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June 14, 2022

Teacher Spotlight: Rhonda LoPresti

By Tara Mandala

Tara Mandala is pleased to share the upcoming online course offered by Rhonda LoPresti, Writing Your Spiritual Care Directive: A Buddhist Plan for the Time of Death (July 12 – September 6).

Please enjoy this “Teacher Spotlight” blog post on Rhonda LoPresti. We look forward to welcoming you for this online course, and finding inspiration in life and in death. To learn more, read below, or click here.
RHONDA LOPRESTI – END OF LIFE COACH, HOME FUNERAL GUIDE
As an End of Life Coach, Rhonda is passionate in holding and creating sacred space, personal ritual, spiritual practice and creative choices through dying and deathcare. She believes we can learn to die and in learning to die we actually awaken to life itself. In serving the dying and grieving, Rhonda favors conversations in the art of saying good-bye, exploring what death asks of us and deserves, how to prepare oneself consciously for the dying process, the compassionate merits of in-home family directed funerals, green burial awareness, and the welcoming and witnessing of grief.
Founder of Peacefully Prepared, Rhonda has evolved a Spiritual Care Directive for Buddhists. This 10-part signature process guides clients in planning out their end of life practice from their Dharma Vision all the way through to the 49 Days following death. Rhonda also encourages end of life wishes and planning in her 5 chapter notebook called a Passing Plan. Rhonda sees these spiritual and practical processes as an act of self-love in preparing for end of life and an act of kindness to ease the grief and stress loved ones. She is continuously serving and raising awareness about the home funeral option where we can apply our spiritual practices and create auspicious conditions at the time of death. Having performed home funerals for her own family as well as clients, Rhonda is able to guide and provide resources for this treasured process.
In this short video, Rhonda LoPresti talks about how the Spiritual Care Directive offers peace for us and our loved ones. This excerpt is taken from a Lama Live! event with Lama Tsultrim Allione, livestreamed on Sunday, June 12, 2022. To watch the full video, please see below.

A student of Tibetan Buddhism, Rhonda has studied under Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche for 35 years and serves as a Board and Volunteer Member for Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California (RYG CA). She has the honor of developing a dying and death program for its community of practitioners and gives group talks annually. She also enjoys the work of Stephen Jenkinson, as well as Andrew Holecek and is currently in Holecek’s 4 part program Graceful Exits. She regularly retreats for teachings on Phowa and how to navigate the bardos.

In her own life, Rhonda has had the sacred privilege of witnessing her own family members through the dying process, including her mother and father, as well as grandparents, friends and clients.

A native resident of San Diego, California, she lives life to the fullest with her husband and two children.

Degrees and Certifications

End of Life Coach, ICF PCC candidate from Coaching at End of Life
Certified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner and Clinical Hypnotherapist with Bennet Stellar
Soul Centered Living from University of Santa Monica
Holistic Health Practitioner for 30 years
BA in Psychology/Philosophy from Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Founder and Director of Holistixs of San Diego, a healing arts center, for 22 years
A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for 35 years

“My sincerest wish in our time together is that we feel safely connected, open, curious and encouraged to welcome all thoughts and feelings. May our loving awareness naturally recognize its own wholeness, peace and purpose for the benefit of all beings.” – Rhonda LoPresti

Please enjoy this Lama Live! with Lama Tsultrim Allione and Rhonda LoPresti, talking about the special and touching aspects of preparing for dying, and the upcoming online course with Rhonda.

Writing your Spiritual Care Directive: A Buddhist Plan for the Time of Death

With Rhonda LoPresti • July 12 – September 6

Online Course

This nine-week online course invites a unique conversation and exploration in planning and training as a practitioner for the time of dying. Using a 10-part comprehensive template, called a Spiritual Care Directive, we will start with creating a Dharma Vision and journey all the way through the 49 days following death. This process helps facilitate acts of kindness for ourselves and others … Read more »

We warmly welcome you to this online course with Rhonda LoPresti – an experience to inspire the way we live our lives.

~With Blessings,
Tara Mandala

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