Death as a Spiritual Practice with Lauren Pacione, Ecotherapist and Medicine Woman
Inviting death into your life is a natural part of being a human. In this episode, Lauren and Elena discuss their personal experiences with ego death, death as a spiritual practice, and how it informs holding space for a dying loved one and our daily lives.
We discuss:
The seasonal nature of life and inviting in a Seasonal Practice
The Way of the Trees -- see yourself as a seed using earth's pressure to become
The Chrysalis and the Butterfly -- needing to be squeezed to transform
Permission to feel uncomfortable
Using a Visual Compass to grow (North, South, East, West)
Bring death into waking life through ecotherapy
Resisting decomposition as a call to merge with the void
Getting out of productivity space coming into purposeful space
Create a ritual around your spiritual practice
We are electrical beings carrying around wattage - we are literal light beings!
Ego death as a death teacher by way of Plant Medicine
Letting go of who you think you are
The "Brutiful" experience of holding space for a dying loved one
Liminal space & the void during hospice
What does it mean to have a "masterful death"
About Lauren Pacione
Lauren is an Ecotherapist and medicine woman who shares wisdom in poetic word and practical, purpose-filled stories of seasonal (sometimes spicy) healing with nature. She weaves from a wide lens of experience through fashion and women’s fitness, numinous psychology, leadership in integrative healthcare, shamanic studies and apprenticeship to the divine.
Lauren recently wrote Way of the Trees: a field guide to finding your true nature, a collection of ecotherapy prompts and poetry inspired by the natural world. Lauren is available for continuing education for practitioners and speaking engagements within the world of therapeutic plant medicine integration and consultation in earth-based businesses.
IG: @laurenpacione.etc
