In-Person Weekend Retreat with Lee Warren
The Ecstasy of Impermanence
A Journey of Delight in Existence
July 3-5, 2026
In Partnership with Emberlight:
Center for Conscious Living & Dying
in Swannanoa, NC

Decondition Your Fear
of Mortality
by Tracking Pleasure
in the Body!
About the Retreat
Ecstasy of Impermanence is an embodied, death-literate retreat rooted in somatics, tantra, mysticism, and community. This work uses the living body—not doctrine or belief—as the primary teacher for cultivating intimacy with all of life, including dying.
Participants will safely learn to:
- Be with all of you.
- Receive from the intelligence of YOUR body.
- Feel yourself as infinite.
- Begin to trust your system.
- Unwind ever so gently, barriers that keep you from the rapture of aliveness.
- Experience the village in and around you.

We are exquisitely intertwined in the heart of the collective. This means that your liberation is my liberation; your unfolding is my unfolding; your softening is my softening.
—Lee Warren
“Lee presentation style is exceedingly engaging and the hours flew by in part because her group facilitation is skillful- affirming, compassionate and with appropriate humor.”
– Heather Hale
“Lee, you’re the BEST! Thank you for who you are and how you have changed us.”
– Peggy Crowe
“From the opening moments of the workshop, Lee’s wisdom is apparent. Even though zoom, she connects and inspires as through she is in your room. It’s clear that she is a master of all she presents.”
– David Case
“So many of us fill our lives being busy with supporting others. Really, we can all benefit from the experience of pausing, breathing, and being in the presence of an exceptional coach and guide. Lee’s support has helped deepen my own journey.”
– Patrick Davis
“Lee makes it easy and accessible to be in conversation about the charged subject of death, and she conveys a sense of the sacred passage of death in an entirely non-dogmatic way. I highly recommend her work to people of all ages and stages of life.”
– Robyn Lynn
“I can’t express how important this work is in all of our lives, to help reframe pain and suffering in the death space into what it is—the birth/life/death/rebirth cycle. Thank you, Lee, for your work and commitment to this important learning for all of us.”
– Sera Deva
Hi, I’m Lee Warren
I am a Death and Tantra educator and counsellor, somatic guide, embodiment practitioner, and author of Dying Together: The Art of Community Deathcare due out in Fall of 2026. For more than a decade I’ve been offered courses on end-of-life, grief rituals, and sacred embodiment. Her work empowers people to transform the fear of mortality into intimacy with existence by blending practical and mystical approaches that unravel death phobic cultural narratives. Her work lives at the intersection of death and Tantra, which encourages us to use the sacred vehicle of our bodies to explore the blueprint of our own divinity.

As death becomes sacred, so too does all of life.
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Becoming a Communitarian—Pre-Recorded Online Course
Village Economics—The In’s & Out’s of Money & Wealth at Earthaven Ecovillage—Self-Paced Online Course
Walking Towards A Good Death—An Invitation for Internal Preparation—Audio Replay
People Care—An Overview of the Social, Emotional, and Relational Aspects of Life at Earthaven Ecovillage—Self-Paced Online Course
Eros in Motion—A Tantric Dance Immersion