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31/07/2025
My birthday arrives this Saturday, and I’ve been sitting with what it means to be alive in these aching times. With a heart heavy for the world, I recognize I’m holding the widest capacity for love and gratitude I’ve ever known.
There’s a quiet knowing inside me for how I’m living during this moment in history: that I’ve loved fiercy, that I’ve cared deeply, that I’ve shown up in the ways I know best. No regrets. And I thank you for being here and I thank everyone who’s poured their love, care, and support into me along the way.
My recent writing on the flavors of tragedy, how our heartbreak might help us build a new world and birthday wishes linked above. ⚔️🤍
Shout out to the incredible .djin for capturing this moment on a velvety day.
24/06/2025
midway points, golden yellows, orange, red, sit, move, express, receive, sounds, scents, a circle ~ thank you for the space + as my co-facilitator in this potent Saturday night
10/06/2025
snippets from the latest newsletter ⛓️💥
09/06/2025
GRIEF IS POLITICAL.
GRIEVING IS A RESPONSIBILITY.
GRIEVE AS AN ACT OF REBELLION.
GRIEVE AS A PROTEST.
GRIEVE AS RESISTANCE TO NUMBNESS AND FEAR.
GRIEVE IN THE FACE OF GENOCIDE, ICE, FASCISM, INHUMANITY, INJUSTICE, AND CLIMATE COLLAPSE.
GRIEVE FOR THE DEAD AND DISAPPEARED.
GRIEVE FOR WHAT WAS STOLEN AND WHAT IS STILL BEING TAKEN.
GRIEVE TO PROTECT WHO AND WHAT YOU LOVE.
GRIEVE TO RECLAIM STRENGTH.
GRIEVE TO FORTIFY OUR COMMUNITIES.
GRIEVE BECAUSE YOUR LOVE IS A THREAT TO THE SYSTEMS THAT WANT YOU TO SUBMIT, SILENCE, AND FORGET.
LET GRIEF AWAKEN YOU.
LET GRIEF FEED YOUR FIRE, NOT YOUR FEAR.
LET GRIEF FUEL YOUR POWER.
LET GRIEF CREATE A NEW REALITY.
LET GRIEF COMPOST WHAT NO LONGER NEEDS TO EXIST.
LET GRIEF BECOME THE ASHES FROM WHICH WE RISE.
15/05/2025
One way to tend to grief is through the senses and through nature. and I’s collaboration on Lament: A Grief Incense, was infused with a series of ritual, research, and deep intentions.
Each of its seven global ingredients was carefully chosen for its healing properties - each one with a purpose, each one with a prayer. Together, they create a scent that transcends borders and language, offering a poetically soothing experience to accompany you through the changes of your life.
From ancient traditions to modern mourning, across cultures and time, incense has been a sacred companion - an offering to life and to death.
Lament is intended to soften our grief and expand our hearts. Every stick is handcrafted with love and 100% natural. Thank you to everyone who’s shared their experiences and rituals with this incense with us 🎐
13/05/2025
let it go~
05/05/2025
YU:EXIST is is an empowering 4-week experience designed to re-engage you to your life and to our shared world. Through learnings, practices, deep reflection and community gatherings, you’ll receive invaluable insights and awareness while making new connections and discoveries about your life through death. This can serve as a pathway to better understand, accept, heal, and prepare for the end-of-life.
Since 2021 I’ve been facilitating this space and it still remains as one of my favorite offerings. For the month of May I’m offering sliding scale tickets to those who may be interested for the week of 5/11 and 5/18. DM me if you’d like to connect 1-1 to see if this is for you or if you’re interested in joining!🎐
26/03/2025
Dress For Your Funeral, March 21, 2025. Grateful for each guest, my collaborators and , and the all the magical elements woven into each moment.
Captured moments by
17/03/2025
Sharing a few snippets from a longer newsletter on fashion and funeral wear asking and to share a bit more on their funeral fashion thoughts in preparation for our Dress For Your Funeral gathering this Friday.
D4YF is intended to be a playfully cathartic experience where you’ll be alongside others in your final fits for a series of guided experiences over an unheard of tablescape.
The intention is to merge creativity, gastronomy, and necessary topics to explore and expand upon for the sake of our lives and deaths. DM me you’d like to join as we have a few seats left!
12/03/2025
1. Holding onto the present moment while moving through a transition with .nch.
2. The effort of grasping and extending. A solo reflection in a vacant town.
3. Musings on what we hold and what we offer in the latest newsletter.
4. Freewill, the head, and the heart at our fingertips.
11/03/2025
After years of guiding individuals, communities, and orgs through a grief crisis - it was clear there needed to be another tool and pathway for us to tend to our losses. There’s no surprise that nature and its medicinal plant wisdom has helped me throughout my life, and I was yearning to create a flower essence, specifically to tend to loss, change, and transitions.
Meeting, collaborating, and birthing Shadow: A Grief Potion into the world with has been a nourishing merging of worlds. Saewon’s deep reverence and wisdom is expressed in all that she offers. It was over a year of communing and working with each specific plant that formed our gentle, yet potent grief potion.
Throughout the years, we’ve received countless stories and shares from people around the world using this grief potion. Saewon and I are so grateful to continually hear how our intentions and the plants’ medicinal qualities have been another form of care during this time.
Thank you to everyone who has experienced, expressed, and supported our grief potion with us throughout the years. 🤍
07/03/2025
A Venus Practice
1. use your heart as a true north to focus on what you need most
2. plant the intention into your heart + let it grow from the center of your chest
3. once it grows beyond your grasp, give it to someone who may need it
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BACII’s mission is to illuminate our fears around death and dying in order to see the truth about who we are, what we want, and how we really wish to live. We do this by creating thought-provoking events and gatherings that embrace death as a natural right of passage. We also provide supportive services at any stage of a person’s health in order to better prepare for the end of life. Most importantly, BACII believes we must do this work together -- to build community and heal a broken and disconnected society.
BACII is influenced by traditional Laotian baci ceremonies performed at gatherings of birth, life, and death. During the ritual, people wish baci, or “blessings,” onto others in an act of true compassion, unity and connection.
BACII dreams of a world where death empowers us to see the blessing in each moment of life.
About the Creator
BACII was created by Mangda Sengvanhpheng, a mixed media artist, energy practitioner and death activist. Her life’s work is guided by her Laotian last name, which means “the light of the full moon.” She explores ways of illuminating our fears and bridging the duality of living and dying through her creative platform, BACII.
BACII is inspired by all of her experiences with death but most impactfully, her mother’s. This life changing experience of intuitively helping her mother through the dying process included being with her in the final moments, washing and dressing her body, arranging a funeral service and managing a household of tasks that come with a death. Completing this process alone revealed to her how difficult and isolating the dying process can be for families and caregivers. This led her to reimagine our society’s relationship to death as a healthier and more supportive experience.
Inspired by these events, Mangda became a certified death doula and end-of-life volunteer. She then launched BACII as a platform to integrate death into our lives so that we can better support those we love.
