Indoors and out, in every season, we host a variety of
workshops, events and immersive offerings at The Bardo
and on the Mend land. All are welcome.
- NE Minneapolis Death CafeJun 29, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PMMinneapolis, 357 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413, USA
- The Power of Storytelling at End-of-LifeDate and time is TBDVirtual Event
- Remembering and Returning to Our Ancestral Death RitesDate and time is TBDVirtual Event
- Embodying Grief through SongDate and time is TBDVirtual Event
- Caring for Your Own: Community-led, Family-directed After-death CareDate and time is TBDVirtual Event
- Romina's Plant Meditation (Pine)Date and time is TBDLocation is TBD
- Ceremonies & Rituals around End of LifeDate and time is TBDLocation is TBD
- Romina's Plant Meditation (Aspen)Date and time is TBDLocation is TBD
- Remembering and Returning to Our Ancestral Death RitesJan 31, 2025, 7:00 PM – Feb 02, 2025, 11:00 PMVirtual Event
- Daosit Death RetreatNov 01, 2024, 6:00 PM – Nov 03, 2024, 5:00 PMVirtual Event
- Morning Altars™ Workshops with Soul CafeOct 20, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PMThe Bardo, 6565 Babcock Trail, Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077, USA
Tea Ceremony: A Meditative
Ritual for Transitions
Life is filled with transitions and losses and grief often accompanies them. Yet little space is set aside to acknowledge and process this powerful emotion. Tea has been used for thousands of years for
deep meditation, rites of passage and sacred transitions. Tea,
when used in ceremony, has the power to transform. It invites us
to connect with nature, with our community and with the deepest parts of our unknown selves. Join a safe and welcoming group for a silent, meditative Tea Ceremony where grief is welcomed, processed and held, followed by an optional grief circle.
The Art of Grieving:
Mandala Making
This 4-week immersive workshop helps those who are struggling find a new way to be with their grief and activate their own creative healing abilities. Time will be spent walking in nature, gathering materials and creating grief mandalas (called Morning Altars), while receiving the gifts that abound in the land at Mend. Facilitated and guided by an end-of-life doula and arts-based creative navigator who trained with Day Schildkret, founder of Morning Altars
“If we love such moments ferociously, then maybe we can
learn to live well - not in spite of death, but because of it.”
- BJ Miller