Mindfully connecting us to the cycles of life.

Providing regenerative offerings and experiences to renew and deepen your experience of being alive.
Holistically guiding us through life, loss, grief, and death.
BACII is influenced by traditional Laotian baci ceremonies performed at gatherings of birth, life, and death. During the ritual, people wish baci, or “blessings,” onto others in an act of true compassion, unity and connection.

SHADOW: A GRIEF POTION

Shadow is a flower essence blend that holds you in your deepest grief and most tender moments, gently guiding you to meet your shadows with calm, courage, and new found illuminations.

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A Signature Offering

YU:EXIST is an empowering 4-week experience designed to re-engage you to your life and to our shared world. Through learnings, practices, self-reflection and community gatherings, you’ll receive invaluable insights and awareness that helps you better understand, accept, heal, and prepare for the end-of-life. We’ll refine what it means to exist in the world today.

✷ Why experience this

Facing your mortality affects the way you live, the choices you make, and your overall wellbeing and engagement to life
Expand your understanding of loss, life and death of all kinds
Decrease your death fears and anxieties
Appreciate being alive
This is life and death education
Make positive changes in your life and in the world

✷ This is for

Anyone interested in better understanding their life and the topic of death
Anyone feeling stagnant in their lives and seeking more meaning
Anyone open and curious to a new experience
Past participants include: creatives, engineers, counselors, librarians, strategists, teachers, community advocates, activists, death doulas, grief guides, filmmakers, and you!
Unsure if this is for you? Book a time to connect here.

“I think I say this in the most generous way which is expect the unexpected. You may come in with intentions and find that the compass moves and then moves you. But that’s what was so gorgeous about it and the real non-symbolic experience of Death too. But Mangda has this ability to hold space for that kind of complexity with reverence for rupture, repair, and even play. There’s also a week between each session so we’re able to be in process before we move on to the next topic. That intentional kind of slowness made for spaciousness and allowed for personal reflections and actions to bloom in their own time. A lot is still budding for me.” — Opal

“Creating space to sit with our own mortality is not easy- in fact, it is counter cultural. Yet the YU:EXIST program broke through those internal and external barriers with ease- providing a safe, reflective, inclusive space to grieve and explore these "taboo" topics in community. As a physician, I grapple with mortality in my job and I have never had a space like this to consider the impact it has on my own relationship to death. I cannot recommend this program highly enough to those are ready to deepen their relationship with themselves and emerge more awakened and aligned in their everyday life.” — Anu

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