The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

In Eastern esoteric spiritual traditions, life is ultimately seen as an occasion to practice and prepare one for death. This weekly group meditation—led by Eastern-Trained Meditation Teacher and End of Life Doula Bryan Melillo—is aimed towards helping reduce fear of death and preparing participants for end of life while also cultivating a community of like-minded people with whom to share this collective experience.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

Tonight, join Doug Skinner as he discusses—and plays!—music attributed to fairies, trolls, banshees, angels, aliens, spirits, time slips, dreams, the afterlife, and other unusual sources, as discussed in his new book Music From Elsewhere (Strange Attractor Press, 2024). He will also focus on reports that include actual music, and present possible explanations.

When Theseus enters the labyrinth to slay the Minotaur, Ariadne provides the thread that leads him back to daylight. For this, Theseus promises to marry smitten Ariadne and whisk her away to Athens. But midway through their journey, Ariadne is abandoned while slumbering on the beach. Waking to the sight of Theseus’ sails in the distance shocks and rends Ariadne into an outpouring of lament, a scene captured painstakingly across literature, art, and music. And yet, this lament is ultimately a song attracting the heart of Dionysos. Unlikely as it may seem for the god of uninhibited sexuality and transgression of norms, the marriage of Dionysos and Ariadne is the sole loyal union on Olympos. Then again, there is no one version of any myth. In this illustrated talk, we will look deeply at the devastation of heartbreak and the ecstatic arrival of true love as mythically entwined.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Hope to see you at this free, informal, online monthly meetup devoted to open and non-judgemental conversations about death with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

While the Bible contains clear prohibitions against the use of divination, witchcraft, and other forms of occult practices, the actual lived experience (and literature) of Judaism is replete with demons, witches, magic spells, and of course, golems. In this talk, Peter Bebergal will present a lively overview of Jewish magic and the supernatural from Biblical, Talmudic, and Midrashic sources, magical grimoires, and folktales to uncover a treasure trove of legends and stories, from the summoning of demons to build mighty temples to the folk magic of ordinary people.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Hope to see you at this free, informal, online monthly meetup devoted to open and non-judgemental conversations about death with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

A golem is a man of clay brought to life through the power of the written word. Of all the legends and stories of golems, perhaps the most famous is the story of Rabbi Loew and the Golem of Prague. Rabbi Loew—or so the story tells us—in Prague, during the reign of Rudolph II in the 16th century, used secret practices from the Kabbalah to bring a clay man to life to defend against anti-Semitic attacks. This story has resonated for generations and has been retold many times. What truths are there in this story, how did this Golem come to be? This talk will look into the mystical practices of Judaism that are at the heart of the legends, and how the story evolved through the 20th century. And perhaps, as well, see what we can learn from these tales in this time of robotics, drones, and artificial intelligence.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Danse Macabre and above levels; eligible members will receive a Zoom invitation in their Patreon inbox. Become a member HERE.

On this special evening, we invite our Supporter-level (and above) members to grab a drink and share their own (or listen to others’) mysterious encounters—be they ghost stories, uncanny synchronicities, or unusual happenings—with other members of the Morbid Anatomy community around the world.

At Death Cafe people gather to "eat cake, drink tea and discuss death." For this free online event, join death midwife Lisa Cox on Zoom with a snack and beverage in hand, along with questions or stories and a thoughtful ear. There is no agenda, except as arises among those in attendance. Death Cafe is a worldwide non-profit movement to allow non-judgmental space for people to talk about death, online or in person.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Hope to see you at this free, informal, online monthly meetup devoted to open and non-judgemental conversations about death with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Join us for a viewing of Mildred Pierce (1945), a classic film noir based on a novel by James M. Cain and starring Joan Crawford, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. James M. Cain wrote many popular and shocking books that were adapted into successful film noirs, and Albert Camus cited his work as an inspiration for his Stranger. After the screening, we will have a chance to discuss the film and share our responses.

