Community
Learning Communities
I belong to many learning communities where I’ve learned so many valuable modalities that I use in my work. These are the communities I continue to practice and engage with on a regular basis.
I believe in the importance of being part of more than one community of practice and study.
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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.
“Antara thrives through shared resourcing. Your donation sustains facilitators, land-based sanctuaries, and projects rooted in justice and healing. By giving, you’re nourishing a living web of repair and possibility.”
Moya
Moya is a sanctuary for healing, belonging, and community care.
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.
Every gift — whether $10, $100, 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
A weekly sanctuary of movement, ritual, and community care
Sacred-ish Sundays are our way of weaving together the sacred and the playful. Think of it as part sanctuary, part playground — a space where you can arrive exactly as you are, reconnect with your body, and share in the simple joy of being in community.
What Happens Each Sunday
Potluck Brunch – We begin around the table, sharing food and stories that nourish body and soul.
Embodied Practice – Movement, dance, or mindful play (like InterPlay, Azul, ecstatic dance, yoga, or drumming) — guided experiences that invite presence and expression.
Elemental Rituals – Seasonal fire circles, river floats, or earth-honoring practices to attune us with the cycles of nature.
Community Care – Time to connect, listen, and restore together.
Why “Sacred-ish”?
Because we believe the sacred doesn’t have to be solemn. It can be laughter around a fire, floating down a river, moving our bodies to a drumbeat, or tending silence together. The “-ish” leaves room for the imperfect, the playful, and the real.
Who It’s For
Sacred-ish Sundays are open to all — wild spirits, tender hearts, families, seekers, skeptics, and everyone in between. You don’t need experience with meditation, ritual, or movement practices. Just bring yourself, maybe a dish to share, and a willingness to explore.
Join Us
Sundays in Todd, NC
Gathering starts at 12pm with potluck brunch
Circle up for movement begins at 1pm
Seasonal rituals flow into the afternoon
Come once, or come often. Every Sunday is an invitation to reconnect with land, lineage, and community.
Interfaith Work
Interfaith work has been part of my journey for over 10 years. Interfaith work has allowed me to deepen my own faith traditions while learning about other points of view. I have been a part of many interfaith panels, spoken at the Parliament of World Religion and been part of a a Buddhist Catholic Dialogue with Pope Francis in Rome.