We are ReMembering Tour

The We Are Remembering Tour

CommUnity-supported Creative Life Convergences

Berkshires / Tagkhonic

April 11-14, 2025

Race Brook Lodge (Sheffield, MA)

The We Are Remembering Tour is a living cultural experiment—a celebration of regenerative spirit through music, creative performance, grief ceremonies, and dialogue. This movement reminds us that awakening begins when we remember who we are, resonate with our shared origins, and embrace the art of living—and dying—with love in action.

Guided by a traveling, intergenerational team of esteemed artists, educators, bridgers, and doulas from organizations like the Center for Conscious Living & Dying, Roots Grown Deep, UnLabelMe, and The Seventh Sense Care Collective, each retreat is a dynamic fusion of science and spirituality. Together with local communities, we co-create spaces for spontaneous acoustic ensembles, immersive creative expressions, and vibrant conversations that challenge paradigms and nurture creative intelligence.

A highlight of this multi-day immersion experience is the screening of the documentary film The Last Ecstatic Days, which intimately portrays one man’s courageous invitation to a new community to accompany him through his final breaths—a stirring metaphor for the power of collective care.

If you are a soul-driven individual—whether a doula, artist, educator, community leader, survivor of activist burnout, parent, youth, or civil servant—join CommUnity at one of these local events to celebrate this great turning point in these unprecedented times. Embrace the beauty of our universal rites of passage, the oneness of humankind, and the transformative power of remembrance.

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WHERE:

LOCATION AND TRAVEL INFO: 

Race Brook Lodge is located in Sheffield, Massachusetts, nestled in the Berkshires. Here are some common routes depending on where you're coming from:

1. By Plane + Car Arrange for a car rental or local car service.

   • Albany International Airport (ALB) – 1.5-hour drive to Race Brook Lodge.

   • Bradley International Airport (BDL) (Hartford, CT) – 1.5-hour drive.

   • New York City (JFK/LGA) – ~2.5-hour drive.

2. By Train + Car

   • Take Amtrak to Hudson, NY station, which is about a 45-minute drive from Race Brook Lodge.

   • Arrange for a car rental or local car service.

LODGING:

Each building at Race Brook Lodge features dreamy architecture and rustic character. From wide, plank floors to exposed wood beams to quirky nooks, no two rooms are alike. Meandering footpaths connect the restored lodge, barns, and cottages. Inspired by permaculture design and sustainable practices, each of our spaces offers a unique opportunity for our guests to connect intimately with themselves, others and the world around them. 

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PRICING: All meals except for Saturday evening are included.

MEAL INFO: Iromee will provide vegetarian lunches and dinners. Breakfasts are prepared by staff at Race Brook Lodge.

BIOS OF ORGANIZERS

Iromee

“Global flavorful traditional and authentic cuisine cooked with love with local and organic produce and the best quality spices and herbs brought to you from her kitchen with a farm to table concept.”

From a young age, Iromee was interested in natural produce, and spices. With a growing passion for flavors and different cuisines combined with her 6 senses, she found opportunities to globe trot and experience different cultures and their traditional and authentic cuisines.  She has managed kitchens at the Abode Retreat Center in New Lebanaon, NY for years.  She feels very blessed and grateful for the opportunity to cook with love, joy, healing, gratitude and serve as well as for the beautiful friendships she continues to make along the way.

Karen Bellone

Karen Bellone is the founder of The Seventh Sense Care Collective, where she has established an educational base and a circle of death doulas to serve the local community, as well as an Omega Home for the Dying in NY’s Hudson Valley.  Karen and the Seventh Sense are an integral part of a worldwide community that is reigniting the wisdom of death within our modern lives. As a death doula, death educator, and longtime filmmaker, Karen is dedicated to reawakening the interwoven connection between the arts, storytelling and the emotional and spiritual nature of death. For Karen, the Seventh Sense name reminds us to Re-Member the body’s knowledge of how to die; to help assuage the fears many experience when contemplating death, and to foster safe passage for those in transition. She strongly believes that this is a crucial time to heighten our collective consciousness around the importance of how we die, and how we live, until our time comes to shed this mortal coil.

