Walking Each Other Home: Meeting the Mystery of Death and Aging 10-Day Course • Ram Dass

What if, instead of responding to aging and dying with fear, clinging, loneliness, and dread, we could join hand-in-hand and walk each other home?

We live in a culture where aging and death are often hidden from view. Elderly people are placed in homes, their wisdom locked away with them. Death is seen as a failure of modern medicine.

But there is much we can learn from facing the mystery of aging and death, not only on a personal level, but on a societal and global level. There are many opportunities for awakening as we walk this path. And the best way to do it is with each other.

If you don’t cozy up to the mystery, you’re missing life… We are here to awaken, to become free beings with hearts open, not caught in our minds, to be instruments for the relief of suffering of all of it, of which we are a part.

- Ram Dass

Join in Community, Connection and Growth

Walking Each Other Home: Meeting the Mystery of Death and Aging

A 10-day virtual immersion starting October 6th

This is an opportunity for you to reflect on your perspective on aging and dying, and learn to navigate the fear, sense of impermanence, and grief that often accompany this journey.

Don’t miss this opportunity to embrace the mystery of life, death, and the universe at large. Whatever age you are, it’s never too early or too late to start exploring these potent subjects as a way to meet life more fully here and now.

Each weekday for 10 days, you’ll receive:

LIVE, online Dharma talks and Q&As at 5pm PT/8pm ET each day, featuring an incredible lineup of teachers that includes Sharon Salzberg, Spring Washam, RamDev, Mirabai Starr, and many more incredible wisdom leaders (see the full lineup below!)

A lesson with at least 30 minutes of teachings curated from Love Serve Remember Foundation’s digital archives to help inspire and enlighten the daily online Dharma talks. This includes wisdom from Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, Frank Ostaseski and many more.
Replays of the Dharma talks and curated daily teachings will be available to replay until Monday, October 20th for sliding scale donors. Once the course ends, indefinite access to all course content will be available to monthly or yearly Inner Academy subscribers.

PLUS: When you sign up, you will have access to our Inner Academy community on Mighty Networks – where you can connect with other virtual retreat attendees, make friends, and share your experiences around the teachings.

Meet Your Teachers

Day 1 - RamDev
October 6th

RamDev founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the coauthor with Ram Dass of 'Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook' and has taught meditation since 1974.

Day 2 - Spring Washam
October 7th

Spring Washam is a well-known meditation teacher, author and visionary leader based in California and Peru. She is the author of 'A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment'. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities. She is one of the founders and core teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, located in downtown Oakland, CA.

Day 3 - Aditi Sethi
October 8th

Dr. Aditi Sethi is a hospice and palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, musician, and Founder of Center for Conscious Living and Dying. Featured in the forthcoming film 'The Last Ecstatic Days', Aditi is an emerging and important voice for shifting our culture’s understanding and approach to dying, death, and bereavement care.

Day 4 - Thanissara
October 9th

Thanissara is a Buddhist practitioner for over 40 years, spending 12 years as a nun in the Thai Forest School of Ajahn Chah. She is co-founder, with her husband Kittisaro, of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa, and Sacred Mountain Sangha in California. Thanissara is a teacher, author and poet; her most recent book is ‘Time To Stand Up’. Ram Dass, and the grace of Neem Karoli Baba continue to be a guiding influence in Thanissara’s Dharma journey.

Day 5 - Leonard Pickard
October 10th

Leonard Pickard is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose work explores psychedelics, consciousness, and human transformation. A former Harvard fellow, he has dedicated much of his life to understanding the deeper dimensions of mind and spirit. His book 'The Rose of Paracelsus' weaves memoir, philosophy, and visionary narrative, offering a profound meditation on the role of psychedelics in awakening and service. Today, he teaches and writes on the intersections of science, spirituality, and compassion.

Day 6 - Ann Tashi Slater
October 13th

Ann Tashi Slater is a writer, teacher, and longtime Tibetan Buddhist practitioner whose work explores impermanence, memory, and meaning. Her forthcoming book, 'Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World', weaves family stories and Buddhist wisdom with reflections on relationships, creativity, and change. A contributing editor at Tricycle, her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and other publications, and she speaks and teaches internationally on literature, spirituality, and contemplative practice.

