What can you learn about the meaning of life by making friends with death?

Do you want to plan for an empowered, sacred, and connected end of life?

Do you want to practice integrating what’s passing in order to be present for what’s next?

Want to explore how to navigate life after loss while orienting towards your purpose, power, and pleasure?

Want to grow coping skills to support people who are grieving and dying from deep, embodied love without burnout?

Deaths, big and small, happen everyday.

It is always happening. Our bodies are dynamic and are constantly in some part of the cycle of growth and decay.

Death Jam is a facilitated, community conversation about death and grief. It’s like a trauma informed death cafe with invitations for somatic (body-based) awareness to ground your energy and support your felt sense of safety as we navigate the unknown together.

“We entered the room as perfect strangers but left as family after sharing so many intimate details about our feelings and experiences with death and dying. It felt like a great honor to hold space in that room with Melanie.” - Sydney, Birth Doula, Peoria

Approaching our mortality with curiosity can be tender territory. This is a space to explore that terrain together with reverence for our big feelings and the great mystery of life and death.

"There is a conversation in the room that only these people at this moment can have. Find it."– adrienne maree brown

This is a core principle of Death Jam.

We are here to find the wisdom and wounds about life and death that this group of people uniquely carries.

Past Jams have explored questions like:

• How do I be with someone at the end of their life?

• How do I support my family as we navigate the death of a loved one?

• What do I want my own end of life experience to look like?

• What do I want “more time” to look like?

You are invited to come cozy, bring a nourishing beverage and a notebook for notes or doodling. You are invited to “lean in & lean out” of the discussion as it feels good to you. To honor & listen to your body first.

This special edition of Death Jam will be hosted in person at Urbana Community Acupuncture. Tea and refreshments will be offered.