In-Person: In the Shelter of the Now – How We Can Rest, Simplify and Let Go
with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 | 10:00am-4:00pm ET
Location: New York Zendo Shobo-ji at 223 E 67th St, NYC
In this day of practice, we explore how to deepen inner contentment through rest, creating space and simplifying our life. When we empty ourselves out we fill ourselves up with what truly matters and can nourish us. We will explore the profound wisdom of rest, and the many things we can mistake for authentic rest. When we allow ourselves to find balance and restore, we are empowered to move into the world and bring about greater justice and peace.
The day will include various forms of meditation, dharma teaching, group discussion and InterPlay, an embodied play practice that helps unlock the wisdom of the body through movement, voice, storytelling, stillness and connection.
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Teacher(s)
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher whose path is rooted in spirituality, social justice, and embodied wisdom. A lifelong lover of dance, singing, and the performing arts, Kaira Jewel integrates movement and creative expression into her teaching as a way to access joy, healing, and deep presence. Her early background in improvisational movement, dance, and capoeira, along with her long-standing practice of InterPlay—which she began in 2005 and now teaches and trains leaders in—shapes her commitment to liberation through the body as well as the mind.
She lived for 15 years as an ordained nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village community and was ordained as a Dharma teacher in 2007. Her teaching continues the work of Engaged Buddhism, drawing inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her father’s work alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. She now teaches internationally in both the Zen and Vipassana traditions, as well as in secular mindfulness settings.
Kaira Jewel’s work bridges the inner path of awakening with the outer path of justice, focusing especially on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, activists, artists, educators, families, and youth. She is dedicated to holding spaces that welcome the whole self — breath, voice, story, grief, joy, and movement.
She is the author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation. She offers spiritual mentoring, teaches embodied dharma, and is co-creating a spiritual sanctuary in upstate New York — The Beloved Community of Engaged Spirituality — with her partner, Episcopal priest Adam Bucko.
Upcoming events and offerings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.