primarily associated with sadness, grief is expressed as a wide collection of emotions. Encompassing an emotional spectrum (including confusion, rage, love, yearning, despair, shame, guilt 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 the grief resulting from professional disruption. We will use gentle movement and guided meditation to explore how professional grief is different or similar to other causes of grief. We will stop to observe how and where it 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 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.

There will be a lunch break (please plan to bring or buy your lunch and snacks), as well as multiple journalling and bio breaks during the day.

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.