Felicity Warner
Learn how to tend to the dying and ease their transition with prayers, presence, and powerful oils for soul care, as the Myrrhophores (temple priestesses) did long before the advent of hospitals and hospices.
Bring beauty and meaning to those transitioning from this life — not just as a healer or supportive family member, but as a modern-day Myrrhophore, using love, rituals, and the anointing of ancient sacred oils.
When someone you love — or a patient or client — is dying, you may feel there’s nothing you can do to help.
You hold their hand, whisper kind words, say prayers, and hope your presence is enough — but still, it can feel like you’re standing on the shore, watching someone drift away without any way to reach them.
You weren’t given tools for this or invited to step into your power as a steward of life’s greatest transition.
But now you can. There is a way to guide someone through this most sacred of passages, shares end-of-life doula Felicity Warner.
It’s rooted in an ancient, closed-lineage tradition passed down from temple priestesses known as Myrrhophores — healers who work with sacred oils in spiritual, ritual, and healing practices.
The word itself comes from myrrh — a revered and aromatic resin used for millennia in sacred rites, embalming, and anointing — and phore, meaning “bearer” or “carrier.”
Felicity is a pioneer in the modern soul midwifery movement and the founder of the Soul Midwives School. Join her for an enriching 7-week journey designed to initiate you into the ancient art of working with sacred oils through the lineage of the myrrhophores.
As you learn to anoint and support others through death, you’ll also undergo your own transformation — becoming a vessel of light, healing, and deep spiritual wisdom.
These aren’t oils you put in a diffuser or massage into someone’s skin. This is not modern aromatherapy. This is sacred priestess work. Soul midwife work. Energetic medicine passed down through generations, rooted in oral transmission that predates even the Egyptians.
Felicity’s groundbreaking approach has redefined how we care for the dying — bringing sacredness, compassion, and holistic support back into the heart of the dying process.
Having trained thousands of soul midwives around the world, Felicity is known for her deep wisdom, gentle presence, and ability to translate ancient practices into accessible, soul-led teachings.
She shares that each sacred oil carries its own frequency — a kind of soul note — that weaves directly into the light body of the person transitioning. It’s this resonance that allows deep rebalancing, realignment, and healing to take place, even at the threshold of death.
You’ll learn how to become a clear vessel for these frequencies by working with your own energy first — clearing, opening, and attuning your body and heart to be able to transmit the medicine of these oils — because before you can support another through their final transition, you must be able to hold yourself in light and love.
You’ll move through the elemental stages of dying — earth, water, fire, and air — and be introduced to the specific sacred oils that support each phase.
Discover little-known but powerful oils like fragonia, which helps restore balance when someone feels physically or emotionally wobbly. Experience niaouli, a potent guide through the fire phase, when the ego dissolves and the dark night of the soul emerges. Connect with elemi, the oil of transcendence, a luminous bridge between this world and the next.
Each week, you’ll be guided through a meditation to connect with the spirit of each oil — even if you don’t physically have the oil. That’s the beauty of this work — the energy of the oil is always available. You’ll learn how to feel it, call it in, and work with it from anywhere.
Discover how to set sacred space, communicate soul-to-soul, and see death not as an ending, but a continuation of the soul’s eternal journey.
Explore how to create simple yet powerful rituals for anointing the dying and the newly departed, and how to offer this sacred work to yourself as a path of healing, initiation, and transformation through any of life’s transitions.
The path of the Myrrhophore deepens your spiritual gifts, attuning to the frequencies of release, transcendence, and peace.
You’ll also learn how to recognize the subtle signs that someone is entering a new phase of the dying process, choose the right oil to support them energetically, and hold loving, therapeutic space even when there are no words left to say.
During this soul-stirring course, you’ll:
- Be guided through meditations and rituals that help you feel the energetic power of sacred oils in your own body
- Recognize how to use anointing practices rooted in ancient traditions to support the dying with comfort, presence, and love
- Understand the psycho-spiritual stages of death and how they correspond to the elements — earth, water, fire, and air
- Discover how to select and work with high- and low-frequency oils to soothe fear, ease agitation, and elevate consciousness
- Prepare yourself as a vessel of light so you can transmit healing energy through your touch with clarity and confidence
- Create personalized anointing blends that reflect the soul essence of the person transitioning
- Gain tools to support emotional release, soul healing, and ego dissolution during the dying process
- Learn how to care for the newly departed by setting sacred space, practicing soul-to-soul communication, and witnessing the light body after death
- And much more...
This course is for soul midwives, caregivers, spiritual seekers, and anyone drawn to serve at the threshold of life and death. It’s also for those going through any kind of transition — because sacred oils work not only with death, but with all passages of release, surrender, and transformation.
