Join Aishah Simmons for an afternoon of practice, hosted by Delaware Valley Insight. This will be a hybrid event, i.e. you can elect to attend either in-person, at the Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene St, Philadelphia, PA 19119, or online via Zoom. Aishah will be in person at the Summit Presbyterian Church.

This program is appropriate for both new and experienced meditators — all are welcome.

Please add delawarevalleyinsight@gmail.com to your address book to ensure you receive any communications for the event. If you have any difficulties joining the zoom or registering for a DVI class, please reach out to the email above or call Fred Allemann at (914) 312-7343.

Facilitator Bio

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is a Black feminist lesbian survivor-healer, Theravadin Buddhist, and trauma-informed, certified Mindfulness meditation teacher. She's been studying and practicing vipassana meditation since 2002 and has more than one year of cumulative silent retreat practice in the United States and India. Aishah practiced vipassana meditation exclusively in the S.N. Goenka tradition for 17 years. Contemporarily, her primary dharma teachers are Tuere Sala and DaRa Williams. She also studied in the Vajrayana lineage with Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls for two years.

 Aishah is also an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, author, and lecturer whose award-winning work, "NO! The Rape Documentary" and "love WITH accountability" (AK Press, 2019) break silences around childhood and adult sexual violence, offer healing paths for trauma and provide distinct visions for humanely disrupting the inhumane epidemic of sexual violence.

Since June 1995, Aishah has screened her work, guest lectured, and facilitated over 400 workshops and dialogues across the North American continent and in several countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Additionally, Aishah has been an Artist-in-Residence and served on the guest faculties of the University of Chicago, Temple University, Scripps College, Spelman College, Williams College, the University of Pennsylvania, the Weekly Dharma Gathering Platform, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Elm Community Insight: An Engaged Meditation Society, Morgan State University, Insight Meditation Community of Western Massachusetts, Sounds True, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Collegeville Institute.