The body was designed to die. I’m here to help you trust it - where medicine, science, and deep knowing meet to guide and support a good death.

Death Guidance and Education

Sarah J. Sparen BSN RN

In Person Or Virtual Offerings:

  • Biological and Spiritual Death Literacy

  • VSED Support

  • Family Meetings and Goal Exploration

  • Ceremonies and Trainings

  • End of Life Preparation and Counsel

  • Facilitating and Assisting Good Deaths

  • Death Guide and Companion Coaching

  • Autonomy and Informed Consent Advocacy

  • Palliative and Hospice Information

  • Death Class and Workshops

Email Sarahsparen@yahoo.com to be added to the waitlist. You will get an email one week prior to public release for an early access sign up opportunity.

Cacao and The Sacred Unwinding Cacao and The Sacred Unwinding
Cacao and The Sacred Unwinding
$75.00

This Samhain, we gather fireside for a two-hour ceremony of poetry, ritual, and guided meditation exploring how body and spirit have carried each other since your first breath — and how they know how to separate safely, with grace, when the time comes. We meet on the one night the veil between worlds is said to be thinnest, when the harvest closes and the dark half of the year begins — the night our ancestors and loved ones can cross back to us freely. We open around the fire with cacao, a ceremonial plant medicine long used to soften and open the heart. Taken with intention, it quiets the noise of the mind and draws us out of our heads and into felt, embodied presence. We begin this way on purpose: arriving at the unwinding with an open heart lets us go further into it — past thought and into feeling, which is where this work actually lives. From there, we move into a guided meditation — breathing into the heart, the lungs, the brain, the gut, and the skin, then into each of the five senses in turn. We trace how these two partners, body and spirit, have carried each other through life, and how they know how to separate safely, with grace, when the time comes.

Body and Spirit, The Sacred Unwinding- a two hour death ceremony- poetry, breath, connection and a guided meditation, exploring how the body and spirit have carried each other since your first breath, and how they know how to separate safely, with ease and grace, when the time comes. An invitation to build a bridge between body and spirit, light and dark, birth and death.

This ceremony is being offered at the following locations:

Be Brave Yoga Infusion Campout. A Sacred Campout for Women. October 9-11, 2026. Sign up at Bebrave.yoga - retreats

Niantic Yoga- 413 Main Street, Niantic CT. Friday November 6th 7 pm-9 pm. Sign up at Nianticyoga.com- workshops

Groton Baptiste Power Yoga Studio, 92 Leonard Drive, Groton. Sunday November 1st 4-6 pm. Sign up at Baptistepoweryoga.com- workshops

Testimonials

  • Sarah is great at her job and I believe it has as much to do with her caring and compassionate nature as it does with her extensive end of life knowledge base. When I found out someone very close to me had terminal cancer, I was in shock and had lots of questions and I am grateful that my family had her to explain things and discuss options. She did a four way phone consult with my family on both coasts, she shared literature with us that was astonishingly accurate about what to expect, she listened, and answered questions. It was so nice to have a professional, who has a lot of experience with end of life situations, and not have to rely on Internet searches. She is a wonderful guide through a confusing journey at a time when you want answers amd alternatives. I highly recommend her service. Well worth it.

    —RC

  • After Sarah's guest lecture, I called my mom to share what I learned and I highlighted how relieving it was to learn that, with our last exhale, we get this huge rush of oxytocin and love. It comforted both of us greatly. Sarah's talk truly was eye opening, I even shared my notes with some of my friends! One of my mom's coworkers, recently lost her mother to dementia. But, my mom shared with her what I learned in class about the rush of love and happiness and pure comfort you experience with your last breathe. And She shared how our bodies are designed to die in absolute comfort, that it knows exactly what to do to die effectively. This comforted and took so much and took a huge weight off of her shoulders. Thank you for providing me with the knowledge to have such intimate conversations!

    —CL

  • Thank you so, so much. Your compassion was overwhelming and you made my wife’s trip to heaven so much easier for us. May God bless you. You are just a special person.

    -RS

  • As we march along thru the challenges and demands of successful living and yes dying, one of the greatest gifts is to find a health care professional to be your indispensable guide and support.  The attributes of that professional we seek are:
    1.  Technical competence
    2.   Empathy
    3.   Respect for human dignity
    4.   Critical thinking and emotional strength
    5.   Excellent communication skills
    I was fortunate to find all these attributes in Sarah.  I cannot recommend Sarah highly enough to communicate
    What a blessing she has been.

    -Patrick Rowe

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