Wilka Roig, Transpersonal Psychologist

25/07/2025

Contemplating our mortality, with its generous synchronicities, can be so life-affirming! Here with my esteemed and admired friend and colleague after a week of facilitaring an EOL Doula training at with . So much to be grateful for.

09/07/2025

Yesterday during our training at , a participant shared a thought-provoking perspective about the state in which a dying or grieving person may often find themselves: non-ordinary reality. That in-between, that altered state of consciousness that we often witness or that we ourselves in our own life transitions or grieving process may find ourselves.

Last night, at 10pm, 14 hours into a full day of video interviews and training facilitation, I found myself in a non-ordinary reality of sorts, entering into a creative, mysterious, extraordinary exploratory conversation with John Garay of the-- for me in that moment appropriately titled--show Transmissions from the Interzone at the Radio Kingston studio. By far, this has been the most far out live radio exploration of death yet! I am so grateful for the experience shared.

LiSTEN HERE: https://radiokingston.org/es/broadcast/transmissions-from-the-interzone/episodes/memento-mori

08/07/2025

Co-facilitating and learning with our community of practice at with the super fabulous and inspiring

23/05/2025

Hija del huracán.

"Malos herederos son los que pretenden apoderarse de la herencia en lugar de reconocer que esta es antes que nada la relación con nuestra propia procedencia, la responsabilidad de cultivar lo que hemos recibido del Otro sin dejar de reconocer, en todo caso, la deuda que tenemos con él. . . . Para ser unos justos herederos es necesario reconocer la deuda simbólica que nos une a nuestra procedencia. El heredero justo es aquel que trabaja en lo que ha recibido con la libertad de generar frutos nuevos. Pero si no se reconoce la deuda, si la herencia se vuelve apropiación o usurpación, si la deuda es traicionada, no habrá generatividad alguna sino únicamente muerte; la transmisión se convierte tan solo en transmisión de la violencia."

— Massimo Recalcati

                                     

14/01/2025

A Year to Live: Living this year as if it were your last

Though the various aspects of contemplating our life we learn to live more mindfully each day, each moment, each hour, acknowledging that our mortality is our greatest teacher.

This year-long study group is based on Stephen Levine's process of living this year as if were our last, as outlined in his book, A Year to Live.

Day and time of monthly meetings will be determined based on availability once the group begins to form. Space is limited. Reserve your place by Jaunary 19, 2025
🔗https://wilkaroig.com/product/a-year-to-live/

13/01/2025

All the stuff we have in storage, corners, boxes, attics, basements, that are rotting, breaking, rusting, collecting dust, nests for moths or mice, all these things, literally and figuratively, show up all at once in the garage of our awareness before death. Dealing with physical stuff with its parallel of dealing with emotional, spiritual, mental stuff is what we have to deal with before we can feel more prepared to let go of our past, of our life, of what no longer serves.

We hold on or can't let go because the job feels impossible when so much has accumulated. We are conditioned to identify what we want, and not so conditioned to consider how we welcome things into our life. What do we really want and need to welcome into our lives, into our consciousness?

Every offer is an opportunity to choose whether we will welcome something in or not, and we have the right to do either.

• Does this really promise to be what I really want or need?
• Does it have a purpose? What value does it bring?
• Is there anything else that has that value or place in my life now?
• Can this be an exchange, rather than accumulation, of what has value for me?
• How does it serve me? How does it help me serve so that it's not just about my benefit from it?
• What position—physical, mental, emotional, spiritual—could it have in my life? Is there space for it?
• What is its life span? How can I honor and recognize that and that it will need to move forward or die so it doesn’t remain stagnant?
• How can I sustain its vitality and purpose?
• What is my commitment with it, to it, as my acceptance of it commits it to me?

We have a responsibility with what we welcome in. It is not momentary love or infatuation that fades or is forgotten. How may we best be fully mindful, intentional, reciprocal, responsible with what we welcome in?

05/12/2024

Life is made up of surviving losses, big and small, and grief is the process of transformation that those losses initiate. Part of this process invites us to review our life until this moment when things can no longer be the same, and we cannot return to how things were before the change, to make meaning of things as they are, and make new choices, because, even when sometimes it feels like we could not survive the situation, we are still breathing, and our heart is still beating.

