STL Queer Sangha: You Can Sit With Us
Schedule
Tue Jul 09 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Connected Bodywork, LLP | Maryland Heights, MO
STL QUEER SANGHA: You Can Sit With Us2nd Tuesdays
7-8:30pm
**NEW LOCATION BEGINNING JULY 9TH**
An inclusive sangha (spiritual community) for all LGBTQIA+ folks and allies cultivating a path of Spiritual Solidarity.
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This Insight meditation group is for those seeking to explore and engage with the liberatory principles of Buddhist teachings and philosophy.
"STL Queer Sangha: You Can Sit With Us" engages the concept of SPIRITUAL SOLIDARITY or "kalyana mitta", as author Kate Johnson, who is a multiracial meditation teacher, artist, and activist writes about in her book “Radical Friendship”:
“Kalyana mitta is the name for the quality of relationships between members of a community who are collectively committed to liberation.”
Together through SPIRITUAL SOLIDARITY we cultivate:
- Refuge in our own innate Divinity & capacity for liberation.
- Refuge in praxis, our own direct experience making the practices alive through active engagement.
- Refuge in community solidarity, taking interdependence from transactional to reciprocal.
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At Connected Bodywork
3027 Locust St.
Suggested $5-20 contribution
No pre-registration is necessary, but you can choose to contribute in advance.
$5 Supported Contribution
$10 Sustainer Contribution
$15 Supporter Contribution
$20 Benefactor Contribution
*No one turned away for lack of funds!
*Sitting not required!
FOR FULL EVENT INFO INCLUDING ACCESSIBILITY, WHAT TO EXPECT, HOW TO ARRIVE, RESOURCES & PRAXIS VISIT:
http://tinyurl.com/stlqueersangha
Facilitated by Certified Meditation Teacher and queer Dharma practitioner, Deanna Sophia Danger.
ABOUT:
Deanna Sophia Danger (they/them) is a Certified Insight Meditation Teacher & Mentor, queer Dharma practitioner, social impact organizer, retired professional performance artist, and WEAVER.
Deanna’s approach to the Dharma finds ground within the intersection of spirituality and social impact. In their full time work, they are the Systems Change & Healing Justice Facilitator for the St. Louis Queer+ Support & Helpline (SQSH), where they are also a member of the STARLING Somatic Healers Collective. Deanna supports the St. Louis community as an Advisory Circle Member at Empowered Spaces, a trauma-aware, holistic, healing collective. Deanna is accredited to teach Insight meditation through The Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California at Berkeley, and accredited as a Mindfulness Mentor through Banyan (formerly Cloud Sangha). Deanna’s guiding teachers are internationally recognized authors, Theravada Buddhist meditation teachers, and psychologists, Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.
Through an accessible, relatable, creatively expressive and engaged praxis of Spiritual Solidarity, Deanna is motivated by co-cultivating embodiment of liberation at the cellular and global levels. As a working class, queer, nonbinary, neurodiverse & chronically ill, IPV + trauma survivor, and former sex worker Deanna is passionate about weaving webs of support that take interdependence from transactional to reciprocal. Suitable for all experience levels & identities, Deanna’s interactive support meets you where you are. Their facilitation offers an intrinsically anti-oppressive, trauma-aware and neurocognitive-aware foundation supporting you to hone your self-agency, dissolve shame & self-blame, move from dissociation to embodiment, and increase your access to joy, pleasure and felt-sense belonging.
