Showing Up for Death, Nourishing Life, Living the Beauty Way
Recorded August 8, 2024
Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister.
He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving, and has been offering community educational programs and trainings since 2006 in the fields of awakened living and dying and the care of the dying.
Doorway Into Light operates Hawaii’s only nonprofit funeral home since 2012. It also has a storefront ‘The Death Store’, a community educational resource center and store providing education, support and counsel on a donation basis. Bodhi is a funeral director, an end-of-life and bereavement counselor and educator; a hospice volunteer; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; a grief cheerleader; a speaker and workshop leader.
He has trained hundreds of doctors, nurses, hospice staff, social workers,ministers, chaplains, therapists, artists and lay people in the spiritual, psychological,emotional and logistical care of the dying and care of the dead, and for five years has taken dozens through a certification program for death doulas. As a ceremonial guide Bodhi leads memorial and funeral services and community grief rituals. He has facilitated grief support groups for teenagers at a local high school and has hosted a weekly streaming radio show, ‘Death Tracks’, on a local Maui station. He is a notary public, a coffin maker and a Reiki practitioner.
Bodhi and his wife Leilah are long-time Maui residents and organic, off-the-grid homesteaders in Haiku.
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