There comes a moment in every life when the veil thins, the breath slows, and the soul begins to cross beyond the veil.
With the sacred oils and the teachings of the Myrrhophores, you’ll know how to meet that moment with reverence, clarity, and a sacred toolkit drawn from a lineage few even know exists.
You’ll be able to say, I am here, and you are not alone.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Felicity will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully gain the knowledge, confidence, and spiritual tools to support the dying with love, intention, and sacred ritual — before, during, and after death.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Felicity and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Felicity’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions Tuesdays at 9:00am Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Felicity. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to know exactly how to bring calm, connection, and soul-level support to someone who is dying.
Module 1: Anoint With Purpose to Bring Wholeness, Completion & Peace to the Dying (2025-05-06 9:00:00 am)
For thousands of years, sacred oils have played a vital role in helping people cross the threshold between life and death with grace, peace, and dignity.
Reconnect with the ancient wisdom of the Myrrhophores — temple priestesses who used oils like myrrh in sacred anointing rituals to bring energetic wholeness to the dying.
Learn how these powerful yet simple techniques are making a comeback in modern end-of-life care, offering comfort, presence, and soul-level healing.
Dying isn’t a single moment — it’s a subtle and spiritual unfolding. When approached with reverence and love, these ancient practices can help restore wholeness to those transitioning, repairing the cracks left by a lifetime of pain or trauma.
Discover how intention and ritual transform aromatic oils into sacred tools — and how you, too, can use them to bring beauty and meaning to the final moments of life.
In this module, you’ll:
- Be guided through an experiential anointing meditation to feel how different points on your own body respond to sacred oils
- Learn who the Myrrhophores were and how their sacred death work is being remembered and revived
- Explore what makes an oil “sacred” and how intention turns a simple act into a holy one
- Discover how ancient anointing rituals are being woven into modern end-of-life care practices
- Get to know the specific oils we’ll be working with — and why they matter for physical, emotional, and energetic peace
Module 2: Channel the Energies of Sacred Oils to Relieve Distress and Elevate the Spirit (2025-05-13 9:00:00 am)
Sacred oils are more than aromatic blends — they’re living frequencies, carrying the light and intelligence of the plant world.
Myrrhophores consider them master teachers, holding the divine spark that communicates directly with the energetic body.
Learn how each oil carries its own vibration and how to work with that frequency to harmonize, ground, or elevate the energy of someone in transition.
Explore how energy blocks — from physical pain, fear, or unprocessed emotion — can be gently shifted through the intentional use of sacred oils.
Gain a deeper understanding of your role as a vessel of light, preparing your hands and heart to become conduits for healing. This is about understanding the energetic mechanics behind the ritual — so you’re not just hoping it works, you know why it does.
In this module, you’ll:
- Experience a self-anointing ritual that prepares your hands as channels of healing energy
- Learn how to sense and choose the right oil to support a dying person’s energetic needs
- Prepare your body and spirit to serve as a grounded vessel for transmitting light and love
- Discover the difference between high- and low-frequency oils and how to use both
- Practice the energetic technique of transferring oil frequency through your touch to soothe anxiety, distress, and energetic dissonance
Module 3: Release the Earth Element & Begin the Journey Home With Sacred Oils That Support Letting Go (2025-05-20 9:00:00 am)
As the dying process begins, subtle shifts take place in the energy field — shifts that are often overlooked, but profoundly shape how the transition unfolds.
Focus on the first psycho-spiritual stage of dying: when the earth element begins to withdraw.
This stage can leave a person feeling physically drained, ungrounded, and spiritually adrift. But with the support of sacred oils like fragonia and mai chang, learn how to gently restore flow and harmony.
These oils offer gifts that go beyond aroma — they help loosen the ties that bind us to the physical world and ease us into what comes next.
Whether someone is dying slowly or suddenly, these elemental stages still occur. Begin to recognize and respond to them with compassion and confidence.
In this module, you’ll:
- Experience a meditation with fragonia to feel how it supports balance and calm during the earth stage of dying
- Understand the first psycho-spiritual phase of the dying journey and what energetic changes arise
- Learn how to use fragonia and mai chang in ritual and meditation to support grounding and release
- Explore how thoughts, dreams, and emotions begin to shift as we loosen our grip on life
- Begin to embrace this stage as a meaningful part of the journey — one filled with strength, presence, and grace
Module 4: Soothe the Spirit & Heal Deep Soul Wounds by Flowing With the Water Element (2025-05-27 9:00:00 am)
Move deeper into the dying process, and enter the water phase — a time of deep reflection, emotional excavation, and soul-level healing.
This stage invites a return to the past, where memories arise like waves — childhood moments, family bonds, past relationships, unresolved pain, and buried emotions. These are not just memories, they are invitations.
