In-person, two-day workshop at Mountain Stream Meditation/Nevada City Insight Center with RamDev Dale Borglum, PhD

Healing—whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or collective—takes many forms and begins in many places. Each of us is somewhere on the path toward wholeness, facing the next layer of challenge. Often, we may sense that the tools or attitudes we’ve been using—for ourselves or our clients—have become less effective, and we may not know where to turn to invite meaningful transformation.

In this workshop, we’ll draw from multiple wisdom traditions: Buddhist teachings, insights from early childhood development and their energetic imprints in adulthood, and the profound guidance that comes from softening into the heart. After four decades of working closely with the dying, I have come to recognize a clear and practical paradigm for the healing journey—one rooted in direct contact with the Sacred and the realization of our true nature. There are no shortcuts on this path, but we can avoid unnecessary detours and stagnant repetition.

Together, we will explore a usable and concise model of healing that can help each of us identify our next transformational step—even in times of crisis. Through short, focused guided meditations and other experiential practices, this workshop aims to foster a direct experience of healing and support us in living—and eventually dying—with greater consciousness and compassion.

This workshop consists of two components. The first section will present an eclectic, usable, robust version of the contemplative spiritual path, from embodied mindfulness, through devotion and compassion, tantra and finally non-duality. The second section will apply this path to end-of-life issues: conscious grief work,  caregiving as spiritual practice, guiding someone to a more conscious death and dying into wholeness.

These uncertain times are also powerful times. We are all caregivers. We are all seekers of healing. Let’s walk this path together.

Continuing Education Credits
This course provides 15 hours of continuing education for registered nurses and acupuncturists. The Living/Dying Project is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #9621) and the California Acupuncture Board (Provider #1534).

Workshop will be conducted by Dale Borglum, Ph.D., who, with Stephen Levine and Ram Dass, established the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first center supporting conscious dying in the U.S.

RamDev Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in the San Francisco Bay Area www.livingdying.org/. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement, having taught with Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, and Rev. Wayne Muller, among others. And has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illnesses and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility in the United States, The Dying Center, for people who wished to die consciously.

He has taught and lectured extensively on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, on caregiving as a spiritual practice, and on healing at the edge — the edge of illness, of death, of loss, of crisis. Dale has a BS from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Stanford University. He is the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook  (Bantam Books) and has taught meditation for the past 35 years.

He has intensively immersed himself in the practices of devotion, meditation, and contemplative prayer for over forty years, studying with many of the greatest masters of the last century including Neem Karoli Baba, Suzuki Roshi, Ananda Mayee Ma, Kalu Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse, Mahasi Sayadaw, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche, Goenka, Dudjom Rinpoche and HH the Dalai Lama. His life’s work and passion has been and continues to be the healing of our individual and collective relationship with death and using our mortality as an inspiration for spiritual awakening.