Everything we've published on the old ways.
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Most death doula training teaches the logistics beautifully and skips the sacred. On the gap in modern doula training, and why nature-based practice fills it.
A vigil is staying with someone who is dying. A death doula on what it asks of you, how to hold one at home or in a hospital, and what to say.
A green burial returns the body to the earth without embalming or a sealed vault. A death doula on how it works, how it compares, and what it gives the living.
When someone you love is dying, there is still something you can do with your hands. A death doula on the herbs families have always brought into the room.
Stregheria is Italy's folk-magic tradition, and its view of death is simple: the dead stay in the family. On ancestor altars, vigils and the rites of leaving.