Join Joe Barnett at Yoga Nyla for a workshop that invites you to face mortality with clarity, compassion, and courage. Through a blend of gentle movement, meditation, and reflective practices, you’ll gain tools to be present for yourself and others.

Whether it’s a sudden accident that shrinks a lifespan to days and minutes, or a diagnosis offering only months to “get your affairs in order,” the greatest gift to offer the dying is a hand to hold, an open heart to listen deeply, or someone who can simply sit quietly and offer presence. This workshop is about being that gift. The first step is understanding our relationship with death. 

Fear of Death underlies every choice we make in life. It is buried deeply in the body/mind and colors everyone’s personality… and in the worst ways when the fear is buried and never acknowledged. Fear of Death is never abolished, it is hard-wired in the physical and astral bodies of everyone. It has the important and sacred purpose of vigilance, of keeping ourselves and our communities safe. But excessive fear of death prevents us from living fully, and sadly alienates us from loved ones facing imminent death. 

The remedy is to invite death to a chat. In this workshop we will engage in some ancient and some modern models for organizing community around death conversations and preparations.  This work greatly reduces mortal anxieties, helps us live more fully, and can bring us into more meaningful connection with the dying. If we can be in a decent relationship with death, sitting with those who are facing it will be more easeful.  

We will all need community, family, friends whose anxiety around mortality does not obstruct their ability to stay true and present with us through the process of dying. In such community, we could all find a way of loving and living with every breath left. 

This workshop will include:

•Death and Rebirth Meditation

•BreathWork & Mantra for Safety and Surrender

•BreathWork & Mantra for Joy of Life Death

•Life Story telling prompts for Death Chats 

•Deep Listening Practice

•Yin Yoga

Early Bird Pricing ends January 1- Reserve your spot today.