Explore how to meet the soul’s hidden wounds with compassion, how to gently surface what’s been suppressed, and how to help release the weight of unresolved trauma.
The sacred oil ravensara serves as a wise and gentle guide through these waters, supporting emotional healing without the heaviness of re-traumatization.
Learn how to work with it intuitively and therapeutically to help the dying let go of what no longer serves their soul’s journey.
In this module, you’ll:
- Be guided through a meditation with ravensara to connect with its healing frequency and feel the emotional unburdening it offers
- Learn how to recognize and gently release hidden aspects of the shadow self
- Support the emergence and healing of soul wounds so they can be honored and released
- Help reconcile fragmented parts of the psyche and bring harmony to inner contradictions
- Gain an understanding of the water stage of dying as a soulful process of letting go, forgiving, and flowing into emotional wholeness
Module 5: Transmute Darkness Into Light Through the Fire of the Soul (2025-06-03 9:00:00 am)
The fire stage is the soul’s ultimate crucible — the moment when everything that no longer serves is burned away.
In this intense and transformational phase, the ego dissolves, the past falls away, and the soul confronts the raw truth of itself. This is the dark night of the soul.
It can be agitating, emotional, and profoundly challenging for the person transitioning — and for those supporting them. But through this heat comes transmutation.
Explore how to work with the potent sacred oil niaouli — a fierce and luminous ally that helps dissolve the false self and illuminate the true essence within.
Even holding the bottle can stir something within you. It’s not easy work, but it’s holy work. When supported with love and intention, this fire refines the soul into something pure, radiant, and free.
In this module, you’ll:
- Be guided through a meditation with niaouli to experience its fierce, purifying energy and connect with the essence of the fire stage
- Learn how to hold space for someone experiencing the dark night of the soul without trying to “fix” or rush their process
- Witness the ego’s unraveling and how to support its dissolution with steadiness and love
- Understand what it means to become a “husk” — shedding the dross to reveal the luminous core
- Discover how this stage, though difficult, offers the soul a profound gift of transformation and truth
Module 6: Support the Final Breath With Sacred Air Oil to Ease the Transition Into Pure Consciousness (2025-06-10 9:00:00 am)
In the final phase of dying, the breath becomes softer and slower, until it dissolves altogether.
This is the stage of air — the lightest, most ethereal element — when consciousness begins to expand beyond the body.
As the dying person slips into sleep and unconsciousness, something extraordinary begins to happen — a sense of clarity and vastness, a remembering of what they truly are.
Work with the sacred oil elemi, a powerful ally for this stage. Elemi helps bring comfort and reassurance to both the dying and their loved ones, creating a sense of ease and awe as the soul prepares to release fully into pure, ecstatic awareness.
This oil isn’t just for anointing—it’s for witnessing the sacred. Explore the deeply personal practice of creating a custom oil blend that reflects the unique frequency of the soul preparing to depart.
In this module, you’ll:
- Be guided through a meditation with elemi to experience its expansive, comforting frequency for yourself
- Learn how to ease the transition into higher states of consciousness through scent, breath, and intention
- Explore the mystery of near-death and shared-death experiences as glimpses into expanded awareness
- Create a personalized anointing oil that reflects the essence of the person passing
- Discover how to anoint the body in the final hours to help guide the soul into release with grace and love
Module 7: Create Sacred Space for the Soul's Passage With Love, Ritual, and Sacred Oil (2025-06-17 9:00:00 am)
Death is not the end — it’s a return. A return to who we truly are and what we’ve always been.
Explore the sacred act of supporting a soul just after they’ve left the body. Far from being a moment to rush through, this is a holy pause — an invitation to slow down, open your heart, and offer love, presence, and care.
Work with the deeply mystical oil spikenard, used by Mary Magdalene to anoint Jesus before his death, and learn how this sacred oil helps ease the soul’s passage and open the way toward what lies beyond.
Discover how to set sacred space, communicate soul-to-soul, and see death not as an ending, but as a continuation of the soul’s eternal journey.
This is how we honor both the dying and the living — with devotion, beauty, and love.
