About

deathmidwifery — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:01:24 +0000

Joellyn St. Pierre is an ordained interfaith minister with a doctorate in divinity focused on Death as a Transition. For 25 years she enjoyed a professional career in theatre with 7 Broadway shows to her credit, including “A Chorus Line,” and “Pippin,” national tours, regional, stock, dinner theatre, commercials, industrial shows and night clubs. She served as Director of Dance for the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training, founded a performing arts school in Orlando, FL, as well as teaching, directing and choreographing nationwide.

When many of Joellyn’s dear friends and associates from theatre began dying from AIDS, her entire life changed. Death became an initiation into a new life; that of a Death Midwife. For the past 16 years, she served those dying and their loved ones throughout the country with various hospices and AIDS organizations. Currently, she donates her services to Norfolk General Hospital’s palliative care unit.

She is the founder and director of Create Sacred Space for Conscious Transitions, an educational organization dedicated to teach and practicing The Art of Death Midwifery nationwide.

Visit its web site at www.deathmidwifery.com