A good death: special weekend with annie & theresa

Conversation, Practice, and Wisdom to Prepare for the Inevitable

Join longtime yoga teachers Theresa Murphy, hospice volunteer, and Annie Moyer, interfaith chaplain, as they uncloak death through safe and honest discussion and practice. This is a three-part workshop: each session stands alone, while multiple sessions flow well together. All sessions will be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded for future viewing.

Let’s Talk About It - The Cultural
Friday Jan 30: 6:00p - 8:30p, Fairfax Studio and Zoom
Our discussions explore how death talk has become culturally taboo, how capitalistic powers purposely shield us from connecting with the deep truth of death, and how our culture can positively reclaim death as an honorable rite of passage. Theresa & Annie offer a re-framing of how we consider, discuss, and meet death – in the interest of courageously being fully present for our beloveds who are dying, in grieving our losses like mature humans, and in preparing to graciously meet our own inevitable truth in death. Practice will incorporate gentle movement, breathwork and meditation to prepare for an experiential savasana to honor the discussions and contemplations around this ultimate and sacred passage.

Death As Teacher - The Relational
Saturday Jan 31: 2:00p - 4:30p, Arlington Studio and Zoom
Annie and Theresa share and invite others to explore, process and learn from their own stories about deaths as we, in community, graciously honor the difficult truth and inevitability of death. We'll extract the wisdom and gifts of these tales as well as consider the archetype of death as a teacher for all of us. Yoga practice will include yin poses as well as long savasanas with explorations.

It’s Personal - The Individual
Sunday Feb 1: 1:00p - 3:30p, Fairfax Studio and Zoom
The focus will be to bring to light how each of us can consider, picture, plan for, and potentially curate preparation and logistics for during and after our own death. We'll discuss the relationship between the personal and universal, contemplating how our own death can make the world a better place by asking what we might ask of others in our death, how we may enlighten them on our personal journey out of the realm of the living, and how we might make this profound birthright a teaching of courage and beauty. The experience will be supported by gentle movement, a few guided meditations, and discussions to compassionately and wholeheartedly contemplate our own deaths.

Each session priced at $65 (early-bird pricing at $55 for each session)

Reflections on Impermanence: Annie and Theresa, circa 2011. Now in 2025, we are older, wiser, and not dead yet!