1/7/2024 0 Comments Lama rod owens middleburyI will be teaching a Friday evening talk on September 8th and a Saturday daylong retreat on September 9th in Atlanta, GA to support you in your practice. It is breathing with it, hurting with it, and rejoicing with it.īeing in community while engaging in these practices is all the more powerful due to our collective intention to heal and get free. Back to being in touch with our body, our breath, our spirit.Įmbodiment-based mindfulness meditation is a practice of being in our bodies, knowing our bodies, moving with our bodies as it moves through the world. It is precisely when we feel overwhelmed and exhausted that we need to go back to the basics. Yet our conditioning in a capitalistic society, which values work over rest and health, makes us ignore those signals or override them in an effort to survive through the apocalypse. Oftentimes our bodies try to tell us to pause, take a breath, or have a nourishing meal. When we are present with our bodies, we can feel what it is trying to tell us. Justin is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia University, has been a visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary, teaches at Pure Land Farms. Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa. Lama Justin is currently the chaplain for Hart Island, New York City’s public cemetery. Justin also has professional experience in home hospice and hospital settings as a pastoral caregiver. From 2016 until December 2021 Justin served as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also served as Staff Chaplain supervising over 30 chaplains and guided wellness programming for staff. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books, and contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books. Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. Stay tuned to his website herefor upcoming offerings and click here for bookings and other requests. Wanna keep tabs on what Lama Rod is doing next? Be sure to sign up for his email list here. Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets. Author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.Ī leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen.
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