Join Lisa Pahl, co-creator of The Death Deck, for a lively night of conversation and game play. Lisa will share her experience working in hospice and answer questions on how The Death Deck can help open meaningful dialogue. We’ll play some rounds of The Death Deck, a lively game that helps players acknowledge and even embrace their mortality through interactive game play and humor. Whether you're curious to learn more about yourself or want to initiate “the conversation” with a loved one, The Death Deck gets people talking about what matters most in life...and death.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

The Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world. Admission is free, and no appointment necessary.

We are part of the Industry City complex, which is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Enter at 254 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Immediately turn right, and ascend one flight of stairs, or use elevators to floor 2. You will find us in room 2-C248.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Hope to see you at this free, informal, online monthly meetup devoted to open and non-judgemental conversations about death with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon Members at Danse Macabre ($10/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will get an invitation in their Patreon inbox. Become a member here.

Join Morbid Anatomy Founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein to discuss one of her favorite books: A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889, a cultural history focusing on two years in the life of Vienna, a city “given over to the dramaturgy of death.” The book—by Austrian Jewish writer Frederic Morton—traces the lives Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and others  as they respond to the mood and movement of their city. The story moves to the drumbeat of ornate suicides reported on with relish by the local papers, culminating in the mysterious death of Vienna’s beloved Prince Rudolph . The book ends with an intimation of more deaths yet to come with the introduction of a baby named Adolf, born just after the prince’s body is interred in his family’s imperial crypt.

What makes a person want to learn to swallow a sword? And how is it possible? In this lecture (and live demonstration!), world-renowned sword swallower Dan Meyer and sideshow historian Marc Hartzman will discuss the mysterious and dangerous art of sword swallowing (yes, it’s entirely real!), the anatomy of it, and the remarkable history of sword swallowers from the early 1800s to the late 1900s.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Hope to see you at this free, informal, online monthly meetup devoted to open and non-judgemental conversations about death with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

The recorded voice is inherently spectral, the disembodied trace of a person detached from time and space and the evidence of the departed are usually auditory. So how do you capture the voices of the dead, how do you make permanent and physical something that is by nature incorporeal? What do ghosts sound like? From a haunted electronics lab in a 1972 BBC made for tv movie to the Gold Room at The Overlook Hotel; from a 19th century theory of “place memory” to Discovery channel ghost hunters, this talk, by Leila Taylor—author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread—explores the spectral sonic and our desire to document the voices of the dead.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Hope to see you at this free, informal, online monthly meetup devoted to open and non-judgemental conversations about death with likeminded people from around the world. Any related topic is welcome.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon members at Oracle & Joanna’s Psychopomp Salon ($15/mo) and above levels. Eligible members will receive a viewing link in their Patreon inbox on the day of the event. Become a member here.

Join us for a viewing of the classic German Expressionist silent film The Golem: How He Came into the World, called by some the first horror movie. Directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese and based on Gustav Meyrink's The Golem (1915), it tells the story of Prague’s famous Rabbi Loew—relative of our founder and host Joanna Ebenstein—and his adventures creating a golem: an artificial man crafted of mud and animated with the word of God. After the screening, we will have a chance to discuss the film and share our responses.

Since Dr. William Shippen had his carriage fired upon in 1762 in response to his newly opened dissecting room in Philadelphia, Americans have had a rocky relationship with the medical profession. Medical students desperately needed anatomical material to learn, but the religious dogma of the day held that one's body must be whole to be resurrected on Judgement Day. Colonial Americans weren't willing to give their bodies over as scalpel fodder. Many medical men turned to body snatchers, who emptied city graveyards by the light of the moon for a buck. There were violent clashes and outrageous scandals over the years as states tried to legislate the problem away. In desperation, citizens turned to savage measures (hidden weapons!) to protect their cherished dead. Tonight, learn how this complicated historical moment birthed the burial vault, and why it continues to endure.

