HOLA YOGA
Day of the Dead Workshop:
Yoga for Grief and Connection
Sunday, November 2nd at 1:30- 3:00PM
This experience will be led by Khrys Baltodano + Olivia Jimenez.
November 2, 2025 | 1:30PM
Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is a time to honor our ancestors and loved ones who have passed on—a celebration of memory, love, and the ongoing bond between the living and the departed. In this special gathering, we will weave together yoga, ritual, and community to hold space for grief while also celebrating the beauty of connection.
$50 per reservation
In recognition of Latinx Heritage Month, which concludes just before this workshop, all proceeds will be donated to Conexión Américas, an organization uplifting and empowering Latinx communities in Nashville.
If you are a member of the Latinx community who would like to attend but cost is a barrier—or if you or your family have been directly affected by ongoing ICE raids—please reach out to us. We are holding free spots to ensure that this space remains accessible, healing, and supportive for all.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Gentle Yoga Practice:
Movement will be gentle grounding movement: A breath-focused practice designed to support safety in the body and (re)connection with heart, mind and spirit. Create space to hold the complexities of grief while finding opportunities to experience stability, ease, relief, and even joy.
Ritual:
Space for quiet reflection and optional sharing, honoring both the personal and the collective experience of remembrance. We will share in a simple offering of traditional Pan de Muerto provided by Tantísimo, and warm tea (bring your own mug). This act of nourishment is both symbolic and energetic as it helps us to digest and transform grief. Eating together becomes a ritual of remembrance, connection, and integration.
Alter of Remembrance (Ofrenda):
Together, we’ll build a community altar adorned with marigolds, candles, and offerings. You are invited to bring a photo, small object, or written message to honor someone you wish to remember. Grief can take many forms: sometimes it is the passing of someone dear, but it can also be the loss of a beloved pet, the end of a relationship, the shift of a dream, or the transition from one stage of life to another. Whatever your grief looks like, you may bring an offering that represents it. Objects may represent any loss you are carrying, or a source of love you wish to acknowledge.
Yoga Nidra for Grief & Connection:
We’ll close with a deeply restful guided meditation designed to support grief, healing, and a sense of continued relationship with what has been lost and what still lives within us.
This workshop is open to all and no prior yoga experience is needed. Come as you are, bring what feels meaningful, and allow yourself to be held in community.
Khrys Baltodano
Khrys Baltodano is the founder and owner of Hola Yoga. She envisioned Hola Yoga as a place of spiritual wellness where students would gain a profound understanding of Self through movement, breath, meditation, and self-study.
Her teachings are a result of studies that have evolved from the Krishnamacharya lineage – Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar and Viniyoga. She also teaches from a place of inner knowing — her own personal practice, the passion, and the deep understanding that comes through experience. Essentially, she teaches from what she has understood through over a decade on her mat. It is based on the idea that, for those of us who have chosen Hatha Yoga as a path, understanding often first comes somatically through the body.
Olivia Jimenez
All bodies are welcome in Olivia's classes and students can expect a safe, well-rounded, breath-centered practice with lots of imagination and opportunities to play. Students are given many options to modify their practice in a way that balances challenge and restoration to meet their personal needs. Olivia has personal experience using yoga to address knee, back, and neck injuries, anxiety, depression, burnout, insomnia, and chronic pain. She has worked extensively with creatives, care workers, children& families, veterans. and people who are in recovery, neurodivergent, and/or living with post-traumatic stress.
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