Restoring Sacred Reciprocity of
Life & Death
Six Week Online Course
This course, woven into the Divine Intelligence of the Natural World,
will affect how you walk with both life & death
I highly recommend this course to bring back into balance for ourselves and the collective consciousness the return to the sacredness of our walk with life and death in sacred union. I am so grateful to Mary for sharing these seeds of wisdom!
- Serena Hausen
Mary’s wisdom is off the charts and the course Sacred Reciprocity of Life and Death is no exception. It felt like a homecoming to a place inside that has been buried deep within my being yet trying to stay hidden and to awaken simultaneously. Taking this course has tipped the scales towards awakening and taking action in my life following that inner knowing. This has been huge! Though I had been working on awakening this knowledge for many years, I had been unable to take action and gain lasting clarity about the interconnectedness of all things with this natural balance between life and death in the natural world and how that plays out in day to day life. I could see it in the natural world and I could experience it in the bigger moments, but in day to day life, I couldn’t make the connections on my own. Mary has succinctly put this all together traversing so much territory from food, to gratitude, to plant medicine, to spirit allies, to loss of connection to the receptive nature of life leading to loss of connection to valuing ourselves as women and devaluing the earth herself. This is a course I will listen to over and over, gaining new insights and awareness each time. I am deeply grateful for Mary’s wisdom and the clarity with which she put all of this together and shared it! Thank you Mary!
Sue Pagan Lukas
For many, their journey is opening to letting go of fear of death, or realizing it serves to get their end-of-life paperwork done that they have resisted. Some are walking with deep grief from the loss of a loved one. And, for some, there is an awakening curiosity about what’s possible when we look beyond the fear, resistance, and cultural conditioning. Without bypassing our natural grief from loss, or fear instilled from an old paradigm, can we explore, and envision how we can serve the good of the whole with our relationship with both life and death through the lens of sacred reciprocity, and the divine wisdom of the natural world?
This exploration that restores the sacred union of life and death, as the ancient ones knew, and are reawakening in us through the ancestral realms is very alive, and this seed is asking to be planted in the collective consciousness. It does not discount the very real grief of loss, or our recognition that we’re not used to walking into the unknown. It has not been woven into the old paradigm that has instilled fear of death.
But, what if we walk through life feeling supported to go through all the little deaths of the old, and birthing new versions of ourselves at a higher vibration one step at a time? Imagine how that would transform the quality of our end-of-life death, and how our death can feed life for the good of the whole. It not only has the potential of transforming our relationship with death, but life as a sacred journey.
I am offering this course to support the integration of this natural wisdom into our life and death journey as I’m exploring it in my own walk with death, aging, and love of the divine wisdom of the natural world that has guided me through many seasons of my life. I do not want to just die. I want my death to be a gift that feeds life. Is this something that you want as well? Do you want to support seeding the collective consciousness with the restoration of sacred reciprocity of life and death? I have learned no matter where we’re at in our lives, it is not too soon to cultivate a walk through life that includes death, and eventually serves this sacred passage. As, it is intricately woven into our lives.
I will be referring to my newest book, Plant Medicine for End-of-Life Care, Welcoming the wisdom of plants for conscious living & dying throughout this course. I hope you will join me.
Weekly Topics:
1. Nature’s life and death cycles prepare us for our eventual death, & supports the evolution of our souls as we walk through life
2. Plants are powerful allies for our walk with life & death
3. Feminine, yin principle within us all supports us to let go of fear of death, & receive the immense love & support we are surrounded by
4. Exploring sacred reciprocity of life and death as a powerful example of Divine Love available to us all, and a pathway to a heart centered life & paradigm
5. Deepening our relationship with our spirit allies & our multi-dimensional self-similarity with Mother Earth
6. Weaving it all together so our life feeds a good death, and our death feeds life, for the good of the whole, while honoring and deepening and embodying our human journey as sacred
Includes discussion, rituals, extra audios, opportunity to take the journey with an intimate circle within a larger one for a deeper experience. Honoring our human experience through our own walk with life, death, and Mother Earth
What if you knew your last breath held the crown jewel of your life’s journey, and will affect the life of Mother Earth, all her relations, and all the ancestors backwards and forwards as it expands into the unseen realms?
What if you knew you had immense love and support to unwrap that crown jewel throughout your life so you could return that love, and support life as your parting gift in sacred reciprocity?
How would knowing this affect how you relate to both your life and death?
Ability to receive is key to gratitude
Gratitude is key to sacred reciprocity
Sacred reciprocity is key to Divine Love
Putting sacred reciprocity into action is key to embodying Divine Love
As someone who works with the dying and their caregivers, I was immediately interested in Mary Lane’s Restoring the Sacred Reciprocity of Life & Death course. I was familiar with the concept of anyi, or sacred reciprocity. But Mary took my understanding of receiving and giving so much deeper, and her teachings have taken root in me in ways that have changed:
my meals: I’ve up-leveled the foods I eat and how I prepare them
my sleep: I’m sleeping more deeply at night now
my relationships: I’m more easily able to evaluate which friendships are mutual and reciprocal
my work in the world: I’m more easily able to envision and create the content for my upcoming course
I’m grateful for the transmissions and teaching I received from Mary Lane in this course.
