Dying With Dignity
Learn to Facilitate the Dying Process with clarity, steadiness and deep presence
A grounded, compassionate training for practitioners, caregivers, and highly sensitive people who want to support others in the dying process.
There are moments in life when knowledge alone is not enough.
When someone is dying, what matters most is your ability to remain present, grounded, and open-hearted — without becoming overwhelmed, emotionally flooded, or disconnected from yourself.
This master class training offers practical tools and embodied guidance for supporting the dying process with greater ease, dignity, and compassion — while also caring for your own nervous system along the way.
Begin Exploring a More Grounded Way to Support the Dying Process
Prerequisite: Read or listen to Full Body Presence and Reclaiming your Body by Suzanne Scurlock
WHEN SUPPORTING THE DYING FEELS OVERWHELMING
Many practitioners, caregivers, and highly sensitive people want to show up fully for others during grief, illness, and death.
But internally, the experience can feel very challenging and fraught.
You may find yourself:
Absorbing emotional intensity long after interactions end
Feeling pressure to say the “right” thing
Becoming exhausted from over-giving
Carrying unprocessed grief in your own body
Trying to stay composed while quietly shutting down inside
Feeling uncertain about how to support someone without taking their pain on as your own
And when death enters the room, many people discover their own fears, unfinished grief, beliefs, or anxieties begin to surface.
This training gently brings those experiences into awareness — not to overwhelm you, but to help you meet them with more steadiness and compassion.
As Suzanne teaches throughout the immersion, therapeutic presence is not about fixing, rescuing, or performing. It is about learning how to remain deeply connected to yourself while sitting beside another human being in one of life’s most vulnerable transitions.
A central teaching in the training asks a simple but profound question:
“When we approach the threshold of being with someone who is dying, what are we bringing to that threshold?”
That question changes everything.
Because true support begins with awareness of your own internal state.
And from there, something quietly powerful and more sustainable becomes possible.
Discover What Changes When You No Longer Have to Carry It All
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE WHEN YOU STAY GROUNDED THROUGH GRIEF AND DYING
As you deepen your capacity for grounded presence, the dying process no longer has to feel so frightening, emotionally chaotic, or isolating.
Instead, many people begin to experience:
Greater calm and steadiness in emotionally charged situations
The ability to remain compassionate without becoming depleted
More trust in their body’s wisdom and internal signals
Increased clarity about what support is truly needed
A softer, more human way of being with grief and loss
Stronger boundaries without closing your heart
More confidence companioning others through illness, transition, and death
A deeper relationship with your own life, priorities, and purpose
This work is not about becoming detached.
It is about becoming more fully present.
Throughout the training, Suzanne and Lori repeatedly return to the importance of holding a loving presence while remaining grounded and full within yourself.
Participants are guided to work from the “wisdom areas” of the body — the heart, gut, bones, pelvis, feet, and integrated brain — learning how each area offers different forms of support, clarity, steadiness, compassion, and instinctual knowing during times of transition.
The result is not simply more information. It is a more easeful and potent quality of presence.
TRAINING OVERVIEW
Dying with Dignity is a masterclass designed to help participants develop greater groundedness, therapeutic presence, and nervous system resilience while supporting people through death, grief, and major life transitions.
Format
Immersion-style training with guided experiential practices, skill building, and conceptual learning designed to help you embody the work — not just intellectually understand it.
This training includes:
Guided teachings and experiential practices
Grounding and filling exercises
Demonstration of the energy protocol
Self-reflection and journaling prompts
Practical frameworks and resources for supporting the dying process
Included Companion Resources
Receive a collection of supportive handouts and companion materials designed to help deepen understanding and bring these conversations more naturally into real life situations.
These resources include:
Exploring Specific Personal, Spiritual and Emotional Wishes
Conversations with People Facing End of Life
Curated Bibliography and Additional Resources
Dying with Dignity: Bill’s Last Days — Suzanne’s deeply personal and moving account of her father’s passing, offering a compassionate real-world reflection on presence, love, grief, and the dying process.
