Tuesday, October 13, 2026: Collective Healing & Weaving Community
Join us on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, for Community Practice Day—a day when classes and meetings are not held, and when we gather together in virtual and in-person community. For our Fall 2026 Community Practice Day, the theme is Collective Healing & Weaving Community.
We will gather to explore collective healing as a living practice of giving and receiving care, attention, and resources in community. The day will invite us to notice all that sustains us—each other, the land, our lineages—and to experiment with concrete ways of offering something back. Through guided practices, collaborative groups, and quiet reflection, we will tend our own nervous systems while also strengthening the web of relationship that holds our campus, so healing becomes not just something we receive, but something we actively co-create together.
Free for Naropa University students, staff, faculty & alumnx.
Morning Community Time
8:30–9:00 AM Communi-Tea & Morning Refreshments
Location: Nalanda Atrium (south entrance)
Everyone is welcome!
Collective Healing & Weaving Community
Location: Nalanda Events Center & on Zoom
9:00–9:15 AM: Welcoming Invocation
Isabella DaLuz is a student in Naropa’s undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies program. She is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who approaches her music as a devotional practice. While she pulls from interspiritual influences, she primarily practices yogic devotional song; she has been leading kirtan on campus since January of this year as an embodied contemplative space for the Naropa community. Isabella first began centering yogic mantric practices into her spiritual practice after completing a 10-month yoga teacher training in 2022. She began leading kirtan and prayer while working at Shoshoni Yoga Retreat in 2023. Since coming to Naropa, she has learned with teachers like Sheela Bringi and worked with fellow student-musicians to facilitate interspiritual song practices. She believes that sound can be a universally accessible connection point to spirit, the self, and the divine.
9:20–10:45 AM: Nature-Based Contemplative Practice
Awakening to the Wisdom of the Living World
with Cat Pantaleo
Meet at South Atrium, bring walking shoes & water.
Slow down, awaken your animal senses, and reconnect with the living world that sustains us. Through guided invitations and reflection, we’ll open to the wisdom of the more-than-human world, receive nourishment from the land, and offer gratitude and care in return.
Cat Pantaleo, MA, is an Herbalist, Ecopsychologist, and Forest Therapy Guide with 25 years of experience in integrative health and wellness education. She offers holistic consultations, nature-based experiences, and empowering education that weave together plant medicine, compassionate self-awareness, and building relationship and reciprocity with the more-than-human world—all in service of personal and collective well being and stewardship.
9:15–10:45 AM: Sitting Meditation Practice
Awareness Meditation: Starting Point for Genuine Relationships & Healing
with Karen Kissel Wegela
Karen Kissel Wegela, PhD, is a retired psychologist and professor. She taught in the Contemplative Psychotherapy program (under its various titles) for more than forty-five years. In addition to her work at Naropa, Karen has presented on the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy at many conferences nationally and internationally. She is the author of three books: How to Be a Help instead of a Nuisance (re-issued as What Really Helps) (Shambhala), The Courage to Be Present: Buddhism, Psychotherapy and the Awakening of Natural Wisdom (Shambhala), and her most recent book, Contemplative Psychotherapy Essentials: Enriching Your Practice with Buddhist Psychology (W.W. Norton). As a psychologist, she worked in a variety of settings as well as private practice for more than forty years before retiring. She continues to lead annual workshops at Omega Institute.
11:00 AM–12:30 PM: Keynote Address
"What Happens Between Us: The Practice of Shared Repair"
With Lisa Fierer
Healing does not happen only within us; it also happens between us. Communities are living relational systems, braided from many histories, identities, stories, and experiences. Informed by scientific research, storytelling, and somatic practice, this keynote explores how we can tend the spaces between us with greater resilience and compassion, creating the conditions for communities to move from surviving toward flourishing.
Lisa Fierer is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, and forgiveness researcher who explores how healing lives between us. After surviving profound personal loss, she bridges science, story, and somatic practice to help communities move from surviving to flourishing. Lisa is the creator of The Healing Of We, an initiative exploring collective practices of resilience, compassion, and shared humanity.
