Death Doula Care
Engaging with Death and Aliveness
The Gift of Death
Death is an opening—a portal, much like childbirth. Entering the death portal is a natural process; our bodies innately know how to die. Yet, as with birth, we often need gentle guidance and support.
The ‘work’ of death and dying is presence and opening. Opening to what truly matters, to the greater forces of life moving through us, and to what lies beyond this body and this world.
Death, like grief, can bring us home to ourselves, both for those who are dying and for the loved ones who remain. In meeting death with openness, we often discover more aliveness: moments of beauty, joy, healing, and grace.
From the ground of stillness and silence, the vastness of death, we find the impetus to open to life in ways we never have before. This is the gift of death.
Death Doula Care
What death doula support can look like for the dying and their caretakers:
Gentle guidance and presence as you navigate death and dying.
Emotional and Grief Support
Deathbed Vigil ~ Creating your ideal peaceful death
Legacy Planning and Creative Projects
Somatic Support ~ Healing touch and energy work
Ceremonial and Celebrant ~ Personalized cermonies, rituals, and funeral pre, during, and post death
Death Education and Spiritual Care
What emerges through this work:
Feeling supported in meeting death with as much grace and ease possible
Relief to have empathy, understanding, and loving presence as you navigate the challenging aspects of death
Clarity on what is most important to you and how you want to use your precious life
A deeper connection to yourself, your loved ones, and the world around you
Feeling of peace and at homeness
Sense of wonder, awe, and grace
Together, we will find our way through death into aliveness, celebration, remembrance.
Death Doula Support Rates
Single Sessions
45 min / $75
90 min/ $140
2 hours / $180
3 hours / $270
Monthly Support
4 sessions
45 minutes each
Includes text support
$300
3-Month Comprehensive Support
12 sessions
45 minutes each
Includes text support
$870
Animal Death Doula Support
When someone has a bond with an animal, it can be even deeper than a bond to a human—We open our hearts more widely to animals.
Losing a beloved animal companion can be devastating, and bring up other places of undigested grief and loss. It can also be a profound opportunity to meet grief and death with openness, leading to more love, fulfillment, and aliveness.
Death Cafe Taos
This Death Cafe is a community gathering space to openly discuss death. We hold death with a deep, joyful reverence for life. We will set and hold the container for the evening. Everyone will be invited to arrive and ground into the space, introduce themselves, we’ll enjoy tea and cake, and then a group discussion will be lightly guided. This will be based on the interests of those present.
At the end of our lives don’t we want to
say we celebrated the holiday of having bodies?
Don’t we want to know we lived like we never forgot
we were born astonished and were never intended
to grow out of our awe?
~ Andrea Gibson, The Life Giving Benefits of Befriending our Mortality
