Calendar of social equity programs
Compiled by Ruby Philips
Saturday, January 26 12:30 – 2 pm 8 Limbs Yoga Capitol Hill, 500 E.Pike St., 98122
Lay Down to Rise Up—Restorative Yoga for POC, led by Mary Imani
Friday, March 8 6 – 9 pm Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S. Angeline, 98118
Lama Rod Owens: Liberation through Love and Rage—POC caucus Black queer Dharma, co-author of Radical Dharma
See also weekend workshop open to all below
POC event with visiting Dharma teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo
Saturday, March 23 time & location TBD
For more information, contact Genevieve
POC Meditation Group in the tradition of Plum Village/Thich Nhat Hanh
Ongoing: first & third Sunday 6 – 8 pm Dharma Gate, 1910 – 24th Ave. S., 98144
POC Meditation group in the tradition of Shambhala
Ongoing: first Sunday 1 – 2:30 pm Shambhala Seattle, 3107 E. Harrison St., 98112
March 3, April 7, May 5, NOT in February
Ongoing: scholarships available for POC & other marginalized folks for
8 Limbs Yoga Teacher Training programs
EVENTS FOR ASPIRING WHITE ALLIES TO GROW TOGETHER
Breaking Down Barriers: Reaching for Blackness workshop on race & privilege with Aaron Johnson & Porsha Reed; includes meditation, yoga, dance, music
Saturday, January 26 9 am – 3 pm Cunning Crow Apothecary, 9024 Greenwood N., 98103
OR Sunday, January 27 (one session each day) 9414 Roosevelt Way NE., 98115
Roots in Resilience: workshop for white anti-racist organizers to integrate spiritual practice into racial justice work
Thursday, January 31 7 – 9 pm Casa Latina, 317 – 17th Ave. S., 98144
RSVP LINK: Please RSVP so we can have an accurate head count.
Book study group using Robin DiAngelo’s book What Does it Mean to be White?
Sunday, February 10 2 – 4 pm and every other Sunday for 6 sessions
Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N.85th St., 98103
Undoing Whiteness series—embodied white awareness learning (can attend either or both; each session is unique)
Wednesdays, Feb. 13 & March 13 6:30 – 8 pm Rainier Beach Yoga, 8311 – 48th Ave. S., 98118
EVENTS FOR BOTH POC & ASPIRING ALLIES TO LEARN & GROW
Tuere Sala—Dharma talk series on aversion
Tuesdays, February 5, 12, 19, 16 7 – 9 pm SIMS, 2729 – 6th S., 98134
Tuere Sala—9-month intensive study course on Dependent Origination
One Sunday/month beginning February 10 1 – 4 pm SIMS, 2729 – 6th S., 98134
Practicing Ahimsa: Nonviolent Communication Principles with Chiarra Guerrieri
6 Sunday course, March 3 – April 23 12:30 – 2 pm
Wedgwood 8 Limbs Yoga, 7545 – 35th Ave. NE, 98115
Lama Rod Owens: Liberation through Love and Rage
Saturday – Sunday, March 9 – 10 Sat: 9 – noon, 2 – 5 pm, Sun.:9 – noon
Columbia City Church of Hope, 3818 S. Angeline, 98118
Black queer Dharma, co-author of Radical Dharma
See also POC caucus Friday night, March 8 above
Bystander Intervention workshop—embodied nonviolence to support targets, de-escalation
Sunday, March 17 2 – 4 pm Admiral Cong. UCC, 4320 SW Hill St., 98116
Venerable Pannavati at SIMS (2729 – 6th Avenue South, Seattle 98134)
Dharma talk – Friday, March 29, 7 – 9 pm – Event Past
Non-residential retreat, Saturday & Sunday, 9 am – 4:30 pm. – Event Past