An 8-Week Journey into Death, Continuity, and the Sacred Art of Return
To reimagine death is to remember life.
This journey is an invitation to sit at the edge of the great mystery
to study death not as an ending, but as a mirror reflecting how we have lived, loved, and let go.
Through anthropology, ritual, and breath, we will walk the ancient pathways that reveal death as teacher, as midwife, as continuity.
We will explore how cultures across time have tended to their dead, how grief opens the doorway to grace, and how remembrance can become a form of rebirth.
Join us for two months of ancestral teachings, ritual transmissions, and embodied remembrance—rooted in Mesoamerican death cosmologies, ancestral rites, and the mythic cycles of life and return.
We weave together:
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Comparative anthropology of death and consciousness
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Mesoamerican and Eastern cosmologies of rebirth
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Rituals of grief, beauty, and ancestral continuity
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Somatic breathwork and integration practices
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Academic and spiritual frameworks of impermanence
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The symbolic and spiritual roles of the body, the earth, and the threshold between
This is a return to the intelligence of impermanence—a journey into the sacred art of dying consciously,and in doing so, learning how to live with greater truth, tenderness, and awe.
Join us
Our 8-week journey emerges from the meeting point of anthropology, ancestral memory, and embodied spiritual practice—bridging ritual, psychology, and cosmology to explore death as a sacred teacher, a mirror of life, and a thread of continuity across cultures and time.
The contribution to join this 8-week immersion is $555.
This includes access to all live classes and replays, a private group space for integration and reflection, guided breathwork journeys, and guest teachings with Tata Buho and Nana Lucy Culum on the ancestral and spiritual dimensions of death and continuity.
A portion of your payment goes directly to support our guest teachers and their communities, honoring the lineages that make this work possible.
Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom & Death Cosmologies
This is an opportunity to realign your soul and psyche with the natural cycles of life, death, and return—
to remember that the path of awakening is not one of escape or ascent,
but of descent into the fertile darkness where transformation begins.
Reimagining Death
There comes a time in every soul’s journey when we must sit beside the fire of our own impermanence. When the masks fall, and what remains is only breath, memory, and the trembling awareness that we belong to something vast.
Death is not the opposite of life but its confidant—an old friend who keeps the rhythm steady, who whispers, “Remember what is sacred.”
This work is not to transcend death, but to lean into its wisdom—to feel the soil beneath the skin, the ancestors humming through the ribs, the pulse that says: everything changes, and everything continues.
In this journey, we learn to make kin with the unseen.
We study the rites of passage our ancestors once knew by heart, when grief was holy and remembrance was a ceremony of beauty.
We learn to die before we die—to surrender the small self to the great river that carries us all.
And somewhere between the inhale and the exhale, we find that death has been teaching us how to live all along—
with more reverence, more courage, and more love than we ever thought possible.
To Reimagine Death is to Reimagine Life
Our Journey
Live Every Tuesdays (Material Share) and Sundays (Breathwork and Integration)
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Location: Zoom · Replays Available
Introduction Meeting:
The Essence of Spirit
Spirit and Human Consciousness in Earth-Based Cultures
Week 1 — Tuesday, December 2nd
We begin with the oldest human gestures of reverence — the Neanderthal burials, ochre-stained bones, and animal grief that first revealed the awareness of continuity. We study the origins of spirit in human consciousness, exploring life-force energies across cultures (ka, prana, ik’, tonalli), and how breath became the first bridge between the seen and unseen.
We then enter the Mexica Life–Death–Life cycle, understanding death not as opposite to life but as its pulse.
Themes: Early funerary consciousness, animism, vital energy, Mexica cosmology.
The Body as a Living Vessel
Death, Heart, and the Sacred Architecture of the Soul
Week 2 — December 9th
The second week calls us into the body as temple, archive, and compass for transformation. Through the Egyptian cosmology of death, we study the sacred process of mummification, the geography of the Duat (underworld), and the heart as the measure of truth.
We explore anthropomorphism and personification — how the Egyptians gave divine form to death guides and protective energies, and how this reflects the human need to ritualize the unknown.
By walking the landscape of their myths, we learn to see the body as the earth itself — a vessel that contains the spirit’s continuity and participates in the cosmic order.
Themes: Egyptian funerary cosmology, the heart as scale of truth, embodiment of spirit.
