Death Doula Intensive

This intensive four-day in-person workshop combines Level I – Enter the Grave and Level II – Conscious Dying.

Level I – Enter the Grave — November 12 & 13

This foundation course will radically transform your fears and beliefs about death and dying. Students learn tools to eliminate death anxiety, reduce pain and suffering, and receive death with open-hearted acceptance.

Topics Explored:

• Giving Birth – Receiving Death
• Healing the ancestral wounds
• Examining fears and beliefs
• Connecting to source through somatic movement
• Tools for relieving death anxiety
• The journey of the soul
• Buddhist perspectives on death and dying
• Managing the physiological response to pain
• Energy fields and the luminous body
• Family Constellations
• Eternity and The Field
• Sudden Death / Suicide
• The Death Rehearsal

Level II – Conscious Dying — November 14 & 15

Students learn tools to uplift and empower the death journeyer to consciously prepare for a good death, free from suffering.

Topics Explored:

• How to avoid death in the I.C.U.
• Ceasing nutrition and hydration
• Hospice – What, when and why
• Tools for relieving death anxiety
• Completing advance directives
• The spiritual process of dying
• Being a healing presence at the deathbed
• Pain vs. Suffering
• What to say to the dying
• The legacy project
• Organ donation
• Healing relationships / Letting go / Saying goodbye
• Physician aid in dying