Let's Practice Together with Margarita Loinaz - June 8, 2025
Description
Let’s Practice Together:
From Fragmentation to Embodied Presence
with Margarita Loinaz
Sunday, June 8th 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.
As we struggle to find ways to be with all that is happening at this time, the mind can become overwhelmed and fragmented. Training to be able to "be with" what is arising is at the core of our Buddhist practice. Turning towards the vulnerable feelings we may be overlooking and tending to our precious body are key in developing an embodied presence that finds its ground in our Essential Nature. During our time together with Margarita, we will explore ways to cultivate that capacity.
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
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 Margarita Loinaz
Guest Teacher
Margarita Loinaz began buddhist practice in 1977 with Kalu Rimpoche and trainged in the Theravada and Tibetan traditions. Her Dzogchen teacher is Lama Drimed Norbu. She began teaching in 1997 leading the Women of Color Sitting group with Marlene Jones and co-organizing the first People of Color Retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 1999. She worked as a public health physician in San Francisco serving the homeless and Latinx communities. Her current teaching blends Dzogchen practice with social justice and environmental awareness. She was born in the Dominican Republic and is a grandmother.
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: From Fragmentation to Embodied Presence with Margarita Loinaz, Sunday, June 8 from 10:00 - 11:30 am (Pacific Time).
If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.