Sept. 27, 28 & 29 – Death Midwifery Training: Part II ‘After Death Care & the Home Funeral’

Ginger-oils Fri. Sept. 27 7 pm – 10 pm

Sat. Sept. 28 9am – 6 pm

Sun. Sept. 29 10 am – 5 pm

Pacific Palisades

Prerequisite: Part I – Conscious Dying

Topics covered will include:

Traditional Funeral Home Practices;
Planning for a Home Funeral
Final Rites
After-Death Care of the Body at Home (Bathing, Dressing and Anointing);
The Luminous Body – sealing the chakras;
Preservation techniques – Dry-Ice vs.
Embalming vs. Dry-ice preservation
Hands-on Practice of moving and carrying a body
The 3-day vigil
Completing and filing Legal Documents
Altars and Sacred Space
Assembling and Decorating a Cremation Casket
Winding a Shroud
Cultural and Religious Rituals for Attending to the Soul after Death

Workshop is held in a beautiful private home in Pacific Palisades. Space is limited.

Cost: $350. $100 deposit required to reserve your place.

For more information please contact us.

Sir William Gladstone

"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of the people, their respect for the law of the land and their loyalties to high morals."

- Sir William Gladstone

Ram Dass

“We are all just walking each other home.”

- Ram Dass

Joseph Campbell

"The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

Lao Tzu

"Take care with the end
As you do with the beginning."

- Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching

Walt Whitman : Song of Myself

All goes onward and outward,
Nothing collapses
And to die is different from what anyone supposed,
and luckier…

- Walt Whitman : Song of Myself

Rumi

Death has nothing to do with going away.
The sun sets
The moon sets
But they are not gone.

- Rumi

Hermann Broch

"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.”

- Hermann Broch