Lunch on your own or with friends and colleagues
Naropa Student Veterans Affinity Lunch: Nalanda 9246
Prospective Students and Families Lunch (Admissions): 9130 and 9124
In-Person Offerings: 1:45–3:00 PM
Out of One, Many: An Interspiritual Conversation on Collective Healing & Peace
Moderated by Rev. Pedro Senhorinha Silva, with Dorje Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam & Ramon Parish
Co-hosted by Boulder Rotary Club & Naropa University
Location: Nalanda Events Center & on Zoom
Rooted in the shared ethic often expressed through the “Golden Rule,” this panel will explore peace not simply as an aspiration, but as a living practice of relationship. Panelists will reflect on the teachings, rituals, and communal practices that help them cultivate inner steadiness, offer care across difference, and participate in repair within their communities and the wider world. Together, we will consider how peace grows through reciprocal attention: how we receive the wisdom, care, and resources that sustain us, and how we give back to one another, the land, and the communities to which we belong. This conversation invites us to imagine collective healing as a practice we co-create—beginning within, extending between us, and reaching outward into the world.
Pedro Senhorinha Silva is a spiritual teacher, facilitator, writer, comedian, and community builder exploring the intersections of spirituality, justice, belonging, grief, and human possibility. He currently serves as Associate Minister at Unity Columbine Spiritual Center in Boulder, Colorado, where he gives talks, facilitates conversations, teaches classes, and helps build a spiritually curious and inclusive community. Pedro holds a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School and is an ordained United Church of Christ minister. He is also a Certified Enneagram Typer and Teacher, using the Enneagram as a tool for self-awareness, relational understanding, and growth. Outside of Unity, Pedro serves as Director of Engagement at YOUnify and is the founder of the Liberation Comedy Project and HigherUp Consulting. Across his work, he uses spirituality, humor, storytelling, and dialogue to challenge inherited assumptions, deepen our understanding of ourselves and one another, and imagine new possibilities for how we live together. Pedro is guided by a simple question: What becomes possible when we awaken to who we are and what we can create together?
Charlotte Z. Rotterdam is a Buddhist teacher, contemplative educator, and writer. Raised in New York City, Charlotte’s early fascination with life’s big questions led her to study philosophy and religion, eventually receiving a master’s in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. She is a senior teacher (Dorje Lopön) and lineage holder at Tara Mandala, authorized by Lama Tsultrim Allione. She has been fortunate to study with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Lama Wangdu Rinpoche, Orgyen Khakhyab Lingpa Rinpoche, among others. She teaches internationally on meditation, compassion, and a variety of Vajrayana Buddhist practices, often together with her husband, Pieter Oosthuizen. Charlotte is faculty at Naropa University where she also directs the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education and co-developed and teaches the Mindful Compassion Training. She has published essays in Mandala, Lion’s Roar, and Buddhadharma. Inspired by the simple joys of everyday life and the subtle beauty of the world, Charlotte delights in sharing the insights of the Buddhist tradition so that they may be accessible and transformative in contemporary life.
Ramon Parish serves as an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Naropa University. His scholarly, contemplative, creative and community interests range from rites of passage and initiation, dance and embodiment, creative ceremony, food and environmental justice, restorative and transformative justice, counter-cultural histories, pre/post modern cosmologies, Afrofuturism and collective liberation. A lifelong resident of Colorado, Ramon is a young-old married guy, father of three spirited youth, a lover of rain, weather, stars and all things that foster beauty, intelligence and wisdom. His pedagogy centers awakening and strengthening the innate genius in each student. He believes that each person has a “golden thread” to help through the labyrinth of life. Through and beyond disciplines, his work as an educator is to help others become familiar with and follow those threads.
Charna Rosenholtz, MA, is a rabbi, Maggid, spiritual director, and teacher of Jewish wisdom and mysticism. She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Religious Studies from Naropa University and was ordained through the ALEPH Ordination Program. Her work weaves together Jewish text and Kabbalah, contemplative practice, psychology, and embodied approaches to spiritual development. She is the founder of Shulchan, an online house of study and spiritual practice, and currently serves as President of Haver, the Boulder Rabbinic and Cantorial Council.
Positive Disintegration as Healing for the Body/Mind
With Kaye Jones and Kathleen Sullivan
Location: Nalanda 9189
In times of personal and planetary crisis, how can falling apart become a doorway to transformation? Drawing from Dr. Joanna Macy’s intellectual legacy, this interactive workshop explores the concept of positive disintegration—Dr. Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s radical theory that psychological tension and breakdown can catalyze growth toward higher consciousness. Dąbrowski’s thinking fascinated Joanna as she immediately saw how it illuminated and applied it to her work. One of the earliest examples of Joanna’s deployment of positive disintegration can be found in her book Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age, where she writes: “By recognizing our capacity to suffer with our world, we dawn to wider dimensions of being. In those dimensions there is pain still, but a lot more. There is wonder, even joy, as we come home to our mutual belonging.”
