Kabir Hypolite

Kabir Hypolite is an African American gay man, father, poet and visual artist. Kabir began practicing Vipassana meditation in San Francisco in 1990, during the AIDS crisis. During the 2000s, Kabir practiced sitting meditation at the Syda Foundation in Emeryville, and he attended East Bay Church of Religious Science services lead by Rev. Elouise Oliver in Oakland, California. Kabir has practiced sitting and walking meditation with the East Bay Meditation Center’s POC and Alphabet sanghas and was a participant in the Spirit Rock/IMS Commit to Dharma 6 cohort before it was suspended due to COVID-19. He is currently a participant in EBMC’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Training cohort.