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Lashanna is an intentional tender.  A tender of people and spaces, a recovering corporate employee and avid learner.  A mistake maker, community lover, a consensual hugger, a garden witch and a mother; a midwest grown, University of Michigan graduate, artist, facilitator and holder of heavy things. Creating space for belonging is at the core of their work from teaching medical professionals, to working with youth and play; from to shrouding a community member to hand grinding herbs for tea. Lashanna regularly lives and works in the intersections of death, art, education and love. 

During a massage, her goal is always a flowing conversation between her hands and your tissue. "My touch is not a pointed deep touch, yet we access deep tissues without you leaving in pain. Causing pain  is counter-intuitive to how I walk this life. "  

Her end of life work is rooted in a community death care model.  Lashanna holds a solid grounded space for her clients, regularly bringing a great comfort to a time that can feel out of control.  Her knowledge, skill and experience allow her to assist people and their family in the time of dying.  Lashanna not only works with people imminently facing death or who have been given a terminal diagnosis; she also works with those living their life fully and want a doula relationship in place for when death does come closer or an accident occurs.  

As a Director of  A Sacred Passing, Lashanna joins in community collaboration, creating engaging and productive death and dying educational opportunities for community and professionals.  While instructing massage students or doulas, she is able to impress the importance of  trust and honoring autonomy.  

She is certified in MBSR-T, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens.  Combining her formal education and experience with meditation, games and art, Lashanna has created an engaging 8 -10 week program for teens. 

"If energy is neither created or destroyed, I am quite sure we've met sometime before" - thegoodwitchofcascadia

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Northwest Academy of the Healing Arts

A Sacred Passing

Going with Grace

Numerous End of Life training courses 

Home Healthcare Aide Training

Motherhood

Life

Death Doula Clients

Hospice 'Friends'

Full Spectrum Doulas

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