Sacred Tools & Treasures:
A Curated Guide for Your Journey

Can’t get enough? Explore this compilation of topics, books, films, meditations & more.

Books for the Journey

  • From Aging to Sage-ing by Rabbi Zalman Schecter Shalomi

    The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life’s Greatest Mystery by Sara Davidson

    The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul-Connie Zweig

    Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing-Bronnie Ware

    Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience, and Spirit by Rabbi Rachel Cowan and Dr. Linda Thal

    Come of Age-Stephen Jenkinson

    The Crown of Aging:The Rewards of Conscious Aging by Marion Woodman

    Books by Ram Dass: Still Here, Conscious Aging, Walking Each other Home, Conscious Aging and the New Millenium

    Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age-Mary Pipher

    One Year to Live - Stephen Levine

    The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister

    The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom by Angeles Arrien

    Hagitude: Reclaiming the Second Half of Life-Sharon Blackie

  • No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom For Life-Thich Nhat Hanh

    The A Beginners Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death-B.J. Miller and Shoshana Berger

    Die Wise-Stephen Jenkinson

    Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for Dying-Derek Humphry

    Celebrating One’s Significance: A Buddhist Perspective on Hospice Work and Turning Toward    Death-Katherine Shields

    Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax

Poetry for the Soul

The Sage’s Tao Te Ching:
Ancient Advice for the Second Half of Life

—William Martin—

To Bless the Space Between Us

—John O’Donahue—

Anything from

—David Whyte or Mary Oliver—

Lightening the Load

physically downsizing your home

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

—Margaret Magnusson—

The Quiet Within

meditations for sacred reconnection and healing

The Wise Body Awakens

perimenopause-menopause

The Women’s Wheel of Life

—Elizabeth Davis and Coral Leonard—

The Rhythms of Women’s Desire:
How Female Sexuality Unfolds at Every Stage of Life

—Elizabeth Davis—

Menopausal Years:
The Wise Woman Tradition

—Susan Weed—

The Mel Robbins Podcast

—with Dr. Claire Haver—

The M Factor

—PBS Documentary—

Writing the Wild & Wounded Path

books and writing by Maureen Murdock

The Heroine’s Journey & The Heroine’s Journey Workbook

Myth Making: Self Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir

Sacred Cinema

Wit with Emma Thompson

—dying within the system—

Two Weeks with Sally Fields

—a mother dying as her family comes together—

Here’s to You, Leo Grande with Emma Thompson

—middle age female sexuality—

Tuesdays With Morrie

—lessons from someone dying to the living—

Bill Moyers on Death and Dying

Psychedelics & The End of Life

Tender Funerals, a documentary

—working with death as a community affair—

The Goddess Revealed

photography

Elders: Goddess Photography Sessions

—Danielle Tait—

Bits of Magic

Start With Hello Game

—A great game to play that begins conversations about living and dying and what matters most—

Mettle Health

—Created by organization palliative care doctor B.J. Miller—

Childless Elder Women

For Childless Elders Who are of the Jewish Faith

So you want to join or run your own wisdom circle?

—Guide from Sage-ing—

Offerings & Gatherings

  • Sage-ing International

    ecumenical training program and classes

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  • Yerusha

    training programs and classes with a Jewish flare but open for all denominations

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  • Inelda

    death doula training as well as other courses related to death and dying

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  • University of Vermont

    end of life doula program

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  • The Open Center

    the art of dying institute

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  • Hagitude

    year long program focused on a woman’s journey through midlife & beyond with mythologist Sharon Blackie

    explore

  • Wisdom Circles

    gather around the fire: a circle of shared wisdom

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Walking the Threshold:
Chaplaincy Programs

  • Upaya Zen Center

    death and dying chaplaincy program

    explore

  • New York Zen Center

    clinical pastoral education & contemplative care

    explore

  • Sage Mountain

    creating an herbal tool kit for end of life care

    explore

  • The Open Center

    art of dying institute

    explore

  • The Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts

    a year to live: die before you die

    explore

Sanctuaries of Care & Dignity

information & possibilities

Paradise for Dementia Patients

—extended care facility—

Vino Bene Assisted Living and Care Facility

Myths, Lore & Deep Remembering

Hagitude: Reclaiming the Second Half of Life

—Sharon Blackie—

In the Ever After:
Fairy Tales & the Second Half of Life

—Allen B. Chinen—

Goddesses in Older Women:
Archetypes in Women Over Fifty

—Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.—

The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power

—Barbara Walker—

Uncursing the Dark: Treasures from the Underworld

—Betsy DeShong Meador—

Wise Women:
Myths and Stories for Midlife and Beyond

—Sharon Blackie & Angharad Wynne—

Legacy & Love Letters

  • Life Legacy writing facilitator training

    —Offered twice a year—

  • Storyworth
    —a purchased product that gives weekly prompts and then creates a book of your story—

    Storycorp

  • Your Legacy Matters: Harvesting the love and lessons of your life
    —Rachael Freed

    Women’s Lives, Woman’s Legacies: Creating your ethical will
    —Rachael Freed

    For You When I Am Gone: Twelve essential questions to tell a life’s story
    —Bronnie Ware

Roots & Remembrances

ancestral healing

Ancestral Medicine:
Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

—Daniel Foor, Ph.D—

Ancestral Medicine Courses

Wounds into Wisdom:
Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma

—Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D—

Jewish Ancestral Healing Podcast

Tending the Heart: Grief

  • Book — The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

    Site — Living a Soulful Life: Soulwork, Mentoring, and Community Building

  • All There Is with Anderson Cooper

    We Are the Great Turning with Joanna Macy

    When You Die