Kaye Jones weaves the concept of positive disintegration to liberation dharma and systems theory, while Kathleen Sullivan contextualizes it within the Great Unraveling and nuclear guardianship. Through practices from Macy’s Work That Reconnects, we’ll discover together how personal upheaval mirrors planetary change, gaining tools to navigate uncertainty with resilience, authenticity, and purpose in our own lives and work. Join us to explore crisis as a catalyst for healing and collective renewal, weaving stronger community through shared vulnerability and care.
Congruency
With Melissa Michaels, EdD
Location: Dojo 9180
Grounded body. Warm heart. Clear mind.
Moving our minds through our feet and our hearts in the beat, our innate intelligence naturally comes online.
During our short time together, we will explore simple and universal ways of dancing with rhythm and sound to support liberated movement, emotional fluidity, and expansive thinking.
The vast landscape of our body will be the sacred ground
where we can both meet our selves and become ourselves.
Melissa Michaels, EdD. Soul midwife, educator, author, and artist, Melissa is the Founder/Director of Golden Bridge and Golden Girls Global.net—two not-for-profit initiatives dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of diverse people through body-centered initiatory experiences, mentoring, and community action.
For four decades, Melissa has been creating movement-based, cross-cultural educational opportunities liberating the potential that is available during major life transitions. Her work somatically supports people as they navigate through the narrow passageways of these challenging times. This body of work grew from Melissa’s decades of guiding diverse young people, Soma Source leaders, from self to soul to service through dance-based rites of passage journeys.
Reconnecting with Earth: Honoring Ancestral Roots & Right Relationship with Cacao
With Elizabeta Gonzalez
Location: Nalanda 9184
Limited to 12 participants: Register
This workshop explores what it means to be in right relationship with cacao as a plant ally and the benefits of ancestral lineage healing. Many people realize that they have inherited intergenerational trauma and conditioning that keeps them from being their most free, authentic selves. At one time, all of our ancestors were deeply rooted in earth revering practices and ancestor reverence. Connecting with our roots, both blood ancestry roots and plant ancestors, allows us to feel accompanied and supported in overcoming challenges or emotions that are difficult to work with on our own. For many people in the US, the racialization project disconnected us violently from land, spirituality, and ancestors so connecting with vibrant, well ancestors provides healing to our racial socialization, our collective grief, and offers us the support to show up in solidarity for justice and collective liberation. This is enhanced by and influences how we relate with our other-than-human kin, cacao being one sacred plant. Participants will receive a cup of cacao and a guided practice relating directly with cacao and earth-honoring ancestral roots.
Elizabeta is the founder of Roots of Liberation, an organization dedicated to the intersections of collective liberation work and ancestral lineage healing. As a former public school teacher and Naropa University professor, she experienced how our ability to be of benefit in the world is influenced by intergenerational ancestral trauma. This led to the study of ancestral healing work with the Ancestral Medicine Network which included a year-long program with experiential ritual practice, supervision, and ongoing mentorship. Through individual client sessions and group ancestor circles, Elizabeta supports people in making direct connections with supportive ancient ancestral guides, alleviating the ancestral burdens they carry, and opening to the particular gifts and magics their lineages have to offer. She also partners with Harvest of All First Nations to teach community learning programs on Solidarity & Anti-Racism and facilitates Conflict Repair and Connection Circles with Cacao. She is guided by her reverence for other-than-human kin and her ancestors from Spain, Scotland, England, and Mexico. She resides in Colorado and SantaCruz Guatemala, pidiendo permiso y perdón, on the lands of the Cheyenne, Ute, Arapahoe, and Kaqchikel.
The Way of Tea as Collective Healing
Location: Naropa Tea House, ARAPAHOE Campus
Reserve your spot! Please note there is a 5-person limit per sitting.
Please join Chadō practitioners and Naropa Tea House Stewards Andrea Becker and Sarah Richards Graba for a bowl of tea in the historic Naropa Tea House. Small groups of guests will enjoy a sweet and a bowl of matcha prepared in the Urasenke style.
