Join this Reimagine LGBTQIA+ gathering to witness, support, and honor one another in our grief and joy. The program will open with agreements, followed by some education, meditation, and sounding as a foundation for peer-to-peer sharing in a safer space. This is a dedicated container by and for self-identified LGBTQIA+ people.
Pride is about showing up authentically, which can shift from one moment to the next - from celebration to grief, from connectedness to loneliness.
Facilitators will offer mindfulness and somatic practices for grounding prior to opening up space to invite in the individual and collective experiences of LGBTQIA+ community members. Our facilitators will draw from their Buddhist practices while also weaving in queer liberation and grief work. The 90-minute program will offer the divine abodes of the heart (loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity) as a gateway to freedom and pride, a compassion meditation that honors our queer ancestors/trancestors, communal sounding/singing, and group sharing.
While having cameras on is welcome for cultivating a stronger sense of community, it is OK for videos to be turned off as we want to respect each individual's personal process.
Tony Pham (Butterfly) (he/they) is a heritage Buddhist, facilitator, and healer that occupies the intersection of queer and BIPOC identities. He also identifies as a 2nd generation Vietnamese American whose parents immigrated to the United States as refugees from war. Tony goes by Butterfly in spiritual spaces where they steward practices rooted in compassion, indigeneity, and sacred lineages. They are a student of Lama Rod Owens (Vajrayana/Tibetan Buddhism). They are also an alumnus of the East Bay Meditation Center’s year-long PiTA8 trauma informed mindfulness program for social justice work.
Butterfly offered a dharma talk and guided meditation about compassion during The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit 2023. Butterfly has completed death doula training and facilitates various grief circles with Reimagine. Tony's death work was highlighted and referenced in the 2023 book, "So Sorry for Your Loss," by Dina Gachman. He is certified in Compassion Cultivation Training ©, teaching compassion and meditation at Tibet House US. Tony is honored to serve on the national board of directors of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). He now resides in Brooklyn (occupied Canarsie/Munsee Lenape land). For more information, please visit tonyopham.com.
Phoenix Song (they/them) is a queer, non-binary Korean American adoptee teacher, writer, performer and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay for yoga music. Phoenix is a Tamalpa Associate Teacher of expressive arts and a somatic voicework teacher. They believe that everyone can sing and love to help people free their voices and rhythm in private and group classes. Phoenix is a mindfulness teacher at East Bay Meditation Center and Spirit Rock. Phoenix also leads ancestral healing, grief, and diversity/solidarity workshops and trainings that use expressive arts and somatic processes. Their next 10-month Free Your Voice and Body Stories training will begin in the Bay Area in September. To learn more about their sound healing offerings, classes, and performances, please visit phoenixsongmus...
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