Love & Death, Grief & Gratitude: Living the Beauty Way

These times are asking us to be deep people and to increase our capacity to meet a changing world.

The atmosphere, the pools, the beauty and spaciousness of Breitenbush provide an ideal setting and opportunity to dive deep into touching what is most important. Often, we are so busy doing all the important stuff of life that we don’t seem to get to the really important stuff.

Touching love and death, grief and gratitude, are the pathways forward.

“To step through the avoidance, aversion and denial of death that permeates our culture and begin the work of preparing for death…is to step through a doorway that leads to deeper living…to living the beauty way.”
–Reverend Bodhi Be

Deepening our awareness of our approaching death and the death of our loved ones helps bring us out of the ‘cultural hypnotic sleepwalk’ we can easily fall into. Learning what ‘dying well’ asks of us points to what we can do now in our lives to live more fully and to live in the beauty way. It points us to how we can be useful in the care of a dying loved one.

Through teachings, group practices and discussions, break-out sessions, movement, dance and song, writing and silent reflective time, we are aided in stepping into the preciousness and sacredness of life, deepening our relationships with self, community and ‘the holy’.