Join Ayesha & Em for an online practice session hosted by Delaware Valley Insight and the Unitarian Society of Germantown.
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 Steve Ellis @ (215) 626-2929.
Topic: Dancing with Impermanence: Illness, Aging, Death, and the Five Remembrances
Teacher Bios
Ayesha Ali is a poet, writer and teacher whose work focuses on moving past the internal and external barriers that separate black women and children from their lineage of competence, beauty and power. She is one of the founders of the Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community. She has been engaged in mindfulness practice and work for over twenty years. She is the founder of Heartwidth which is an all-inclusive sangha.
Em loves nothing more than creating safe, fun, and healthy spaces for teens and adults to flourish. She’s taught mindfulness at afterschool programs, summer camps, and on adult, young adult and teen retreats. She became interested in mindfulness and meditation in 2011 because she was having the best day of her life (just kidding). She is honored to have the chance to share the tools that have brought her so much joy, contentment, and peace in her life.
Em is a regular member of IMCW's LGBTQIA+ sangha and previously served on the IMCW Board of Directors and its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) group.
She has trained informally with many teachers over the years and has done trainings with Mindful Schools, Minds Inc., and iBme. Em has been a guiding teacher for the Yearlong Mindfulness Teacher Certification Program with Mindful Schools for two years and is currently helping to develop new courses there. She focuses on Non-Violent Communication and restorative justice along with teaching the dharma as practices for personal AND collective liberation.
Learn more about Ayesha and Em here.