This year has been a year of learning. Of course, I have been learning my whole life. But in the last few years, a lot of it has been life learning, meaning that powerful type of training that life sends you in the form of challenges, insights, and dark nights of the Soul. Most of what I share in my blogs is all about those precious times.
However, this year along with those life lessons, my Soul guided me to take several trainings.
For instance, I completed my level one Zero Balancing (ZB) training in September. Zero Balancing is all about the energy of bones. For me, it feels like Reiki of the skeletal system. Bones provide our structure, they are the most grounded aspects of us, and they hold our ancestral wisdom, as well as our ancestral burdens. So it makes sense that bringing healing to our bones would be an essential part of our well-being.
When I experienced my first ZB session I felt grounded, in my body, and present in such a unique way that as I left the session I clearly heard my Soul saying, You are meant to learn this.
As I’ve started integrating this modality with my clients I can see how much better I am able to help them ground, connect to the earth, and release those burdens that are literally “in their bones”.
The second training which I just completed is the End of Life Doula training or Death Doula as it’s also called. I know Death Doula can sound somewhat intense, but I have always been guided to this sacred work.
When I told my daughters they were, well, horrified. One of my daughters, exclaimed, “Why would you want to do that?”
And my 16 year old son, who has a different personality, thought it sounded creepily cool.
You might know that a birth doula is a professional that helps a mother before, during and after birth. A Death Doula does the same but for the dying. It’s different than hospice in that Hospice concentrates on managing the physical pain (and might also provide other types of support) while a Death Doula does not provide medical support, but focuses solely on providing emotional and spiritual support for the person dying and their care givers.
A Death Doula helps the dying reflect on their life and the meaning in their life’s blessings and challenges. She (or he) also helps the dying create a legacy project that will highlight the legacy that they leave behind. And she provides support for the loved ones that will be left behind as this person transitions. There’s more to what a Death Doula does but that gives you some idea.
Although I am still figuring out which direction my Death Doula training will take me, I know that all that I have learned in this precious training about supporting someone through their final death, will help me better support my clients as they go through their “little deaths”–those times we all experience where some part of us dies so that a new, evolved version can be re-birthed.
I wanted to take this time to share a little bit of what I have been doing because I know that it will influence all the work I will do with my clients, my students and, of course, will be integrated into the writing I will share with you.
Thank you so much for all of your support and encouragement throughout the years.
Blessings and love,
Lisa
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