Change can be disorienting, and also offers the possibility of discovering new information, connecting to truths in us we were not aware of, and defining new priorities. In loss, through grief, we discover, beyond anything we've heard or been told, truths that require our attention. Taking the time to connect with these truths and integrate them into who we are becoming, while we are still breathing, and our heart still beating, is learning. And this is how we grow and evolve.

May we accept the invitation to learn from all of life's situations.

11/11/2024

Mensajes por todas partes, así como vamos avanzando hacia lo que la vida requiere de nosotras. Hace poco, en una de las palestras en São Paulo, me preguntaron, "¿qué hacemos con la ausencia? ¿Cómo lidiamos con eso?" Cuando sentimos la ausencia de aquello que fue y ya no puede ser, es una invitación a conectar, intimar con lo que ella nos recuerda que ya no podemos acceder desde lo externo. Pero la ausencia misma es una presencia que nos recuerda que lo que nos hace falta también está latente en nosotras mismas, y pide ser cultivdo desde lo interno.

21/10/2024

¡Acompáñanos mañana! LIVE: El movimiento de doulas de muerte sigue evolucionando en Latinoamérica y en la Red Latinoamericana de Acompañamiento en la Muerte y el Duelo estamos comprometidas a mantenernos a la vanguardia del movimiento. Estaremos Jess Miramontes, Dra. Sandra Reyes, y Wilka Roig, de La Red, y del equipo de ESFIM y Fundación Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro, como parte de una serie de Lives profundizando en el tema con pioneras del movimiento de consciencia de la muerte y doulas de fin de vida en Latinoamérica.

Martes 22 de octubre, 16h30 México

10/10/2024

We just completed the 8th in-person training for volunteer Life, Death & Transition Doulas in México, with members from around the world.

We identify and explore the diverse ways we show up and contribute, as individuals within a team, and as a team in service to a community, learning in practical, intuitive, embodied ways how to best serve as compassionate companions, and collaborating to craft personal and collective guidelines that foster healthy, optimal teamwork.

We have entered a new level of deep understanding, not only of how we got to where we are today with our death culture and our grief culture, but how systems have cracks through which light shines and guides us to better understand what is needed and how we can work with it to effect change from within.

The labor of compassionate accompaniment focuses on self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-responsibility, grounded in intention. We cultivate and promote a way of being, of being in the moment, of entering into presence, and thus being able to create and sustain safe spaces.

CULTIVATING THE DOULA CARE TEAM: Giving Heart and Meaning to TeamworkWe identify and explore the diverse ways we show up and contribute, as individuals withi...

08/10/2024

A Worldwide Perspective on the Role of End of Life Doulas: Join this FREE online event featuring doulas from Ukraine, Mexico, and the United States, hosted by the Dying Wellness Initiative, part of the Global Wellness Institute. On October 22, 12PM ET, this event will bring together doulas Daria Bondar, Frances Pope, and yours truly, as we navigate the complex and diverse needs of our communities across the globe.

We will discuss the implications of compassionate care for those dying in a war torn nation, the effort to build care in areas where there is a critical shortage, and the need for EoL Doula Training to prepare them for the many cultural, societal, and economic challenges the world faces today.

For more information about the panelists and the link to register, please go to:

Hosted by the Dying Well Initiative, part of the Global Wellness Institute, and moderated by Christine Caldwell, Founder EOLPC

29/09/2024

Because, and ¡I insist!, it is all about supporting each other and celebrating the unique contributions each of us brings to this collective effort to evolve our death and grief culture. Thank you my dear friend and admired colleague Dr. Pranab Basu in India, for the opportunity to elevate and highlight the most phenomenal manifestation of transforming and healing through grief that is contained in the publication of his latest book: Positive Life Transformation: A Blessing of Bereavement, for which I had the honor to write the foreword. Fundación Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation May we continue to advance the movement with the support of those we work alongside, because even when we are effecting change in different continents, we are working together, supported by one common goal 🙌🏽 to grieve and die better, and be positively transformed because of it.