In this module, you’ll:
- Be led through a meditation to assist a soul across the sacred threshold and gently return to yourself
- Learn how to care for the newly dead with reverence, intention, and spaciousness
- Work with spikenard to create a loving ritual of anointing and release
- Practice soul-to-soul communication to offer comfort and closure
- Discover how to set a sacred altar and recognize the presence of the light body in the moments after death
The Sacred Anointing for the Dying Bonus Offering
In addition to Felicity’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Sacred Oil Anointing Recipe & Blessing for Someone Close to Transition
PDF and Audio From Felicity Warner
This heartfelt ritual supports someone you love as they near the threshold. Be guided to craft an anointing oil infused with intention, creating a sacred tool that carries your love and presence. The blessing included helps you offer words of peace, comfort, and spiritual connection during this tender time. Feel grounded and purposeful as you hold space for their journey. It’s a beautiful way to express your love and honor their transition with grace.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Guide to Choosing Sacred Oils
PDF From Felicity Warner
Get clear on how to select the perfect oils to match your healing intentions. Explore the energetic and spiritual qualities of each essence so you’re not just picking scents — you’re working with vibration and purpose. Felicity walks you through traditional uses and subtle properties, helping you tune into what your clients truly need. Feel more confident and connected as a practitioner. If you’ve ever wondered which oil to reach for and why, this guide has your answer.
Using Anointing Symbols to Magnify Intention
PDF From Felicity Warner
Learn how to infuse your rituals with deeper meaning and magnetic power. Discover how simple symbols can tap into ancient archetypes and spiritual wisdom, amplifying the energy of every anointing. This guide shows you how to select or intuitively create symbols that align with your purpose. Explore how to use them to create a more sacred, intentional experience for yourself and others.
What Graduates of Felicity’s Courses Are Saying…
This program has been life-changing for me. I had experience with hospice as a volunteer, but this was much more thorough and expanded my knowledge and experience. I feel so lucky and grateful to have participated in it.
Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
I found Felicity’s perspective and approach to the subject of dying both compassionate and practical at the same time. The title Gentle Dying is most descriptive and she made facing this difficult subject much more comfortable and “normal.” Thank you, Felicity, for your dedication in this arena! I will be sharing your insights with family and friends and hopefully help shift society’s taboo attitude on this subject.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This course was delightful and gave me many new insights into the process of dying and helping others in the experience. So many great tools to aid in this experience. Inspired! Should be taught in all healing environments.
Lincoln, California
This course is perhaps going to become the most influential and transformative experience in our lifetime and in lifetimes to come as we all come to realign our soul’s missions and desire to transfer from physical and nonphysical realms. It is a valuable insight into how our two realms can co-create together in oneness and for the greater good of all. It’s only a matter of time before this way of dying in the physical body becomes widely accepted as the norm.
This course was so beautifully delivered by Felicity. I have appreciated her teachings and wisdom. The course has made me insightful into my own death as well as learning the gift of gently supporting others physically, spiritually, and emotionally as they approach end of life. The Gentle Dying course has spoken to my heart and soul.
UK
Join the Global Community
Sacred Anointing for the Dying offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Felicity Warner will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Felicity Warner
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from author and end-of-life doula Felicity Warner, founder of Soul Midwives — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to discover how to use anointing, energy healing, and ancient wisdom to ease the dying process and offer soul-level care at every step of the journey. Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 9:00am Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Sacred Anointing for the Dying
We feel honored that Felicity Warner has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an author and end-of-life doula, the founder of Soul Midwives whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning to use sacred oils, energy practices, and ancient wisdom to walk beside the dying and help them transition with grace and clarity, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Sacred Anointing for the Dying — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before May 20, 2025 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Felicity Warner
I am very respectful of the experience and background that Felicity Warner has and so this course was very meaningful to me, especially the last class about what happens after the body dies. The entire series was moving, informative, and life-changing for me. Iam thankful that I took it.
Wiarton, Ontario, Canada
My eyes, ears, heart were opened to the beautiful experience of dying and transitioning. It was an opportunity to look at my own journey to and through death and to learn how to open my heart to the death experience of others; to be fully present. This was wonderful learning!
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
This was the best course I have ever taken through Shift! Felicity is a wonderful teacher, and as an end-of-life doula, I received valuable advice and information.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
About Felicity Warner
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Felicity Warner is the founder of Soul Midwives™, a global movement pioneering and teaching holistic and spiritual end-of-life care. Her work is used in hospitals, hospices, and care homes and within communities.
She is the principal of the Soul Midwives School, and lectures internationally on death and dying and sacred oils. She has authored four books, including Gentle Dying, A Safe Journey Home, The Soul Midwives' Handbook, and Sacred Oils: Working with 20 Precious Oils to Heal Spirit and Soul.
In her healing work, Felicity is a myrrhophore (a woman who works with myrrh) and holder of a lineage dating back to Mary Magdalene. This ancient healing practice uses the energetic qualities of essential oils and aromatics for their interaction with the human energy field.
She is an honorary Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the University of Winchester and has won many awards for her work, including End of Life Care Champion of the Year by the National Council for Palliative Care, and the End of Life Doula of the Year by The Good Funeral Guide. She was a finalist in the Daily Mail Inspirational Women of the Year Awards.
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