About Daniel DeLoma

Daniel DeLoma, M.Th., MSPC, is a medical theologist, hospice and palliative chaplain, and founder of Meditative Heartbeat Therapy (MHbT), an integrative contemplative modality that brings together physiology, spirituality, and ritual presence in palliative care. His book Meditative Heartbeat Therapy: A Contemplative Guide to Presence, Rhythm, and Care at End of Life (Apocryphile, 2025) presents the heartbeat as both a clinical anchor and a spiritual flame that can guide the dying toward coherence, peace, and transcendence.

With more than ten years of hospice and palliative experience and a background in global palliative care, Daniel has companioned people from many different walks of life, including those who are unsheltered, those receiving care in their homes, and those supported in inpatient settings. His clinical focus centers on the final seventy-two hours of life, which he understands as a Bardo, a sacred and liminal passage that calls for quiet, reverence, and a deep attunement to the rhythms of the heart. His work is dedicated to ensuring that palliative and hospice patients enter these final hours with a sense of peace and as free from pain as possible.

Daniel is a certified Reiki Master and a trained End-of-Life Doula and Educator. He weaves together ritual, narrative, interfaith theology, and clinical best practice in his work with the palliative and hospice teams at Waveny Visiting Nurse and Hospice in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He lives and works in Fairfield County and remains devoted to the sacred task of helping others die well, with dignity, presence, and the steady rhythm of the heart as their guide.