Community
Communities of Practice
My work is shaped through ongoing participation in communities of practice - spaces of movement, contemplation, restorative justice, ritual, embodiment, and relational learning.
These communities I continue to practice with, learn from, and grow alongside.
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Interplay is community of people around the world who bring play, song, story, and dance into facilitated spaces and to everyday life.
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Ancestral Medicine is an organization and community that focuses on ancestral lineage healing and the elevation of the dead amongst the community’s blood and family lineages.
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The Whispering Waters Sangha is inter-Buddhist sangha made up of people from various Buddhist traditions.
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The High Country Movement Collective is a community of people living in the High Country of North Carolina who practice Ecstatic dance, Interplay and other body related movemt modalities.
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Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche (1938-2010) and Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche established the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (PBC) in 1989 to preserve the authentic message of Buddha Shakyamuni and Guru Padmasambhava in its entirety, and in particular to teach the traditions of the Nyingma school and Vajrayana Buddhism. PBC includes over 20 centers in the U.S.A., India, Puerto Rico, Latvia, and Russia, as well as monastic institutions in India, the U.S.A., and Russia.
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Just Practice Collaborative exists to build our communities’ capacity to effectively and empathically respond to intimate partner violence, sexual assault and crisis without relying primarily on police or other state-based systems. We offer care work, mentoring, practice spaces and think through structures of support for abolitionist organizers and facilitators of restorative and transformative justice processes and organizers who are building non-carceral and non-police crisis response teams around the country.
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Founded in 2011 by Molly Rowan Leach, Restorative Justice on The Rise has grown into a global virtual network and community of practitioners, academics, students, teachers, and citizens who are daily amplifying the movement within and beyond restorative justice.
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The fields are four different aspects of existence that are happening all the time:
1. An ecological field (Mossrock)
2. A psychological field (Wildfire)
3. An awareness field (Lit Ocean)
4. An ontological field (Space)
All four cohere together like an ecosystem.
They form the context for a contemplative life rooted in the living and dying earth. This includes our emotional states, our sensitive bodies, the cultures, economies, and politics that participate in and ravage the earth—like the mine that you see slowly being reclaimed by moss in the background.
Antara Network
Antara is a mycelial network of land-based healing and contemplative practice — rooted in restorative justice, ancestral remembrance, and embodied reconnection. We support intergenerational and multicultural communities in restoring right relationship with land, lineage, and one another.
Support Antara
“Antara grows through relationship, shared practice, and mutual support. Contributions help sustain facilitators, gatherings, land-based sanctuaries, and community-rooted projects devoted to healing, remembrance, and repair.
Discover Moya
Moya is a sanctuary for embodied healing, ritual, and play in the Appalachian mountains.
Here, we gather to float rivers, tend fires, share meals, and practice together — weaving belonging and repair through community.
Support Moya
Every gift — whether $10 or $1,000 — helps root this vision in the soil. By giving, you are not just funding events. You are helping to grow a living sanctuary where healing, justice, and play come together. Together, we are tending the ground for a future where belonging and repair are possible.
Sacred-ish Sundays
Sacred-ish Sundays began at Moya as a community gathering weaving together movement, ritual, food, rest, and play.
While gatherings no longer happen every Sunday, the spirit of Sacred-ish continues through seasonal events, creek-side gatherings, fire circles, movement practices, and community rituals throughout the year.
Across different seasons, gatherings have included:
Potluck Brunches
Interplay and movement practices
Ecstatic dance and drumming
Fire circles
River floats
Grief tending
Spontaneous ritual
Buddhist practices
Quiet time together
The spirit of Sacred-ish is simple: creating spaces where the sacred and the ordinary belong together.
Future gatherings and seasonali events will be shared through community announcements and the mailing list.
Interfaith Work
Interfaith dialogue has been part of my path for over a decade. Through this work, I’ve deepened my own traditions while learning across spiritual lineages, cultures, and ways of understanding the sacred.
I’ve participated in interfaith panels, spoke at the Parliament of World Religions, and taken part in a Buddhist-Catholic dialogue with Pope Francis in Rome.
At its heart, this work is about relationship—learning how to remain rooted in our traditions while meeting one another with curiosity, humility, and care.