Life And Death Wisdom - by Louis Weinstock

COURSE

Life And Death Wisdom

With Louis Weinstock

‘It Is Only When We Face Death That We Become Most Fully Alive’ A deep journey designed to help you turn towards death and become more fully alive, so that every cell of your heart, your mind, and your body tingles with vitality. The course contains 6 beautifully crafted lessons, each filled with heart-warming wisdom, and transformative meditations on life, death, grief. With a balance of personal storytelling, engaging meditations, journal exercises, and transformative wisdom shared from various life and death teachings from across the world, you’ll learn about Death as Life’s Greatest Teacher, How to Befriend the Fear of Death, how to overcome self-sabotage by using Sigmund Freud’s theory of the Life and Death instinct, and the Surprising Magical Power of Grief. By the end of this series, you will have gently and compassionately discovered your answer to perhaps the most important question of all, one from the Zen buddhist tradition: Since death is certain, and it’s timing uncertain, what is important now?

AwakeningSpiritualFearStress & AnxietyGriefRecovery & HealingContemporary BuddhismSpiritualitySpirituality

Meet your Teacher

Louis Weinstock
Manchester, UK

Louis Weinstock is a Transpersonal Psychotherapist who works with children and the child inside us all. He helps people find a light in the darkness – in the things that are unseen, unheard and unspoken. For over 20 years, he has expertly guided children and grown-ups through some of the toughest challenges life can throw at us – loss, trauma, divorce, burnout, and breakdowns. He has studied death since his early 20s, worked in a hospice counseling families with a terminal illnesses, and supported people through their grief. He runs The Magic Power Of Grief Workshops. He is also co-founder of Apart of Me, a multi-award-winning charity that helps children, young people, and families transform their grief into compassion. His book 'How The World Is Making Our Children Mad, And What To Do About It' was published by Penguin in June 2022. His work has been featured on the BBC, ITV, and in the Guardian newspaper. He lives in Manchester with his wife and daughter.

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6 Days

912 students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Awakening

English

Lesson 1

Death - Our Greatest Teacher

In this session, you will learn perspectives and practices that will help you see death as a powerful teacher on the path of liberation. A great teacher helps us to cut through all the distractions and misinformation so we can see the truth, clearly. Death cuts through the unimportant like a sharp knife, bringing things into a crystal clear focus, helping us to focus on what matters most. In this session, you will learn how to receive the wisdom from this powerful teacher so that your life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and filled with beauty.

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Lesson 2

Befriending Your Fear Of Death - Part One

In this session, you will learn how fear of death is built-in to being a living, loving creature on this precious earth. You will learn how to make friends with your fear of death, how to find the root of this fear in your body, and how to turn gently and lovingly towards it, so that this fear doesn’t get in the way of you living a life full of joy and meaning.

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Lesson 3

Befriending Your Fear Of Death - Part Two

In this session, you will discover how certain events and stages in life - adolescence, becoming a parent, mid-life etc. - can bring unconscious death anxiety back to the surface. You will learn how to work with these moments wisely, so that they can orient you to a path of true liberation.

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Lesson 4

Self Sabotage And The Death Instinct - Why We Are Often Our Own Worst Enemy, And What To Do About It

In this session, you will learn about the ‘Death Instinct’, a force that we all have inside and that we can find a way to work skilfully with so that it fuels our creativity instead of our self-destruction. One of the most baffling things about human beings is that - despite our huge brains and self-acclaimed status as highly evolved apes - our very worst enemies are often ...ourselves. Why is this? Why do we self-sabotage - not only on an individual level, but equally - From through World Wars, and to genocide, from Nuclear Bombs, to the Climate Crisis - why do we self-destruct on a collective level?

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Lesson 5

Nurturing Your Life Force

In this session, you will learn how to work more skillfully with the polarity of the Death and Life Instincts that exists inside all beings. Liberation comes through accepting and honouring the contradictory nature of our being, the light and the dark. There is a juiciness to be found in this polarity. By learning how to honouring your life force as the balancing force of our death instinct, you can really wake up, and find a deeper sense of pleasure in everyday life.

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Lesson 6

The Magic Power Of Grief

In this session, you will learn about the energy or grief, the diferent shapes and forms it can take, how the energy of grief contains a deep transformational potential. You will learn how to connect more deeply and skilfully with your grief, learn to take care of it, to cherish it, so you can open your heart and keep the flame of your love for the world alive.

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4.8 (57)

Recent Reviews

Adam

December 8, 2025

Thank you for creating this group of meditations. I imagine I will return to this often.

Brenda

October 22, 2025

Brilliant, thank you. I found this very insightful and I will definitely listen to it again.

Chrystal

April 23, 2025

Beautiful course with lots of thought provoking questions and encouragement for gentle reflection

Charlie

February 10, 2025

I just lost my amazing spouse of 46 years. I have a lifetime of multiple spiritual practices and I’ve worked in hospice, but listening to this at this time of GREAT NEED saved me from falling apart. Thankful & Greatful ❤️

Agneta

February 9, 2025

Beautifully expressed and shared with references to authors, my heart is grateful. Thank you for your authenticity experience and teachings.

Donna

October 20, 2024

Thank you!

Marcia

December 18, 2023

Thank you for this course. I really learned a lot and have some excellent tools I can use that are already helping me with shifting my perspectives around death and grief. Great course!!!

Meg

December 6, 2023

Thankyou

Andrea

November 5, 2023

Thank you for encouraging me to create a ritual to tend to my grief. Underneath my grief is the deepest love. Namaste. 🤍

Nancy

September 22, 2023

Louis offers a beautiful approach to a difficult subject. It is so valuable and full of rich perspectives tgat we plan to repeat the course right away.

Michelle

August 21, 2023

I loved this course, I have a very open mind about death. the physical passing of the spirit and feel that it’s a passage back to the Divine, so feel very comfortable with it. This course however has highlighted the impact of death and grief in my life in situations where I’ve lost something such as getting divorce or feeling something hasn’t gone my way or feeling unsupported which occurred regularly in my childhood. I’ll be repeating the course no doubt several times as I work through life situations which I’ve suppressed unknowingly. . Many Thanks Louis

Jason

August 8, 2023

I so desire all of humanity, especially in the West, to be guided by this wisdom. With wit and winsomeness, this course tenderly guides the heart into the dark abyss of brightness. Practical, storied, and real, my soul is enriched by this offering. Gratitude 🥹

KatieG

July 27, 2023

A beautiful and important course for all of us. I have long explored the light and dark, and am so curious about life and death and their intertwining. I would welcome and take another course of Louis, well done!

Maria

July 10, 2023

So helpful

Ali

July 10, 2023

Absolutely excellent. So much warmth, wisdom and teaching packed into this beautiful, short course. A number of recent life event's (my partner survived a brain haemorrhage, I then had a nervous breakdown) really taught me, that deeply out of sight, was my fear of death for those I love and for myself.This massively impacted on the quality of my life. I sat with all of my suffering and difficult emotions, allowed everything to be just as it was, for many months,and slowly everything shifted. I will relisten to this wonderful course and make notes, as it is full of profound quotes, poems and learning. It has joined up more thinking for me and expanded a journey and process that I was already on. Perfect timing. Blessings to you Louis for this amazing teaching. 🙏

Anju

July 9, 2023

Excellent course! Thank you!🙏🏼

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