Village-Based Death & Dying — Let’s Become that Village
I was fortunate to learn about dying within the context of a village. I spent 20+ years as a co-creator and resident of a rural ecovillage in Southern Appalachia, where in addition to learning about sustainable and reverential ways to engage with life, I participated in collective approaches to death-care.
Over the course of two years, from 2016 to 2018, the close-knit village of 125 people experienced the decline and death of six members ranging in ages from 2 to 98. These deaths, and the generous people who experienced them, offered an incredible opportunity to reweave a more holistic approach to end-of-life than the ones generally offered to us by culture. The outcome of stewarding those deaths, together as a community, including after-death care, home funerals, and home burials, was life changing and heart opening experiences for all involved.
Lee Warren is a death and tantra educator, somatic guide, writer, mystic, and community builder. Lee’s work delves into the intimate relationship between our physical existence and the mysteries of life and death. She teaches how embracing the certainty of our mortality can transform fear into profound gratitude and ecstatic embodiment.
Why do we want to be more embodiment? Because that’s where divine intelligence lives. Consciousness is in every cell of our being and it’s waiting to be enlivened.
Her rich and varied experiences—from three decades of ecovillage living and the practice of sustainable agriculture to her devotional Tantric path—prime her for sharing the teachings of the life/death/life mysteries.
Lee Warren
Death & Tantra Educator
End-of-Life Preparation Coach
Caregiver Support Ally