A Year to Live
Starting January 2027
How would you live and love if you only had one year left?
Join a year-long journey into mortality that’s surprisingly full of life. Based on Stephen Levine’s A Year to Live, we’ll practice waking up from autopilot, mending old wounds, letting go of the small stuff that feels oh-so-big, and embracing each day with increased clarity and intention.
Let this be the year you finally make amends in the comfort of your own heart, release resentments, and feel the freedom of forgiveness.
“Happiness is easier to find when we realize we don’t have forever to find it.”
-Andrea Gibson
So many of us are running through our days, carrying a quiet exhaustion and wondering why it’s so hard to stay present. We are navigating rapidly-evolving systems that demand achievement and ignore our human need to pause, reflect, and just be.
In an effort to keep pace with this rushed way of living, we postpone our deepest desires, put off tender conversations, and assume we’ll always have tomorrow to finally live the way we want to.
This program offers the opportunity to counter this conditioning: What if you chose to slow down and live each day as if it were your last?
What we will explore together
Over the course of our year together, we will use guided meditations, reflection, and prompted journaling to bring Levine's teachings out of the conceptual and into daily life. We will work on:
Life Review & Legacy: Taking an honest, gentle look back at your story. We will honor the experiences that shaped you, acknowledge the parts of you that have carried heavy burdens, and decide what you are finally ready to set down as you reflect on how you wish to be remembered.
Conscious Living, Conscious Dying: We will strengthen our meditation practices, both individually and together. We will turn toward our mortality with the intent to transform fear of the unknown into a catalyst for clarity.
Reclaiming Everyday Joy: By continuously remembering the impermanence of our time here, we invite in opportunities to connect with our true nature. We acknowledge the brevity of life as a way to see clearly how we do not have time to deny our own joy, laughter, and inner peace.
Altaring our Lives: We will dust off, spruce up, or build from scratch the altars of our lives. These dedicated spaces support us in practicing gratitude, forgiveness, and honoring the full spectrum of life and love.
Intentional Connection: Stepping out of the rush offers the quiet space required to look outward. We will explore volunteer opportunities and intentional efforts to deepen our relationships with loved ones and extend care to those in need.
Meet your Facilitators
Stephanie Miller
I am a mindfulness-based psychotherapist, integration coach, and meditation teacher with a private practice in Colorado, where I also lead retreats in the Rocky Mountains.
My path to this work began in 2009 during a corporate assignment in India, where I was first introduced to meditation. Not long after returning home, a severe injury left me unable to walk for months. Through that experience, I discovered the transformative power of mindfulness and learned firsthand how turning toward difficulty can become a pathway to healing. As I was recovering from my injury, my father was diagnosed with brain cancer. Walking beside him through his illness and death profoundly shaped my relationship with grief, impermanence, and what it means to live fully. Over the years, I have had the privilege of sitting with others as they have transitioned, experiences that continue to deepen my appreciation for the preciousness of life.
My own death awareness practice has been a powerful teacher, helping me cultivate greater presence, meaning, and connection. I am passionate about supporting others as they explore their inner worlds, navigate life’s transitions, and integrate transformative experiences. I am honored to partner with Angie in facilitating A Year to Live and continue to be inspired by the courage, vulnerability, and wisdom that emerge within these groups.
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Angie Frank
I am a licensed therapist with 15 years of experience, specializing in existential methods including mindfulness-based, nature-focused, and somatic therapies.
This group will be my fourth iteration of this program. From participant, student, to facilitator, I continue to fall more deeply in love with it because it simply makes my life better. My death awareness practice deepened after the birth of my daughter, when my husband and I completed our first A Year to Live program together. Our experience expanded my relationship with grief and created the space to heal from personal losses, including miscarriages. It was an intense and clarifying journey that fundamentally changed how I relate to the world and experience the present moment.
I am honored to parter with Stephanie in co-facilitating these groups and I am continuously moved by the depth of connection that unfolds in our circles. My daily practice remains a powerful anchor for living a more full and intentional life.
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This year-long immersion requires a gentle but firm commitment to yourself and to the group. Here is how our journey will unfold:
When: January 8, 2027 through December 10, 2027. We will gather via Zoom on the second Friday of each month from 10:00 am – 11:30 am MT.
Community: You will have access to a dedicated community space to share reflections, stay connected, and support one another in the ongoing practice of genuine presence.
What You Will Need: A copy of Stephen Levine’s A Year to Live.
Investment: Tuition is offered on a sliding scale from $800 – $1,200. To reserve your spot, please register here and submit your $200 deposit via Venmo or check. Full payment is due by December 17, 2027, but please reach out if you would like to discuss a payment plan as we want this work to be accessible.
Refund Policy: A full refund is available until January 10, 2027. A 50% refund is available until January 31, 2027, after which the course is no longer refundable.
Retreats: Stephanie and Angie offer in person Sacred Burial retreats that are not required or included in the Year to Live Program. We do recommend you consider attending one as a way to deepen your experience over the year. Learn more here.
This program is supportive if you are:
Seeking peace: Whether you are facing a medical prognosis or seeking the clarity that comes from embracing our shared impermanence.
Navigating family transitions: As you raise children or care for aging loved ones, you want a supportive space to reflect on your legacy and learn to care for yourself along the way.
Deepening your mindfulness practice: You are curious how acknowledging our limited time can help you reclaim everyday joy, embrace the present, and live in deeper alignment with your true nature.
Tending to your own healing: You want a safe container to mend old wounds, loosen ingrained patterns, and open your heart.
Expanding your professional work: You are interested in learning more about the dying process to enrich your work, build your capacity to sit with grief, and better support others.
