guiding light through life’s transitions
Discover compassionate offerings designed to ease grief, soothe pain, and illuminate the path to healing and peace.
Our Supportive offerings
At Soul’s Lighthouse, our supportive offerings are thoughtfully designed to guide individuals through life’s most profound transitions and moments of grief. Whether it’s finding solace in the midst of loss, navigating physical or emotional pain, or preparing for the sacred journey to life’s end, we provide compassionate spaces for healing and connection. These offerings include Yoga & Meditation to calm the mind and nurture inner peace, Grief Circles to foster community and understanding, and Angelversary Rituals to honor the memory of loved ones. Our specific Grief Yoga® support sessions invite the transformation of grief, sadness, and loss into joy, love, and connection while our Soul Midwifery services provide spiritual and emotional support during life’s final chapter for a peaceful transition.
Additionally, our transformative Workshops and Retreats offer opportunities for reflection, renewal, and growth. The soothing presence of music adds an extra layer of tranquility to our work. Our professional musicians create a holistic approach to healing and our live flute music provides serenity and/or joy to memorial or remembrance services. Our approach emphasizes personalized care, ensuring that every offering resonates with your unique needs and circumstances which is why many of our offerings can be 1-on-1, in a group, online, or in-person. We understand that healing is not one-size-fits-all; it’s an evolving journey. Through gentle guidance, thoughtful tools, and heartfelt connection, our offerings help you move toward greater ease, whether in life or as part of life’s transition. At Soul’s Lighthouse, we honor your story, your pain, and your resilience, creating a sanctuary where healing and peace can flourish.
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soul midwifery/End of life
“In the end, just three things matter:
How well we lived;
How well we loved;
How well we learned to let go.”
- Jack Kornfield
Soul Midwifery is precious and sacred work in which personalized, bedside support is offered to the dying’s whole person: mind, body, and spirit. The dying friend is THE most important person in the world, and we offer them a safe space to communicate a perfect passing plan, feelings, thoughts, etc freely without judgment.
“We help people to die WHOLE instead of with a HOLE.” – Krista Hughes – Certified Soul Midwife
Soul Midwives provide non-medical, non-religious holistic care, compassion and support for anyone at the end of life, and for their friends, family, and caregivers.
It is both practical and spiritual in nature but has absolutely nothing to do with religion unless the person requests a religious ritual in their passing plan. Practical support is given through LOTS of listening, holding space, reassuring, discussing the dying’s “perfect” death, and, truly, whatever is of best interest to and for the dying. As the body diminishes, the dying person begins a spiritual transitioning, of which, the Soul Midwife gently guides. Deep spiritual care based on intense compassion sets the scene for the dying’s most peaceful and dignified death based on their wishes.
Of course, it is not always as “beautiful” a journey as what is mentioned above. Sometimes there is frustration, anger, fear, control, and unfinished business that needs to be attended to that the body is waiting for the dying to take care of. Does it have to be taken care of? No. Dying will take place regardless. However, the type of death, be it difficult or effortless, is what a Soul Midwife is most concerned with for the dying and for those by their side. We want the dying to experience a death based on certainty. One that is built deeply of their own wants and wishes surrounding them. A death with closure, acceptance, and “closed ended loops” to create ease and freedom to let go with little resistance. This is why compassionate listening and heartfelt understanding of a dying friend is crucial for a Soul Midwife.
We walk with the dying to their end of life, through their death, and then offer ongoing spiritual support to their spirit. We share supportive rituals throughout the process with the family that can offer love during and after the difficult loss.
Ways I support and seek wholeness for the dying can include but are not limited to:
- Witnessing and Working Through of Soul Wounds (regrets, resentments, anger, etc)
- Creation of Perfect Death
- Grief and Dying Education – what to possibly expect
- Writing/Recording your Life Story
- Life Review – What did you do, most proud of, biggest thing you’d change, etc
- Grief Movement
- Meditation
- Breathwork
- Essential Sacred Oils
- Massage (hands on or hands off)
- Music
It is important to note that the rituals and paths used to walk with the dying are carefully created for them based on their likes/dislikes and where they are in their journey. I am not there to fix anything. Instead, I will walk beside each dying friend as they walk across the sacred threshold, whatever that term means for them.
If you have ANY questions/concerns, always feel free to reach out to me via email or call/text. You are not alone. ♥️
Grief Yoga®/Support
At Soul’s Lighthouse, our private and group Grief Yoga® classes offer a gentle, healing approach to the emotional and physical challenges that arise during times of grief and loss. Grief and pain can put us at a place of disconnection with our bodies, emotional self, and others, often times, without us even knowing it.
Your Grief Yoga® Support session is a compassionately transformative practice specifically tailored to meet you where you are in your grief journey. It uses breath, movement and sound to release the heaviness of grief and pain to open us up to more joy, love, and connection. We get curious about our pain and, in welcoming it in rather than resisting it, encourage emotional release, promote physical ease, and cultivate space for healing.
