Join us for a deeply nourishing and heart-opening gathering as we honour National Dying Matters Weekhere in the UK. A time to gently bring death, dying, and grief back into the heart of community, where they belong.

🕊 Part One: Community Death Despacho
We begin with Hannah GracefulDawn, who will guide a Community Death Despacho from the Andean tradition — a ceremonial offering of prayers and intention.

Together, we will:

• Offer prayers for healing our relationship with death and grief
• Honour loss as a sacred rite of passage
• Begin to soften fear and reconnect with the wisdom of endings and transitions
• Restore death and grief as natural, communal, and sacred experiences

This beautiful ritual invites each of us to reflect on our own relationship with death and grief, and reminds us that these experiences are not meant to be carred alone.

✨ Part Two: Satsang with Eartha Love
In the second half of the afternoon, Eartha Love will share her profound personal journey of accompanying her beloved through death.

Through heartfelt storytelling and spiritual insight, she will explore:

• The sacred experience of tending to a loved one as they transition
• The opening of the heart through grief and love
• The merging of souls and the continuing bond beyond physical death
• Staying connected within what she describes as the “ecosystem of heaven”

Eartha will also speak about Shared Death Experiences (SDEs) — moments where a loved one feels they are participating in the transition of someone who is dying. These experiences can include:

• Sensing or intuitively knowing a passing is occurring
• Witnessing visions, light, or reunions with loved ones
• Accompanying the dying person toward a place of peace
• Feeling a deep, enduring connection beyond death

These experiences often bring comfort, meaning, and a sense of continuity — helping to ease fear and invite a deeper trust in the mystery of life and death.

This is an invitation to explore grief not as an end, but as a doorway into love, connection, and transformation.

🕰 Event Details

• Doors open: 2:00pm
• Start time: 2:30pm (prompt)
• Close: 5:30pm

🌙 Evening Offering (Separate Booking Required) 
The space will reopen at 6:30pm for a Sacred Song Ceremony of Aramaic Prayers and Holy Oils with Bella Aurisha, Hannah GracefulDawn and friends.

Booking link https://dandelion.events/e/d7nfl

🍵 Refreshments
Light refreshments will be available throughout the afternoon.

Meet Your Guides …

HANNAH GRACEFUL DAWN

Hannah is of a strong Welsh lineage and is a teacher of the Holy oils of the tradition through ministering the holy oils through awakened love and rites of passage . She is a lifelong student of conciousness through the path of the mystic and has had many strong teachers along the way. She is trustee of the Sacred Death centre. She has founded the Temple Of the Myrrbearers Avalon through her River of Eternal Love myrrh bearing school and has co founded the Sunheart temple school with her twin sister. And has also launched a sacred Groves Avalon podcast She lives and serves in Avalon and her school is currently at Goddess House. She is a mother of 3 homeschooled amazing young people . And is part of a sanctuary project in the mountains of Portugal with her Twin Sister www.templeofgracefuldawn.com

EARTHA LOVE

If a name must be given, Eartha Love is a mother and a mystic, devoted to ministering love through service and the embodiment of inner resurrection.

For over 30 years, she has healed, trained, and taught shamanic practices alongside indigenous grandmothers, shamans, and medicine women. Her work is deeply rooted in Andean shamanism — an integrated, energy-based medicine that brings healing to the psyche and is inherently trauma-informed.

Eartha understands shamanic practice as a powerful pathway for healing trauma, restoring wellbeing, and supporting mental and emotional balance.

From this depth of experience, she has developed her own healing modality, Soul Mending — a heart-led, devotional practice that supports individuals in tending to their inner world and reclaiming their wholeness.

Through her work, she invites others into a profound journey of healing, connection, and the remembrance of the soul.

https://earthalove.com/

LUCY LORD

Lucy is a Grief Recovery Specialist, grief tender, and the founder of the Sacred Death Centre in Glastonbury, a community organisation dedicated to supporting people through the thresholds of death, dying, and grief. Her work is rooted in the belief that grief is not a problem to be fixed, but a deep human process that deserves time, space, and reverence.

After working for many years in the corporate world, Lucy’s life changed direction through a series of profound personal losses. These experiences brought her to the Grief Recovery Method, which became a pivotal turning point in her own healing and the foundation of the work she now share with others. Over the past years, Lucy has supported many individuals through this evidence-based programme, helping them to gently meet and integrate the emotional pain they have carried.

Recognising that how we die shapes how we grieve, Lucy trained with Felicity Warner as a Soul Midwife, deepening her understanding of the end-of-life journey and the importance of compassionate presence.