Melody LeBaron
A few words of praise for Plant Medicine for End-of Life Care Book
As a writer I must be a student of life. That of course includes death, for they are part of the same entity. Imagine how disconcerting it was to discover the subject is virtually taboo in our western societies. And how joyous to then discover Mary Lane’s field guide to nature’s treasure trove of plants hiding in plain sight willing and able to assist us in the ultimate transition with dignity, grace, and ease. What a blessing.
David Seidler, Academy Award writer of “The King’s Speech”
“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. Death stands before eternity and says YES.” Rainer Maria Rilke
As a shamanic practitioner who specializes in assisting the souls of people who are dying (transitioning) to return to the Light (of the Celestial Realms), I have (been given) a view into the realms of the invisible (unseen, spirit) that illuminates the many and often complex spiritual~energetic dynamics that can affect (sometimes very detrimentally) someone’s passage Home. I have witnessed the immense struggles and suffering of someone who is unprepared for death, as well as the beauty, grace and peace that infuses a person who has intentionally and consciously engaged in the dying process.
For those who are wanting to transition consciously and with peace and grace, I have seen how deeply significant it is for them to connect and commune with nature. In her book, Plant Medicine for End-of-Lafe Care, Mary Lane exquisitely weaves the immense support of the natural world not only into the end-of-life journey, but also into the many deaths and rebirths one goes through in life. In this way, Mary offers profound guidance for both conscious living and dying.
-Marna McGee, Shamanic Practitioner
All proceeds from sale of book goes to Center for Conscious Living & Dying
My deep grief of being witness to many deaths filled with anxiety and fear as a hospice nurse for 12 years, was a catalyst for me to search for ways to help people to have a more peaceful transition. Mary’s book is a bridge to getting to the root cause of that fear. I am excited for this resource, as not only a tool to support end of life care, but to offer guidance in using plant medicine to bring forward unresolved issues before one gets to their death bed. This is your reference book on how to prepare for a beautiful sacred passage.
Carol Meckley RN, BSN, LMT
As someone who cared for three of my grandparents during their transitions, I am so very grateful to see this book! More than a decade ago, I knew there must be a better way, but we were only offered traditional hospice to assist. Mary Lane's book is revolutionary. Plant Medicine for End-of-Life Care will remain on my bookshelf as something I come back to again and again until the day I die. I know it will soothe many with its deep wisdom. I recommend ordering at least five copies to have on hand for friends and family. Death, as they say, is inevitable for all of us. This book is a gift from the Goddess Herself.
Trista Hendren, Founder of Girl God Publishing
Mary's book, Plant Medicine for End-of-Life Care, embraces one of life's most profound threshold moments. Using plant medicine in a variety of ways, Mary offers in-depth guidance for anyone wanting to hold a sacred and healing space during a loved one's dying process. Her book reclaims our death experience from the man-made world, and returns it to the rightful realm of the Dark Mother where the soul is dearly held with love, grace, and tender care.
--Trista Haggerty Founder of the Living Grail School, and author of When the Dark Mother Calls
As though Mary Lane has smuggled this once forbidden knowledge across the ages, for which many women lost their lives practicing and protecting, she now unveils and shares generously this timeless wisdom in her warm and generous voice. Her book is ancient salve, allowing us to step away from the corporatizing of death and dying, and gently guides us back into the loving arms of Mother Nature.
Clara Hendon, Producer, Studio Seven 13, stories with spirit
Details For Joining
Enrollment for the live class series opens fall of 2024
Enrollment in the audio version of the six-week class series is still open!
Payment of $225 USD enrolls you in audio recorded classes of six week course, and you will have access to a recording of each live class along with class materials, ritual, etc on a private Google Doc. You will be sent a link upon registration.
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Mary Lane has spent her adult life realigning herself with the divine intelligence of the natural world. She has discovered Mother Earth is an infinite reservoir of immense wisdom for our human journey, and a master teacher of conscious living and dying for the good of the whole.
In addition to Plant Medicine for End-of-Life Care book, she is the author of Divine Nourishment, A Woman’s Sacred Journey with Food, and Meena: A heroine’s initiation reclaiming her relationship with the Great Mother. Both latter books focus on healing the feminine principle within us all through reconnecting with our multidimensional self-similarity with the natural world. She provides consultations with custom plant spirit remedies to support the transitions woven into conscious living and dying.
As Mary walks her path as an elder, she is focused on bringing this natural wisdom of the plant kingdom into our relationship with death and end-of-life care. She has woven her experience supporting others through their dying journey, with the use of various plant remedies to aid in not only the physical comfort, but the internal journey that accompanies the aging and dying process shared in her latest book. She is supporting the restoration of sacred reciprocity between life and death as she integrates this within her walk towards her own eventual death.