Jeanne Denney, MA, is a somatic psychotherapist, educator, hospice worker, founder of the School of Unusual Life Learning (SoULL) and author of The Effects of Compassionate Presence on the Dying. She has worked in many roles to help people fearlessly embrace a life which includes aging, dying and nature. This has involved years at bedsides, in study and research, in contributing pioneering ideas to somatic psychology, in death and grief work, teaching and facilitation of the Art of Dying projects in New York City. Her unique insights on energy and the body through aging, illness, and dying have been derived from this wide lens of human experience and a deep understanding of our mortal journey.