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.

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

unknown Japanese poet

In times of grief
and sorrow
flowers bloom
even then

- unknown Japanese poet

Sir Francis Bacon

"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."

- Sir Francis Bacon

Rev. Olivia Rose

"Death invites you to fall in love…it’s the fragility of life that makes you weep with helplessness."

- Rev. Olivia Rose

David Searls

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

- David Searls

Paramahansa Yogananda

“When I am gone, only love can take my place.”

- Paramahansa Yogananda

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