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Join us to practice mindfulness meditation and compassion to awaken heart and mind to savor life and serve the world.
In these very difficult times, these profound and practical teachings offer an ever-available refuge and powerful medicine to help us live with greater freedom, peace, and joy while responding to suffering and injustice with compassionate, courageous love. They are secular-friendly and appropriate for people of any faith or no faith.
Come see for yourself how they may help you and empower you to help our world.
Weekly in-person meetings are every Thursday 6:30 - 8:00 PM MST in Tempe, AZ
Monthly virtual meetings are every first Thursday 6:30 - 8:00 PM MST
Register to receive the address for the in-person meetings and the Zoom link for virtual meetings
Our meetings include a ~40 minute sitting meditation with guidance and either or both a wisdom talk or facilitated sharing on how we are bringing the teachings into our lives. Please do your best to join on time so that we can begin with everyone present without delay. Our monthly Zoom sessions are held in conjunction with the weekly in-person meetings of my Salt River Mindfulness Meditation Community creating a hybrid practice gathering in which people from anywhere my join with our local group. All are welcome and our meetings are suitable for people with no experience as well as long-time practitioners. Feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested or would benefit.
My aspiration is to help build a community or sangha that may become a growing nonviolent army of political bodhisattvas serving our world and forging a Beloved Community for all people and life on earth.
Kai Newkirk, the meeting teacher, is a devoted practitioner and teacher of mindfulness meditation as well as a progressive leader and founder of For All, a center for nonviolent organizing to make America a Beloved Community. He began meditating seriously after a 2001 ten day Vipassana course and is a graduate of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Kai hopes to help build a nonviolent army of political bodhisattvas. He lives in Tempe, Arizona with his wife, immigrant rights leader, Erika Andiola, and their beloved dog Luna.