Thursday Satsang In Person and via Zoom
May 21, 2026
“Exploration of the ‘Death Social’ Movement” with Elizabeth Persico,
YA E-RYT-500, Certified End-of-Life/Death Doula
7:00-8:30 p.m. CT
New start time, 6:00-7:00 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Yoga
7:00-7:30 p.m.: Guided Meditation with Rodney Huff (Rajni)
7:30-8:30 p.m. “Exploration of the ‘Death Social’ Movement” with Elizabeth Persico
8:30 p.m.: Evening Chants
8:40 p.m. Tea and Snacks
Elizabeth has been practicing as a Death Doula for three years and is trained by INELDA and Moment’s Hospice Death Doula certification programs. She currently works in two hospices. She is also an Ayurveda Practitioner, Reiki Master and Yoga teacher – all these practices inform her time with the dying. Her passion for becoming a death doula stemmed when her father was in hospice in 2012 and also when her mom was in hospice in 2015. It was her Ayurveda studies that furthered her interest in how death and dying were discussed over 5000 years ago and how it is relevant today.
During our Thursday evening together, we will explore the Death Café movement—where it came from, why it exists, how it has grown globally, and why conversations about death are more relevant than ever. Then, we will experience what a death café is like – together. If in person, we will have a tea or coffee and a sweet available – usually the Death Café has cake . If online, please have your own beverage and sweet to sip/munch from your location. We will do some group sharing. For those online – there will be a breakout room. We will join in back in the large group at the end to process the conversations.
Image: Table arrangement at April’s “Death Social” gathering at TMC. Courtesy of Kathryn Dopkins
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