sessions &
rituals

Death Care & Grief Support:

• End of Life File Creation (90 Minutes)
• One of the best gifts you can give to your loved ones- you’ll be assisted in choosing your power of attorney, creating your Advance Directive, and figuring out what decisions need to be made before filling out your will. You’ll also be guided through all the incredible environmentally sound burial options for your body’s far off future, and can even plan your funeral so your loved ones can focus on mourning and celebrating you instead of confusing decision making in their time of deep grief and loss.
• If you want meditation, somatic support, and extra guidance woven in, I recommend that you book a bundle of 5 sessions to complete your file. If you just want the facts then 1 session will do, and of course if you’re somewhere in the middle pick 3.

• Human or Pet Death & Dying Support: 60 Minutes
• This type of support is based on the needs of the person (human or animal) that is dying and their family. It can be helpful to have a death midwife’s presence to hold space for you all as you process in this time of unspeakable pain. The role of the death midwife also includes planning support. logistics,  and guidance so that you can focus on your time together and this mysterious rite of passage that is death.
• If you’re in need of in-person support and don’t live in Northern New Mexico, I’ll help you find it. Having someone in person is important if you’d like to have someone physically there to prepare your space for death, as well as setting up a home vigil for your beloved’s body and funeral arrangements.

• Human or Pet Burial Consultation: 60 Minutes
• How to give your body back (eventually not now!) and how to give in your death rather than take.
• Do you already have your end of life plans in order but want to learn about environmentally sound ways to give your body back to the earth? Most people choose cremation by fire and don’t know there are a slew of alternatives that are barely more expensive, and ecologically supportive. Traditional Cremation (by fire) not only requires a huge amount of finite resources from the earth, but it also emits a ton of CO2 and other harmful chemicals. Book this session to learn about your other options (green burial, natural organic reduction, aquamation and more!). You’ll also be led through a simple body scan as a way to listen to your body’s innate wisdom to help you decide how you want to part ways with it in the future. Extend this session by 30 minutes to learn about how to make your funeral, memorial, or living funeral ecologically supportive as well! You’ll leave this session with a well organized live PDF with all your options and your preferences that you can continue to update as life goes on.

• Human or Pet Grief Guidance: 60 Minutes
• These sessions are led by your needs and held by my grief ethics and foundational practices. Grief isn’t linear, and prescriptive advice usually doesn’t help. What makes it all the more complicated is that every time we must grieve a loved one, it’s going to be different, because the relationship is unique. Therefore, the tools and ways of being that got you through the last heartbreak or loss may not work for this one. The ways in which your whole self (body, mind, soul) will need to feel and grieve are as much a mystery as death is. But there’s some good news- by tapping into movement, sound, memorialization and co-regulation it’s possible to digest and metabolize your grief. Once this process has begun it often becomes quite clear what you need to do to support yourself in this time, and how. We’ll do this together in these sessions. They usually start with some deep listening on my end, and culminate in some release on your end.