Sally Rousse, Unlimited

January 4, 2pm
Start the new year out by getting all your (death-related) ducks in a row. Only two spots left for next Sunday's DEATH/ALIVENESS Cafe:

Death/Aliveness Cafe — Big Hill Books Join Death Educator Sally Rousse for a mirthful discussion around a topic that should never be taboo. You’ll explore death through resource-sharing, writing, movement and imagine your own memorial. You may write a eulogy or obituary—fantasy, fiction or real. Or you may simply sit, listen and pro...

DEATH/ALIVENESS Café
January 4th at 2pm, Big Hill Books
Start the year with mirthful discussion, resource-sharing, writing, moving and thinking around death (abstract and literal) and the aliveness it provokes. We may imagine our own memorials -- some people write their own eulogies/obituaries --fantasy, fictional, or real. All for living a joyous, intentional life. Tea and cake.
Limited to 8 people so please register (only 2 spots left. Drop a YES below and I will DM you about saving a spot).

Deeper Specifics: Modeled after the Death Cafés of Swiss sociologist and anthropologist Bernard Crettaz, this is a small gathering for people of all ages and backgrounds. I facilitate a safe, open discussion with shared curated readings and other resources in an effort to normalize talking about and planning for death. Half-way through, I lead the group in a series of Brain Gym® exercises – simple meridian-crossing movements, done sitting or standing, which activate blood flow to the brain, increase nerve synapse connectivity.

We consider our memorials:
🪦How we would like to be remembered?
🪦What elements would we like to include? (music, people, readings)
🪦What are Green/Eco- friendly body disposition options?
🪦 and much, much more.
The embodied acts of writing, laying down, resting, dancing, choosing, imagining, can add calm aliveness to ideology around death -- and life. Research studies show how engaging with these topics without judgment, with mirth and movement, improves people’s relationships with death.

Can’t make it? Contact me for upcoming workshops.

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Sundays 10am at the HCA
Wednesdays 6pm at Clear Holistic Therapies, Bryn Mawr

July 2-August 6
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DR. DONALD ROSE
Orthopedic surgeon, founding Director of Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU Langone
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New Zena Rommett Floor-Barre™️ class July 2-August 6!
Wednesdays 6pm
At Clear Holistic Therapies in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood
Free parking
$12/class or $60 for the entire series