The Soul as Legacy
Lineage, Inheritance, and the Continuity of Spirit
Week 3 — August 22nd
In Week 3, we turn toward lineage as a spiritual technology — exploring how gifts, memories, and teachings are carried across generations.
We map our inheritance through ancestral mathematics, tracing the geometric and energetic line that connects us to our elders, mentors, and descendants. Through reflection and observation, we identify the patterns that repeat, the offerings we carry, and the gifts that wish to be born through us. We then enter the Mayan legacy of Xibalba — the underworld where the ancestors reside, a place not of punishment but of memory and becoming. Here we meet the Mayan understanding of death as creation’s renewal, and the soul as a living continuum.
Themes: Mayan Xibalba cosmology, lineage mapping, ancestral inheritance.
Guest Teaching with Tata Buho:
The Ancestral Realms within the Mayan Cosmovision
Week 4 — August 29th
Tata Buho is a Mayan spiritual guide (Ajq’ij) and firekeeper whose life is devoted to tending the sacred relationship between the living and the ancestral realms. Carrying the oral teachings of his elders, he walks the path of ceremony as a living bridge between worlds—translating the language of the elements, the ancestors, and the stars.
Through his presence, prayer, and storytelling, Tata Buho transmits the cosmovision of the underworld (Xibalba) as a landscape of remembrance, not fear: a realm where death is continuity and the soul learns to listen beyond form. His teachings remind us that the fire is a portal, that each breath feeds the eternal flame of life and death dancing as one.
The Emotional Planes
Grief, Impermanence, and the Tenderness of Return
Week 45— September 4th
In this week we enter the territory of emotion — the place where love and loss are indistinguishable. We begin with the understanding that we cannot ease grief, but we can ease suffering. Together we explore how death ripples through time, family, and collective memory, shaping the emotional ecology of humanity.
Through a cross-cultural journey we’ll visit Ancient Japan, Egypt, and Peru, studying mourning practices that transform loss into beauty. We then turn to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, exploring the bardos — the intermediate states of consciousness between life and death — as maps for navigating impermanence. We will also reframe Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of dying and subsequent grief models, seeing them not as linear steps but as cyclical waves that mirror the Life–Death–Life rhythm itself.
Themes: The bardos and impermanence, cross-cultural mourning, the emotional ecology
The Legacy of Love
Earth, Ancestors, and the Continuum of Relationship: Become a good Ancestor
Week 6— September 4th
This week, we return to the Earth — to gratitude, to memory, to the continuities that endure beyond death. As the world enters the season of Thanksgiving, we explore love as the thread that ties generations together, outlasting form and time.
We study Jhator, the Tibetan sky burial — a ritual that teaches release and generosity toward all beings — alongside mourning practices that ease grief by returning the body and soul to the elements.
From there, we travel to the Yoruba cosmovision, learning ancestral invocation as an act of continuity, reciprocity, and praise.
Together we ask: What does it mean to be a good ancestor?
What are the ways we continue our relationships with the dead — through prayer, through gratitude, through living well?
Themes: Earth-based grief practices, Yoruba ancestral invocation, continuity of love.
The Living Bridge
Ancestral Connection and Lineage Healing with Nana Lucy Culum
Week 6— September 4th
In our final gathering, we come full circle — from remembrance into relationship, from study into ceremony.
We are joined by Nana Lucy Culum, an Indigenous K’iche’ wisdom keeper, midwife, and spiritual guide from the highlands of Guatemala. Her life’s work centers on lineage healing, ancestral invocation, and earth-based spirituality, carried through prayer, song, and the tending of life’s thresholds — birth, death, and rebirth.
In this closing session, Nana Lucy will guide us through practices of ancestral connection and invocation, teaching how to cultivate relationship with the lineages that walk with us — both blood and spirit.
We will close with a ritual of gratitude, honoring the web of continuity that sustains all life.
Death is our truest witness to Life
Watch the Introduction
Join us
Our 8-week journey emerges from the meeting point of anthropology, ancestral memory, and embodied spiritual practice—bridging ritual, psychology, and cosmology to explore death as a sacred teacher, a mirror of life, and a thread of continuity across cultures and time.
The contribution to join this 8-week immersion is $555.
This includes access to all live classes and replays, a private group space for integration and reflection, guided breathwork journeys, and guest teachings with Tata Buho and Nana Lucy Culum on the ancestral and spiritual dimensions of death and continuity.
A portion of your payment goes directly to support our guest teachers and their communities, honoring the lineages that make this work possible.