Participants learn how to:
Stay connected to themselves in emotionally intense situations
Offer support without overextending or collapsing
Work with grief in a more embodied way
Create a sense of safety and calm for others
Support the dying process with neutrality, compassion, and steadiness
Who This Training Is For
This immersion is especially supportive for:
Healthcare practitioners
Therapists and bodyworkers
Hospice workers
Coaches and caregivers
Spiritual care providers
Highly sensitive people
Anyone wanting a more grounded relationship with death, grief, and transition
What Makes This Training Different
What makes this training different is its emphasis on embodied presence.
Rather than relying solely on techniques or intellectual understanding, participants learn how to work from within the full “navigational system” of the body — cultivating deeper awareness, resilience, and connection from the inside out.
Hear what others have discovered
Grounded, safe, spiritual and all inclusive approach of an often taboo and painful but always timely subject. Thank you!
I loved learning how to assist people who may be dying to have a peaceful, calm and dignified transition as well as helping the loved ones to hopefully see the sacredness of this part of life.
This class was so much more than I expected. I thought it was going to be simply dialoguing around death and dying. I wasn't expecting the actual energy work. It's helped me to process the passing of a loved one more than 25 years ago. I was feeling extreme rage coming into this class because I've been through a lot of trauma since my teens and the pelvic core class jumpstarted a further healing process, followed by more healing in Healing from the Core. During the Dying with Dignity class, the rage started to subside in a way that I'm noticing I'm able to process various moments in my life in a way that I wasn't able to before. It seems that for me, Dying with Dignity was helpful in not only processing actual physical deaths of loved ones but deaths of other kinds that I have experienced in my life; relationships, or betrayals I experienced, etc.
I felt that it was an excellent course. I didn't realize how much resistance I had to taking the course till I started it on day 1. I hadn't registered last November and gave financial reasons, then went on to take the rest of the immersion courses for my certification. It wasn't about the money, it was about the resistance to looking a little deeper into the passing of my parents, my brother and our daughter born premature. I was able to be with another layer of unresolved (repressed) grief, anger and resentment. I am truly grateful.
If you really want to learn how to truly ground and fill yourself to be more present for your clients/loved ones in a healing/healthy way please consider taking this curriculum (distance/healing from the core). My skills with visceral manipulation and craniosacral therapy became so much more detailed and accurate. Understanding how to be present during the dying, grief and/or loss process is so powerful and makes our presence on this earth so much more meaningful. Thank you Suzanne and Lori
The Dying with Dignity Distance Healing Class was insightful...and yet deeply transformative. It has changed my life in such an impactful way! Thank you, Suzanne Scurlock and Lori Chinitz...the compassion and depth in which you taught this class has equipped me to make a real difference in the world. I highly recommend that everyone who works in the medical field...and anyone who feels called to serve humanity, come and take a seat in this class. It will change your life FOREVER! I know, it did mine...!
This workshop gave me information and practical tools I can use to process my feelings around death and dying as well as help those who are at end of life pass more peacefully into the next.
Dying With Dignity was a beautiful and gentle exploration of how to work with self and others in this most sacred of experiences. The material can be used when dealing with any time of life. When we can connect with anyone in a non-judgmental and filling way, we can support all we come in contact with.
Dying with dignity helped me explore my own experiences of the death of loved ones and to realise that whatever happens is meant to be, each experience is unique. It has given me valuable protocols, as a template, for supporting the dying and those caring for them. I have a restored sense of how sacred it is to midwife the dying.
I now have a level of comfort and feel competent to assist someone who is dying in a grounded, compassionate yet very gentle and sensitive manner.
This course is a must for anybody. Death is a fact of life. Inevitably it touches all of our lives, one way or another. So why not learn to ease the dying process with more grace and dignity- for yourselves, your family and friends, and for your clients?
Dying with Dignity brought about a new reverence and honor for life. Our precious existence is to be fully embraced. Loving life and loving the transition process is a true gift. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Inside Dying with Dignity, you’ll explore how to:
Remain grounded and emotionally present without absorbing another person’s pain
Support the dying process with greater calm, neutrality, and compassion
Recognize when your own fears, beliefs, or unfinished grief are influencing your presence
Work with the body’s “wisdom areas” to access steadiness, clarity, instinct, and heart-centered awareness
Build stronger energetic and emotional boundaries while keeping your heart open
Practice therapeutic listening without needing to fix or rescue
Use grounding and filling practices to replenish your internal energy reservoir
Offer appropriate, supportive language and compassionate questions during end-of-life conversations
Navigate grief with more tenderness, resilience, and nervous system support
Stay connected to yourself during emotionally intense caregiving experiences
Create a deeper sense of safety and connection for clients, loved ones, and patients
Bring more awareness, meaning, and presence into your own relationship with life and death
Participants also learn a practical energy-filling protocol designed to help support both the dying person and the practitioner’s own energetic stability throughout the process.
