This February, I’m honored to be part of a month-long Black Dharma teaching series with New York Insight, beginning February 2nd, 2026.
Throughout Black History Month, participants will receive a short, prerecorded video dharma teaching each weekday, delivered by a wide range of renowned Black dharma teachers, including Lama Rod Owens, Jan Willis, Bhante Buddharakkhita, Rhonda Magee, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Leslie Booker, Vimalasara Mason-John, Gina LaRoche, and others.
These teachings draw from lived experience, ancestral wisdom, and long-standing contemplative traditions that show how practice can support resilience, ethical clarity, and care for one another in everyday life. Together, they explore how grief and joy, struggle and beauty, can be held side by side, and how love functions not as a feeling alone, but as a way of living in relationship with the world.
The series is open to people of all backgrounds and levels of experience, whether you are returning to practice or encountering these teachings for the first time.
If this feels nourishing or relevant for you or your community, I hope you’ll join us.
Click here to learn more and register.
Past Events
Online at 2pm ET on Sunday, September 21
In times marked socially by uncertainty, injustice, polarization, and sometimes overwhelm, in the midst of the typical personal joys and sorrows of our day to day experiences, it can be difficult to know how to act—or even how to keep the heart steady. The Buddha’s teaching on Wise Intention (sammā saṅkappa) offers a compass, a steady orientation of the heart to support a simplification in the foundations of how we might move in this, often complex, world. Join us to explore how this may show up for your practice and life.
Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIAPoC Retreat with Tuere Sala and Peace Twesigye
August 1, 2025 - August 6, 2025
Join us for this residential Insight Dialogue retreat at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts
There is an African Proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Together, we are stronger and more resilient, and we can support one another to go a little bit further on the path towards awakening. This program is about just that: supporting each other to awaken together.
We will integrate the wisdom practice of Insight Dialogue with the Four Noble Truths. We will learn to recognize the presence of suffering as a natural aspect of our interpersonal relationships. We will cultivate the recognition of the cause of suffering and the cessation of suffering through the practice of quieting the mind together. Insight Dialogue is vipassana meditation practiced in relationship. It weaves together the meditative qualities of right view, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration with the wisdom of Dhamma and the voice of another. During this program, we will cultivate embodied presence, inner strength, and the strength of interdependence. We will open to the multilayered, co-created moment, and learn to stand with equanimity in a tumultuous world.
Speaking From the Heart—Dharma Practice in Relationship
Join this in-person course at New York Insight Meditation Center on four Thursdays starting March 6th!
This four-week course will offer a practical and supportive space to explore timely relational questions and feel into a dedicated time to practice relational dharma. Through the teachings and practices of the three refuges, the heart practices of the Brahmaviharas, and wise speech we will practice meeting and navigating everyday relational challenges with presence and care.