ONLINE: Creating Inclusive Spaces to Teach Meditation
September 16, 2025
Meditation & Mindfulness, Online Programs
Program Start Date & Time: September 16th at 5:30 pm MT
Program End Date & Time: September 16th at 7:00 pm MT
What is needed in meditation instruction now? Join us for an online panel on how to host inclusive spaces to teach meditation. There is an art to transmitting meditation beyond a script or mere technique, and there are new skills required to facilitate groups embodying diverse lived experiences.
We are excited to host this conversation among distinguished dharma teachers: Mushim Patricia Ikeda, Judith Simmer-Brown, Jeanine Canty, and Willa Baker. This online panel is a lead up to “Empowering Womxn to Teach Meditation: An Updated Toolkit” with Holly Gayley, Carla Burns, and Adrienne Chang in person at DMC in October.
Retreat Faculty
Judith Simmer-Brown
Judith Simmer-Brown is Professor Emeritx of Religious Studies at Naropa University, where she has been in the faculty since 1978. She has practiced Tibetan Buddhism for almost 50 years and is senior dharma teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. She also serves on the steering committee of the American Academy of Religion’s Contemplative Studies Group. Her […]
Willa Blythe Baker
Willa Blythe Baker is the founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, MA and its retreat center Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. She was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after twelve years of monastic training and two consecutive three-year retreats. In 2013, Willa completed a […]
Jeanine Canty
Jeanine Canty is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco and formerly the chair of environmental studies at Naropa University, where she continues to teach. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of […]
Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Mushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher, mindfulness meditation teacher, social justice activist, author, and diversity and inclusion facilitator based in Oakland, California. She teaches primarily at the East Bay Meditation Center in downtown Oakland, where she also served on the board of directors, known as the Leadership Sangha, for seven years. Mushim has been […]
