Video and Audio Dharma Recordings 2021
4 Day Virtual Retreat with Leslie Booker & JD Doyle March 11-14, 2021
The 5 Powers: Faith ~ Energy ~ Mindfulness ~ Concentration ~ Wisdom |
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About Our Teachers
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Booker brings her heart and wisdom to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom, and Social Justice. She began sharing practice with vulnerable populations in 2005, and was a senior teacher and Director of Teacher Trainings with Lineage Project, where she worked with incarcerated and vulnerable youth for ten years. During this time, she also facilitated a mindfulness and cognitive-based therapy intervention on Riker’s Island from 2009-2011, a partnership between New York University and the National Institute of Health. She shares her expertise nationally on expanding our vision around culturally responsive teaching, and changing the paradigm of self and community care. Booker is a graduate of the 2020 Spirit Rock Retreat Teacher Training, is a 2020 Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary, and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement in Mindful.org
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JD Doyle serves as a Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA and completed the 4 year Spirit Rock Meditation Center teacher training, as well as the Community Dharma Leader training, and the Dedicated Practitioner Program. JD has practiced Buddhism since 1995 in the U.S., Thailand, and Burma. JD worked as a public school teacher for over twenty years.JD has been leading racial justice and unlearning white privilege programs for over 4 years. For over 20 years, JD has been actively studying and participating through trainings and learning communities to uncover and disrupt the impact of white supremacy, including, as a bilingual (Spanish-English) public school teacher, through a Masters program in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico, and by many daylong and yearlong programs. JD identifies as genderqueer. They are committed to celebrating diversity, addressing racial injustice, expanding concepts of gender, and honoring the sacredness of the Earth.
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