Honouring Ancient Ways: A Six-Week Journey into Conscious Death and Cultural Regeneration

This six-week introductory course invites you to honour ancient perspectives, practices, and ways of being around death. Together, we will enter a prayerful and grounded container for the regeneration of culture around conscious death in our modern times.

As the threshold of death continues to evolve within the Western psyche, we are offered a profound opportunity to reconnect with origin cultures and to walk the path of right relationship with both life and death.

Eartha and Hannah will be your guides on this journey — a ceremony for the inner planes of consciousness, interwoven with practical offerings to bring beauty, presence, and sacred care to the dying and the bereaved.

Course Outline

6th November — The Path of the Mystic
Exploring the wisdom of traditional cultures and their relationship with death, and how these timeless teachings can guide our modern world.

13th November — The Map of the Soul’s Evolution
Understanding death as a central force in the soul’s journey of transformation and renewal.

20th November — The Holy Grief of the Bereaved
Honouring the sacred nature of grief and how it opens the heart to deeper love and connection.

27th November — Resurrection Rites and Conscious Death
Exploring practices that recognise death not as an end, but as a passage into new life and expanded consciousness.

4th December — Death Rites and the Art of Tending
An introduction to ancestral and contemporary practices that bring beauty and sacred care to the dying and the bereaved.

11th December — Integration and Reflection
A closing circle for questions, sharing, and integration of the teachings and experiences from our journey together.

This course is a collaboration between The Sacred Death Centre, Eartha, and Hannah, offered in service to the regeneration of conscious culture around death and dying.

The full value of the course is £144, but we are offering it at a 50% discounted rate of £77 to make it more accessible.
If you are in a position of abundance and feel called to contribute the full amount, or any amount in between, your offering will be gratefully received and will help support others to attend.

Your guides 

Hannah Graceful Dawn – Shamaic Practitioner – templeofgracefuldawn.com

About Hannah…

Hannah Graceful Dawn is a Shamanka who has studied Rites of Passage in depth for over 27 years, weaving her learning with a profound journey of personal healing and a return to belonging through indigenous pathways.

Mentored by indigenous grandmothers and trained as a shamanic practitioner in a variety of techniques — including death and dying practices — Hannah brings deep reverence and authenticity to her work.

Together with her twin sister, she runs a school where Shamanism meets Devotion, serving the sacred thresholds of life and death.

Hannah is also a carrier of the Path of the Myrrhbearers — the ancient lineage of women who tend to the dying and hold rites of passage with Sacred Oils. Through her Myrraphore School, The Temple of the Myrrh Bearers Avalon, based in Glastonbury, she continues this devotional work.

Born of Druidic Welsh bloodlines on the holy island of Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Hannah is reclaiming the ancient knowledge of the Swan Priestesses and the Drui Anointing Oils.

Now living in Avalon, Hannah is honoured to serve as a trustee for the Sacred Death Centre in Glastonbury. Most recently, she has returned to India to deepen her studies in traditional Tantra Yoga, supporting her own conscious death process and continued embodiment of these teachings.

Eartha Love – Shamanka – earthalove.com

About Earth …

If I were to put a name to myself, I would say I am a mother and a mystic, devoted to ministering love through service and embodied resurrection, the continual becoming of our truest selves.

For over 30 years, I have walked the healing path, training and teaching in shamanic practices alongsideindigenous grandmothers, shamans, and medicine women, with a particular focus on the Andean tradition.

Shamanism is integrated medicine — it unites the psyche, restores balance, and brings healing to both the seen and unseen realms. It is energy medicine and, by its very nature, trauma-informed. These practices are powerful tools for healing trauma, restoring wellbeing, and nurturing mental health.

From this lifelong journey, I have developed my own healing modality — Soul Mending — an evolved practice of devotion, heart-centred tending, and the sacred recovery of wholeness.

Please Note:
All sessions will be recorded for those who are unable to join us live. We warmly encourage you to attend in real time whenever possible, as being present in the shared field will allow you to receive the deepest benefit from the course.

The Zoom link will be emailed to all participants 24 hours before the first session.

We warmly invite you to our Grief Tending Ritual in Honour of our Ancestors.

During this Samhain portal, when the veil between the worlds is thin, we will gather as a village to support one another as we honour and alchemise the grief we carry in our hearts.