To practice tea is to practice mindful hospitality. Within the relationship between host and guest, we explore respect, harmony, pure intention, and tranquility. We form relationships of peace with one another, with the seasons, with the utensils, with the water, with the tea, with earth, and with life. Notice what happens to your mind and nervous system as we partake in this simple act of making and enjoying tea together.
Andrea “Drea” Becker (she/they) is an independent writer and photographer currently based in Denver, CO. Drea graduated from JKS in 2018 and has been studying Chadō for nearly ten years.
Sarah Richards Graba (she/her/hers) of the Naropa Tea House is a writer and teacher with an eclectic spiritual life that includes zen, yoga, witchcraft, shamanism, tea ceremony, and more. She is an adjunct professor at Naropa, primarily teaching writing in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She has been studying chanoyu for over ten years (after discovering it at the Naropa Tea House), and has been a lover of all tea for life.
Questions or tech issues? Contact us at naropateahouse@naropa.edu
Can’t make it on Practice Day? Find our hours and events here: https://discord.gg/XCaECd2hAM
Online Offering: 1:45–3:00 PM
Out of One, Many: An Interspiritual Conversation on Collective Healing & Peace
Moderated by Rev. Pedro Senhorinha Silva, with Dorje Lopön, Charlotte Z. Rotterdam & Ramon Parish
Co-hosted by Boulder Rotary International & Naropa University
Location: Nalanda Events Center & on Zoom
Rooted in the shared ethic often expressed through the “Golden Rule,” this panel will explore peace not simply as an aspiration, but as a living practice of relationship. Panelists will reflect on the teachings, rituals, and communal practices that help them cultivate inner steadiness, offer care across difference, and participate in repair within their communities and the wider world.
Together, we will consider how peace grows through reciprocal attention: how we receive the wisdom, care, and resources that sustain us, and how we give back to one another, the land, and the communities to which we belong. This conversation invites us to imagine collective healing as a practice we co-create—beginning within, extending between us, and reaching outward into the world.
Pedro leads a cross-sector approach that unites people from diverse backgrounds and industries to accelerate progress on key challenges. With over three years of experience in this role, he has successfully managed projects that reduce polarization and cultural divisions while fostering deeper relating across differences.
Pedro is a Culture Transformation Accredited Professional from The Human Values Center and holds an MDiv from Andover Newton Theological School. His education and skills in intercultural/multicultural and diversity studies, along with fluency in Mandarin Chinese, enable him to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and facilitate meaningful dialogue.
Previously, as Pastoral Associate at First Congregational Church-UCC, Pedro led worship, adult learning, and children’s church programs. He also serves as Project Director of The Liberation Comedy Project, where he advances positive change and promotes unity through humor and storytelling.
Online Faculty Track
We are excited to offer opportunity for community building and workshops on Contemplative Pedagogy, specifically designed for faculty. All Naropa faculty are invited and encouraged to join. This is a unique opportunity to engage with other faculty around particular topics in contemplative education, Naropa’s unique educational lineage.
Care Bypassing: When Caring for Others Leaves You Out
with Jordan Quaglia, PhD
Location: Online
We often think and talk about care in one direction at a time, and our language around self-care and self-compassion reinforces this view. But in daily life, care for ourselves and others constantly interact—sometimes becoming harmonized, and at other times strained, divided, or imbalanced. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore two contrasting patterns of care that emerge where our inner lives intersect with the wider world.
Care bypassing occurs when care for others, a role, or a larger cause overrides other important parts of the field of care, including care for ourselves and those closest to us. Care collapse can emerge when the demands of caring exceed our capacity, leading us to withdraw, shut down, or lose access to compassion for others.
Drawing from compassion science and the framework of we-care, we’ll use reflection, discussion, and experiential practice to explore our own patterns of care and cultivate a more integrated way of caring, one that helps us hold care in multiple directions without dividing ourselves internally.
Jordan Quaglia, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Naropa University, where he directs the Cognitive and Affective Science Laboratory and serves as Research Director of the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education. His work bridges contemplative practice with contemporary psychological and neuroscientific research, exploring how care, compassion, and boundaries can be integrated in ways that support resilience, connection, and well-being. He is the author of From Self-Care to We-Care (Shambhala, 2025) and a Fellow of Mind & Life Institute. Supported by the Mind & Life Institute and the John Templeton Foundation, his research has appeared in leading scientific journals and books, and he is known for translating this work into accessible, experiential insights for diverse audiences. Learn more: www.jordanquaglia.com/book.
