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Transgender Day of Remembrance (FR2D21)

Fresh "Lev" White, JD Doyle, Amber Field, Satya de la Paz August and Drïan Juarez

November 20, 2021

Online

10:00 am Nov 20 - Nov 21, 2021 PDT

Date and Time Details:
Saturday, November 20, 2021
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Location:
Online via Zoom

SLIDING SCALE:
$20-$108. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Code FR2D21.

Contact: Spirit Rock Registration
registration@spiritrock.org

Benefactor – $108.00
Sustainer – $80.00
Online Base – $60.00
Online Reduced – $45.00
Mudita/Karuna Scholarship – $20.00
People of Color Scholarship – $20.00

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.

Registration closes about 9:00 a.m. (Pacific Time) on November 20, 2021. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early. A recording will not be available following the program.

Open to Trans, GNC/GV, Two Spirit, and Gender Expansive Community who may invite close ones to attend. We ask that allies only attend as a guest of a trans or gender expansive identified person.

Transgender Day of Remembrance – Honoring Our Ancestors; Celebrating Our Lives: A Mindful Day of Practice, Remembrance, and Celebration for Our Trans, GNC/GV, Two Spirit and Gender Expansive Community

Description:
Please join us for our 5th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance event at Spirit Rock. On this day, as we are honor our ancestors and celebrate our own lives, we welcome members of the transgender, Two-Spirit, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, non-binary, and beyond-gender community to gather for silent meditation, mindful movement, and heart-centered practices.

These practices will be offered in silence, balanced with discussions and community-building group exercises that nurture radical connection, joy, and resilience.

This year, we will feature music by Amber Field Music, movement with Satya de la Paz August, inspiring storytelling by Drïan Juarez, and dharma talks lead by teachers JD Doyle and Fresh “Lev” White.

No meditation experience is necessary. For this memorial event, we ask that any allies be accompanied by a community member.

Please note we will allow time for lunch and other breaks during the day.

You are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

About the Teachers

Fresh "Lev" White

Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living, working with individuals, households, and professional teams. As a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC), and professional trainer, Lev has offered over 250 diversity trainings in the San […]

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JD Doyle

JD Doyle (they/them) served as Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, where they co-founded the Alphabet (LGBTQIA+) Saṅgha. They graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Retreat Teacher Training in 2020 and teach at saṅghas across the US and in Canada. JD began studying and practicing Buddhism in 1995, at Insight Meditation Society and […]

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Amber Field

Amber Field is a queer, gender expansive Korean American adoptee facilitator, teacher, performer and singer featured in San Francisco Magazine's Best of the Bay for yoga music. They are a Tamalpa Associate Teacher of expressive arts. Amber specializes in helping people sing, sound and speak their truths. Amber also facilitates somatic and creative expression workshops […]

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Satya de la Paz August

Satya de la Paz August (she/her) is first and foremost a student of Yoga and life. She is also a a Queer, Multiracial, Black Womxn, trailblazer, healer, and community/joy/radical self-love advocate. Offering 14 years of experience teaching Yoga, dance, and meditation, she infuses dynamic alignment, chanting, storytelling, and community-building into her classes. Satya offers Yoga […]

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Drïan Juarez

Drïan Juarez is a global leader, speaker, and consultant ensuring transgender people have access to the tools they need to live full and happy lives. As the Vice President of Programming for “Trans Can Work”, an employment program for the trans and gender expansive community, Drïan works to build inclusive company cultures where gender diverse […]

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