1. From Fear to Peace: Spiritual Preparation for Life’s Final Transition
This opening session invites participants to approach death as a sacred transition rather than an ending. Designed for individuals who wish to prepare proactively for their own inevitable death, for those walking beside a loved one on that journey, and for clergy or spiritual companions who counsel others in times of uncertainty, this conversation offers spiritual grounding and clarity.
Drawing from Integral Yoga and universal spiritual wisdom, we will reflect on forgiveness, meaning, life review, and practices that bring peace to the heart. We will explore how prayer, mantra, breath, steady presence, and a deeper understanding of “what dies” can support both the dying and those who love them.
This session gently prepares the heart — not the paperwork.
🌿 About the Full Series of End-of-Life Preparation
Death is a natural part of life — yet most of us feel unprepared to face it, whether for ourselves or for someone we love.
The End-of-Life Preparation Series is a thoughtfully designed journey offering practical guidance, emotional resilience, relational clarity, and spiritual reflection. Through expert conversations, compassionate dialogue, and structured preparation, participants are supported in replacing fear with understanding and uncertainty with steadiness.
This is not a morbid series. It is a life-affirming one.
When we prepare thoughtfully:
• Anxiety decreases
• Families communicate more clearly
• Decisions become less reactive
• Love becomes more fully expressed
🌿 Who Is This Series For?
• Individuals preparing for their own future with intention
• Caregivers supporting aging or ill loved ones
• Ministers and spiritual companions
• Families wishing to reduce confusion and conflict
• Anyone seeking peace of mind around life’s final chapter
No crisis is required to begin preparing.
In fact, preparation is most powerful before crisis arises
🌿 Our Intention
This series is offered in a spirit of compassion, education, and empowerment.
We do not rush decisions.
We do not create urgency.
We create clarity.
By facing what is inevitable with openness and wisdom, we often discover something unexpected:
We begin to live more fully now.
Preparation lightens the heart.
Clarity steadies the mind.
Love continues — before, during, and beyond death.
Speakers
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Rev. Premajyothi DeviE-RYT-500Rev. Premajyothi Devi is a certified Integral Yoga Instructor for Meditation, Cardiac, Children’s, Pre-natal, Post-Partum, Raja Yoga as well as Beginner and Intermediate Hatha Yoga. Premajyothi also is a certified Basic Yoga Teacher Trainer, helping to offer the great teachings of Integral Yoga to the next generation of yoga teachers. On August 19, 2006, she deepened her commitment to Sri Swami Satchidananda and the teachings of Integral Yoga, and became an Integral Yoga Minister. She is available for Weddings, Memorial Services, House Blessings, Baby Blessings, Ecumenical Services, Spiritual Counseling, and wherever the universal teachings of yoga are requested.
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Swami Karunananda
Swami Karunananda, is a senior disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda. In 1975, she was ordained as a monk into the Holy Order of Sannyas. She has been teaching all aspects of Yoga since 1971, and specializes now in workshops, retreats, and teacher training programs that focus on the science of meditation, the philosophy of Yoga, personal transformation, and Yoga breathing techniques for better health and wellbeing. In 1989, she developed and subsequently taught, the Integral Yoga® Teacher Training programs in Raja Yoga and Meditation.
Swami Karunananda served as president of Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville in Virginia and in California, as well as director of the Integral Yoga Institutes in San Francisco and in Santa Barbara. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees, and as the chairperson of the Spiritual Life Board at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville, VA.
Interested in fostering interfaith understanding and harmony, she is featured in the interfaith documentary entitled, With One Voice. She also compiled and edited the Lotus Prayer Book, a collection of prayers from various faith traditions, and Enlightening Tales as told by Sri Swami Satchidananda. A publication of hers, Awakening: Aspiration to Realization Through Integral Yoga, describes the spiritual path and provides guidance for the journey.
Students have always been in awe of her clarity in explaining difficult concepts in understandable examples. She helps people move beyond petty concerns and go deep into an experience that is life transforming. She explains with kindness and clarity how yoga’s pranayama/breathing practices can help strengthen our capacity to prevent or withstand illness.
