Ocean Soul Renewal

05/25/2017

I am excited about completing my final training and certification as a Home Funeral and Eco-Burial Guide this weekend. Beginning tonight through Sunday night I will be at the Mountain Home Ranch in Calistoga training with team, taught by the internationally known Jerrigrace Lyons. My vision is that I can contribute to returning After Death Dignity to the beloved lost and their families so that fewer people have to go through what I went through with my Mom - watching strangers zip her into a bag and wheel her out into a minivan to be filled with toxic chemicals. I want to help people understand that there is an alternative - to keep your loved one home, bathe, dress, have ritual and grieve for a day or three and then to return the temple of the body to the earth in a healing way.

03/28/2017

Death Midwife, Home Funeral and Eco-Burial Training Completed: Just completed 4 days of immersion in first two of three levels of training on Home Funerals and Death Doula/Midwifery training. You do not need to send your loved one off to the mortuary with strangers immediately after his or her death. You can keep your beloved home, clean and dress her and take days to mourn and celebrate the life of the one you have lost. I can guide and support you in this process. It is more personal, more satisfying and saves family resources. I remember when my Mom died. Strangers came, zipped her into a black bag and rolled her to their minivan. That was it. I stood stunned on the driveway. Alone. It did not have to be that way. We could have honored her and kept her at home for days, taken care of her, decorated her cremation casket, talked to her for days, giving her spirit time to leave her body.

02/03/2017

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Offering sailing & office counseling and workshops to heal grief, renew hope and memorialize loss or change. Also
Memorials at Sea, Home & Green Funerals

01/20/2017

A few years ago I watched as unknown representatives of a local funeral home arrived in their mini-van, came into my childhood family home and black-bagged my Mom on a gurney, rolled her down the drive and shoved her into the van to take her from our lives. I remember watching that van drive away and howling to the world in grief. I regret this treatment of my Mother's remains every day. It didn't have to be that way. We could have kept her there in the home she loved, bathed and dressed her, talked to her and prayed and better respected her 83 years of life and all the years of her mothering.

Home funerals allow for the family to retain the body of their loved one at home until they are ready to move the body to the place of burial or cremation. Until the mid-20th century, home funerals were common in the United States. With a home funeral and a green burial there is no need for embalming or expensive funeral home costs. Most people feel they must rush their deceased loved one to the funeral home. This is not true. You can continue to care for your loved one at home, taking the time you need to grieve and anoint or prepare the body, and when you are ready, take the body for burial, cremation, or scatter the ashes at sea with a beautiful memorial on the waves. All aspects of a funeral can be done at home or alternatively by a licensed funeral home. I am a member of the National Home Funeral Alliance and can answer your questions or serve your home funeral needs in the respectful privacy of your own home.

01/08/2017

Welcome to Ocean Soul! We offer grieving and healing workshops and counseling, communication and conflict resolution services, weddings, memorials at sea and scattering of ashes to the ocean. Call for a complimentary conversation about your spiritual, ritual and grieving/healing needs.
Peace and blessings,
Chaplain Bob

Offering sailing & office counseling and workshops to heal grief, renew hope and memorialize loss or change. Also
Memorials at Sea, Home & Green Funerals