2025
Walking With Grief: Mindfulness Walk – Denver
Join us for a mindfulness walk that honors ourselves, our connection with nature and with our grief. A mindfulness walk is a type of meditative, contemplative, intentional walk that creates movement while focusing our body’s on physical sensations and what nature around us is doing and evoking within us. It can be a helpful way to copy with grief by helping to get out of our heads and back into our bodies, and in connection with the world of nature.
Date: Friday, March 21 10am-11:30am at HeartLight Center
Cost: $20, includes materials
The Anger of Grief: A Somatic Workshop – Denver
Anger is a “stage” of grief that doesn’t often get talked about, yet is an emotion everyone feels. There is a wide variety of ways that anger, irritability and frustration arise in grief. Join us in a space dedicated to discussing and processing anger and learn tools for safely experiencing and working through this complex emotion as normal part of the grief journey.
Please wear clothing that you have full range of motion in.
Date: Friday, March 28, 2025
Time: 10am-12pm
Location: HeartLight Center (11150 E Dartmouth Ave, Denver, CO 80014)
Cost: $30, includes materials. Registration is required.
Caring for Family While Grieving: Intergenerational Grief and Loss – Hybrid
Join us in a discussion, either in-person at HeartLight or on Zoom, about grief in the family. Family dynamics play a role when the entire system has been effected by grief and loss. We will discuss caring for each other and how grief translate in healthy and unhealthy ways across multiple generations, ways to engage in meaningful conversations together and addressing tough topics. In this hybrid workshop we will explore coping with loss personally while supporting others in their grief, self-awareness and communication skills, when relationships are complicated, and more.
Meeting Date: Sat. March 29, 2025
Start Time: 9amPT/10amMST/11amCT/12pmET
Cost: $15.
Healing in Nature: Finding Yourself After Loss – Denver
This 2 hour sequence of nature connection activities invite you to engage with nature. Spending time in a few areas, we move at a relaxed, mindful pace. At times you are alone and other times with others. Sitting. Walking. Being with nature. Reflective activities. Please plan to be there the whole two hours. You can always enter earlier if you want to spend more time in the gardens.
We will end with a short debrief and an informal tea ceremony. You are welcome to bring food to share with others, but not required.
Activities are invitational and can be adapted to your needs.
Sunday, April 6th | 4pm-6pm | Botanic Gardens – York Street, Denver
Cost: $20 and Cost of Admission at Denver Botanic Gardens.
Registration is required.
Caregiver Dinner – Denver
If you are a caregiver, or have lost someone you cared for, you are invited to attend our Caregiver Dinner. We will serve comforting food, experiences, ideas and support for current and past caregivers. If you are able, you are invited to bring a dish to share, but it is not required.
Date: Tuesday, April 8th at HeartLight Center from 6pm-8pm
Comfort Food Dinner – New Mexico
Come to a cozy environment and leave the dishes and worries about cooking at home. We will serve comforting food and create a space for sharing experiences, meals, and beverages. This gathering is open to all adults (18+) who have experienced the loss of a loved one – regardless of the circumstances or relationship – or are navigating serious illness and anticipatory grief. While bringing a dish is not required or expected, you are welcome to contribute if it feeds your wellbeing. Through the act of sharing a meal, we aim to nourish both our bodies and hearts with mutual support. In partnership with Bosque Trails Hospice.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM at Bosque Trails Hospice
Open heART Studio Online – Virtual
This online creative gathering will instruct the use of materials found in the home to explore our grief through use of various art activities, no prior art experience required. Cost: $30. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
Date: Thurs. April 10 time: 3-5:00pm PT/ 4-6:00pm MST/ 5-7:00pm CT/ 6-8pm EST
Pet Loss Memorial – Denver
National Pet Day is on April 11th this year, and we invite you to join us as we pay tribute to the lives of beloved animal companions, honoring our connection, sharing memories, and mourning in community. Please bring with you a special picture or object.
Cost: $20, includes materials and refreshments.
Flow with Grief Using Tai Chi – Hybrid Workshop – join in Denver or Online
Join in-person at HeartLight Center or online from anywhere as Beth Gherardi, certified practitioner, guides you through gentle flow and movements that can be used for gentle care of yourself and your body using Tai Chi methods. No prior experience required.
Cost: $35. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
date: Sat. April 12 time: 12:30-2pm (PT)/ 1:30-3pm (MST)/ 2:30-4pm (CT)/ 3:30-5pm (EST)
Spring Remembrance Ceremony – Denver
Please join us at HeartLight Center for our spring memorial service to pay tribute to those we are remembering in a safe community of support. In partnership with Arapahoe Community College.
All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
date: Sat. May 3, 2025 time: 10-11:30am at HeartLight Center
Crafting Your Narrative: Writing and Sharing Your Grief Story – Virtual
Join facilitators Stuart and Cierra in the exploration of narrative – how we choose to tell our grief story, in various settings, and how we can gain a sense of control, remembrance and create legacy through use of the written word.
Cost: $20. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
Date: Sat. May 3 time: 9am-11amPT/10am-12pm MST/11am-1pm CT/12pm-2pm EST
Adults Grieving a Loss in Childhood Workshop – Denver
Death experiences in childhood are often foundational but aren’t always discussed in the home. Please join us for a time of remembrance, discussion, engaging in a creative project involving mask making, and sharing about the lifelong impacts of significant death losses in childhood. Cost: $35, includes materials for mask making activity.
Date: Sat. May 10 time: 10am-12pm MST location: HeartLight Center – Parker Rd
Spring Remembrance and Creative Expression with BACII – Virtual
BACII creator, Mangda Sengvanhpheng, joins us for an experiential online workshop designed to holistically guide us through all forms of loss, grief, and the end-of-life with an art activity. The purpose of this workshop is to mindfully connect us to the cycles of life in order to renew and deepen our experience of being alive. Cost: $60. Space is Limited. Registration is required.
Date: Tues. May 13 time: 3-5:00pm PT/ 4-6:00pm MST/ 5-7:00pm CT/ 6-8pm EST
Intro to TRE Workshop – Denver
This in-depth intro class covers Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®). These simple exercises can assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and the physical effects of trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, TRE activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating which has a calming effect on the nervous system. TRE is designed to be a self-help tool that once learned, can be used to promote resiliency and better autonomic nervous system regulation.
Date: Saturday May 31, 2025 from 10am-12pm at HeartLight Center Denver
Cost: $30
