On Saturday, November 6th at 3 pm we’ll gather online via Zoom for sitting meditation practice led by Gina LaRoche.
Topic: The Paramis: an opportunity to cultivate the qualities of dignity and presence.
Gina has spent much of the past year focused on what she could do to end oppression generally and anti-Black racism specifically. The doing of this work left her numb, burnt out and feeling more and more disconnected from life. Re-discovering the Paramis has allowed her to focus on who to be in the face of a global reckoning around race, climate and inequality. Join us to come investigate the Paramis and shift from:
Numbing out to deep care
Burnout to resilience
Disconnected to embodiment
Teacher Bio: Gina LaRoche (she/her) was introduced to meditation in 2000 and had a sporadic mindfulness practice for a decade. In 2010 she began attending residential retreats out of a curiosity of what it would be like to practice in noble silence. Since that time, Gina has participated in several IMS retreats, sitting the annual People of Color retreat as well as other retreats with teachers such as Gina Sharpe, Larry Yang, Sharon Salzberg and DaRa Williams. She was a teacher at the New Haven (Connecticut) Insight Sangha now called Elm Community Insight and now serves as their board chair. She is a member of Cambridge Insight Mediation Center and sits often with the POC affinity group. An entrepreneur at heart, she is the co-founder and director of Seven Stones Leadership Group, where she is an organizational leadership consultant, facilitator and coach. She works with leaders to develop personal mindfulness practices that can then be brought into their organizations. Gina is a writer and collage artist, and the co-author of The Seven Laws of Enough: Cultivating a Life of Sustainable Abundance (Parallax Press).
In 2014, Gina was nominated by Sharon Salzberg for the Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock where she graduated in 2017. She has completed the eight-week MBSR training. She is currently on the Board of Insight Mediation Society in Barre, MA.
Please register your interest in joining this event below. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants a day or two before the event.
Any questions? Please contact Pamela Freeman 215-435-5866.