Podcasts about doorway into light

In this episode, Kimberly and Bodhi discuss his work as a death doula at Doorway Into Light, Hawaii's only nonprofit green funeral home and educational resource center, The Death Store. They discuss what green burials and ocean burials are and how they are more generous and sustainable to the planet than modern burial practices. They also discuss how dominant culture fears death, responds to death, and death traditions across cultures. In light of all of the ways that people, and even babies, die, Bodhi asks us to deeply reflect on the question, “What is a full life?” P.S. His nonprofit is still taking donations for those displaced by the Maui fires; find the link below to donate!   Bio Bodhi is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage of Sufi Sam and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving, and has been offering community presentations and trainings since 2006 in the fields of awakened living and dying and the care of the dying. Bodhi is a bereavement counselor and educator; a hospice volunteer; a home funeral guide; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; a speaker and workshop leader and a ceremonial guide. He hosts a weekly streaming radio show, ‘Death Tracks', on a Maui station. Bodhi guides memorials and funerals and leads grief rituals. He facilitates grief support groups for teenagers. He has trained hundreds of doctors, nurses, hospice staff, social workers, ministers, chaplains, therapists, artists and lay people in the spiritual, psychological, emotional and logistical care of the dying and the care of the dead, and for 4 years has taken dozens through a certification program to be death doulas. Bodhi has written a column called “Ask the Death Professor” for a local Maui magazine. He is a notary public, a coffin maker and a Reiki practitioner. Bodhi and his wife Leilah lead spiritual retreats in Hawaii and around the world.For many years Bodhi collaborated with Ram Dass, a neighbor and friend, who served on Doorway Into Light's Board of Directors. Bodhi is continuing the work Ram Dass helped birth, in the fields of conscious dying in America.   What He Shares: –Death doula work –Green burials and ocean burials –Running a nonprofit funeral home and resource center –What you do (literally) when someone dies –Legalities of keeping a body with you –Generational stories of death What You'll Hear: –How he was led to death work and spiritual counseling –Working with Ram Das –Starting the death doula movement and a ministry of death –Running a non-profit funeral home –Culture pushing away death –Green burials –Hazards of embalming –Biodegradable graves –Death and burial as another practice removed from traditions –Cultural differences around death and burial –Ocean body burial –Being with bodies after death –Generational stories after death –Lingering with the body to witness death –Healthy life includes its death –Mothers of stillborns fighting for baby body –Giving families time and space with death beyond laws –Outlaw moves –Medical rules around bodies and placentas –Navigating baby and child death –What is a full life? –Entitlement around death –Death doula trainings –Facing Death, Nourishing Life course –Showing up for life and death   Resources Website: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/ IG: @thedeathstoremaui  

Banyen Books & Sound joins Alan Clements and Reverend Bodhi Be in conversation on their new book, Facing Death. Alan Clements is founder of World Dharma and a former Buddhist monk in Burma, where he trained in Buddhist psychology and mindfulness meditation. He is the author of several books, including A Future To Believe In and The Voice of Hope. Alan's work has been endorsed by eight Nobel Peace laureates, including the Dalai Lama, in addition to Dr. Vandana Shiva, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Joanna Macy, Derrick Jensen, former US President Jimmy Carter and numerous others. He been interviewed for Nightline, CBS, CBC, ABC, BBC, Talk to America, the New York Times, Time and Newsweek, Utne Reader, and Yoga Journal. Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage of Samuel Lewis and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving. For many years Bodhi collaborated with Ram Dass and is continuing the work Ram Dass helped birth in the fields of conscious dying.

Great teachers through the ages have taught the importance of facing death as a conscious and sacred event. Reverend Bodhi Be has carried this torch as an end of life leader and innovator globally, as well as for his local Hawaiian community. He is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage. As Founder and Executive Director of Doorway Into Light, his life and teachings encourage us all to “do death better”. Inspired by Ram Dass, a mentor, neighbor and friend; Bodhi Be has turned the business of dying into a sacred and sustainable event. Doorway Into Light is a non-profit organization based in Maui that provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying and their families. For more information about Reverend Bodhi Be please visit: Website - https://www.doorwayintolight.org/ Or - https://www.ipuka.org/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Thedeathstore/ Join the Dying Your Way conversation on our FaceBook group, search for Dying your Way. Or to learn more or contact us go to www.dyingyourway.com. Other links: https://www.dyingyourway.com/facing-death-ebook?r_done=1 https://www.dyingyourway.com/eol-training https://dyingyourway.com/book-a-consultation/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be, ordained minister, funeral director, end-of-life/bereavement counselor, & casket maker, as they talk about bringing love to the work of dying, completing a life to leave in peace, & running The Death Store on the island of Maui, Hawaii.Read “Facing Death, A Conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be”: https://www.powells.com/book/facing-death-9781953508256 The Death Store: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/the-death-store.html Check out Founder Bodhi Be's Doorway Into Light: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/ - join their e-newsletter, donate to their work, or attend our death doula trainingsCheck out ‘Īpuka's Sanctuary Park & Natural Burial Ground, a sacred story of life & death interweaving in healthy community life, protected & cared for by a nonprofit organization in perpetuity: https://www.ipuka.org/ All the prison orgs, programs, retreat centers, etc. mentioned in this episode…Alive Inside: https://www.alive-inside.com/ Bellwether Farms: https://bellwetherfarms.com/ Death Penalty Action: https://deathpenaltyaction.org/ Horizon Prison Initiative: https://www.horizonprisoninitiative.org/ Think Make Live Youth: https://tmlyouth.org/ Ohio Innocence Project: https://law.uc.edu/real-world-learning/centers/ohio-innocence-project-at-cincinnati-law.html Produced by Nick JainaSoundscaping by Nick Jaina”Untouched,” “The Evolutionary Pinnacle of Fire,” & "Moon King" by Nick Jaina - all songs available on a Bandcamp-only release: http://nickjaina.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-twoSounds from Bellwether Farm provided by Isaac Hollingsworth”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned BuskirkTHIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLEWITH SUPPORT FROMLISTENERS LIKE YOU.Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