The practice is accessible to anybody regardless of experience or physical limitation, can be done in a chair or on the floor, and can be in person or virtual over Zoom. We will often utilize writing prompts to get us focused at the beginning or end of the sessions.
Required items:
- yoga mat and/or chair
- journal and pen/pencil
Other recommended items:
- bolster or pillow
- blanket or large beach towel
Yoga & meditation
At Soul’s Lighthouse, our private or group Yoga and Meditation offerings provide a nurturing space to foster healing and inner peace. Whether you’re navigating grief, seeking solace, or striving to connect more deeply with yourself, these practices offer a pathway to calm the mind and rejuvenate the body. Guided by compassion and intention, our sessions integrate mindful movement, focused breathing, and quiet reflection to cultivate balance, resilience, and clarity. These practices are tailored to meet you where you are, empowering you to explore your emotions in a safe, supportive environment while creating space for renewal and hope. No experience is necessary and our classes are accessible to all.
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Mindful Flow is an all levels, beginner and chair friendly, class that incorporates gentle, mindful movement unique to what YOUR body needs. We will flow through the physical postures while incorporating a connected breath to bring a sensation of calmness, peace, and groundedness.
Required:
yoga mat and/or chair
Other recommended items for support:
bolster or pillow
blanket or large beach towel
yoga block or new roll of paper towels
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Yin Yoga is an ancient Chinese practice that allows you to rest into stretches to get deep into the muscle/fascia to find release. It is derived from the same healing systems such as acupuncture and Tai Qi and is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) so it works intensively with meridians and acupressure points to target organs, tissues, and joints.
Required:
dress very comfortably. If you tend to get cold bring a blanket
yoga mat and/or chair.
Other recommended items for support:
bolster or pillow
blanket or large beach towel
yoga block or new roll of paper towels
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Restorative Yoga is a soothing series of supportive postures where the use of props, such as pillows and blankets, allow your body to rest, renew, and heal. Gently allow the muscles in your body to soften taking you from being in your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) to your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest). This practice promotes balance, and ease.
Required:
dress very comfortably. If you tend to get cold bring a blanket
yoga mat and/or chair.
Other recommended items for support:
bolster or pillow
blanket or large beach towel
yoga block or new roll of paper towels
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Guided Meditation – Meditation brings us back “home” to ourselves. When we connect more deeply with ourselves, we connect more deeply with others. When we find more love and acceptance for ourselves, we find more love and acceptance for others. By focusing on one voice and one experience your overworked system begins to slow and regulate itself allowing for lower blood pressure, calmer demeanor, and less pain and anxiety are a few of many benefits.
Required:
dress very comfortably. If you tend to get cold bring a blanket
yoga mat and/or chair.
Other recommended items for support:
bolster or pillow
blanket or large beach towel
yoga block or new roll of paper towels
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Yoga Nidra Meditation is a powerful, non-movement meditation practice that has shown to help counteract the effects of trauma, PTSD, sleep disorders, anxiety, stress, depression, pain, and many other ailments to our bodies and minds. Release the gas pedal and slow things down in this most wonderful practice!
Required:
dress very comfortably. If you tend to get cold bring a blanket
lay down on floor, bed, sofa, etc. Rest somewhere comfortably
Other recommended items for support:
bolster or pillow
blanket or large beach towel
socks, sweater, etc
Grief Circles
Our Grief Circles create a sacred space where individuals can gather to share their experiences, emotions, and stories in a supportive community. These circles are rooted in the understanding that grief is a universal yet deeply personal and unique journey. Grief isolates us from others and ourselves and a grief circle fosters a safe space for connection and empathy. It offers participants the opportunity to process loss, find comfort, and draw strength from others in their own way and in their own time. Guided by a compassionate facilitator, these gatherings blend storytelling, reflection, and speaking about death and loss to nurture healing and remind participants that they are not alone in their journey.
A Grief Circle is not counseling nor a place to give advice to one another. We tend to get more than enough advice from others when we are grieving and it is not always helpful. In the circle, it brings ease to know that you can say whatever you are feeling in a non-judgmental zone and know that there won’t be any “you should/shouldn’t” being said to you afterward. Instead, it is a comforting place to remember and honor, share your story, or hold space for others as a listener, and allow your pain to be witnessed.
“Sometimes we need someone to just listen. Not to try and fix anything or offer alternatives, but to just be there…to listen. An ear that listens can be medicine for a heart that hurts.” – Steve Maraboli
**Grief Circles can be held in person or virtually**
Angelversary support circles
A few weeks after my father died, no one seemed to ask about him anymore because they don’t want to upset me. For me, however, it was as if my dad died twice; one physical death and now, emotionally, as the memories I held of him were bottled up in my broken heart with nowhere to go. When the Angelversary (anniversary of the passing) comes around, others may have forgotten, but you haven’t. You may sit in silence alone and disconnected. You may long for someone to ask about your loved one so you can share memories; long for their memory to live on.
