SHOWING UP FOR DEATH,
​NOURISHING LIFE
Doorway Into Light is Hawaii's only nonprofit funeral home
and only certified green funeral home
(808) 575-7870 (808) 283-5950 (808) 268-4247​
Doorway Into Light is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit spiritual, educational and charitable organization in Hawaii
providing counsel, support and education to the dying, their families and those grieving since 2006.
We operate Hawaii's community, educational resource center and store, The Death Store

​"We enter the world through a doorway, pass through many during the course of our lifetime, ​and leave at the end through another".

Doula Training on Maui
POSTPONED!!

                         
                  Our 6-day program      
                      encompasses the logistical,
emotional /psychological, and spiritual care of the dying and their families, and the care of the dead.
 
Doctors, nurses, hospice staff, ministers, chaplains, therapists, artists, those in the healing professions and lay people have attended our trainings.
Some to add to their professional work, some who are considering ‘death doula’ as their calling and profession, and some who are caring for, or will be caring for a loved one, or who wish to educate themselves about their own approaching death.

  • How do we each prepare for our own dying time:
                      The ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ work of completing   
                       one’s life and ‘leaving in peace'.
  • The many possible roles of a death doula: 
                 Educate / Counsel / Support / Care / Advocate / 
                      'Community placeholder’
  • What is ‘spiritual care’: Death Doula as ministry
  • Care of those with Dementia and Alzheimer’s
  • Care for families who’ve experienced stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion
  • Psychedelics in the care of the dying
  • When someone wants to end their life
  • Body care for the dead
  • Home funerals
  • Honoring, supporting and encouraging  grieving
  • Guiding a ceremony:
                  Suicide, death of a child, a violent death,  
                           a chosen death, a beautiful death
  • Designing and starting a profession
  • Showing up for what’s dying in the world
The 3rd training in 2019
Recorded on Facebook Live / May 21, 2022
A Book Release Preview Party
"FACING DEATH' A Conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be
Available on Amazon and other book sellers

OUR MISSION
TO EMPOWER AND SUPPORT  families and communities with holistic, sustainable and family-based tools, skills and information in the care of the dying and the dead.

TO TRANSFORM our culture by transforming attitudes and relationships with aging, dying and death.

TO RECLAIM the care of the dying and the dead as ‘village building’ work and sacred service. Reclaiming what we've given away to businesses and institutions. Read more about our vision.
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TO PROVIDE low-cost and free counseling, support and funeral services to those in need and to insure that no one need die alone.

TO OFFER TRAININGS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: Preparing For Death; Caring For The Dying And Their Families; Showing Up For What's Dying In The World.

TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE LAND utilizing a green burial ground as an economic engine to maintain and protect land as public commons where life and death interweave in healthy community life.​
“To change our culture, to change our lives,
requires the transformation of consciousness,
and few things shift consciousness as quickly
​as an awareness of death.”
​- Reverend Bodhi Be

Our New Book is Available

FACING DEATH, A Conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be
This is a conversation between Alan Clements, a former Buddhist monk with a terminal heart disease and Reverend Bodhi Be a Sufi minister who works and teaches in the fields of conscious aging, dying and death.
HARDBACK, PAPERBACK AND EBOOK EDITIONS
FROM THE FOLLOWING ONLINE SELLERS

Amazon.com​
Book Depository Free Worldwide Distribution
Barnes and Noble
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and soon, many more

Our next project

If this resonates in you, we invite you to join our growing community team. Contact us.

‘ĪPUKA Sanctuary Park & Natural Burial Ground


‘Īpuka’s Sanctuary Park and Natural Burial Ground is a sacred story of life and death interweaving in healthy community life, protected and cared for by a nonprofit organization in perpetuity.
​View our plan at this link:
​www.ipuka.org
Some of our class of 2019
DOORWAY INTO LIGHT'S:
​THE DEATH STORE
AT THE PAUWELA CANNERY
375 WEST KUIAHA RD. #5
HAIKU, HAWAII 96708

SAT 10AM-2PM AND BY APPT.
(808) 575-7870  (808) 283-5950

MAILING ADDRESS
​PO Box 1268 
Haiku HI 96708
Doorway Into Light strives to provide support and services to all who are in need regardless of financial ability. We are a 501c3 nonprofit community-based organization, and our continued success is dependent upon your generous contributions. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation so that we may serve all who seek our support.