Sacred Resources for Living & Dying from a Hospice Counselor

Maria Dancing Heart was born in Tokyo, Japan, daughter of Lutheran missionaries. She spent her childhood growing up in Japan, attending Japanese public schools through the eighth grade. As a result, she is bilingual and bicultural, and has used her language and cultural skills in a variety of ways through the years. After finishing high school at Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan, she moved to the United States for college. She graduated from Yale College, and later attended seminary and received her Masters of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary in 1984. Maria self-published her book, The Last Adventure of Life: Sacred Resources for Transition, in July of 2005. In May of 2008, a 2nd edition was published through Findhorn Press with a new subtitle: Sacred Resources for Living and Dying from a Hospice Counselor.