Our Angelversary Support Circle is a compassionate space to transform your pain into a loving remembrance, fostering a continued connection to loved ones who have passed. These circles are a beautiful 15 minutes of safe, held space where we open with a short poem or story, there can be a candle lighting, and then we sit in silent support for you and in remembrance of your loved one. If you’d like, you are offered an opportunity to share a memory, story, or something that was special about your loved one at the end.
You are welcome to send the Zoom link to others to join with you to sit in connection and remembrance. If they are unable to attend virtually, invite them to set an alarm and send a special thought for you and your loved one who has passed at the time of our meeting.
Our Angelversary Support Circles are free offerings from our heart to yours. There is an opportunity for you to share a donation and, although they are appreciated, they are NEVER expected.
After you schedule, we will ALWAYS check back in with you closer to the date of your loved ones Angelversary to be sure that you'd still like this offering. Your grief may require something else for you as time gets closer, and we honor that it is always your choice in how you grieve and remember.
**Virtual-only offering**
Workshops
Our Workshops are immersive experiences designed to guide participants through personal growth, healing, and transformation. Each workshop focuses on a specific aspect of well-being, blending education, practice, and community connection. From exploring grief-related themes to cultivating mindfulness, resilience, and joy, these gatherings provide valuable tools to navigate life’s challenges. Led by a professional, skilled training specialist with over 25 years of experience, our workshops are a space to deepen self-awareness, develop meaningful practices, and create pathways to healing in an environment of trust and support.
Our workshops are one-of-a-kind and uniquely created with the needs of its participants in mind. From in-person workshops at the Florida Flute Festival to assist musicians in transforming pain and anxiety with movement to an online Grief Yoga® and Education workshop for a non-profit our creative and interactive workshops leave lasting and positive impacts with all of its participants.
retreats
Our retreats offer an immersive, safe space to prioritize the connection back to your true self. Through the combination of mind, body, and soul practices, we offer experiences to transform pain, grief, and old stories you may be telling yourself to cultivate new ways of being with a sense of joy, love, light for YOU first and foremost! We mindfully close our retreats by creating powerful, attainable steps to take to carry the calmness, lessons learned, and felt sensations home with you.
Although our retreats offer you space for self-reflection and connection it is also a powerful place of connection with others. Our retreat participants form strong bonds to one another because of vulnerable moments of growth experienced and each retreat group “personality” is very unique. We create ways to keep these beautiful relationships growing by forming private FaceBook or WhatsApp groups.
More about our Retreats:
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Wonderfully cooked vegetarian meals
Yoga (all accessible and beginner/chair yoga friendly)
Meditation
Free time (scheduled)
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These offerings may include:
Painting projects
Sound bath meditations
Reiki healing sessions
Journaling sessions
Creation of altars for loved ones
Forest/beach walks
Angel card readings
Bonfires
Burning ceremonies
Dancing
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We hold many offerings and all are optional based on what you feel you need and would like to attend.
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We hold many offerings and all are optional based on what you feel you need and would like to attend.
We have offered several themed retreats listed below. We typically have them in October/November and March/April time periods to align with the Fall/Spring seasons. They can be any duration from 2 days to a full week.
A Journey Home (Fall)
Bloom and Grow Retreat (Spring)
Transform Your Pain - Griefs Journey to Joy, Love, and Connection (Fall)
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Prices for retreats will vary based on location, travel, cost of food, and items chosen to be included.
We’d love to support you and your group of friends/co-workers!
Music
Music is powerful and is incorporated into Soul’s Lighthouse in a variety of ways. Specialized, unique playlists are created for private sessions and for Soul Midwifery students. Music can be used, both recorded and live with the ultimate goal to always assist in a soul’s healing. We even offer specific support to those planning a memorial service or celebration of life.
The Jacksonville Flute Duo is a professional musical group made up of the founder of Soul’s Lighthouse, Charity Haney, and Bethany Atwell. Our performing ensemble was created to share our love and passion for high quality music with the community. Together, we have over 42 years of experience performing.
We have a large repertoire with various styles of music for you to choose from. Depending on time and if our schedules will allow, it may be possible for us to arrange a special piece that you would like to have played. We are also very experienced in creating programs and then discussing them with you in lieu of you needing to make so many decisions. From traditional hymns to more upbeat favorites, the musical experience that we bring to the memorial service, celebration of life, etc will exude respect and honor for the soul that has passed and offer you, your family, and friends an opportunity for peace, warmth, inspiration, and beauty.