Empowered Connection Podcast

Love, Loss & Presence: Learning about Death, Dying & Grief with Matthew Dwyer


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Topics: Death, Dying, Grief, Presence, Love, Relationships, Spirituality, Grieving, Connection, Compassion, Emotional Awareness, Healing, Self Healing, Yoga Wisdom


Matthew Dwyer is grief and death doula, yoga teacher, and kirtan wallah. His deep practice of bhakti yoga has lead him to being of service in end of life care where he educates people on death and dying, works with individuals who are grieving, sits with people who are dying and supports their families. Matthew is the founder of the Being Held Institute, an online network of education and training workshops that helps support others through grief and helps mentor others interested in death care. He is also the co-host of the On Death podcast that explores those taboo topics of death, dying, and grief which aims to encourage // support a healthy relationship with death - ideally to move from a fear based culture of death denial to a community focused on living life more fully alive and in love.


In this beautiful conversation Matthew and host Damodar Cordua dive deep into these topics:

  • Finding real presence in our lives & in our relationships with others
  • What is grief?
  • The difference between grief & dashed desire
  • Matthew’s inspiring & mystically-colored path to working as a death doula and grief counselor
  • Experiences working with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity
  • America’s death & grief phobic society
  • The West seeing death as a “failure”
  • The power of loving presence and deep listening 
  • Yoga and yoga wisdom’s perspectives on death & dying 
  • Death & grief challenging & deepening our suppositions & creating spiritual growth 
  • Embracing the risk to love, when there is always a chance of loss

And so much more...

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Connect with Matthew & learn more about his work & offerings here:
www.madhumatt.com

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