Anacortes Senior College

Henny promises to look at the subject of death and dying with a wide-angle lens from the most gross to the more subtle and spiritual aspects of the process. We will explore IT from the body’s point of view, as a natural organic down-to earth gross psychophysical process, as well as cover how to prepare for, how to serve the one dying, and how to care for the body after death.

 We will cover the subtle dimensions and fields involved in the aspects of dying and our emotional responses of letting go and surrendering our attachments to the body, things, people, and our self-identity. We will explore and discuss the reality of subtle energy experiences such as ‘the Tunnel’ effects in Near Death Experiences, the Light at the end of the Tunnel, Out of Body experiences, & astral travel.

We will examine religious belief structures about the Afterlife and their effects, touch upon ideas of Reincarnation & past life experiences. Henny believes that The Spiritual, unconditional Consciousness, as Light and Love, is always available to draw us to Its radiance and Light in Living and Dying. Her intent is to reduce fear and anxiety, as well as denial and avoidance of the subject, and to instruct in ways to face dying with a depth of understanding, an open-feeling heart and mind to support an easeful and grace-guided process for all involved.

Let’s face IT together!

Instructor: Henny Nouwen

Henny is not a stranger to the many dimensions related to the subject of death and dying.  She has faced IT in her personal and professional life choices and experiences.

She specialized in cardiac care in Canada in 1966, Los Angeles1969 and worked as an open-heart surgery circulator nurse in Seattle 1985.  For a total of 19 years, I had to be active as a team member to always prevent death from happening.  I participated in all the rescue efforts, resuscitation, heart-lung machines, respirators, defibrillators, pacemakers to keep the heart going and prevent death at all costs.

Disillusioned with this western medical model, at the time, of patient survival at any and all cost, I started searching for a different approach.  Death with dignity, loving support, compassion and understanding of the process became my model. For a short time I served as a hospice home  health nurse.

I went back to school and studied metaphysics for four years,  graduated in 1981 and accepted the call to become the Founding Minister of the Center For Spiritual Living in Mount Vernon.  As a pastor (officially ordained in 1984) I was able to approach death with compassion, counseling, prayers, funeral and memorial services for the one dying, their family and friends.

During the 9 years as a minister, I studied with Elizabeth Kubler Ross and attended her Life, Death and Transition seminar. Studied Stephen Levine books and workshops, I went to Antioch University and studied transpersonal psychology.

In my studies I discovered the greatest “Spiritual wisdom on the ultimate transcending of death and everything else” in the book Easy Death by the Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj. That book became my “Bible” on my service to the dying.

In 1990 I became His devotee and for the last 35 years I serve in the death and dying Ministry of Adidam, a group of devotees dedicated to assist terminally ill and dying devotees to prepare for and with His Grace be drawn through their death transition and subsequent three-day vigil.

Henny has shared this wisdom on death and dying in classes, workshops and retreats. Hospice of Lake County asked her to start a Death Café support group in CA which she facilitated for one and a half years.

Presently Henny has a private practice in Anacortes doing Hands on Healing Energy work as a licensed massage therapist. She has been teaching at the Senior College classes on Energy Healing through the Chakras, Grief and Loss, and would love the share her thoughts and experiences in this Spring course called “Lets Face IT…. Every Body Dies