Death, Birth, and Holy Unions

Birth

Threshold offers spiritual care for birth as a sacred crossing, honoring the intensity, vulnerability, and power of bringing life into the world. We support birthing people before, during, and after birth with ritual, presence, and grounding practices that respect bodily autonomy, consent, and lived reality. Our approach does not romanticize birth or erase its difficulty. We recognize birth as an act of endurance, transformation, and profound threshold work, deserving of reverence, preparation, and support that centers the birthing person’s needs, values, and boundaries.



We also hold space for what surrounds birth: fear and hope, loss and joy, exhaustion and awe. Threshold services may include rites of preparation, labor support rituals, postpartum integration, and blessings that honor both the person who has given birth and the life that has arrived. We understand birth as a moment that reshapes identity, relationships, and the body itself. Our care is steady, grounded, and humane, offering companionship at the crossing and helping individuals and families integrate what has been endured into what comes next.

Death

Threshold offers spiritual care for death and dying that is grounded, humane, and deeply reverent. We support individuals and families as they move through the final crossings of life, tending fear, grief, memory, and meaning with steadiness and care. Our work is not about fixing, hastening, or spiritualizing death, but about honoring it. We create ritual space for saying what needs to be said, blessing what has been lived, and releasing what no longer needs to be carried. We hold the dying person as sovereign, listening closely to their needs, beliefs, and boundaries, and shaping care that reflects their truth.

For those who love the dying, Threshold provides presence, guidance, and ritual support before and after death. We offer rites of vigil, farewell, and remembrance that acknowledge both loss and continuity, helping families and communities grieve without being rushed or silenced. We believe death is not a failure of life, but a profound transition deserving of beauty, dignity, and compassion. At Threshold, we walk with you through this passage with honesty, tenderness, and respect for the mystery that unfolds when a life changes form.

Holy Unions

Threshold offers spiritual care and ritual for holy unions as conscious crossings, not performances. We honor partnerships and chosen family as living thresholds where devotion, accountability, and mutual becoming are practiced over time. Our rites are queer-inclusive, gender-expansive, and rooted in consent, truth, and shared sovereignty. We do not replicate patriarchal marriage scripts or erase difference in the name of unity. Instead, we bless the courage it takes to choose one another with clarity, intention, and care.



Holy union at Threshold is not about possession or hierarchy, but about witness. We create ritual space to name commitments, mark transitions, and honor the realities of love: intimacy and conflict, devotion and repair, joy and responsibility. Whether formal or informal, legal or symbolic, our ceremonies are shaped around the people entering the union and the life they are building together. We stand with couples at the threshold, blessing love that is honest, expansive, and rooted in shared power rather than control.