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End-of-Embodiment Support
can begin from a variety of points,
your current hopes and concerns
navigating the medical system
preparing for the inner journey ahead
creating legacies you wish to gift to others
tending to your spiritual and relational bonds, with both the living and the dead
My role is,
to advocate for your autonomy, dignity, and empowerment
to research, and coordinate family/community supports
to provide you with comfort and safety to express what matters most to you
Rituals
speak the language of the soul. With or without words, rituals chart the paths that have led to the present moment and the curtails that await in the future. Through music, gesture, color, offerings, and the elements of the feeling-body, the soul is nourished.
Insights and felt connections are absorbed and held within the container of the people and the place.
Funeral and Memorial Services
are sacred spaces where we pause to uplift the life of a loved human in their most basic and profound nature. Collective morning for what is loved, is grieved, helping the hearts of those who remain. Through stories, artifacts, the smallest of details, along with the grandest of their desires, they are reminisced and said good-bye.
A good ceremony captures the human and spiritual values of the person who lived them and lights the way for the Being who is new to being dead, to where they are going.
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A series of rituals and ceremonies
may be your preference. Directly after the death, you might choose a smaller inner circle gathering, inviting in what requires immediate expression and grounding.
After a number of days or weeks, the inner family circle would feel the time was appropriate to gather with their larger community for a public commemoration.
Six to twelve months following, an additional ceremony would mark your person’s passage into the field of the ancestors.