Aditi Sethi

Aditi Sethi, MD, is a hospice and palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Conscious Living & Dying. She is dedicated to bridging the sacred and practical aspects of living and dying, offering compassionate, community-supported care that honors the dignity and interconnectedness of all beings.Featured in the forthcoming film The Last Ecstatic Days, Aditi is emerging as an integral voice for transforming our cultural understanding of dying, death, and bereavement care. Her recent TEDx talk in Asheville, NC, titled "The Art of Dying Before You Die," reflects her passion for inspiring a holistic and sacred approach to the end-of-life journey.

Jonathan Pillot

Jonathan Pillot is a multifaceted artistic innovator - storyteller, director, writer, producer, creator, idea developer (and former entertainment attorney) - with cross industry experience in film, television, theater, live events, radio, music, branded content, advertising, and publishing. He’s the Founder of UnLabelMe, a Storytelling Studio that is leading a Glocal Movement to focus more on the humanity of our similarities than the inhumanity of our differences.…to create safe spaces to address unprecedented societal polarization by bringing people together – Community in Communities - to help “Lower the Temperature, and Raise the Vibration” throughout the world. For more info: AllOverThePlaceTV.com

Joel Karabo Elliott

Joel Karabo Elliott is a human resonating with Music and Nature as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator and performing artist for commUnity regeneration. His life work is wholistically integrated through curating the good deeds of the Roots Grown Deep World Music & Healing Arts Ensemble, which is represented in Southern Africa and North America and continues the exploration of 'Musical Ecology' through sound, healing modalities, rites of passage work and Consciousness-based education. Central to all his artistic and creative endeavors is the integration of mind, body and soul through the healing power of sound. He is also a musical death doula and artist-in-residence with the Center for Conscious Living & Dying (Swannanoa, NC).

Jay Brown

Jay Brown is a roots music one-man-band from Black Mountain, North Carolina, who has spent years traveling and playing around the U.S., absorbing our rich musical heritage and performing with artists such as Doc Watson, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Etta Baker.  His eclectic musical tastes found expression in 1996, when he became a founding member of Lazybirds, a band that blends a wide variety of musical styles, including jazz and blues, country and rock ‘n roll, to create a fresh and soul stirring sound.  Lazybirds have been a mainstay of the North Carolina roots music scene for over 25 years. Jay is also a music therapist, and he worked for Hospice in Asheville for 8 years.  This enriching work, as well as the work he continues to do along with his wife Aditi at the Center For Conscious Living and Dying, has been a deepening influence in Jay's music over the years. 

Schedule:

Friday April 11

1-5pm Participants and collaborators arrive

Casual gathering, orientation, social, drinks, music

6pm Welcome Dinner

8pm Music & Expressive Arts

with Jay Brown, Aditi Sethi, Joel Karabo Elliott

Roots Grown Deep 

Saturday April 12

9am Yoga & movement

10am Light Breakfast

11am The Last Ecstatic Days film screening

Followed by dialogue w/ Aditi, Karen & Joel

1pm Lunch

2pm Free time, Nature Walk & Contemplation

3pm Dharma Talks & Circles

6pm Interdenominational Fireside Feast (honoring Passover Seder)

8pm Music & Expressive Arts 

with Jay Brown, Aditi Sethi, Joel Karabo Elliott

Roots Grown Deep & The Rememberers

11pm Death Speakeasy Sessions

Sunday April 13

9am Yoga & movement 

10am Light Breakfast

11am Programming in free-form based on expressed needs / 

Co-created by the group / Collective concept map to be available for all to propose

1pm Lunch

2pm Free time, Nature Walk & Contemplation

3pm programming

6pm Dinner 

7pm Music & Closing Circle