This session is an invitation to come home to the island within us that very much needs our care, so that we can meet the uncertainty of our times with resilience and tenderness. With so many aspects of our lives impacted by the pandemic, uprisings, climate change, and economic downturn, we will support each other in holding ourselves and our communities with compassion. We will create space to grieve and acknowledge the enormity of the upheaval we are facing, becoming intimate with the real unreliability of our circumstances and where we can nevertheless find true refuge.

Kaira Jewel Lingo began practicing mindfulness in 1997 and teaches Buddhist meditation, secular mindfulness, and compassion internationally. Ordained as a nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel is now a lay Dharma Teacher grounded in the Zen lineage and since 2012 has studied in and now teaches in the Vipassana or Insight tradition as well. She teaches at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on activists, people of color, artists, educators, families, and youth. She offers spiritual mentoring to individuals and groups. She recently relocated to New York from Sri Lanka.

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