Tending and Mending: A Spring Retreat on Being with Grief

Healing & Wholeness

Tending and Mending

A spring retreat on being with grief

Discover Grief’s Wisdom

Grief moves through every life. It moves through loss, change, and all the quiet, personal, or systemic thresholds where life rearranges itself. Grief can be collective too, gathering in the cracks of the truths too heavy to hold alone.

Join grieftenders AmarAtma, Reggie Hubbard, and Akilah S. Richards for an experiential gathering that welcomes the full range of grief. Together, we’ll explore what it means to be in relationship with grief rather than in resistance to it. This gathering is about letting go of the stigma surrounding grief, making space for its wisdom, and building a bigger, stronger heart muscle.

In this program, you’ll be invited to:

Move and breathe with your grief, letting your body speak what words can’t.
Witness and be witnessed in a circle of shared humanity.
Listen for the teachings inside your sorrow.
Discover how somatic movement and breathwork can offer relief.
Find your paths toward mending and tending.

Aligned with the energy of the spring equinox, this experience invites balance between what is dying and what wants to live. You’ll leave with a deeper trust in the ways grief continues to shape, soften, and strengthen who you are becoming.

Included in Your Stay

Daily Yoga Classes

3 Nutritious Meals a Day

Access to the Kripalu Grounds

Schedule

OPENING DAY
2:00 pm	Check-in begins
4:45–6:00	Kripalu Yoga class
5:30–7:30	Dinner
7:30–9:00	Program Session

DAILY
6:30–7:45 am	Kripalu Yoga class
7:30–9:00	Silent Breakfast
9:00–11:30	Program Session
11:30–1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30–4:00	Program Session
4:45–6:00	Kripalu Yoga class
5:30–7:30	Dinner
7:30–9:00	Program Session (optional)

CLOSING DAY
6:30–7:45 am	Kripalu Yoga class
7:30–9:00	Silent Breakfast
9:00–11:00	Program Session
11:30–1:30 pm	Lunch and Departure

Please note: Rooms are ready by 4:00 pm. You may store your bags in the Luggage Room until your room is available. On the day of departure, room check-out time is 10:00 am—you may remain on campus and take part in workshops until 2:00 pm. Actual times and schedules may vary; please see the Guest Boards or the schedule provided upon check-in for details and room locations.

FAQs

From private rooms to community-style dorms, our accommodations are intentionally simple—designed to help you unplug and feel grounded. Whether you're seeking solitude or connection, we offer a variety of options to support your stay.

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Registering for any Kripalu on campus experience includes three daily meals, daily yoga, and movement classes, and access to the Kripalu grounds and other amenities: including Healing Arts, the Shop, the Cafe, and our grounds.

Plan My Visit

Online booking is available for 1–2 guests. Please select the appropriate booking button on the program page.

Yes. If a program is full, you may add yourself to the waitlist or by contacting registration@kripalu.org. If space becomes available, we’ll contact you in the order received.

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