Her grief-tending work is further grounded in the teachings of Francis Weller, whose wisdom on community grief and the necessity of ritual informs her approach. His reminder that “grief and gratitude are two sides of the same coin” sits at the heart of her work.

You are welcome here exactly as you are, With your story, your tenderness, and the truth of your heart.   www.lucylord.co.uk

We are offering our sacred songs of Aramaic and the beloved oils of the Myrrhbearer this May as part of a loving collaboration with the sacred death centre Avalon so there will be funded places. 

After a day of beautiful sharing around death and dying for dying matters week we will end with this ceremony 

With our offering of pure love coming this time to our community it will be in our beloved st Benedict’s church and people be able to light candles for their loved ones and light up the way , the pure light of love while bathed in wonderful prayerful song and we are reminded of the sweetness of the mystery of life and death, of the Eternal love that permeates existence 

Holding shared death as a path to awakened love the oils will bring healing.

The Myrrhbearers were the women that ministered both the crucifixion and resurrection anointing with deepest compassion and Grace and holy oils.

Hannah will call in the sacred space through her devotion to the priestess path of the temple of the Myrrhbearers Avalon. She will be ministering the Temple holy oils throughout and will offer a holding around the profound ministry practices of Mary magdalena with her beloved yeshua as a myrrhbearer. 

Bella Aurisha will call in Ascended Master Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, Yeshua & the Archangels while she channels their unconditional love and healing energies to everyone in the room. After the healing invocation she will offer her Aramaic songs joined by Jerome Zoran on Cello & Neal Shail on guitar.

What is Aramaic?
Aramaic is one of the original languages spoken in Mary Magdalene’s time and before.The Aramaic language does not have separation and when we begin to bring Aramaic into our lives through prayers and mantras our brains begin to change because there is no separation in Aramaic between the physical and the spiritual. Everything is automatically healed when we speak Aramaic as there are no dualities. Aramaic highlights that everything is one.

3 tickets to choose depending on income 

With Hannah and Bella
Tickets £33
Concessions £22

Funded sacred death centre places £15

WHO IS BELLA AURISHA?
Bella Aurisha is a channeler, ceremonial singer & sound Healer. The healing energy is very present in her music. Her voice through her songs has been described as a healing catalyst, & people often feel inner peace & change after listening to the songs. She has studied & chanted aramaic mantras for several years & she deeply feels the calling to share the healing energies of this powerful & ancient language.
She composes/channels her own music for aramaic mantras & if you want to listen, you can find her music on all major streaming platforms

www.bellaaurishamusic.com

WHO IS HANNAH GRACEFUL DAWN is of a strong Welsh lineage and is a teacher of the Holy oils of the tradition through ministering the holy oils through awakened love and rites of passage . She is a lifelong student of conciousness through the path of the mystic and has had many strong teachers along the way
She is trustee of the Sacred Death centre .
She has founded the Temple Of the Myrrbearers Avalon through her River of Eternal Love myrrh bearing school and has co founded the Sunheart temple school with her twin sister
And has also launched a sacred Groves Avalon podcast
She lives and serves in Avalon and her school is currently at Goddess House. She is a mother of 3 homeschooled amazing young people . And is part of a sanctuary project in the mountains of Portugal with her Twin Sister

www.templeofgracefuldawn.com

We warmly invite you to join us for Embracing Life ~ Empowering Death, a transformative and practical one-day workshop dedicated to exploring the stages of dying and the empowering practice of death planning. 

Through insightful discussions and practical tools, this workshop offers a compassionate space to deepen your understanding of life’s final chapter while empowering you to approach it with clarity, grace, and purpose. Whether you’re navigating this journey for yourself or supporting a loved one, this day will inspire and equip you with meaningful strategies for embracing life’s transitions.

We will cover the four stages of dying from the understanding of an end of life companion. How to create a circle of care when supporting a friend or family member at end of life and explore what a simple death plan might look like using a holistic approach.

This workshop is being offered as a collaboration between the Lucy Lord at the Sacred Death Centre and Tasha Kalisher – Soul Midwife www.tashakalisher.com 

Tasha is a soul midwife, shiatsu practitioner and qigong teacher. As a soul midwife, she provides care as a non-religious, non-medical companion and support for individuals with a life-limiting illness and their family and friends. Her support is tailored on an individual basis and includes talking through the natural stages of dying and offering ideas on how best to support someone, as well as visits and practical care. 

Sunday 24th May 10am – 5pm. Avalon Centre, King Street, Glastonbury, BA6 9JY

A simple and grounding vegan soup will be shared for lunch, other light refreshments will be available. Please bring any extra snacks you feel you may need throughout the day.