Online: Touching Into Compassion, Acceptance, and Peacefulness – For Caregivers and Supporters
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury and Gayah Imani Gillson
Thursday, September 18th, 2025 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Sometimes, as caregivers, and supporters, we can encounter feelings of overwhelm, powerlessness, and depletion. Even as former caregivers, we can still feel the impact of having experienced such deep responsibility. There are, however, beautiful and inspiring ways to cope and create balance during these times.
In this class, we will be reflecting on the Four Immeasurables, also known as the Brahma Viharas, as a basis for offering valuable “re-resourcing” of ourselves and support for one another.
Meditation, visualization, mild movement, and practical wisdom explored in this group setting will assist with revitalizing us physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
By entering this class, you will affirm that you are not alone, that you can cultivate creative ways to rest, restore yourself, and have access to the gifts of the caregiving experience.
We look forward to touching, and embracing the power of community in healing and support.
This class is a space of offering for caregivers and supporters to rest in Treasures and Teachings within the Dharma. This class is open to everyone interested, including former and future caregivers. BIPOC and LGBTQIA folks are encouraged to attend.
Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.
Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Teacher(s)
Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Wildecy de Fátima Jury has been formally practicing Theravada/Vipassana meditation since 2000. She graduated from the Dedicated Practitioner Program and the Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock, in California. She is a Dharmacharya Lay-Ordained Monastic Minister by the Venerables Pannavati and Pannadipa. She completed the Dharmapala Training with teachers Thanissara and Kittisaro and the Mindfulness Mentoring Training (MMT) with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. In 2024, she completed the Original Medicine Foundation and at the moment she is enrolled at the year-long In-Depth Original Medicine Program, both through Braided Wisdom.
She has offered classes and retreats at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, Insight LA, Zen Center and University of Syracuse, at meditation centers in Brazil, Harlem Insight Community, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and New York Insight Meditation Center. At the moment Fátima is a resident teacher at NYIMC.
She has studied different spiritual practices and as a spiritual practitioner she has worked with many multicultural communities. She holds a BA in Psychology and Women’s Study and a Master in Social Work. She is certified in Aboriginal Focusing Oriented Therapy through the Justice Institute in Vancouver, BC.
Her intention is to promote the strengthening of sanghas and communities through the cultivation of compassion, unity and decolonization of oppressed and oppressive minds. She is an artist, a writer, and a poet who describes herself as a person within floating identities.
Gayah Imani Gillson
Gayah “Imani” Gillson is a Dharmacharya Lay-Ordained Monastic Minister, and a Theravadan teacher with Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Zen influences. She/They/Kin/Love graduated from a myriad of trainings from Spirit Rock.
Gayah loves sharing the Dharma by weaving the relationality of art, spirituality, and activism – and is informed by additional roots in intersectional spiritual/mysticism/wisdom practices such as earth-based indigenous ceremonies, orisha circles, soul-centered new-thought christianity, and transpersonal astrology.
They recently co-led a QTBIPOC Retreat at Dhamma Dena Retreat Center. She has taught, collectively facilitated, and co-created retreats and workshops in the US and abroad, in Brazil. They currently co-facilitate a nightly Quan Yin Devotional Practice Chanting Circle.
At both the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland, CA, and the Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center in Hendersonville, NC, Gayah has taught her love for the embodiment of the sutras by using her theatrical skills to bring ancient texts to life.