This will be a safe, non-judgemental space where we share practices to help you connect with and meet the layers of grief you may be carrying.

Together we will use our voices, movement, breathwork, and journaling to prepare before entering into the ritual itself.  Sivani Mata will be offering the sacred songs and mantra during the ritual to support us on our grieving journey.

This offering has been inspired by the teachings of Francis Weller, whose work reminds us of the deep healing that becomes possible when we grieve together in community.

“Much of what we carry did not begin with us. We inherit grief from those who came before, grief that was never given the grace of being witnessed. To do this work now is an act of deep ancestral healing.”— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

“Grief has never been private, it has always been communal. Grieving, by its very nature, requires the presence of others. Through that gathering, we begin to remember the depth of our belonging and the healing power of community.”
— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

We look forward to sharing this time together with you, 

Much Love, Lucy & Hannah 

Please note:
This is a community grief tending ritual, not a therapy group. You are responsible for your own wellbeing during and after the gathering, as well as for seeking any follow-up support you may need. 

If you are currently experiencing acute mental health challenges, we warmly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional to assess your capacity to attend and to ensure you feel safely supported.

We warmly invite you to join us for “When someone you love is dying.” A heartwarming gathering in which together we will share and explore how we can care for and hold the person you love, and your beautiful self, in all that you’re feeling, and how we can open our hearts to feel even more love and compassion. 

Together we will explore the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual changes, challenges and transformations that both the loved one who is dying, and those caring for and loving them, may face along the way. 

Whether you already have experience of looking after a loved one as their body dies, or are presently on such a journey, or would like to know more for the future how to care for someone you love and yourself during such an emotional journey, this interactive workshop will help you to feel more able within your heart, mind and spirit to meet those challenges with a more open heart. 

This workshop is being offered as a collaboration between Lucy Lord at the Sacred Death Centre and Simon Gardiner ~ End of Life Counsellor and Companion.

Simon has been working as an end of life counsellor and companion for fifteen years, both independently and for two Marie Curie projects visiting beloveds in hospital and at home. Simon is very passionate that all those involved are cared for and held in as much love, peace and deep gentle healing as possible. Simon’s passion comes also from his own personal experience, from his dear Dad passing at 39 after a 5 year illness, to the love of his life, Panda, passing at 27 after a 10 year journey with lymphoma, all of which taught him so much about the power and beauty of love and compassion when you’re heart is breaking.

We look forward to spending this day together with you.

“Dance the Waters of the Heart” – Honoring Life’s Transitions

As we mark the end of National Grief Awareness week 2025 in the UK, we invite you to join us in a special dance that celebrates all of life’s transitions. Through movement and rhythm, we will connect with the flow of grief, love, and transformation, creating space for healing and remembrance.

This dance is a tribute to the sacred journey of life and death, where we move through the waters of our hearts, honoring the beauty of each transition.

This workshop is a time for you to explore the vertical axis of your Body, Mind & Heart. As we become more present and our movement vocabulary expands, we become freer. With music as our Vessel, we will together be taking a guided journey away from the outer world into our inner landscape.

We will begin with 1 fundamental and powerful practice within movement medicine called Awakening the Dancer, and from there we will explore our elemental nature.

We will dance for Self, our one-to-one relationships, community and the great mystery.

Difficult life experiences, like grief and loss can leave a mark on our minds and hearts and also in our bodies. This can lead to numbness and dissociation. In this practice, we will explore moving a different part of our mental identity to different parts of our body, not only does this serve to warm up the body but it creates a shift of identity an expanding identity, which slowly and gently begins to unthaw us and move us from an experience of disembodiment to embodiment. This can allow us the opportunity to befriend difficult emotions and bring them into the dance to give shape and make visible what might need expressing at this time.

Through our dance, we remember, and we remember how to pray, and there will be some gentle time to privately honour and offer your respect to those who have passed or perhaps to something else that has left or changed which you may feel needs some kind of acknowledgement or completion at this time.

We are so excited to welcome Anna-Rose Martelli, who will be guiding us in a sacred song circle to close our dance, supporting us to integrate and ground our experience through sound, voice, and connection. Find out more about Anna-Rose’s music here:

anna-rosemartelli.bandcamp.com

schoolofmovementmedicine.com/events/transitions/