Inspiring knowledge to grow into wisdom

RECOMMENDATIONS

There is an enormous amount of information available today: books, lectures, and talks from great thinkers all around the world.

I hope you will get curious about what it means to live a conscious life and to have a conscious death and add your awareness to the field of knowledge for the oneness of all. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.

 
 

Uncover conscious dying. Here are some of Dianna’s favorite books, videos, practices, and more.

 
 

WATCH

 

READ

 

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. 

    Listen to Joan Halifax’s Ted Talk & podcasts.

  • 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.”