Day 7 - Mirabai Starr
October 14th

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. Mirabai met Ram Dass in 1975 at the Lama Foundation when she was 14 and has been a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba ever since. Her latest book is 'WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics'.

Day 8 - RamDev
October 15th

Day 9 - Sharon Salzberg
October 16th

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer and industry leader, a world-renowned teacher and New York Times bestselling author. As one of the first to bring meditation and mindfulness into mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, her relatable, demystifying approach has inspired generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of eleven books, including a New York Times bestseller, 'Real Happiness'.

Day 10 - Krishna Das, Mirabai Bush and Rameshwar Das (Pre-Recorded)
October 17th

Mirabai Bush, Krishna Das, and Rameshwar Das are longtime students of Neem Karoli Baba and close collaborators of Ram Dass. Mirabai, co-author of 'Compassion in Action' and 'Walking Each Other Home', founded the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society and hosts the 'Walking Each Other Home' podcast. Krishna Das, known for bringing kirtan to the West, travels worldwide sharing chant and stories of his time in India. Rameshwar Das, co-author of several of Ram Dass’s books including 'Being Ram Dass' and 'Be Love Now', continues to share teachings and practices drawn from decades of spiritual study and service.

Your 10 Daily Teaching Themes

How do we face the fear of aging and death? Learn why wisdom is fearless, and how loving-kindness is the antidote to fear.

How do we live with impermanence? Step into the mystery of incarnation, where the only truth is uncertainty.

How can we support each other through aging and death? Discover how spiritual community is truly a community of souls across time and space.

How do we navigate the trials of aging and dying? See how shifting identification from ego to soul transforms our perspective on mortality.

Can psychedelics help prepare us for death? Explore how dying itself might be the ultimate trip. Vaya con Dios!

What lies beyond death? Explore the Tibetan Buddhist concept of the Bardos, and how love can ultimately transcend death.

How do we live with loss? Explore grief, the dark night of the soul, and how there is no timetable for grieving.

How do we face collective grief? Explore how our work with death on an individual level helps us prepare for environmental and societal losses.

How do we keep our hearts open in this world? Explore how suffering, compassion, and service are vehicles for awakening.

How do we love the mystery of the universe? Take a leap into the mystical unknown to remember who we truly are.

For so many people, opening up to aging, dying, and grief can feel like an overwhelming challenge. This immersion offers a unique blend of Ram Dass and friends’ timeless wisdom and contemporary teachings and practices to help you:

EMBRACE COMMUNITY: Learn how we can support each other through the process of aging and dying.
FACE YOUR FEARS: Tap into the antidote to the fears that arise around pain, impermanence, and more.
GO FROM EGO TO SOUL: Transform your perspective on mortality by shifting your identification.
EXPLORE WHAT LIES BEYOND DEATH: Enter the Bardos and find out how love transcends death.
PROCESS LOSS: Explore the process of grieving and the raw energy of grief on both a personal level and a global level.
KEEP YOUR HEART OPEN: In a world full of suffering, compassion and service are your vehicles for awakening.
TAKE THE LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN: Learn to love the mystery of life, aging, and death.

How to Sign up & Choose Your Price

Honoring Ram Dass • Serving the Community • Paying It Forward

We offer this course on a sliding scale to make it accessible to all, while honoring the real costs of bringing it to life—like teacher time, technology, course creation, and staff support.

The base value of the course is $127

If you’re able to pay at or above that level, you help sustain this offering and pay it forward—making it possible for others to participate at a lower rate.

Not everyone has the same financial access—and that’s okay. We trust you to choose the amount that feels honest, generous, and sustainable for you.

Here’s a simple guide to help you decide:

🌿 Higher Range: You’re in a place of abundance and want to support others.

💛 Base/Mid Range: You can pay the full value of the course without financial strain.

💜 Lower Range: You’re experiencing financial hardship—and you are welcome here.

Whatever you choose, may it be an offering of love.

As a gentle reminder, replays of the Dharma talks and curated daily teachings will be available to replay until Monday, October 20th for sliding scale donors. Once the course ends, indefinite access to all course content will be available to monthly or yearly Inner Academy subscribers.

Student Testimonials

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- Chris and Linzy

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- Marie M.

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