How can we move through times of overwhelm and crisis, when it feels like we can’t find any space inside? How can we learn to be present with eco-anxiety and other strong emotions rather than running from them or drowning in them? How can we support others to do the same?
In this session, we’ll learn powerful practices of staying rooted and grounded in the midst of life’s storms by listening to the wisdom of the body. We will become more intimate with our emotions and how to care for them in our body. Through intentional, somatic practices like belly breathing and walking mindfully, we will discover how to return to the reality, and safety, of the present moment and stay connected to the earth in full awareness. We will explore the relationship between slowing down to heal ourselves and slowing down to heal our planet. Engaging powerful teachings from Buddhist Psychology on how our minds function, we will also do a deep dive into how to fully meet and soothe anxiety, anger, and grief in these challenging times of climate and social upheaval. We will move toward insight and gradual transformation of habit patterns so that we are freed up to respond with trust and courageous vulnerability to the aching needs of our world.
Date & Time: October 11 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm (Eastern), 4:30pm - 6:00pm (Pacific)
Members: $30 | Non-Members: $40
A limited number of hardship rates of $20. are available.
Facilitator:
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on activists, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption from Parallax Press. Her teachings and writings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.