Haiku, Maui, Hawaii

Bodhi is the founder and executive director of a nonprofit in the fields of conscious dying and the care of the dying. He is a funeral director, an end-of-life and bereavement counselor and educator; a hospice volunteer; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; 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.  

Born in New York City in 1951 to a Jewish family, his life took a major turn in my senior year of high school with the sudden death of his father, the possibility of being drafted to shoot people in Vietnam and being introduced to LSD, and then 2 years later encountering the Dances for the first time at Lama Foundation in 1971.

Initiated by Pir Moineddin Jablonski in 1983, he draws from the baraka stream flowing through Murshid Sam and Inayat Khan, Jesus and Crazy Horse.