Anne Murphy
Celebrant, Death Educator and Home Vigil Guide
Your Guide in Bringing Ceremony to Life
I’m here to help you find strength, balance, and beauty through carefully crated ritual, ceremony, and education. Together, we’ll discover the best way to bring beauty, meaning and connection for all life’s cycles in a genuine way, celebrating moments that matter to you most.
Hello, I’m Anne
This is more than my work. It’s a part of me.
Acknowledging the sacred thresholds of life and death requires deep listening, gentle support and practical information. I carry the lineage of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who, from time immemorial, have tended to all the cycles of life with their gentle, trusting and knowing hands. Everyone has a gift to share with the community. This is mine – allow me to share it with you.
Family Directed After Death Care
Anticipating a death or curious about your choices? I offer guidance and education for a heart-centered approach to after death care through body care, ritual, and ceremony.
Ceremonies
Marking a transition in life? Together we step out of the ordinary and into sacred space by creating personalized ceremonies that span the lifetime.
Death Education
Want to learn more? I offer workshops, personal consults and speaking events that demystify death. Topics include: Ceremony & Ritual, Green Burials, Holding Space, Home Vigils, Returning to European Ancestor Death Care.
I’m Glad You’re Here
Thought Starters
Follow Anne’s Latest News, Journeys, and Events
Grief is Learned
Grief is a universal and natural response to losing something or someone that we love. It is a sign of our humanity to care so deeply that we become undone by it, enraged by it, frozen from it, thawed by it, and perhaps transformed by it.
Testimonials
“authenticity and gentle spirit”
Anne showed up with the highest integrity. It was an honor to work as partners, each with our strengths and gifts. She brings deep spirit holding and honoring to her work, as well as song. Her voice is strong as a celebrant as she can hold a family in the deepest of grief in the gentlest of ways. Her authenticity and gentle spirit inhabit all of her communications.
“great wisdom and love”
Thank you for your incredible presence…and lighthearted spirit that carries great wisdom and love!
“beautiful & surreal”
I think we’re all still floating from the wedding and adoption ceremony you created for us. It was so beautiful & surreal!
“incredible help”
Thank you for your incredible help in making the death of my husband into a joyous occasion.
“beautiful & surreal”
I think we’re all still floating from the wedding and adoption ceremony you created for us. It was so beautiful & surreal!
“find my way back”
I arrived holding some mystery to what might unfold and I found delight in the process, the participants and the sacred space that both of you created. I left feeling nourished, like having drunk from a deep well — one I would be able to find my way back to again when needed.
“Cara, home vigil workshop participant”
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and passion for creating beauty, healing and connection at the end of life.
