Kelsi Tesone Mathews from In Memoriam is honored to offer hospice, hospital, social worker, nurse and other professional education sessions. In Memoriam offers facility tours and decedent care classes at In Memoriam’s discretion. As a Mortuary Science Practitioner (Embalmer and Funeral Director), Kelsi Tesone Mathews offers a plethora of knowledge and hands-on expertise in the importance of ceremony, restoration of the decedent, and support for a grieving family.
Location:7290 W 119th PlaceBroomfieldColorado80020homePhone:303-997-6667homeEmail:Vasb@vazrzbevnzfreivprf.pbzmoc.secivresmairomemni@ofnIINTERNETWebsite:In Memoriam
Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Home Funerals, Memorial Services, Urns and/or Caskets
We are a back-to-basics, truly family-owned and operated funeral provider featuring our on-site crematory. From traditional services to cremation, we strive to ensure that every family that we serve feels safe, seen, and cared for. Kelsi holds a degree as a Mortuary Science Practitioner. In 2008, she passed the national board exams through the International Conference in both the Science and Arts section. She is the past President of the Denver Metropolitan Funeral Directors Association. She currently sits on the board as Treasurer and also sits on the Arapahoe Community College Mortuary Science Program Advisory Committee for Colorado’s only accredited school. With more than 13 years in the industry, we are honored our family continues to offer locally owned, end-of-life choices and education to the members of our community.
Services:
Funeral Services
Memorial Services
Pre-Planning
Green Burials
Cremation, including on-site cremation as well as alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation) off-site
Witness cremation
Home Funeral Services
Veteran Funeral Services
Transportation
Caskets, Urns, etc.
and more…
Speakers Bureau
Kelsi Tesone Mathews from In Memoriam is honored to offer hospice, hospital, social worker, nurse and other professional education sessions. In Memoriam offers facility tours and decedent care classes at In Memoriam’s discretion. As a Mortuary Science Practitioner (Embalmer and Funeral Director), Kelsi Tesone Mathews offers a plethora of knowledge and hands-on expertise in the importance of ceremony, restoration of the decedent, and support for a grieving family.
End-of-Life Doula, Yoga Teacher, Meditation Guide & OfficiantZenful Life Living, LLCEnergy Worker, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach
Location:Denver Metro/south through ParkerDenverColorado80224homePhone:720-593-9361homeEmail:mrashyfbyhgvbaf@tznvy.pbzmoc.liamg@snoituloslufnezINTERNETWebsite:Zenful Life
Categories: Advance Care Planning, Aromatherapy/Essential Oils, Client Advocacy, Companioning for Dying Person, End-of-Life Doula Services, Legacy Projects, Life Review, Living Funerals, Meditation/Visualization, Guided, Memorial Services, Notary Public, Officiant/Minister, Reiki/Energy Work, Respite for Caregivers, Sitting Vigil, Support for Caregivers, Urns and/or Caskets, Vigil Planning, Yoga, Restorative/Supportive
It is simple… what do you do to live YOUR best life? Regardless of any condition or diagnoses, are you living the fullness of your true authentic self? As an EOLD, I provide an Advocate to allow an individual to transition consciously with dignity. My duty is to provide choices and non-medical support to create plans and actions to provide inner peace in the eye of a storm. It is a remarkably interesting dichotomy to be happy or content, until the very last breath.
There is not a person on the planet that does not have some sort of individual struggle. I’m a divorcee, single parent, Gen-Xer, who survived a stroke in my 40’s. I had to rehabilitate and reinvent myself and figure out how I was going to utilize the additional time that was provided to me. We are not given a playbook that guarantees our paths in life, and we will not escape our own passing, death or homegoing. When given the chance though, we are allowed choices before and in our time of transition.
I am Sara E. Stewart, an End-of-Life Doula, Notary, Insurance Agent, Certified Yoga Teacher and Meditation Guide, Officiant, Health Coach and Energy Worker. I am not a particularly religious person. I am a person of faith and I have woven the Buddhist principles of the Four Nobles Truths and the Eightfold Path into my life. I am here to help you tackle the topics that make life and death challenging and advocate for you. Allow me to hold space for your questions, joy, sadness, confusion, peace, grief, mourning, contentment, etc. I welcome your conversation.
My philosophy is to, “Define your NO to get to your YES.” If you can get all your “NO” out of the way, you will allow space for the “YES”. I feel that ultimately, getting to “YES” is how we live our best lives… despite our situations.
What brought me to Doula work:
In retrospect, there were several events in my life that directed me to end-of-life care. My undergraduate degree is in Speech and Debate. In the late 1990’s, I was a hospice volunteer. In 2001, I completed a post-baccalaureate program in Legal Studies and became Ordained. My fitness business was destroyed during the 2020 pandemic and I paid close attention to the devastating tolls inflicted on families. Greater conversations were had about the inequality and inequity in health care. My family members and I updated our advance planning documents, including Wills. I started researching the number of people that do not prepare written documents for their end-of-life and decided to combine planning and advocacy with direct care to start a new, next step in my life. I selected the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine End-of-Life Doula Professional program. I considered the heart-centered and practical work combined with the medical knowledge gained with the completion.
