Lindsey is a founding member of Northeast Kingdom Death Care Community, and is a member of the Northeast Death Doula Network, National Home Funeral Alliance, and National End-of-Life Doula Alliance. Always striving to continue her education, she has attended special trainings on these topics:

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• Best Practices for Medical Aid in Dying presented by the San Francisco Bay Area Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association

• Advance Directives by VT Ethics Network

• Medical Aid in Dying: A Truth-telling Imperative by VT Ethics Network

• Inside the Mind of a Hospice Director by VT Ethics Network

• Sacred Passage: Shamanic Wisdom on Death and Dying with Renee Baribeau

• "Earth to Earth" Green Burial documentary and talk by Michelle Hogle Acciavatti 

• VT Forest Cemetery doula tour

• Sacred Passage: Plant Allies for End of Life by Florida School of Holistic Living

• Herbal Care for End of Life with Emily Ruff

• Creating an Herbal Toolkit for End of Life Care with Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary

• The Art of Shrouding with Kelly Butler & The Rowe Center

• Shaman’s Approach to Death as a Rite of Passage with Sandra Ingerman

• Dignity at End of Life: Fostering LGBTQ+-Inclusive End-of-Life Care through UMASS Elaine Marieb School of Nursing, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and the Center for Teaching and Learning.

• End of Life Psychedelic Care with Christine Caldwell

• Creativity and the Grief Journey with Dina Stander

• WayfinderTM Training with Patient Choices Vermont

• Current studying with Rosa Mystica Scent Priestess Training in the Sacred Art of Anointing through Priestess Presence with Elayne Kalila Doughty, Jacquie Eva Rose and Diana DuBrow of the Emerald Temple

 

~See certification badges in the footer~

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​​​~Music~

Lindsey loves all styles of music from showtunes and pop to classical and sacred music to various styles of chant from around the world. She has been a music teacher, performer and choral conductor for over 25 years and now loves to bring the Healing Arts to those nearing the end of their life. Moments making music with people in nursing homes, for bedside vigils, and for memorials and services are among the most meaningful in Lindsey’s life. 

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Lindsey has a lifetime of experience assisting individuals and congregations on their spiritual and healing journeys as organist, pianist, soloist and conductor. Contemplating death through music has been an important part of her life.

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~Sacred Arts~

Lindsey is a practitioner of a variety of Sacred Arts. She has studied Buddhist chant and meditation with Bhikkhuni Sudhamma of Charlotte Buddhist Vihara, Tara Brach, as well as numerous monks and groups around the Montreal area. ​

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As a Shamanic Practitioner she has studied with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Peter Clark of Shaman’s Flame, Susan Grimaldi, Sandra Ingerman, Renee Baribeau, and Evelyn Rysdyk. The sacred drum she works with was commissioned from Dan Maxon of Turtle Drums VT. 

 

Lindsey has completed 1st, 2nd Degree as well as Master Level Reiki training with Essential Arts. She is a level 1 Certified Sound Healer with Vicki Gould of Life Changing Energy. Lindsey has been deepening her own extensive healing journey and caring for her loved ones with Reiki and Sound Healing.

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An initiate of the Divine Feminine, Lindsey weaves her healing arts studies and spirituality in community with Vision of Light Church of Spiritualism and Healing, as well as with the Living Temple and the Priestess Presence Temple. Lindsey serves as a Temple Keeper of the holy oil of Linden in the Rosa Mystica Mystery School, bestowing grace and compassion by helping to transmute fear of dying into acceptance and peace. In relationship with the plants and holy oils, she studies the sacred lineages in order to assist those in preparing for transition as well as to consecrate their sacred passage.

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~Leadership and Teaching~

For over 25 years Lindsey has taught private voice and piano lessons. She strives to bring compassion and joy to all that she makes music with. Through the years Lindsey has enjoyed facilitating workshops on Chant, Meditation, Hildegard of Bingen, Grief, and Compassion. Lindsey is passionate about bringing contemplative practices to group settings as well as individuals. She also weaves mindfulness and breathing techniques into her work with music students and workshop participants.

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~Other interests~

Lindsey relishes working with her hands, whether it is weaving baskets, working in her garden, traditional fiber arts, cheese making or blacksmithing.  She, her delightful homeschooled son and husband love to spoil their two rescued Afghan hounds and a poodle (see pictures below). A lifelong lover of learning, Lindsey intends to learn how to weave coffins from willow to contribute to expanding green burial options.

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What are others saying? I invite you to look at the Testimonials Page.

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