Living With The End of Life

Every one of us will have the experience of having a loved one make their journey into the Infinite. And without doubt, it will be one of the hardest experiences in your – in any of our – lives.

And although western society gives us almost no training to prepare for this most important moment in our lives, humanity has evolved a vast body of wisdom to help us make this one of the most remarkable and fulfilling experiences we'll ever have.

'Living with the end of life' aims to bring you that wisdom.

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Born out of Andrew's experiences in war zones, helping refugees heal emotional trauma, this online course brings you Dru Yoga's vast expertise in healing the hardest moments of our lives. It's been tried and tested in war zones, in refugee camps, in hospitals, in everyday life.

And now it's available to you.

Above all, the experiences you'll have in this course aim to help you make an incredible journey of love.

Discovering healing and a way to profound fulfillment

Vast arenas within our psyches combine to make the end of life for a loved-one incredibly difficult. 

• We want to know we've done everything possible to help make their journey as perfect as possible
• We want to find fulfilment in our relationship with them
• Our own psyche will be challenged to its limits and beyond by the experience.
• It's likely we'll be helping many others at the same time - how can we ensure we stay clear within ourselves?

Humanity offers an incredible array of techniques for healing and fulfilment

Humanity does have the knowledge and techniques to make a massive success of each of these three areas.

Yet, when it comes to helping a loved one pass from this life into the beyond, our society hardly offers any training or assistance.  It's really remarkable: we wouldn't dream of practicing as a doctor or a nurse, an engineer or a teacher without years of training, yet when it comes to the toughest and most extraordinary moments of our lives, our society expects us to somehow know what to do. 

Yet, we don't! 

‘Hi, I’m Andrew, here to guide you through an incredible experience ...'

Fortunately, the technology and wise advice does exist. It is available in many cultures, to some extent in psychology, and very much so within the yogic background.

So, this course will give you inspiration and techniques from the immense body of knowledge accumulated in the yogic background to make the journey towards the end of life - and beyond that - awesome and amazing.

What you’re going to be experiencing in this online course is the culmination of much of our work in taking yoga into war zones, helping people who have been traumatised by such experiences.

And it’s designed to help you really understand how you can help people deeply feel loved as they make their journey towards the end of their life. How you can help people experience what that journey actually means, and how you can become a contributing factor in their journey. How you can take the helplessness out of the situation, and turn it into help-fullness.

Finally, we will explore why it is so painful and why it is so difficult, for us. Because for sure, the experience of being near someone – especially someone we love – as they make the journey through the final weeks of their life and then after that is really, really difficult. It is normal for us to be exhausted and considerably traumatised by the experience. It liberates massive forces within our psyche. I hope that I can give you some simple to use tools and techniques from within the yogic tradition that will make it possible for you to integrate those forces and heal, in a matter of weeks and months, rather than the norm in our society which is months – years – and even decades.

So what do we do? How can we make the most of this situation? How can we make it valuable and important – not only for them, but for ourselves?

Andrew Wells

Known and loved for his tremendous compassion and empathy, Andrew Wells is one of the pioneers of Dru’s work in war zones, training community leaders in whole-being approaches to healing emotional trauma. One of Dru’s most senior trainers he has taught in nearly all of the world’s major cultures in all continents except Antartica. When he’s not teaching, he runs Dru’s worldwide website systems, using technology to build community, science to create art, poetry to create spirituality.

A profound fulfilment

Is it possible by the end of this experience that you have been able to choose actions so that you know beyond all doubt that you've done everything that is possible to make their experience as full as possible? And that you've harnessed the power of prayer and meditation so magnificently that their journey onwards feels like a vivid and living journey to which you've made a profound contribution?

Through the first portion of this course we explore living talismans that can help you know that you've given every ounce of love that should be given, healed every part of the relationship that should be healed. 

And through the beautiful culmination of this course we explore in detail how it's possible to feel that the journey onwards is a living reality. And ways in which your meditation and prayer can make a huge, rich, rewarding contribution to that journey.

The end of life need not be a time of helplessness. It can very much be a rich tapestry of help-fulness. With experiences that will stay with you, vibrant, alive and fulfilling, for the rest of your life.

Deep healing, integration and completeness

Though the central portion of this course we explore why it's sooo difficult to encounter the end of life. We're going to learn about the vast forces that are liberated in the psyche when we encounter mortality, and the ending of our relationship with our loved-one. We'll learn how to cope with tiredness, and how to heal these vast forces. 

We'll explore profoundly effective techniques for integrating these forces back into our psyche. We'll learn that it's ok to be traumatised and exhausted by the experience, and you'll gain hours of practical techniques tried and tested in war zones to help people who've suffered the enormity of war to heal. They will work for you too, if you give them attention and love.

When breath, movement and intention combine you have access to a vast resource of healing:

• Yoga classes to balance your approach to mortality
• And losing a relationship
• Meditations to help you intuit the most appropriate and helpful responses to situations
• Relaxations to help you recharge and regather yourself.
• And countless ideas for softening the experience and helping you find fulness within it.

No regrets - only fullness

Imagine walking into a tough situation, knowing that as you come out of it you’ll feel no regrets, and complete fullness. And knowing that you’ll remain feeling like that for the rest of your life.

What's included?

The course is in four parts, containing...

Six video talks

1. Exploring the art of loving (30 minutes)
2. Understanding challenging times (14 minutes)
3. Entering the Infinite (12 minutes)
4. Journey into the Infinite (11 minutes)
5. The journey onwards (10 minutes)
6. The next few weeks (17 minutes)

Three specifically designed meditation, movement and relaxation programmes, including:

1. Meditation on the corona of a flame (downloadable)
2. Class: Balancing the base (72 minutes)
3. Class: The Gift of Grief (79 minutes)

A companion series of journal questions and summary points for each lesson and additional activities to help guide you through this transformational time in your journey.

Who will benefit from the programme?

You will if....

• You are caring for a loved one who is nearing the end of their life
• You know someone who is caring for a loved one at the end of their life
• You want to understand the incredible opportunities available at the end of our lives
• You are a yoga or meditation practitioner and want to harness these vast disciplines for making the passageway through the end of life more successful
• You are in need of healing and have already lost a loved one
• You have recently learned that a loved one might be passing on soon
• You are a teacher and you want to help your students encounter this remarkable phase of life

Any questions? 

Email us at living-course@druworldwide.com. We'll be happy to help.

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