Sacred Guidance at the Thresholds of Living and Dying

How can death teach us about how to live more fully?
What if your grief could serve you rather than weigh you down?
What if collective ritual marked every threshold moments in our lives & beyond?

Join me to weave these practices back into the fabric of our lives.


My name is Ore Ganin-Pinto, and I am an interfaith palliative and hospice chaplain and spiritual care counselor.  I am a musical prayer and song leader, and somatic movement educator.   I have sat at the bedside of patients as they took their last breath and I have journeyed with people as they move through their fears, wonders and found peace and surrender in their most challenging decisions.  I have supported people through rites of passage from weddings, memorials to b’nai mitzvahs.  And, I have facilitated and guided 1-1 and group coaching sessions for decades. Whatever your path of understanding whether through science or spirituality, we can explore the depths of our human experience together. In the call of this time of healing and awakening to wholeness, it would be a humble honor to meet you where you are and accompany you there.


My Offerings   

End-of-Life & Grief Counselor

Companion and advocate to assist and care for all the parts of the journey from terminal illness to death and the grief and loss for those on the other side. *Options available to grieve with the presence of horses

Spiritual Coach

1-1 and group sessions that provide a sacred space to open up conversations with the Divine and with your inner knowing *Specialty in working with LGBTQIA+, healthcare workers, activists and spiritual seekers

Ceremony & Ritual Guide

Weddings
Celebration of Life Memorials
Bar/Bat/Bnai Mitzvahs
Threshold Rituals

Ore also lead rituals and events in Santa Cruz through TzimTzum Collective, queer and expansive Jewish community and the Temple of the Waters, earth-based pagan and interfaith community
Ore serves as musical prayer leader for Shabbat morning both online and in person at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland, CA.

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Bones and Breath Chaplaincy is based in Santa Cruz County, CA on “unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.