Let's Practice Together with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal - May 4, 2025
Description
Let’s Practice Together ~
Following the North Star: A Meditation for Stillness and Connection
with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal
Sunday, May 4th from 10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
About the Session:
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.
Dr. Madrigal will invite you to connect with the wisdom of the North Star, a timeless guide. She will offer a path to inner stillness and a deep sense of connection—within yourself, with the ancestors who have followed this star for generations across the North American continent, and with the greater cosmos. As you breathe and listen, you’ll be gently guided to align with this ancient force, finding clarity, grounding, and a renewed sense of direction.
About the Series:
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, practicitioners who don't wish to be recorded may offer their questions and reflections in the chat.
Dates for 2025:
Sundays from 10:00 - 11:30 am PT
May 4
June 8
July 13
August 10
September 7
October 12
November 16
December 7
Reciprocity Contribution:
We gratefully welcome donations of any amount that feels meaningful to you. Your support is appreciated, and everyone is welcome, regardless of ability to contribute.
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 build an online environment that creates a safer container for all. Part of creating a safer environment is asking for participants to have their cameras on during class time. If you have an access need around this request, please reach out to info@braidedwisdom.org so we can discuss how best to support you.
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 Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal
Guest Teacher
Renda Dionne Madrigal, Ph.D. is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Author, Licenced Clinical Psychologist, a Registered Drama Therapist, the President of Mindful Practice Inc., and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over twenty years of experience in the field. She has been featured on the cover of Mindful Magazine and was recognized as a Powerful Woman of Mindfulness in the August 2022 edition.
She is a mentor for the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior Mindfulness Awareness Research Center Teacher Training Program, a Stanford Certified Applied Compassion Educator/Consultant, and faculty member at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles and California Indian Nations College.
Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal specialized in Story Medicine which combines mindfulness, somatic therapies, and storytelling to support insight, healing, growth, wisdom and decolonization.
In addition to her work as a clinician, she is also an author, with an MFA from the American Indian Institute of the Arts (May 2023), and a performer. She has appeared in Indigenous plays written by her daughters and enjoys writing fiction featuring Indigenous female protagonists who save the world. Her book, The Mindful Family Guidebook, has been listed as a Best Book of Mindfulness 2021 by Mindful Magazine. Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal is currently working on her new books, Story Medicine, and thriller-fantasy, Silenced, featuring Indigenous women saving the world.
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 you will be joining with is the same one you used to register for the program. We cannot admit anyone unless they are on our attendance list. Thank you for understanding.
This program registration is for the Let's Practice Together with Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal, Sunday, May 4 from 10:00 - 11:30 am (Pacific Time).
If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.