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Rainbow Sangha (38RS25)

Aishah Shahidah Simmons

September 17, 2025

Online

5:30 pm Sep 17 - 7:00 pm Sep 18, 2025 PDT

Date and Time Details:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
5:30pm – 7:00pm Pacific Time

Online via Zoom

Contact: Spirit Rock Registration
registration@spiritrock.org

Suggested donation – $15.00 - $30.00

Cancellation Policy:

Spirit Rock only offers open credits for this program according to the deadlines below. No refunds are available.
Open credits are available: any time prior to midnight the night before the event/program.
No open credits available the day of the event, or later.

Closed Captioning [CC] is available for this program. Online via Zoom.

Supporting those who identify as LGBTQIA+

Description:
The Rainbow (LGBTQIA+) Sangha is a weekly gathering designed to support self-identified practitioners within marginalized gender and sexuality groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming. Together, we’ll explore the Dharma in ways that welcome our lived experiences and build community that honors our broad and multi-faceted voices. Online: We are offering this program online via Zoom for you to join us remotely.

Class Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm PT weekly on Wednesday evenings.

Donation-based (Dāna): Please support our Spirit Rock teachers, staff, and scholarships by giving as generously as you can.

About the Teacher

Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is a Black feminist lesbian survivor-healer, a Sufi Muslim raised Theravādin Buddhist who's been practicing vipassanā meditation since 2002. She has more than one year of cumulative silent retreat practice in the U.S. and India. Aishah is also a trauma-informed, certified mindfulness meditation teacher through Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach's MMTCP, […]

Learn more about Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Categories : DEI, Drop-In, Half Day or Less, Hide End Date, LGBTQIA+, Online