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TWO NIGHTS · TWO LOCATIONS · ONE LIVING CEREMONY
A Día de los Muertos Sensory Ceremony
MEMORY
BECOMES
TANGIBLE
MEET THE PEOPLE TENDING THE NIGHT
This evening is not assembled from disconnected offerings. Ashleigh and Miguel are shaping one complete sensory arc—from the first threshold to the final vibration.
Immersive Experience Producer & Strategist, ceremonial facilitator, and guide of the Death Meditation. Ashleigh creates environments where the unseen becomes tangible—and where a real human choice can be carried home.
Meet Ashleigh ↗Miguel is the founder and culinary creator behind The Enchanted Waffle—Austin’s radically nourishing, gluten-free, plant-based food experience. He brings farm-direct ingredients, playful artistry, generous hospitality, and live sound to the table.
Meet The Enchanted Waffle ↗CHOOSE YOUR DOORWAY
Each night is a complete experience in a different Austin location. Choose one date, or choose the $255 Both Nights Immersion and one ticket will hold your place for both evenings. The ceremony and menu repeat so every guest receives the full journey.
One reservation covers one guest for both nights. No second booking needed. Save $189 compared with two $222 Full Experience tickets.
Doors open at 5:00 PM. Dinner is served at 7:30 PM. The address is shared after registration.
Choose November 1↗
Doors open at 5:00 PM. Dinner is served at 7:30 PM. The address is shared after registration.
Choose November 2↗THEY ARE STILL PART OF THE STORY
There are people whose hands we can no longer hold. People whose laughter we can still hear if we get quiet enough. People whose recipes, expressions, courage, quirks, music, prayers, and choices continue living through us—even if we never had the chance to meet them.
Most days, life moves too quickly to sit with that. We carry our grief privately. We remember in passing. We say their names in our minds and return to everything that needs to be done.
Dinner with the Ancestors is a place to stop. To bring their picture. To tell the story again. To sit beside the living while making room for those who still travel with us.
This is not an evening devoted to death. It is an evening devoted to the love that death could not erase.
A GLIMPSE OF LAST YEAR’S CEREMONY
These videos are from last year’s Dinner with the Ancestors. This year, November 1 and November 2 will each unfold in a different Austin location. Both addresses are shared after registration.
THE EVENING’S LIVING ARC
Inspired by the remembrance traditions of Día de los Muertos and held with respect for their living cultural roots, both nights follow the same intentional journey.
Arrive slowly. Meet the people sharing the table and add a photograph, name, flower, letter, recipe, drawing, or meaningful offering to our living ancestor altar.
Ashleigh leads a grounded contemplation of impermanence—not to create fear, but to let mortality clarify what matters, what is ready to be released, and how you want to live while you are here.
The Enchanted Waffle serves the same three-course, farm-to-table menu on both nights, with a handcrafted non-alcoholic elixir paired to every course.
Ashleigh and Miguel close the ceremony through layered vibration, live instruments, and spacious sound—an integration space for the evening to settle beyond language and into the body.
BEFORE DINNER · A THRESHOLD INTO WHAT MATTERS
The Death Meditation Ashleigh brings to this evening comes through her training with Nine Gates Mystery School ↗—an experiential wisdom school that invites direct encounter, embodied revelation, and the practice of “dying before you die.”
This is a guided contemplation of impermanence. You will be invited to loosen your grip on the roles, expectations, unfinished stories, and imagined tomorrows that can keep you from inhabiting the life directly in front of you. It is not a performance, a prediction, or a demand to believe anything. You remain in choice at every step.
Notice the pattern, story, or obligation you no longer want to carry forward.
Let the reality of impermanence bring the people, desires, and truths that matter into focus.
Cross back into the room with a clearer choice for the life that is still yours to inhabit.
Mortality does not make the meal darker. It makes it luminous.
We enter this meditation before dinner so the meal becomes more than a meal. Flavor becomes vivid. Conversation becomes less automatic. Gratitude is no longer an idea—it is something warm in your hands, alive at the table, and shared while there is still time.
THE SAME MENU IS SERVED BOTH NIGHTS · TWO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.
AFTER DINNER · INTEGRATION THROUGH VIBRATION
After the altar, the meditation, and three sensory courses, there is nothing left to explain. Ashleigh and Miguel guide a spacious immersion of live instruments, layered resonance, and intentional silence so the evening can settle beyond language and into the body.
This is not a concert you need to watch or a spiritual test you need to pass. Sit, recline, close your eyes, keep them open, receive fully, or simply listen. Sound becomes the final threshold: a place for memory, grief, gratitude, and aliveness to move without being forced into a conclusion.
Nothing to perform, solve, or get right.
Give the night space to settle before returning to ordinary life.
Leave grounded in what you felt—not rushed out of what opened.
The evening does not end when the last plate is cleared. It lands.
SCENES FROM THE TABLE BEFORE
Real moments from a past Dinner with the Ancestors—an altar built with love, a room prepared for ritual, food shared slowly, and people making space for memory beside one another.
WHAT YOU MAY CARRY HOME
A felt connection to ancestors, loved ones, chosen elders, teachers, places, or lineages that shaped you.
A clearer relationship with your own mortality—and with what matters now.
Stories shared across generations and an experience of remembering in community instead of remembering alone.
One tangible intention for the life you are choosing because you are still here.
BRING THEM WITH YOU
Every offering is optional. Please do not bring irreplaceable valuables, open flames, intoxicants, loose glitter, or anything unsafe around children, food, or fire.
AN INTIMATE · ALL-AGES GATHERING
Every ticket includes the complete ceremony, three-course dinner, non-alcoholic elixir pairings, altar materials, and Quantum Sound Immersion. Single-night options are available, or one $255 Both Nights ticket includes both dates.
The complete ceremony, dinner, paired elixirs, and sound immersion.
The complete experience, a commemorative altar gift, and support for community access.
An age-aware place inside the full, all-ages experience.
Two adults and up to two youth.
One guest. One ticket. Both November 1 and November 2—no second reservation needed.
Children ages 0–5 are complimentary when they do not need their own plated meal or seat. A limited number of $144 Community Access adult places are held by request. Questions or access requests? Email ashleigh@aumarts.com or hello@theenchantedwaffle.com.
CHOICE IS PART OF THE CEREMONY
The Death Meditation includes direct contemplation of mortality. Adults and young people may participate fully, listen without visualizing, or choose a quieter alternative. Parents and caregivers decide what is appropriate for their children. No guest will be pressured into any practice.
Please share dietary and access needs during registration. The kitchen will make reasonable efforts to accommodate communicated needs, though a completely allergen-free environment cannot be guaranteed.
NOVEMBER 1 + NOVEMBER 2, 2026
Each night takes place in a different Austin location. The exact address for your date—or both addresses for the Both Nights ticket—will be announced after registration.
Doors open · dinner at 7:30 PM · address shared after registration
Reserve night one ↗Doors open · dinner at 7:30 PM · address shared after registration
Reserve night two ↗ANCESTRAL LOVE LIVES HERE
Choose November 1, November 2, or one $255 ticket for both nights. Come remember those who came before—and remember that you are still here.