Since 2006, Doorway Into Light has been engaged in advocacy and educational programs in Hawaii, with families and professionals in the field, as well as actively engaged in direct, volunteer support of dying people, their families, their care-givers and those grieving the death of a loved one (pet or human).

Since 2012, Doorway Into Light operates Hawaii's only nonprofit funeral home and it's only certified green funeral home.
We also operate The Death Store, Hawaii's only community educational resource center and store for those who are living with a life threatening illness; lay and professional care-givers to the dying; those grieving the death of a loved one; those wishing to explore their own approaching death.

We provide information on the rights, laws and choices for those approaching death, including hospice care, living trusts, wills, advanced health care directives, ethical wills, home funerals, ocean body burial, organ donation, home burial, direct burial and direct cremation.

We seek to re-invent and revolutionize the funeral home and the funeral industry, transforming the “business of dying” and returning it to “sacred service”, bringing forth options for end-of-life care and after-death care that are holistic, environmentally sustainable, community and family based, and spiritually inclusive.

We also work with community organizations, such as local hospices, hospitals, non-profits and religious organizations in growing and deepening care for the aging and the dying. 

We offer community presentations and workshops, as well as trainings for:
     -Communities of Volunteer Caregivers to the dying 
     -Doulas and Ministers of Death
     -Home-Funeral Guides 

​We offer a certification program for Death Doulas and Ministers of Death.
Doorway Into Light is a 501C3 nonprofit educational and charitable organization.

Founded by Reverend Bodhi Be, Leilah Be, and Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert), Doorway Into Light is engaged in advocacy and educational programs on conscious aging, dying and death.Here on Maui, we're working with families and professionals in these fields, as well as actively engaged in helping dying people and their families and care-givers.

​The founders of Doorway Into Light have extensive experience in assisting individuals and communities in the areas of dying and death. They serve as the Directors of Doorway Into Light and constitute an Executive Board.

Bodhi Be, the Executive Director, is a teacher, guide and ordained minister in the universal Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Samuel Lewis.  He is an independent funeral director, hospice volunteer, end-of-life and bereavement counselor, notary, ceremonialist, and the founder and president of Doorway Into Light’s The Death Store.  He is happily married for 36 years, parent and step-parent to 5 grown children. A grandparent, coffin maker, death doula and educator, artist, entrepreneur and organic homesteader on Maui, where he has resided for 45 years.

​Ram Dass, a Maui resident, has been a pioneer and explorer of awakened consciousness as well as one of its most important voices for over 45 years.  Former Harvard Professor, author of "Be Here Now", 'How Can I Help?", "Still Here", and many other books.  He is co-founder of the Prison Ashram Project, the Dying Project, the Seva Foundation, and is on the Board and Faculty of the Metta Institute. Ram Dass died and left his body on December 22, 2019.

Leilah Be is a teacher, guide and ordained minister in the universal Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Samuel Lewis and the wife of Bodhi.  A former director of a pre-school, she is an end-of-life and bereavement counselor, musician and gardener and a busy grandma.

Executive Director Reverend Bodhi Be

Former founder/owner Rainbow Menehune Sprout Company, Maui Juice Company, Angel Scouts Children's Camp.  An ordained minister for 36 years, facilitating weddings, baby blessings, house blessings and clearings, memorials, funerals and many other ceremonies. Together with his wife, Leilah, they lead meditation and Sufi Retreats worldwide and have been invited teachers to many other events for the last 25 years. 

Co-Director Reverend Michelle Renee

Reverend Michelle Renee
Michelle Renee lives a full and beautiful life. In 2001 she earned a degree in forest recreation, inspired by her love of trees and nature. In 2006 she graduated from The Hawaiian Islands School of Body Therapy where she deepened her understanding of human touch. Her fascination and focus in this realm continues to be the nervous system, the facial system, and somatic concepts. In 2010 she became ordained after 5 years at The Clairvoyant Center of Hawaii where she studied meditation, energy dynamics, and teaching skills. Woven into this time she also worked on boats, farms, and other joy cultivating work. She has now found home with Doorway Into Light.

Some of our volunteer support team

Mayanna Jane Knight

Matthew Nall

Karima Morgan has 30+ years of experience as a counselor with children, youth, adults, and families in Canada and the US, including as a bereavement counselor in a hospice setting. She brings passion and expertise in art therapy and SoulCollage® to her role as a clinician and as an educator with caregivers and professional counselors. An orientation to strengths and resilience is central to her own life and her work with others. She co-facilitates a grief group with Hospice Maui.