Grief Yoga is a yin-style yoga class that targets areas of the body that store grief. This is a slow and subtle practice, meant to sink in over time. This class is accessible to all bodies and all levels of yoga.

Come cozy and bring your mat.

We have a tea bar, oracle cards, crystals, writing materials, flowers, and aromatherapy available for our guests.

This is a cannabis friendly class.

Jill Schock is a certified yoga teacher, death doula, and the owner of Studio DDLA.

Every Sunday evening
6-8pm

A space to honor your grief and connect with others who understand. Bring a dish that reminds you of the person you want to remember.

The holiday season can be tough, so lets spend some time together in community and support each other at the Friends-Grieving Pot Luck hosted by LifeSource and Death Doula LA on November 27, from 3-7 pm at Studio DDLA in Chinatown.

Bring a dish that reminds you of the person you want to remember and share their delicious memory with us all. This is a free event, but donations are always welcome!

Event Details

This will a zero-waste event so please bring your own dinnerware and get ready to sort your scraps! Food scraps generated by this event will be composted. In addition to a dish and a beverage to share, we suggest bringing:

 • a plate
 • a bowl
 • a drinking vessel
 • utensiles
 • napkin

This is an intimate community gathering where we laugh, cry, and dance with our shared mortality in a safe and support environment.
We Are Mortal! Workshop with Therapist and Death Doula, Kara Hoppe

We spend so much time avoiding our mortality and denying that we were born terminal and one day will die. Often, our first contemplation of death comes as the result of the death of a loved one. Consciously or not, losing someone leads us to reckon with our own mortality. If they can die, so can we. It can be wildly uncomfortable, to say the least, to admit this.But what happens if we run with care, tender support and courage toward this reckoning? What happens if we don’t do it alone or avoid it? What happens if we embrace our mortality?

 • We can develop a deeper connection to life.
• We can feel more embodied.
• We can cultivate greater gratitude for being born.
• We can feel connected to every person, knowing we share the same fate: we are all mortal.

In this intimate workshop, we will explore, in a safe container, feelings about our mortality. It can be intense to contemplate our mortality, so it’s good to do this with support and in connection with others doing the same. There will be time to share fears and hopes and to be witnessed. There will also be a deep meditation about the dying process that can be a profoundly healing experience.

No experience necessary. We are all mortal, so all are welcome!

What to bring: A journal and pen.

Kara Hoppe, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, death doula, teacher, author, existentialist, and mama. She has spent over 15 years as a relational therapist working with individuals, couples, and groups toward healing and growth, and guiding clients to become grounded, integrated people with better access to their own instincts, wisdom, and creativity. In addition to supporting parents in their partnerships, she runs groups for those living the dying part of life. Hoppe is the coauthor of Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents, a 2021 INDIES finalist. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, Parents Magazine, Psychology Today, and Fatherly, among other publications. She lives with her husband and two children in Pioneertown, CA, and sees clients in private practice via telehealth.

Ticker price: $40 (in person event only)

Please email kara@karahoppe.com or phone 323-770-1582 with any questions.