Welcome, I’m Tora.
I am a friend of all creatures: big and small, wild and domestic, mystical, magical, and faerie.
I’m so glad you’re here.
My very first memory is of horses.
My very first friends were furry and pawed.
My purpose in this life has always been to live alongside animals.
I have been fortunate to call many spectacular creatures – horses, dogs, cats, birds, even a lizard or two – my friends.
My family.
And I have walked, very intimately, the journey of death alongside my beloved animals.
What could your grief journey look like, if you turned towards death and approached it with curiosity?
How do you stay connected to your compassion, your resilience, and your courage?
What does death look like to you?
What does death feel like?
What relationship do you have with death?
My passion is helping clients explore all of those questions, and everything they bring up, in a safe and supportive environment.
The deaths of our animals rock us to our core - and they can reveal some incredible awareness and understanding as well. Their death and the grief it brings can be our greatest teacher. Lean in, turn towards death, and see what is there for you.
I’m here to walk that journey with you.
Training & Lived Experience
Companion Animal End-of-Life Doula, Certificate — University of Vermont. 2024
The 7 Spirals - A Celtic Medicine Wheel: Shamanic Practitioners Course, Certificate — Heartland Healing Arts. 2024
Mind-Body Coaching Certificate — The Embody Lab. October 2026
Upcoming Integrative Grief Counseling Certificate — The Embody Lab. Expected December 2026
Long before any formal training, this work had already been shaping me. I've spent a lifetime as a guardian to animals — and, in turn, a lifetime learning what it means to walk them through their final chapter. I've sat with my dogs, cats, horses, and birds through illness, decline, and death. That accumulated experience — the actual, lived weight of loving and losing, again and again — is as much a part of what I bring to this work as any certification.
Cosmic Heartline Podcast
Cosmic Heartline is the home for connection through courageous, compassionate conversations about death, that remind us of the resilience of our animal spirit. This podcast is a mixture of storytelling and learning from each other.
It features stories of departed beloved animals, as well as collaborative and solo episodes focusing on a range of topics: our connection to the cosmos, shamanic wisdom and healing through grief, stewarding aging animals, understanding the logistics of death and euthanasia, caring for our own selves through grief, animal communication and the wisdom of the animal kingdom, and so much more
This is a space of engaging in compassionate, courageous conversation that reminds us of the resilience of our animal spirit.
Standout Episodes:
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The very first episode of The Cosmic Heartline Podcast.
In this episode, I remember my why for becoming a shamanic animal death doula - the life, death, and gifts of my beloved border collie, Bey.
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My friend Lori Halliday joins me today on the pod. She is a deeply intuitive person, the founder and executive director of Horse & Heart Ranch, and a deeply embodied individual. In this episode we talk about the presence of care in life and death, and she shares about two beloved mares who are now in the cosmos, Maya and Pearl.
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I'm joined by my friend and mentor Dr. Tracy Rainwaters on the pod today! Tracy is a shaman, animal communicator, and equine chiropractor. We speak of our cosmic origins and connections, our animals as soul family, and she shares about the very recent and sudden death of her beloved dog, Soonie. This will not be the last time you hear Tracy on this pod, but it is the first, and I am so grateful to have her here!
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YOU DON’T HAVE TO WALK THIS PATH ALONE
Be supported and held during this difficult transition.