Additional Recommendations
Uncover conscious dying. Here are some of Dianna’s favorite books, videos, practices, and more.
Watch
What Really Happens When You Die: End-of-Life Phenomena • At Home with Peter Fenwick
What is Life #2 • Tim Freke and Rupert Sheldrake
Read
The Art of Dying • Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick
The Field • Lynne McTaggart
Morphic Resonance • Rupert Sheldrake
One Mind • Larry Dossey, M.D
Yoga Nidra The Art of Transformational Sleep • Kamini Desai, PhD
Walking Each Other Home, conversations on Loving and Dying • Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death • Joan Halifax
Being Mortal • Atul Gawande
Extreme Measures, Finding a Better Path to the End of Life •Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD
I’m Dead Now What? • Peter Pauper Press | One of the many books designed to help you think through all the vital details from legal, health, and financial matters.
Proof of Heaven • Eben Alexander, MD
Visit
Going with Grace • Death Doula
Caitlin Doughty • Mortician, activist, and funeral industry rabble-rouser. In 2011 she founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death, which has spawned the death positive movement.
Gail Rubin, CT • The Doyenne of Death® is a pioneering death educator: a Certified Thanatologist, award-winning speaker, author, and coordinator of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival. She helps start end-of-life and funeral planning conversations with a light touch on a serious subject, using humor and funny films.
Being with Dying: Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM
A professional training program for clinicians in compassionate care of the seriously ill and dying.
The Living & Dying Consciously Project, Boulder, CO
Beautiful ways to work with and release grief.
Practice
Here is a short video by my teacher Elizabeth Irvine. Purchase her online Yoga Nidra course here.
Yoga Nidra
This practice is over 1,000 years old. I am amazed by the ability of this practice to bring me into a state of complete non-doing. Yoga Nidra is much more then just a guided meditation.
Practicing Yoga Nidra requires you to rest in total stillness while you are instructed to stay awake and alert. You follow the gentle instructions into body and mind relaxation. Your awareness is expanded while you drop deeper into deep relaxation. This is a practice where you can let go of your thoughts and transformative healing and rejuvenation occurs.
More options
Healing and Rejuvenation • Yogi Amrit Desai
iRest® Yoga Nidra: Resting in Stillness • Richard Miller, PhD
iRest® at Ease • Richard Miller, PhD
“iRest is currently used in various military settings to help active military and veterans who are experiencing the effects of PTSD, persistent insomnia and chronic pain.”