Fall Institute Retreat
$350.00
Join us in October 2025 for the Fall Institute Retreat!
All called to nourish and strengthen the work of holding space for birth, breath, and death are welcome.
*CCLD members and Institute members receive 50% off of their tuition. Use 50off as a code to access this benefit for the Fall Institute Retreat. All are welcome to join the Institute ~ membership is lifelong.
Description
The 3rd Annual Fall Institute Retreat at
the Center for Conscious Living & Dying
Friday, October 24 ~
Sunday, October 26
Asheville, North Carolina
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The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
& The Center for Conscious Living & Dying
invite you to a nourishing 2025 Fall Institute Retreat!
Join us for meditation, ritual, song, silence,
healing, laughter, hope, reflection, education, & restoration.
Fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains is gorgeous!!!
We will begin at 7pm on Friday, October 24 and conclude by noon on Sunday, October 26.
Amy Wright Glenn, founder/director of the Institute and Dr. Aditi Sethi, executive Director of CCLD will be presenting.
**The 2025 Fall Institute Retreat will be held 15 minutes from Asheville, NC
at the Center for Conscious Living & Dying, located at: 83 Sanctuary Road, Swannanoa, NC 28778.
*All participants are responsible for their own lodging, food, accommodations, and childcare.
Here are local accommodation suggestions to consider.
The Center for Conscious Living and Dying (CCLD), an organization in partnership with the Institute. CCLD is working to reclaim, practice, and share a timeless wisdom: community support in end of life transitions. The Center for Conscious Living and Dying (CCLD) is organizing and training a diverse group of volunteer caregivers who will provide free non-medical end of life care as well as education on options to supplement support for the emotional and spiritual needs of families facing this universal experience.
Aditi Sethi, MD ~ (she/her) is a hospice and palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, and Executive Director of the Center for Conscious Living and Dying. Featured in the forthcoming film The Last Ecstatic Days, Aditi is an emerging and important voice for shifting our culture’s understanding and approach to dying, death, and bereavement care. As a child under the guidance of her parents (Kapil and Ranjit Sethi) and grandparents from India, Aditi studied devotional music from the Sikh and Hindu traditions. Her other music pursuits include playing music with her husband, Jay Brown, a musician and hospice music therapist. Aditi and Jay recently formed a group called The Appalucians, with Angie Heimann and Cas Sochaki. Releasing their first CD “Bright Hills” in 2018, the Appalucians play music from the mountains of Western North Carolina, featuring spirited songwriting, tight harmonies, and a lovely layered interplay between dobro, guitars, harp, bass, and banjo. Aditi and Jay are the parents of three amazing children. Learn more here.
Melody LeBaron ~ (she/her) started her career—in her teens—as a professional organizer, helping her clients get decluttered and organized. She added Feng Shui, Space Clearing, Kundalini yoga and pranayama to her offerings and along the way, for more than 35 years, she’s also been called in to work with the dying and their caregivers, to help them partner with the environment (the land, the home/facility, and especially the room) to support the transformative process of dying.
In her 70 years, Melody has lived in 30 homes across the US and Canada, giving her a vast spiritual geography, an understanding nature is alive and intelligent and longs to partner with us….and a knowing that the energy inside our dwellings is ALSO alive and intelligent, and longs to partner with us. In her book “Transforming Death: Creating Sacred Space for the Dying,” she shares how to set up the room in which a death will occur in ways that support the (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) “tasks” of dying.
“Cultivating a sense of grace, ease and presence in the room is just as important as setting up the space to optimally meet the physical needs of the one dying and the ones grieving. When we partner with the room to create sacred space, we are shaping the death that will occur there, in the same way that setting up a beautiful space for a wedding shapes the ceremony—and the marriage that follows.”
LeBaron wrote “Transforming Death: Creating Sacred Space for the Dying” for each person who will someday die, for those who seek a more conscious death, and for those who care for the dying. “Each dying person needs a team,” she says. “The room needs to be treated as a member of the team.” The book is available for purchase on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats.
Trained by Francis Weller, Melody also works with the bereaved to catalyze the difficult emotions evoked through grief, and claim the gifts of the grieving process. For more information, visit Melody’s website.
