Connee teaches classes,
workshops, public talks, & retreats to help students deepen their understanding of spiritual care and healing, learn spiritual midwifery to the dying, explore teachings of the wisdom traditions, explore the nature of suffering, practice dreamtime meditation and energy work, and nourish one’s spiritual path. Please check her schedule to see when classes are offered.
Connee also leads tours so can directly experience the cultures from which the wisdom traditions generate and are still practiced. She builds upon her Wisdom Series: An Interfaith understanding of Death, Dying, and Grief to bring participants to the lands and cultures, from which the teachings generate, so they may directly experience the cultures, rituals, and practices of death, dying, grief, and spiritual midwifery. She works with co-leaders, who live and know the areas we visit. Please check her schedule to see her upcoming tours.
If you don’t see a class that you are interested in, please contact Connee connee@conneepike.com.
The Art of Spiritual Midwifery to the Dying
In this course, we explore the spiritual needs of the dying. We examine the spiritual path as it relates to the dying process and learn how to bring the wisdom of spiritual traditions to the dissolution process. We learn how to diagnose and treat spiritual pain. And, we learn how to offer spiritual presence, throughout the illness and dying process. There is a special focus upon how to work with someone, who can no longer speak, and how to bring the sacred to the vigil process. (download brochure)
The Art of Spiritual Midwifery to the Dying
Advanced training
Connee offers private classes, apprenticeship, and supervision to individuals and groups seeking to deepen their understanding of spiritual midwifery to the dying. Please contact her for further information.
Wisdom Series:
An Interfaith Understanding of Death, Dying, and Grief
In each of these classes, participants will explore the teachings about death, dying, and the afterlife from each of the major world religions. We will explore the philosophy, stories, imagery, scriptures, and practices surrounding death, dying, afterlife, and grief.
An Eastern Perspective
In this class, we will explore Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, and other Eastern perspectives. Death is an important meditation practice for each of these traditions. We will learn not only how death is viewed, but the ways death meditation is incorporated into the spiritual path.
Women’s Spirituality and the History of Spiritual Midwifery
In this class, we will explore the history of the Goddess, the female faces of God and Buddha across each of the wisdom traditions, and their special roles in birthing and dying. Special attention will also be spent upon the traditions of spiritual midwifery, and the ways women such as Mary Magdalene offered healing during times of transition.
A Western Perspective
In this class, we will explore Christianity, Judaism, and Sufism. We will explore the Middle Eastern roots of these practices as well as the ways these religions are practiced today.
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