Community

Community Projects

Moya Land Project

Interfaith Work

Learning Communities

Antara Network

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Interplay

Moon Ritual

Community Circle

Ancestral Circle

Learning Communities

I belong to many learning communities where I’ve learned so many valuable modalities that I use in my work. These are the communities I continue to practice and engage with on a regular basis.

I believe in the importance of being part of more than one community of practice and study.

  • Interplay is community of people around the world who bring play, song, story, and dance into facilitated spaces and to everyday life.

  • Ancestral Medicine is an organization and community that focuses on ancestral lineage healing and the elevation of the dead amongst the community’s blood and family lineages.

  • The Whispering Waters Sangha is inter-Buddhist sangha made up of people from various Buddhist traditions.

  • The High Country Movement Collective is a community of people living in the High Country of North Carolina who practice Ecstatic dance, Interplay and other body related movemt modalities.

  • Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche (1938-2010) and Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche established the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (PBC) in 1989 to preserve the authentic message of Buddha Shakyamuni and Guru Padmasambhava in its entirety, and in particular to teach the traditions of the Nyingma school and Vajrayana Buddhism. PBC includes over 20 centers in the U.S.A., India, Puerto Rico, Latvia, and Russia, as well as monastic institutions in India, the U.S.A., and Russia.

  • Just Practice Collaborative exists to build our communities’ capacity to effectively and empathically respond to intimate partner violence, sexual assault and crisis without relying primarily on police or other state-based systems. We offer care work, mentoring, practice spaces and think through structures of support for abolitionist organizers and facilitators of restorative and transformative justice processes and organizers who are building non-carceral and non-police crisis response teams around the country.

  • Founded in 2011 by Molly Rowan Leach, Restorative Justice on The Rise has grown into a global virtual network and community of practitioners, academics, students, teachers, and citizens who are daily amplifying the movement within and beyond restorative justice.

  • The fields are four different aspects of existence that are happening all the time:

    1. An ecological field (Mossrock)

    2. A psychological field (Wildfire)

    3. An awareness field (Lit Ocean)

    4. An ontological field (Space)

    All four cohere together like an ecosystem.

    They form the context for a contemplative life rooted in the living and dying earth. This includes our emotional states, our sensitive bodies, the cultures, economies, and politics that participate in and ravage the earth—like the mine that you see slowly being reclaimed by moss in the background.

Antara Network

Antara is a diverse, womxn-led community of intergenerational and multicultural facilitators and contemplatives who employ trauma-informed somatic approaches to our work, seeking collaboration and multimodal approaches to transformation within the individual and the societies that they inhabit.

By womxn-led and multicultural, we envision a global community that centers marginalized voices and perspectives, especially BIPOC women, femme, and queer facilitators and participants. Conscious of wealth disparities, we plan to match donors with promising projects.

Being intergenerational, we seek to cultivate and support the next generation of contemplative leaders—especially young women, femme, and queer facilitators—in offering their talents in small-scale workshops and retreat settings including affiliated land projects. 

We believe that intergenerational mentorship is reciprocal and creates a space where embodied methods of facilitation can be shared and updated. The younger generation of facilitators are thereby empowered, and elders remain energized and up to date.

By facilitators, we mean contemplative educators, group facilitators, coaches and therapists who leads groups in dialogue, experiential exercises, contemplative practices, and/or transformative processes. We advocate team teaching across modalities. 

Moya

Moya is an intentional living community based in the Appalachian Mountains of northwest North Carolina. Moya is the first land project sponsored by the Antara Network, a 501c3 that is committed to  … (say something brief then link it to Antara network)

Moya’sTheir purpose is to bring people of all ages, incomes, races, genders, identities, and abilities together to live on land to heal personal, ancestral, and collective traumas by attuning to nature’s cycles through contemplative and embodied practices, ancestral wisdom, shadow work, food education, and healing art.

Moya will consist of permanent residents committed to living over ten years on the land, long term residents staying over two years, long term or seasonal guests, and visitors. Individual housing or accommodations will be centered on shared living, cooking, dining, and recreational areas as well as spaces for meditation, movement practices, art, administration, healing practices, rest/oration, and gardening.  

The core of the Moya community will be the continual investment of all residents on practices that maintain community cohesion, uplift individuals’ personal expression and purpose, and root these in life lived intimately in and with the natural surroundings. The use and development of these practices will form a basis or model to be shared with other groups looking for deeper and more meaningful community lives.

Interfaith Work

Interfaith work has been part of my journey for over 10 years. Interfaith work has allowed me to deepen my own faith traditions while learning about other points of view. I have been a part of many interfaith panels, spoken at the Parliament of World Religion and been part of a a Buddhist Catholic Dialogue with Pope Francis in Rome.