Wilka discusses the growth of the doula movement in Mexico and the end-of-life issues that are currently arising in Mexico and Central and South America.

Wilka discusses death activism, how we can reconnect to the natural cycles of life and death, where our fear of death comes from, the necessity of community support in navigating grief, and simple practices to connect into death on the daily.

Each one of us will come face-to-face with grief many times during our lifetime. Grief is the human condition that none of us can avoid. Wilka explains how grief guides us to grow and evolve. Loss is fundamental for evolution and each loss is an opportunity for healing through collaboration with grief. She helps us to better understand how grief leads us through an essential transformative process.

Wilka discusses conscious grieving as the transformative process that invites us to acknowledge and collaborate with the loss, assuming the inevitable change, and allow for the new life that the loss initiates, and to be willing to enter into the formless, dark, unknown space that allows for the new to take form.

Tenemos una capacidad de dominar nuestra naturaleza hoy día con nuestros avances. Estamos identificados por conceptos de lo que somos y por qué estamos aquí. Como naturaleza y como consciencia no somos dueños de nada. Tenemos una fantasía condicionada de que soy esto porque tengo esto. ¿Qué más podemos considerar como consciencia encarnada?

How do we live life and approach death with “merciful awareness?” What does it mean to become aware of life and death’s “zero point?” Is there a connection between our dreams and the life we are living? In this session, Wilka Roig, a death doula, therapist, and global educator, reflects on how her own life has informed and shaped answers to these profound questions and how from her vantage point, a revolution is unfolding in how we interpret and understand the end of life.

Como parte del programa educacional de Fundación Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro, Muerte Consciente, fundadoras de la Red Latinoamericana de Acompañamiento nos comparten su intención, su visión, y su misión evolucionando nuestra cultura de muerte en comunidad. Escuchamos de co-fundadoras Wilka Roig, Sofía Plonski, Verónica Falconi y Michelle Puga acerca de lo que es el cuidado de la muerte en comunidad, y cómo trabajamos en comunidad para incorporar un acercamiento más humano que honra nuestra naturaleza.

Deanna Flores Cochran interviews Sofía Plonski and Wilka Roig, who created the Red Latinoamericana de Acompañamiento en la Muerte y el Duelo, leading the death consciousness movement in Latin America. Their mission is to identify and connect with individuals, communities, institutions and organizations that work and serve in the field of loss, grief and end of life, to define the network that sustains us, and through which we can achieve our goals in community for the greatest collective benefit. Sopfía and Wilka translated and edited Deanna’s book in Spanish, published in 2022, Acompañando a los moribundos: Sabiduría práctica desde el corazón para doulas de fin de vida y mediadores en el sector de la salud.

Tune in to learn about all of the wonderful work Wilka Roig is doing in Mexico, including the first green cemetery for ecological restoration in Latin America.

Wilka Roig, Psicóloga Transpersonal, Doula de la muerte, consejera de duelo, platica con MEG, para fortalecernos en que hay que honrar los procesos, que en la vida, desde que nacemos, estamos en pérdida y ganancia—la ganancia es estar conscientes de que tenemos una vida y también la ganancia de que nos vamos a ir—este proceso de la comprensión de la muerte, de que todo cambia y nada es para siempre. Exploramos herramientas para colaborar con las transiciones de vida y procesarlas a través del duelo.

Wilka Roig, president of Fundación Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro, talks with Aditi Sethi, co-protagonist of the documentary The Last Ecstatic Days, and founder and director of the Center for Conscious Living and Dying in Asheville, North Carolina, about the call and the mission to the work of compassionate accompaniment and the work of end-of-life Doula.

Hay que dejar morir para dejar nacer y la muerte solo duele si ponemos resistencia. Hay muertes físicas y muertes de identidad, personalidad, patrones, creencias, y más. En este episodio confrontamos la muerte desde todos los sentidos, no solo literal sino también metafórica. Ponemos en frente una realidad que a muchos nos da miedo pero que al final si no lo reconocemos y lo integramos nos la vamos a pasar toda la vida huyéndole a la muerte en lugar de vivir la vida.

Wilka Roig, president of Fundación Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro, talks with Scott Kirschenbaum, cause-driven filmmaker and director of the documentary The Last Ecstatic Days, about the mission and impact of this experimental collaborative death awareness tour. “Can we take life’s last journey without fear?” is what the documentary asks us and invites us to contemplate in community through its pilot tour in Latin America, screening in México in Oaxaca City, San Miguel de Allende, and Ajijic, Mexico from October 30th to November 8th, 2023.

One thing is sure: we are all going to die. Wilka discusses how contemplating death—whether or not we have been diagnosed with a short life expectancy—can enhance our lives and our intimate relationships.

Synchronicities lead the way when we surrender to the process of grief.

Wilka discusses the rich history of indigenous end-of-life traditions in the Americas, wellness at this special phase of life, and her work as a death doula providing wellness at the end of life in Mexico, highlighting the training program she developed which has created a team of volunteer death doulas throughout North, Central and South America.

Transition = loss/gain + inevitable change; every transition is an initiation, an invitation to collaborate with necessary change

In our progression through grief and toward the end of life, dreams, visions, and the symbolic therein reveal what needs to be explored, considered, tended to, and healed. Understanding and identifying symbolic language can help guide us through the end-of-life process.