Making Friends with Death: Choosing Death as an Ally
Our aim for the series is to support experiential discovery and learning about this deep, tender and mysterious topic. Gently we’ll tend to the frightened parts of us that lag in preparation as well as honor the parts that have burst through the cultural trance of denial.
Moving into the mystery, we will offer poetry, books and websites, small group discussion, meditation, movement, time for questions, journaling and guided meditation.
Our agenda includes the study of emotional, spiritual, and practical preparation for living fully, forgiveness, gratitude, dying in dignity and listening to what you bring to share.
Devi and Elizabeth, elders in training, both in their 70’s, enjoy working together and offer this communal exploration with light-heartedness
and joy.
Cost: $150 for the series
To register: Preferred: Send deposit of $75 to Devi Weisenberg, PO Box 823, Inverness CA 94937 by no later than Dec. 15, 2015. The balance of $75 is due at the first class.
You may also pay via PayPal to Elizabeth River, same dates and terms.
Check with teachers if you need financial assistance.
Class is limited to 15 people; a waiting list will be kept for a future series. What to bring: Lunch, water, clothes for outdoor walk, journal, pen
About the teachers
Elizabeth River is an Interfaith minister, ordained by the Chaplaincy Institute, an Interfaith Seminary & Community in 2004. A former hospice chaplain, she also officiates weddings and memorial services and is a spiritual director who leads groups of reflective elders. Her central spiritual practice is to love and accept people as they are, helping them connect with one another.
Devi Weisenberg is devoted to living in the weave of nature, psychology, the arts, and the spirit. For many years, she has taken the contemplation of death as a teacher, working with Stephen and Ondrea Levine in the 70’s and many teachers since. Devi has taught classes at Spirit Rock Meditation Center on conscious aging and death and is the co-founder of Inside/Outside through which she led vision quests and retreats.
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