Begin Integrating These Practices Into Your Life and Work
Meet your instructors
Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, is one of the world’s leading authorities on conscious awareness and its transformational impact on the healing process.
For more than 40 years she has empowered people with practical tools that enable them to experience joy in each moment without burning out. These skills help improve every aspect of their lives, from their health and well-being to their relationships, their careers, their creativity, even the growth of their businesses.
After decades of perfecting her methods of awakening the body’s innate wisdom, Suzanne created the comprehensive Healing From the Core® training curriculum in 1994. Today it includes a robust selection of international workshops, webinars, speaking engagements and audio programs.
Suzanne is one of the original instructors personally mentored by the late Dr. John E. Upledger, CranioSacral therapist and founder of the Upledger Institute International.
Known for her honest, grounded, nurturing manner, Suzanne is adept at weaving together mind, body and spirit to create a unique and safe environment that encourages profound healing.
She is a sought-after speaker who inspires healthcare providers, coaches, executives, parents, clergy and others to stay relaxed and energized using her life-changing tools for dissolving stress, pain, overwhelm and confusion.
She is the author of two self-care books, Reclaiming Your Body: Healing from Trauma and Awakening to Your Body’s Wisdom and Full-Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body’s Wisdom.
Lori's practice combines the use of CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation,Myofascial Release, Zero Balancing, TAMO Movement,and various other therapeutic modalities while integrating principles from Healing From The Core. Lori has worked with infants, children and adults in a variety of therapeutic settings which has enabled her to create a private practice integrating eastern and western perspectives. Her practice is family centered, listening to the needs of each individual.
When Lori is not teaching, she maintains a private practice in Syosset, New York and is the Director/Owner of A Step Ahead Therapy Services, a multidisciplinary Early Intervention Agency. Lori can be reached by phone or through email at [email protected]
About Suzanne and Lori
"Both Suzanne and Lori have such a supportive nurturing way to work with a client. Just wonderful to watch and learn from both of you."
"Suzanne and Lori complement each other perfectly! As a PT, I "get" Lori's perspective. Suzanne has a gift of saying exactly the right thing at the right time. I appreciate both of you so much!"
"Always a gift to be learning from Suzanne & Lori. Their knowledge - both informational and experiential is right on & always delivered in a manner that is easy to digest and integrate into my personal and professional practice."
"Suzanne and Lori have an amazing range of experiences and tools and present death in a way that feels natural and normal and graceful, if growing and painful all at the same time." - Kelly Kapsar
"Suzanne and Lori create a beautiful loving container to explore the death and dying content. I walked away from this class ironically feeling more uplifted and grounded with a new outlook on how I want to live my life." - Sarah Ingram
"Set your expectations for this class high, because Suzanne and Lori will exceed it." - Deb Yocum
A Different Way to Approach the Dying Process
Death is one of the few experiences every human being will eventually encounter.
Yet many people have never been taught how to stay present with it — in themselves or with others.
This training offers a compassionate path.
A path that honors:
The nervous system
The wisdom of the body
The importance of grounded presence
The reality of grief
The need for healthy boundaries
The possibility of greater peace and dignity during this potent transition
As the training teaches, the essence of love and joy still matters deeply during the dying process. People hunger for that presence at the end of life.
And learning how to offer that presence — without abandoning yourself in the process — can transform not only how you support others, but how you live your own life.
Deepen Your Capacity to Be Present Through the dying process
Prerequisite: Read or listen to Full Body Presence and Reclaiming your Body by Suzanne Scurlock
Or if you have taken DDCSP or the HFC Foundational course, you are eligible.
Interested in other Immersions or becoming certified in the Healing from the Core® Method?
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