Rituals & Retreats

Death Doula:

End of Life Services & Transition Rituals

Our culture makes it difficult to slow down and to grieve. It becomes easy to bypass feelings around impermanence and change. Not attending to our feelings and emotions results in their accumulation and the added suffering effects on our mental health, physical well-being, and spiritual resilience. Ritual is a way to honor and acknowledge transitions in life and death. It can be difficult to take space and time do this, yet it’s so important. It can also be challenging to create a container for yourself and your family to do this.

I can help facilitate your process around death, dying, and change. I can work with you and your loved ones to develop a space in your home, at the hospital, or wherever you choose, for a ritual that suits your needs and cultivates the sense of presence necessary for grieving, resilience and healing. This type of service can be a gift you give to yourself, a gift that your loved one, or friend, gives to you.

This is a way to honor and acknowledge transitions in life and death. Services range from pre-planning, end-of-life education, support throughout the dying process, death rituals, memorials, and home celebrations. This type of service can be a gift you give yourself or a gift you can give to a loved one or friend.

Here is a List of Memorial, Funeral, Bedside Ritual, or Transition Services.
(prices are general rates—contact me for a specific price based on your Buddhist or Interfaith needs)

  • House/Apartment Blessing: $150
  • Funerals & Memorials: $300—$500
  • Bedside Rituals & Services for families, couples, and individuals: $300
  • Animal Memorials: $200
  • Pet Transitioning Rituals: $150
  • End of Life Counseling: (1-9 sessions) $250 per hour. Includes:
    • 3—6 50-min sessions (weekly or bi-weekly) + follow-up session
    • Buddhist resource/practice list to for concentration, awareness, & integration
    • contemplative/reflexive exercises and journaling

Engaged Compassion Retreats

How to feel alive and have fun?

There are teaching and coaching approaches that incorporate the whole-person, trauma-informed practice, resilience, compassionate action and fun! Buddhist teachings cultivate a deep understanding of suffering, its causes, and methods to alleviate suffering through meditation, chanting, movement, and insight. Creative approaches provide learners with tools to discover their own answers, explore inner peace, and be a compassion presence in the world.

These workshops aim to help educators integrate Buddhist pedagogies, facilitate spaces for people to wake up, help groups engage more effectively, and learn to develop curriculums that:

1) cultivate presence,
2) incorporate fun,
3) utilize Buddhist approaches to pedagogy,
4) integrate contemplative, experiential, ethical, and academic exercises
5) include rubrics to support introspection, critical thinking, discernment, and reflectivity.

Retreats & Trainings

  1. Small Group Retreats (a small group or team of 3-15 individuals)
    • 3-6 day in person retreat: a collaboration from one educational organization, company, dharma community, or team who wants to experience and cultivate a sense of presence, deep listening, teamwork, aliveness, and connection within their vocation, livelihood, and work together. Participants will develop new ways to lead, facilitate, navigate conflict, and open to the unknown grounded in Buddhist practices and frameworks.
    • Small Group Multiweek Training: a multiweek collaboration in person and via zoom that is tailored to the needs of your group, team, or community. Trainings can be weekly or biweekly for five to eight sessions. Participants will learn to integrate methods of Buddhist pedagogies, practices, and frameworks to become better leaders, facilitators, and coworkers.
  2. Large Group Retreats:
    This can be an initial 1–4 day workshop in person followed by multiweek zoom sessions that are tailored to the needs of your community or profession. The schedule can also be tailored to your group’s needs. This workshop is for a large group of 15—50 individuals from one department, company, educational institution, or organization to cultivate their sense of presence, listening, communication, aliveness, and connection. Participants will learn to integrate methods of Buddhist pedagogies, practices, and frameworks to be better leaders, facilitators, and coworkers.

All workshops include:

  • A Buddhist resource/practice list to develop concentration, awareness & integration
  • Contemplative/reflexive exercises and journaling
  • A 6-month follow-up session

*Workshops can be specifically focused based on your needs, e.g., creating a contemplative classroom, cultivating presence, contemplative facilitator training, public dharma speaking, engaged compassion, the wisdom of grief, Buddhist spiritual care/counseling, opening to end-of-life, etc. Contact me for a price quote based on your needs.