In this episode, Hari interviews Reverend Bodhi Be from the Sufi lineage of Samuel Lewis and Hazrat Inayat Khan. Bodhi is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit that provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families, and the grieving on Maui. Recorded in October 2020, Hari and Bodhi explore the spiritual power of "I am going to die, and I don't know when," Bodhi's friendship with Ram Dass, the environmental, spiritual, and social impact of outsourcing death to businesses and experts, and how to reclaim death back into the home, family, and community as an act of "village building." The Sacred Community Podcast is an inter-spiritual hub of the universal teachings, “Love, Service, Remembrance, and Truth.” Home to Sacred Community Project interviews, live workshop recordings, dharma talks, and meditations, each episode is carefully curated to ensure its alignment with SCP values. SCP works to lower the barriers of access to contemplative and devotional practices through free, donation-based, and affordable offerings, spiritual support, and prison outreach. Learn more and make a tax-deductible donation at: https://sacredcommunityproject.org About Reverend Bodhi Be: Warrior of the heart, protector of the sacred Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage of Samuel Lewis and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving, and has been offering community presentations and trainings since 2006 in the fields of awakened living and dying and the care of the dying. Since 2012, Doorway Into Light operates Hawaii's only nonprofit certified green funeral home It also operates a storefront on Maui, ‘The Death Store', an educational resource center and store providing education, support and counsel on a donation basis. A Maui resident for 45 years, he and his wife have raised 5 children and are now helping to raise 3 grandchildren. An organic, off-the-grid homesteader in Hawaii for 26 years, he grows tropical fruit with his wife, children and grandchildren. Bodhi is a funeral director providing before, and after-death care; an end-of-life and bereavement counselor and educator; a hospice volunteer; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; a speaker and workshop leader and a ceremonial guide. He hosts a weekly streaming radio show, ‘Death Tracks', on a Maui station. Bodhi guides memorials and funerals and leads grief rituals. He has facilitated grief support groups for teenagers at a local high school. He has trained hundreds of doctors, nurses, hospice staff, social workers, ministers, chaplains, therapists, artists and lay people in the spiritual, psychological, emotional and logistical care of the dying and the care of the dead, and for 4 years has taken dozens through a certification program to be death doulas. Bodhi has written a column called “Ask the Death Professor” for a local Maui magazine. He is a notary public, a coffin maker and a Reiki practitioner. Bodhi and his wife Leilah have been leading spiritual retreats in Hawaii and around the world. Bodhi is currently teaching courses through the Esalen Institute of Big Sur. Entitled ‘We're All Gonna Die,' the course encompasses: cultivating a healthy relationship with our own approaching death, doing the work of preparing for death, learning skills for caring for a dying person(s) and for showing up for what's dying in the world. For many years Bodhi collaborated with Ram Dass, a neighbor, mentor and friend, who served on Doorway Into Light's Board of Directors. Bodhi is continuing the work Ram Dass helped birth in the fields of conscious dying in America. Doorway Into Light is currently raising funds to develop a new model of land stewardship that includes a natural green burial ground, sanctuary, park, ceremony hall and community gathering place. A new book about Bodhi is out now and available at your favorite retailer: https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Death-Conversation-Reverend-Bodhi/dp/1953508251 doorwayintolight.org - ipuka.org Facebook: @Thedeathstore Instagram: @thedeathstoremaui   Music: Carl Golembeski SCP Logo: Beverly Hsu https://beverlyhsu.com  

Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister. He is the executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving, and has been offering community presentations and trainings, since 2006, in the fields of awakened living and dying. Doorway Into Light operates Hawaii’s only nonprofit funeral home; a certified green funeral home, and facilitates Hawaii’s only ocean body burials. As well, it operates an educational resource center and store on Maui, The Death Store. https://www.doorwayintolight.org/

