Let's Practice Together with Sarwang Parikh - September 7, 2025
Description
Let’s Practice Together ~
Re-Wilding Our Awareness: Returning to the Natural State of Mind in a Noisy World
with Sarwang Parikh
Sunday, September 7th from 10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
About the Session:
In today’s world, our attention is constantly hijacked, fragmented, and commodified by technology and media. Yet the Buddha taught that awareness, in its natural state, is vast, dynamic, and free—like a wild forest. In this guided practice, we will explore what it means to “re-wild” our awareness: returning to a more spacious, natural way of paying attention that can hold multiplicity without becoming overwhelmed. Together we will practice tending this living field of awareness with care, discovering how it supports us in meeting a noisy, distracted world with greater clarity, creativity, and love.
About the Series:
These times call for us to expand our individual and collective capacity to navigate uncertainty, instability, and complexity. By practicing deeply together, we strengthen our ability to meet these challenges with resilience and presence.
Throughout 2025, we will gather one Sunday a month online as a community of curious practitioners to explore the timeless wisdom of the Buddhadharma and mindfulness/Insight meditation. In each session, we will cultivate presence, deepen our meditation practice, and engage in shared reflections and inquiry. Together, we cultivate a collective heart-mind-body—a living, interconnected field—spacious enough to hold and transform whatever life brings our way.
Let's Practice Together offers a space for meaningful dialogue—an opportunity to ask questions, explore personal and collective experiences, and learn from one another. We welcome sincere and committed practitioners of all levels and backgrounds to join us on this collective path of discovery and connection.
Sessions will be recorded and shared with all registrants. During the session, practitioners who don't wish to be recorded may offer their questions and reflections in the chat.
Dates and Teachers for 2025:
Sundays from 10:00 - 11:30 am PT
September 7 with Sarwang Parikh
October 12 with Jennifer Racho
November 16 with Jonathan Relucio
December 7 with Nimali Jayasinghe
Reciprocity Contribution:
We gratefully welcome donations of any amount that feels meaningful to you. Your donation at registration directly supports Braided Wisdom's ability to continue cultivating spaces of healing, learning, and collective care. Everyone is welcome, regardless of ability to contribute.
Additionally, we invite you to engage in sacred reciprocity with our dear teacher Sarwang by offering dana, a gift of heartfelt generosity in gratitude for his wisdom, which supports his continued sustainability and helps keep these ancient, liberatory teachings alive.
You're welcome to donate directly to Sarwang in the following ways:
Venmo: @sarwangp
PayPal: @Sarwang or paypal.me/Sarwang
Setting the Container:
We request participants attend the whole program to respect the container of the group and the teacher.
At Braided Wisdom, we strive to cultivate an online space that supports connection, presence, and collective care. While we invite participants to have their cameras on to help nurture a sense of community, we wholeheartedly honor that there are many reasons someone may choose otherwise. We encourage you to meet yourself where you are, and if any needs arise around this, you’re warmly invited to reach out to us at info@braidedwisdom.org.
Please note, there is a possibility the session may go over 15 minutes. It would be great if you can stay, and we understand if you need leave at 11:30 am PT.
About Sarwang Parikh
Sarwang Parikh (he/they) is a decolonial psychotherapist, facilitator, and meditation teacher based on unceded Ohlone land in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in a devotional Indian lineage with an immigrant, working-class background, they have practiced the Dharma for over 25 years, bridging Vedic yoga and Buddhism with contemporary healing.
Trained as both a psychotherapist and Dharma teacher, Sarwang has completed multi-year programs at East Bay Meditation Center and Spirit Rock, as well as a yoga teacher training. They teach regularly with Dharma Homies, East Bay Meditation Center, Braided Wisdom, and Inward Bound Mindfulness. Beyond Dharma spaces, he brings mindfulness and clinical psychology into nonprofits, community organizations, and workplaces. They currently serve as a co-director of Dharma Homies and on the board of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Sarwang loves playing his handpan, being immersed in the forest or getting free on a dance floor. www.sarwang.me
Nimali Jayasinghe
Moderator
Zoom Link:
An email with the Zoom Link will be sent out the day before, the morning of, and five minutes prior to the program beginning. Please search for info@braidedwisdom.org and check your spam folder if you do not see our email with the Zoom Link.
You will need to sign-in to your Zoom account before clicking the zoom link, and be sure the name on your zoom proflie is the same one you used to register for the program. We can only admit those who are on our attendance list. Thank you for understanding.
This program registration is for the Let's Practice Together - Re-Wilding Our Awareness: Returning to the Natural State of Mind in a Noisy World with Sarwang Parikh, Sunday, September 7 from 10:00 - 11:30 am (Pacific Time).
If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.