This class is for everyone who longs for a reciprocal relationship with Mother Earth.

Our bodies are nutrient-dense vessels with the power to give back to the very Earth that sustains us - yet our conventional American funeral industry actively destroys the land we call home. Each year, we bury enough metal to rebuild the Golden Gate Bridge, enough concrete to pave a highway from New York to Detroit, and place enough embalming fluid in the ground to fill eight Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Our disposition culture reveals how far we've drifted from understanding our place in the web of life.

But there's a better way. A way that allows our bodies to become forests, restore prairies, heal watersheds, and create sanctuaries for the living. This is the way of our ancestors, whose choice to return their bodies to the Earth created ripples of regeneration that extended far beyond their own time - feeding wildlife, stimulating mycelium, and fertilizing the soil that feeds us today.

Everything we have, we have because there are dead people in the Earth.

When we follow in our ancestral footsteps (safely and legally), we honor the longevity and health of the land over profit and convenience. We allow our death to become not just the end of our story, but a continuation of the greater story of life. We come closer to being a people who understand reciprocity. Mother Earth gives us everything. It's time we give ourselves back.