This Mindfulness and Self-Compassion retreat is an invitation for Rest and Healing for
those who identify as BIPOC individuals to gather and practice together in community. This retreat
will offer mindfulness and self-compassion practices, and contemplations drawing from socially
engaged Buddhist and wisdom traditions (e.g., Thích Nhất Hạnh, Ambedkarite-Navayana Buddhism),
that care for the alleviation of personal and social suffering. Rooted in communal practice, cultivation
of safety, somatic stress release movements, mindfulness and compassion, this gathering is intended to
nurture a space where we will be invited to rest the mind-body, open our hearts to respond to our
experiences in compassionate ways, and to channel pathways to access our personal and collective
dignity, healing, and resistance. This retreat will be facilitated by meera murthi.