Death & dying rituals

I will be with you in final moments and after the last breath is taken here. This ritual honors, holds, and comforts - body and soul - as they release & separate. An opportunity to intimately connect with this sacred passage.

Sessions are available in person or In form of ritual guidance and grief support online.

This ritual is tailored to you and done alone with me or together with anyone of your choosing. It is a way to honor the transition of leaving the physical realm. After your passing, I will ritually bath and hold your body in ritual reciting/singing passages, symbolically closing your time here and opening to what may come.

Some that are aware they are in the death & dying process desire to prepare by engaging in ritual, alone or with loved ones before passing. This is a potent and beautiful inner process and a way to part with loved ones as the journey to ancestors begins. 

Should you choose to invite in either or both of these rituals, you can be an active participant in what may be included, or surrender to what arises as we are together. 

Rituals can take place at home, hospice, or hospital. I am also available to be with/in contact from afar with loved ones during and/or weeks following funeral ceremonies.  

Please contact me in advance preparation or in the final moments without any preparation at all. All are welcome.

background

Death & dying rituals have been embraced by many religions and cultures throughout time. Returning and reclaiming these traditionally practiced rituals transforms the way we experience being in the world.

The ritual of Tahara is available to me through my ancestral lineage and I offer it, with a circle of women, to members of the Jewish community through a non profit organization. My personal intimacy with death and the dying process, along with offering ritual with this circle, have created a strong calling to share the power and importance of ritual in these moments more widely. The ritual I offer, independent from this organization, is not the Tahara ritual as practiced in Judaism and does not have any religious affiliation.

I offer this as I hold the belief that the absence of grief practices, ritual, and instilled fear of death and dying, creates a disconnect to life itself. It is in part, an element of disease that we are experiencing in the world today. Would our body and soul find its way when approaching death and the dying process without this ritual? I believe the answer is yes, yet connecting to our entire life cycle, in this body on this earth, has potent and immense ways of expanding healing and growth by connecting and honoring both our ancestors and those physically present with us today.