Serving at the Threshold
A modern mystery school for death preparation and integration, grief initiation, and conscious dying.
Pre-sale opens June 1 · Course begins 28 September
Memento Mori
You will die. Everyone and everything you love will die. Impermanence has already rendered everything so deeply holy, significant and worthy of heart-breaking gratitude. Death has already transfigured our lives into an altar. But we forget. And now it’s time to remember.
Nothing brings us back into truth and presence like the awareness of death. She is the ultimate teacher.
The Philosophy
"Die before you die —
and discover there is no death."
The ancient Egyptians and the Tibetan monks practiced it. Rumi wrote it. The deathwise mystics built entire technologies around it. The yogis of Varanasi spent lifetimes preparing for it. The Amazonian shamans walk through it in ceremony. Every serious mystical tradition arrived at the same strange discovery: the death you fear is something you can meet before your body stops breathing — and it will change everything.
The plant medicine ceremony that stripped you bare. An ego death on the dancefloor at 4am. The surprise diagnosis that made time collapse into now. The night you sat with someone who was dying and felt something crack open in you. All of these are not separate experiences - they are the same door. We've just forgotten the key.
This is where the Sacred Death Collective begins.
Death is initiation.
By the time you've moved through this work, the thing that kept you half-alive — the low hum of unexamined mortality — will have become the thing that makes you most alive.
Two paths
Part I
3 months · Weekly live classes (all recorded)
For anyone ready to transform their relationship with death — whether you're navigating grief, watching parents age, facing your own mortality, or simply done half-living.
Part I + Part II
6+ months · Certification
For those called to hold space for others at the threshold. Advanced training that goes beyond personal transformation and into the art and ethics of death work — culminating in full certification and the option to receive the final ordination in the Amazon Jungle with indigenous elders.
Who this is for?
You've most likely felt it — the pull toward mortality that the wellness world keeps packaging into soft euphemisms. You want the real, ancient thing - the thing that actually changes how you live.
You're watching a parent decline or you've lost someone and don't know what to do with what's left. You want tools that honour the weight of it and metabolise it — not bypass it.
You know you're meant to serve at the threshold. Therapist, coach, healer, or simply someone who is the person people turn to, and you want training with genuine depth and an actual lineage behind it.
Not for you if —
You're looking for another surface-level wellness certification, a tick-box qualification, clinical training or a polished online course that doesn't ask anything real of you. This is initiation and it will move things in you. If that's not what you're ready for right now, we'll be here when you are.
Founders of The Sacred Death Collective
Carla
Death Doula · Environmental Lawyer · Psychedelic Facilitator · Yoga Teacher
Born in Barcelona, Carla is a death doula, environmental lawyer, yoga teacher, and psychedelic facilitator. Her work bridges law, ecology, and consciousness, with a focus on death, grief, and initiation.
In 2022, Carla founded Taozen with her husband Fred to share ayahuasca and other sacred medicines of the Amazon rainforest directly from the hands of the indigenous elders, within carefully curated safe spaces. For her, ayahuasca is the ultimate death doula and favourite teacher.
She is also the creator of Cementrees, an initiative transforming cemeteries into forests, where trees become our ancestors and the dead are reborn through nature.
As a certified Jungian psychedelic preparation and integration specialist and ordained Priestess, Carla weaves science and spirituality — incorporating deathwork, yoga, dreamwork, psychedelics, Tarot, Hermeticism, astrology, and ancient Egyptian mysticism — to help people die consciously.
Fred
Psychedelic Integration Coach and Advocate · Death Educator · Historian · Researcher · Musician
Hailing from London, UK - Fred's work brings philosophical clarity, cultural critique, important historical context, and sound as a threshold technology — making the practices visceral, grounded, and alive.
Sara
Certified Doctor and Birth Doula
Hailing from London, UK - Fred's work brings philosophical clarity, cultural critique, and sound as a threshold technology — making the practices visceral, grounded, and alive.
First live in-person experience
Before the course opens, come and experience the core of this work in person! We'll be presenting a 60-minute live session at the Festival of Consciousness in Barcelona — the first time this work will be public.
The timeline
Yoin the waitlist to be notified when the pre-sale period opens
50% off for the first 48 hours only: Part I - €275 (Full price €550) or Part I + II - €385 (Full price €770). These introductory prices will not come back. 25% off thereafter for the remainder of June.
48 Hours OnlyFinal day of pre-sale.
25% off: €412 / €588Applications for course open at full price.
Full Price: €550 / €770The first public expression of this work. Die Before You Die — live. Festival of Consciousness, Barcelona.
First cohort begins.
The gate is open
Be the first to know when pre-sale opens on June 1, and get the early bird pricing before anyone else.