The scientific community has always been disdainful of accounts of the paranormal, but there was a moment when science discovered a kaleidoscope of invisible forces, waves, and particles underneath a now thinner veil of reality. In this brief window of opportunity, Duke University opened the Parapsychology Laboratory. In his time, J. B. Rhine, its founder, was the Einstein of the paranormal, who wished to scientifically demonstrate that life and all the feelings that go with it survive death. When Stacy Horn visited North Carolina to research the lab's work, she knew that no one has definitely proven that there is life after death, but Rhine and his colleagues conducted lots of experiments over the years. What if one of them worked? What she discovered, among many other things, is that one of them did. This talk will tell the story of this fascinating lab, its experiments and its findings.

FREE to Morbid Anatomy Patreon Members at the $10/above levels. Eligible members will get an invitation in their Patreon inbox. Become a member here.

We hope you’ll join us for a Morbid Anatomy Show and Tell cocktail party! Get a rare peek at the private collections of Founder and Creative Director Joanna Ebenstein and Executive Director Megan Fitzpatrick. We also invite you to share an object or artifact of your own, while meeting and enjoying a virtual cocktail with others in the Morbid Anatomy Community.

In 1877, in the quiet town of Watseka, Illinois, a teenage girl with the wonderfully witchy name Lurancy Vennum became the center of international fascination when she became possessed by the spirit of another girl who had died in an insane asylum twelve years earlier. Dubbed the “Watseka Wonder,” her case mesmerized the public and drew intense scrutiny from doctors, philosophers, clergymen, journalists, psychical researchers, and the merely curious. Fierce debate raged over the true nature of her possession: Was she an unwitting medium channeling the dead? A cunning fraud orchestrating an elaborate hoax? A sufferer of hysteria? A victim of demonic forces? Or, as the Dalai Lama of the day speculated, a highly unorthodox case of reincarnation? This illustrated talk will delve into a once-famous but now largely forgotten supernatural mystery.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

Have you ever wondered how to think in the language of myth, archetype, and symbol? Or how mythologists, psychoanalysts, folklorists, and storytellers make those intuitive leaps and connections? In this one-day course, we’ll dig into the theories, thought exercises, and resources used by modern mythologists and storytellers, all of which prioritize the right-brained, intuitive, and irrational ways of processing information. These techniques are aimed at getting one out of the critical mind and into active dialogue with your unconscious, and possibly the transpersonal or collective unconscious as well. If you’re interested in “gnosis” in its various forms, then this workshop will provide you with a fantastic toolkit. You will leave the workshop with a host of amplification tactics, dream interpretation techniques, tricks for identifying and working with archetypes, as well as rich list of resources for further study.

Implicit in memento mori—the injunction to remember that we all must die—is an acknowledgment that our default is to forget. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Just as people who refuse to die become undead monsters that feed on the living, zombie concepts, whose verbal husks endure even after their animating insights have flamed out, curdle into platitudes that smother genuine thought. We see that cycle play out in early Imperial Rome, when Stoic philosophers like Seneca advocated “rehearsing your death” as a means of cultivating independence and moral courage. Within a generation, that austere precept had metastasized into a cultural vibe, a pre-Goth gothicism that delighted in funereal imagery. In a masterful takedown—the Cena Trimalchionis (Dinner at Trimalchio’s)—the satirist Petronius reveals how this fixation on dying had itself become a denial of death. This illustrated talk will explore this fascinating and largely forgotten historical moment.

Yapper? Gift of gab? Talk a blue streak? Ever clear a room or change the vibe with an obscure death fact? Do you like to talk, even about topics like dying and death and wonder why no one else around you are so squeamish? Maybe talking about dying or death, even briefly, makes your heart race or your stomach churn. This talk will focus on talk about dying and death and explain some of the reasons for our strong reactions to the end of life. In addition to exploring theories, this session will also offer some practical tips for making THE talk easier.

Vibrant in life, poignant in death, imagery of dead birds has long been popular in western art. Associated with the soul, and beautiful in their own right, encountering dead birds may evoke a range of emotional responses. This richly-illustrated talk will explore the imagery and symbolism of dead birds through the lenses of art history, myth, and depth psychology, and invite listeners to reflect on these delicate embodiments of spirit.

