Embracing the Shadow: A Gathering For Letting Go

Join us for an enriching experience to help us navigate life's challenges, the many layers of our grief, and remembering our joy in the presence of a caring community. Together we'll embark on a special, in-person journey exploring the forms, layers, and shapes that grief takes.

We'll tend to our grief through ritual work, somatics, the medicine of nature, sounds, and a supportive sharing circle. With the support of our Shadow Potion, we're invited to soften and expand as we practice letting go.

Meet your guides~
Mangda Sengvanhpheng is an artist, death doula, and the founder of BACII - a platform that focuses on loss and grief while providing services and offerings that renew our engagement to life. Her life and death work is guided by her Lao last name, which means “the light of the full moon.” Mangda was an awarded recipient of Reclamation Ventures grant for under-represented leaders making pathways to addressing grief and loss and her work has been featured in VICE, Vogue, Architectural Digest, NY Mag’s Curbed, Brydie, Chacruna Institute and more.

Saewon is an artist, healer, flower essence practitioner and founder of Sun Song, an embodied research & ritual lab for vibrational essence therapy. Her practice bridges the earthly & ethereal, creative & spiritual, present & ancestral which she has shared through workshops and performances at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Hammer Museum, ICA SF, LA Phil Insight, Golden Dome School and SSEER, her remote monthly earth energy channeling circle. She and HWA Records are recent 2025-2026 Artists in Residence at the ICA LA where they are currently co-creating a healing salon for the Korean-American diaspora.