Learn about Bodhi’s training program for death doulas on Maui and how to restore the sacred aspect of dying. My guest Bodhi Be is an ordained Sufi minister, teacher, guide, funeral director, and bereavement counselor on the island of Maui. He is also the founder and director of the International Death Doula Certificate Training program, which… Continue reading Ep. 211 Doorway Into Light: Showing Up for Death, Nourishing Life with Rev. Bodhi Be

My guest Reverend Bodhi Be has been caring for the dying and teaching others how to provide conscious and compassionate care for those at the end of life through his non-profit organization Doorway Into Light since 2006. Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister and is the Executive Director of Doorway Into Light.    He operates Hawaii’s only nonprofit funeral home, as well as The Death Store, an educational resource center and store on Maui.   Bodhi is a funeral director, death doula, end-of-life and bereavement counselor, hospice volunteer, a teacher and trainer of death doulas, a speaker and workshop leader in the fields of wholehearted and sacred living and dying, and a ceremonial guide.    Bodhi hosts a weekly radio show, ‘Death Tracks’ which streams online. He is a Notary Public, Coffin Maker, Reiki Practitioner and, together with his wife, children, and grandchildren, are off-the-grid organic homesteaders on Maui.    www.doorwayintolight.org   This interview includes: How Reverend Bohdi Be first became interested in working with dying patients A look back at death and dying 100 years ago and the changes that have taken place over time The greatest challenges we face today in offering quality care to the dying The current Healthcare system and the answer to the aging and end of life crisis. The importance of empowering families and communities with holistic, sustainable and family-based tools, skills and information in the care of the dying and the dead. The secret to transforming our culture is by transforming attitudes and relationships with aging, dying and death How to reclaim the care of the dying and the dead as ‘village building’ work and sacred service. How to Protect and preserve land by utilizing a green burial ground as an economic engine to maintain the land as public commons. How to be part of the 2019 International Death Doula Training April 25th-29th Maui, HI   “To change our culture, to change our lives, requires the transformation of consciousness, and few things shift consciousness as quickly as an awareness of death.” -Reverend Bodhi Be   Links mentioned in this episode: Doorway Into Light Website 2019 International Death Doula Training Maui, HI   FREE DOULA TRAININGIf you're a family caregiver, community volunteer, or are interested in becoming a certified end of Life Doula Practitioner, CLICK HERE to join Suzanne for her FREE Introductory End-of-Life Doula Training! http://freetraining.doulagivers.com/   OR   Learn how to give the gift of Peace of Mind at the End of Life to yourself and your family members by signing up for Suzanne's Peace of Mind Planner course! CLICK HERE to learn about the five keys to achievingPeace of Mind at the End of Life.https://planner.doulagivers.com/about

Bodhi Be is helping people by recognizing death as a sacred and spiritual passage. He is the Executive Director of Doorway Into Light, a 501c3 nonprofit educational and charitable organization. The organization is engaged in advocacy and educational programs regarding Death and Dying on Maui, Hawaii, with families and professionals in the field. Doorway Into Light is also actively engaged in helping dying people, their families and care-givers. He runs the Death Store as well as has a funeral home which is the only nonprofit and only certified green funeral home in Hawaii, where he offers low-cost, personalized, green burials and ocean body burials.   Do you have an exploring death story you’d like to share with Lisa? Please leave a comment on the podcast or contact Lisa at LisaExploringDeath@gmail.com   Links and Resources from this Episode http://www.millionairemedium.com http://www.doorwayintolight.org bodhi@doorwayintolight.org https://www.facebook.com/Thedeathstore Link to the 3rd International Death Doula Training http://www.doorwayintolight.org/2019-international-training.html   Special Listener Gift Download Your Free Abundance Meditation   Show Notes How Bodhi got interested in death - 1:32 His first experience with death - 3:31 Why he created the most unique and special funeral home in Hawaii - 4:38 A death phobic culture and what we can do about it - 10:19 The toxins that go into the burial process - 14:22 How to have a green burial - 16:13 The death training program - 20:55 Lisa doing a reading for Bodhi - 28:35   Review, Subscribe and Share If you like what you hear please leave a review by clicking here Make sure you’re subscribed to the podcast so you get the latest episodes. Click here to subscribe with iTunes Click here to follow on SpotifyClick here to subscribe with StitcherClick here to subscribe with RSS

Bodhi Be, the Executive Director of 'Doorway Into Light', is a teacher, guide and ordained minister in the universal Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Samuel Lewis.  He is an independent funeral director, hospice volunteer, notary, and the founder and president of Doorway Into Light’s The Death Store, Hawaii’s first certified green funeral home.  He is happily married for 29 years, parent and step-parent to 5 grown children. A grandparent, coffin maker, crematory apprentice, artist, entrepreneur and organic homesteader on Maui, where he has resided for 37 years. website: www.doorwayintolight.org  End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005  

Mary and Jim speak with Ram Dass and Bodhi about Ipuka I Ke Ao, or “Doorway Into Light,” an organization that helps people develop methods to deal with death. Jim also talks about his upcoming seminar, Congruent Marketing.