I just love my women’s Sangha at PIMC (Portland Insight Meditation Center)! This sacred circle began one year ago with Alexa Redner (https://www.alexaredner.com/) as our teacher and has been meeting every Tuesday evening ever since. It’s drop in and all self identifying women are welcome.
I love Alexa and am so grateful for this wonderful group of women whose age range spans over 50 years. We meditate, listen to a dharma teaching, and then reflect and share about how the teaching plays out in our lives. So helpful in these challenging times! And also simply healing and illuminating and empowering as a human being.
And we never know how Alexa will start us out. Two weeks ago, and after we first went around the circle sharing our names, Alexa said that we were going to MOVE! The next thing I knew Alexa put on Jon Batiste’s song Freedom and we were all dancing! What a hoot!
I missed last week because of a family gathering, but this past Tuesday we were all handed the lyrics of Crowded Table by the Highwomen and, while one of the younger women played guitar, we sang this song together before our meditation. Such a moving experience!
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