“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous” Frank O’Hara Next month, I’ll be guiding a workshop at The Poetry Project, meditation in an emergency. I tweaked Frank O’Hara’s title because it feels especially apt, but the workshop’s got nothing to do with Frank O’Hara. It Read more
After training at University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness in April, I’m now a qualified MBSR teacher. I’ve had the great good fortune to spend time since then on silent retreat, allowing me space and time to reflect and absorb. I attended Insight Meditation Community of Washington‘s week-long Intimacy Read more
Awaken into spring! On Friday April 26th from 7-9 pm at the Interdependence Project, 28 West 27th Street #704 Ashleigh Eubanks & I will be guiding a meditation and mindful movement practice for QTPOC. Join us! This event is hosted collaboratively by NYCPOC Healing Circle and Rest for Resistance. The Read more
Join me at The Audre Lorde Project’s Community Care Day at The People’s Forum 320 W. 37th St, New York, NY 10018 this Friday January 18th from 6-9 pm. Event info from ALP: Community Care Day is an evening event where we are inviting folks to join us in deepening Read more
Being love: an experiential workshop for QTPOC “What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against Read more
Please join members of the NYC POC Healing Circle for an opportunity to share meditation, mindful movement and compassion practices in community. Ashleigh, Maui & I will be there sharing from our practices. Join us on Friday September 21st from 7-9 pm at Shambhala Meditation Center located at 118 W. 22nd Street, Read more
Leslie Joren Wagner & I will be co-leading a Half-day Meditation Retreat at The Interdependence Project on Sunday May 6th from 9 am – 1 pm. Designed for new meditators, people who want to sit for a longer period of time without attending a full retreat, and more experienced meditators Read more
I’m so grateful for everyone who came out on Friday to create such an amazing space of healing and community. There was a lot of excitement about future offerings. We’ll be sending information directly to everyone who signed up for our list, you can also follow NYC POC Healing Circle Read more
The venue for our 4/20 POC meditation & mindful movement practice has been changed. Please join us in this intentional space of healing for people of color from 7-9 pm at Shambhala Hall 118 W. 22nd Street #6A, NYC. $5-10 suggested donation, no one will be turned away for lack Read more
Join facilitators Maui Villapando, Ashleigh Eubanks & Betsy Fagin April 20th from 7-9 pm at 28 W. 27th Street Suite 704 NYC for an evening of meditation and mindful movement. Attending directly to the experiences of People of Color (POC) who daily inhabit the intersections of multiple oppressions, this will be a Read more