BIO

 SNAPSHOT

Anne-Marie’s is an international speaker, two-time award-winning author and founder of Village Deathcare 501c3 whose inspiration and purpose is incorporating deathcare into community. Of Irish Celtic and Finnish Sámi (indigenous Finno-Ugric) roots, she draws from her work as a death doula, a nurse assistant, life-long meditator, Reiki Master Teacher and mother of three. She leads retreats in Vermont, Ireland, Costa Rica and Mexico on death dying and healing and intuition.  She lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont where she practices meditation, magic, community deathcare, trains her Siberian Husky (nonstop) and delights in her family’s love.

A LITTLE BACKGROUND

After two decades of professional event coordination for weddings, fashion shows, concerts, festivals and conferences, Anne-Marie halted everything to work with the elderly. Propelled by her work with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and her love of an elderly homeless man, she became a Hospice volunteer in 2013. She continued her path of care as a licensed nurse assistant from 2013-2016 and worked with the elderly in residential care and as a private duty nurse. She was the only full time over-night “nurse” and cared for a home of 12 to 14 elderly residents. During this time she was also the director of Meals on Wheels in the capital of Vermont and studied community herbalism.

Anne-Marie’s is author of six books. Her first book Death Nesting which was self-published in 2019 won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2020. Death Nesting was picked up by the publishing house Inner Traditions and was released in 2023, when, by under its new title, Death Nesting The Heart-Centered Practices of  A Death Doula won a gold, COVR Visionary Award in 2024. It was translated into Spanish first on her own and then again professionally under the title of Un nido de paz para la muerte. She is a Life Cycle Funeral Celebrant®, meditation and basic goodness instructor and has two decades of training in Shambhala Buddhist teachings and working with children and teens (ages 3-18) as a teacher at Karmê Chöling Meditation Center. She has studied Phowa with Anyen Rinpoche, completed multiple courses with Pema Chodron,  and is certified through Lama Tsultrim Allione as a facilitator in the Buddhist track of Feeding Your Demons®, where her focus is on opening conversations with death. Anne-Marie has passed the National Home Funeral Alliance proficiency test, and has supported dozens of families through Family Directed Funerals in the state of Vermont, home burial and green burial. 

BEYOND DEATHWORK

Anne-Marie had a breast cancer diagnosis in 2023 and healed herself by following a protocol of her own accord. It was a long process of unweaving the many harmful ways that she viewed herself in relation to society and the planet and a pilgrimage of re-trusting her intuition-- against all western medicine pressures. Anne-Marie is a life long meditator, spirit connector and healer. Her work is to inspire beings to awaken their earthly gifts and  remind them why and how they got here on earth. She is a student of Dr Joe Dispenza, Dr Zach Bush and Abraham Hicks (whom she has been listening to since she was five years old on cassette tapes in her parents car during long trips!)

PODCASTS, MEDIA, ARTICLES & REVIEWS 

There are dozens out there! We're currently rebuilding this site. Please do a good old-fashioned google of "Anne-Marie Keppel" and see the goodies that come up :)