About Rosemary Raven Hearth
Erika Hall, Taboo Doula and the founder of Rosemary Raven Hearth, a practice centered on the experiences our culture most often avoids: dying, grief, sexuality, and the body. She works with individuals and groups at the thresholds where people need companionship the most and find it the least.
In 2020, Erika began devoted end-of-life doula practice, walking alongside dying individuals and their loved ones with presence, ritual, and practical support. She is a member of the International Association of Professional Death Doulas and the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA). Her death doula work includes advocacy for personal autonomy, advance care planning, and creating space for families to grieve on their own terms.
Since 2022, Erika has supported individuals and groups in unlearning shame, reclaiming pleasure, and building honest relationships with their bodies. Certified through The Embody Lab in integrative somatic and embodiment practice, Erika is also pursuing a PhD in human development and certification with AASECT. Her approach is consent-centered, kink-aware, and queer-affirming, grounded in nervous system awareness and free of purity culture or performance pressure.
She also offers Tantric Reiki sessions at Pollinate Hive House, drawing on training and certification she’s held for over a decade and continued to study with Skydancing Tantra Institute. In this lineage, tantra is the bodily method of accessing universal energy, with the body serving as conduit. Sessions are one-on-one and offered in 60, 90, or 120 minute lengths.
By bringing deathwork, grief support, sexual embodiment, and energy work together under one roof, Rosemary Raven Hearth holds space for the full arc of human experience. Loss, caregiving, identity shifts, desire, and the slow work of coming home to yourself all belong here.
Community
Rosemary Raven Hearth hosts Death Cafes, circles, and community gatherings for people who want honest conversation about the things we’re taught to avoid. Monthly death and grief circles and Sex Cafes are offered in collaboration with Pollinate Hive House, a healing collective in Des Moines. The blog, Insights from the Hearth, and the RRH Library offer writings, practices, and printable resources for caregivers, the dying, and anyone navigating grief or reconnecting with their body. Visit the Events page for upcoming gatherings.
Work with Erika
If you’re curious about one-on-one support, community circles, or bringing a Taboo Doula offering to your organization, you’re welcome to reach out. Start Here to find the right fit, or get in touch to start a conversation.