THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 2023

with Arinna Weisman & Mary Stancavage

Held in a container of practice and community, we will use this day to examine and uncover the dynamics of privilege and oppression, intention, and impact. This will be an opportunity to investigate our racial conditioning in an open-hearted and caring, non-judgmental space. We can uncover how our position of privilege negatively impacts our lives and the lives of others who do not share that same privilege.

There will be periods of guided meditation, movement, group sharing, and exercises designed to help us awaken our hearts and minds with compassion and clarity to healing the dynamics of racism and white privilege.

Open to all who self-identify as white people.

Details:  IN-PERSON ONLY

Minimum registration: 18 participants

Participants will meet at Unitarian Universalist Church of the Desert (UUCOD) in Rancho Mirage.

• Please pay by check or cash at the door.
• No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
• As we are meeting in-person, please bring your lunch, proof of vaccination, a Covid rapid antigen test, and a yoga mat or pillows for comfort. Thank you!

Cost: $45, please pay at the door with cash or check. We never turn people away for lack of funds.  Please contact gc@desertinsight.org if you need a partial or full scholarship.

Covid Protocols

To ensure the safety and comfort of everyone, we require all attendees at this daylong to be fully vaccinated and boosted, and to show proof upon arrival.

Additionally, please take a rapid test three days before the daylong. Please also bring a rapid test with you to take before entering the church. You will have to allow 15 minutes for the test results. (CVS offers free rapid kits to anyone with insurance. If there is a financial concern, please let us know.)

Please do not attend if you are sick or experiencing the symptoms of a Covid-19 infection.

Fragrance Free

In an effort to be inclusive and practice compassion, we request that all participants who attend this daylong please refrain from wearing scented products. These protocols ensure that the daylong is accessible to immune-compromised people.

Dana: Please consider giving a donation to support the work of the teacher in preparing and presenting this daylong and for the cost incurred in renting the facility. Place your dana in the basket basket by the door or give at the DONATE button at desertinsight.org

Mary Stancavage has practiced meditation, yoga, and cultivated a spiritual practice for over 30 years and in 2009 was empowered to teach Buddhadharma. Mary is based in the Los Angeles area and teaches classes, retreats and does individual mentoring. She has taught at mindfulness at recovery centers, has co-facilitated Year-to-Live groups since 2008, and has had a weekly dharma class for over decade.

Arinna Weisman has been studying meditation practice since 1979 and has been teaching since 1989. Her dharma practice and teaching have been infused with her political and environmental activism. She was the first out queer teacher with Eric Kolvig to lead insight meditation retreats for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Queer community. She also leads ‘Uncovering the Heart Retreats’ integrating the practice of awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation. Arinna is the Guiding Teacher at Dhamma Dena Meditation Center.

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