Root: v. ground, center, nourish
Soar: v. fly, spaciousness, in the flow
Together: v. held, interconnected and interwoven in the web of life
Death and Life Doula
Root and Soar Together specializes in
Grief Tending (integrating Mind-Body-Spirit with individual, collective, ancestral)
Energy Work (Reiki in-person, virtual and certified teaching)
Transformational Learning to uncover your inner guide and feel resourced to fully live
Transformational Learning to face your fears of death and dying
Transition ceremony for your companion animal prior to your vet euthanasia appointment
Available to guide individual sessions, community groups, classes and retreats
What is a Death Doula?
A death doula is a compassionate teacher, guide and support for people facing death and grief. As we live in a death-denying and grief-phobic culture in the United States, there is much work to be done. The specific offerings of death doulas will differ. Like birth doulas, death doulas serve an essential function in our society meeting significant gaps that exist.
What is a Life Doula?
A life doula is a compassionate teacher, guide and support for people not feeling inspired and alive. Building upon her tools learned as a school counselor, Amy found energy work and Reiki to expand her offerings for people to uncover their inner reservoir of calm, courage, compassion and clarity. To discover the beauty of everyday life—in spite of it all— aligned with living one’s sacred gifts given to offer in service of the wellbeing of the world.
Grief work is soul work.
Amy’s path to guiding people with death, dying, life and living is possible thanks to her many teachers, mentors and guides.
“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.”
- Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.”
-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet