Let's Practice Together with Jen Racho - Sunday, October 12, 2025

10/12/2025 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT

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Let’s Practice Together

The Elements as Guides:
Coming Home to Ourselves and the Natural World

with Jen Racho

Sunday, October 12th from 10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific Time

Online via Zoom

About the Session:

Let’s explore what it means to have an embodied presence of the four elements. Inviting a sense of play, wonder, and kindness, this guided meditation can support a natural letting go of our busy minds, fragmented attention, and self-importance.

By attuning to the qualities of earth, water, fire, and air within ourselves and in our environment, we can be nourished, grounded, and liberated by the truth of our interconnectedness and constantly changing nature of experience.

This is a practice that we can bring into our everyday lives–as reminders to come home to ourselves and feel alive with the world around us.

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

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 Jen by offering dana, a gift of heartfelt generosity in gratitude for her wisdom, which supports her continued sustainability and helps keep these ancient, liberatory teachings alive.

You're welcome to donate directly to Jen in the following ways:

PayPal: paypal.me/JenniferRacho

Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/Jennifer-Racho

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 Jen Racho

Jen Racho (she/her) began practicing Buddhist meditation in 2003. First in the Soto Zen tradition and later in the Insight/Vipassana tradition. She has attended several month long meditation retreats. Jen’s spiritual practice is deeply influenced by indigenous and earth-based wisdom. She is passionate about making accessible the healing and liberatory potential of Buddhist meditation. Jen is a dharma teacher-in-training and co-leader of the BIPOC sangha at Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis.

Jen traces her ancestry to the Philippines and currently lives on the traditional homelands of the Dakota people in Minneapolis, MN.

Nimali Jayasinghe

Moderator

Nimali is one of the facilitators of the monthly Let's Practice Together offering. A New Yorker with ancestral ties to Sri Lanka, Nimali has been a practicing psychologist in the city for more than two decades. She recently completed the Mindfulness Mediation Teacher Certification Program, which was founded by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and is learning from Braided Wisdom's teachers to enrich this foundational experience with Indigenous insights.

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 with Jen Racho, Sunday, October 12 from 10:00 - 11:30 am (Pacific Time).

If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.