Services offered:
Advanced Planning
Notary Public
Restorative or Supportive Yoga
Chair Fitness
Meditation
Energy Work
Officiant
Accompaniment to medical appointments
Organization
Light house cleaning
Making a Memory Book/ Life Reflection/ Legacy Projects
Complete errands
Living Wake/Celebration of Life/Living Funeral/Memorial Service
Prepare meals
Companionship and/or conversation
Aromatherapy
Cannabis Advocacy
Non-medical Advocacy
Emotional and Spiritual Care/Support
Urns
Non-Denominational Weddings
Sitting Vigil
Education, Training, Certifications, Professional Experience, etc:
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate
Breathe for Change Yoga/Meditation Teacher Yoga Alliance approves Certificate
Institute of Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Certificate
Hospice Volunteer Training
Roosevelt University Post-Baccalaureate Legal Studies Certificate
Northeastern Illinois University B.A. Speech and Debate
Kishwaukee College A.A. Business Administration
Speakers Bureau
As people go from home health care, to nursing homes to hospice, advanced care planning document completions increase. In 2020, Advanced Directive completions among black patients increased by 41 percent, yet this number is still less than non-persons of color. My speaking addresses this disparity and works to align end-of-life care preferences and documentation for all people. Allow me to tell you about the 5 Words That Make Some People Cringe.
I have had the honor to be a featured presenter at The Center for African American Health Annual Collaborative Health Fair and for the Colorado Black Heath Collaborative Annual Family Black Party. As an advisory board member of the Mental Health Center of Denver Dahlia Campus, I have had the privilege to speak on several issues related to health and wellness. I have run several online programs. The most successful being, Incarceration to Transformation, where the incarceration is by a person’s own self-inflicted limitations. My public speaking style is more conversational and less like a presentation.
The Natural FuneralManaging PartnerContact Name:Karenvan Vuuren
Location:102 West Chester StreetLafayetteColorado80026homePhone:720-515-2344homeEmail:vasb@guranghenyshareny.pbzmoc.larenuflarutaneht@ofniINTERNETWebsite:TheNaturalFuneral.comVideo:Virtual TourVideo:Reverent Body Care
Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverant Body Care, Urns and/or Caskets, Water Cremation
Our mission is to provide natural death care choices to families in alignment with their values potentially transforming their journey of loss into meaning and healing.
Our vision is to reimagine funeral service as a holistic offering that emphasizes ecological choice and healing ceremony in response to loss.
It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
We light the way for our families to find meaning and hope in the face of grief and loss. We have sponsored community educational events around grief and advanced planning including storytelling and writing workshops. We host an annual remembrance evening Light From Our Hearts with music, the spoken word and a name reading of our departed loved ones which is a gift to our community.
The Natural Funeral is an award-winning holistic funeral home specializing in natural Reverent Body Care™, eco cremation called water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis, and green burial. We also offer conventional flame cremation and visitations and vigils in our beautiful pine chapel. We are a full service funeral home serving the Boulder/Denver Metro area and beyond. Read our google testimonials to learn what our customers say about our high quality, personalized service.
The Natural Funeral also offers locally sourced, artist-made urns and caskets.
Karen van Vuuren has directed two award-winning educational films – Dying Wish – dyingwishmedia.com (about voluntary stopping of eating and drinking at end stage illness) and Go in Peace goinpeacefilm.org (about veterans end of life care). For more than ten years, Karen was editor of Natural Transitions magazine, sharing conscious, holistic and natural approaches to end of life. She is co-founder of The Natural Home Funeral Alliance – homefuneralalliance.org. She has taught workshops on natural death care for 20 years.
Speakers Bureau
Karen van Vuuren is a former broadcast and print journalist who is co-founder of Colorado’s first holistic, natural funeral home – The Natural Funeral (thenaturalfuneral.com) serving the Boulder-Denver metro area and beyond. Twenty years ago, Karen founded a non-profit, Natural Transitions to educate about and support families with natural death care. She has edited the organization’s biannual magazine, led regular natural death care workshops, and national death care related events on green burial and home funerals, cofounding The National Home Funeral Alliance. Karen is also a documentary-maker whose award-winning hospice films are Dying Wish (dyingwishmedia.com) about a dying doctor’s decision to stop eating and drinking) and Go In Peace (goinpeacefilm.org) about supporting caregivers working with terminally ill veterans with PTSD.
As people go from home health care, to nursing homes to hospice, advanced care planning documentation completions increase. In 2020, Advanced Directive completions among black patients increased by 41 percent, yet this number is still less than non-persons of color. My speaking addresses this disparity and works to align end-of-life care preferences and documentation for all people.
I have had the honor to be a featured presenter at The Center for African American Health Annual Collaborative Health Fair and for the Colorado Black Heath Collaborative Annual Family Black Party. As an advisory board member of the Mental Health Center of Denver Dahlia Campus, I have had the privilege to speak on several issues related to health and wellness. I have run several online programs. The most successful is named, Incarceration to Transformation, where the incarceration is by a person’s own self-inflicted limitations. My public speaking style is more conversational and less like a presentation.
Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverant Body Care, Speakers Bureau, Urns and/or Caskets, Water Cremation
Karen van Vuuren is a former broadcast and print journalist who is co-founder of Colorado’s first holistic, natural funeral home – The Natural Funeral (thenaturalfuneral.com) serving the Boulder-Denver metro area and beyond. Twenty years ago, Karen founded a non-profit, Natural Transitions to educate about and support families with natural death care. She has edited the organization’s biannual magazine, led regular natural death care workshops, and national death care related events on green burial and home funerals, cofounding The National Home Funeral Alliance. Karen is also a documentary-maker whose award-winning hospice films are Dying Wish (dyingwishmedia.com) about a dying doctor’s decision to stop eating and drinking) and Go In Peace (goinpeacefilm.org) about supporting caregivers working with terminally ill veterans with PTSD.