With each gnash, smile, or showing of teeth, the human skeleton peeks through. This illustrated talk plays with the poetics and phenomenology of teeth via their appearances in science, art, myth, dental objects, dreams, pop culture, and cinema. We will consider the psychological range, cultural conditionings, and aesthetic practices surrounding teeth, from the multileveled demand for teeth whitening, to mores against open-mouthed beaming, to archetypes of sardonic revenge and full-blown Cheshire grins. We will contemplate the setting of teeth in the same mouth-world that speaks and digests, and how the lips (with the eyes and other agents) shape a wide variety of existential messages and moods. All along, we will entertain toothsome smiles as biting, ready-made memento mori and flashes of n/evermore in the everyday. Smile!

Join us for a very special evening at a private estate filled with exotic taxidermied—and live!—animals in upstate New York! Natural history enthusiast and author Josh Powe will welcome us into his private taxidermy collection, believed to be the largest of its kind in the United States, and filled with thousands of antique specimens including extinct and unusual animals, Victorian anthropomorphic dioramas and pets, and "freak" domestic animals. The night will culminate with a decadent Roman-inspired feast centered on exotic game (with vegetarian options for the less carnivorous) along with plentiful libation and entertainment, followed by a rousing game of “zoo-lette” (taxidermy roulette) where you will have a chance to go home with pieces from our host’s collection. A lucky few will stay for an after-party sleepover, followed by a champagne brunch and a tour of an unnamed “mystery collection” the following day.

All proceeds support Morbid Anatomy’s mission and our transition to a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution, and tickets and donations over $1,000 are tax deductible.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

Aphrodite’s beauty is a central player in the genesis of the cosmos. But what makes her beautiful? According to one myth, what makes Aphrodite beautiful is death. The Classical world recognized an inextricable link between love and death, a bond mythologized in encounters—both competitive and collaborative—between the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, and Persephone, the Queen of the Dead. When these goddesses compete, the result is tragedy. But when they collaborate—as in the initiatory tale of Eros and Psyche—they usher in apotheosis, immortality, and eternal union. In this story, Persephone gifts Aphrodite a dark cosmetic that enhances her beauty. This lecture explores the meaning of this mysterious beauty aid, tracing it back to the mytho-philosophy of beauty in the Classical world and the symbolism of the pentagram, then tracing it inward to the beauty conferred by death in lived experience.

Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein and Tiffany Hopkins are friends who have been teaching popular classes at the intersection of death, art, and culture for an organization called Morbid Anatomy over the past few years. Each has developed her class into a full-length book. Joanna’s Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life and Tiffany’s Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide To Talking To The Dead each offer a look into bringing creativity and the dead into your life. In this workshop, you will get a chance to learn about how memento mori—or actively remembering you will die—and mediumship, or talking to the dead, can fuel creativity, healing and joy. 

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

Tonight’s speaker was given two years to live in 2017 after a Stage 4, metastatic cancer diagnosis from her doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her story of ongoing healing from cancer was retold in Joanna Ebenstein's book Memento Mori, where it provided an example of how confrontation with death can lead to a better life. In this illustrated talk, Slonaker will explain how her doctoral study of mythology and archetypes—along with her deep engagement with Jungian analysis—allowed her to heal long-term wounds at the soul-level which allowed her body to fight back against cancer. She will also demonstrate how archetypal narratives—especially that of the "The Night Sea Journey"—can provide us with pathway for understanding and metabolizing serious illness, and show how a variety of world myths demonstrate how a serious confrontation with death can be the beginning of a better life.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.

Reiki—a practice originating from Japan and developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s—is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. When this vital energy is amplified, it creates the conditions for healing and nourishment to occur. This online monthly group will provide a space for the therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community; relaxation exercises and therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will also be utilized. Reiki can have restorative effects on the nervous system and allow for increased creativity, insights, emotional release, light trance states. It can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or wish to prepare for “a good death,” by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body.