In-Person Offerings: 3:15–4:30 PM
In Right Relationship: Power Literacy & Generative Conflict as Healing Practice
With Amanda Aguilera, PhD
Location: Nalanda 9184
What if healing isn’t only about what happens inside us, but also what happens between us? In a culture that asks us to heal alone, this day invites us to remember that we heal in relation. This interactive workshop explores what is required of us in relationship so that we can achieve collective healing and reciprocity.
We’ll explore right relationship with power literacy—a practice of showing up with dignity, respect, and accountability—and learn why conflict, when approached generatively, is not a breakdown of relationship but an opening that leads us into deeper trust and repair. In the spirit of reciprocity, we’ll look at how the dynamics we often leave unnamed shape our capacity for connection, belonging, and repair.
Through reflective, embodied exercises and structured dialogue, participants will practice staying in connection through disagreement, naming what’s hard with care, and transforming patterns of avoidance, over-giving, or control into honest, workable exchanges. You’ll leave with practical tools for bringing an introduction to power literacy and generative conflict into your relationships and communities—as practices that make healing possible between us, not just within us.
Dances of Universal Peace
Jennifer Friedman
Location: Nalanda 9190
The Dances of Universal Peace are a transformative spiritual practice rooted in the celebration of all the world’s wisdom traditions to inspire connection, collaboration, harmony and peace within our communities. Simple and inclusive, all are welcomed into the circle to hold hands in an embodied prayer of Unity. There are no performers and no experience is necessary as everything is taught in the moment.
Together we sing and dance in an atmosphere of authenticity, vulnerability and compassion as a living practice of individual and collective healing which dissolves separation and explores our interconnectedness with Creation and all humanity. Learn more: www.peacedance.org
Once a touring singer/songwriter with two original folk albums, Jennifer Friedman is a beloved Leader and Mentor in the DUP tradition. With a down-to-earth, warm and welcoming style, she has led the Longmont and Lafayette, CO, DUP Circles for 18 years and leads Dances and sacred singing at retreats and festivals throughout the USA, Mexico, Canada and South America. She serves as Executive Director for DUP North America and is a part-time interfaith hospital chaplain at two Northern CO hospitals. Jen has been personally transformed by the Dances and the direct transmission of Source energy and wisdom that they offer while simultaneously fostering a communal sense of the peace that is possible when we join together for this experience of liberative joy, healing and love which is so needed in these times. Learn more about Jennifer’s work at: www.jenniferfriedman.com.
The Power Animal Journey: Entering Relationship Through Core Shamanic Practice
Antonio Coyote Nunez, PhD
Location: Nalanda 9235
In this experiential session, we will engage in a Shamanic Journey practice drawn primarily from Core Shamanism as developed by Michael Harner—a cross-cultural, non-denominational method for entering expanded states of consciousness through sustained drumming. Rather than approaching this as a lecture on healing, we will practice it directly and collectively: each participant will journey individually, held within a shared container of sound, breath, and intention, before returning to integrate and share in community. This first journey is oriented toward a specific intention: to become acquainted with and meet one’s personal spiritual power animal, a helping presence traditionally understood to offer guidance, protection, and strength. Brief instruction will be given beforehand on how to recognize and approach this encounter, so that no prior experience is needed to participate fully. The session honors the reciprocal nature of this work—journeying is not only a technique for extracting insight, but a relationship to be developed, which becomes the essence of the support of the animal spirits in our shamanic explorations.
Please come prepared to lie on the mats on the floor or sit comfortably; eye masks are optional but not recommended. What is important is an open and unhurried attitude toward whatever arises. We will open the exercise with rounding and clear intention-setting, including guidance on meeting and recognizing a power animal. Then we will hold the space for the journey itself, which is done by drumming, and after the journey is completed, we will close the exercise by sharing in an integration circle where participants who wish may share what they encountered and learned. In the spirit of Sacred Reciprocity, we will also take a moment to acknowledge the lineages and living traditions from which this practice descends, and to consider what we might offer back—in gratitude, attention, or commitment—in exchange for what the journey offers us.
Antonio describes himself as a “Psychonaut” and has been a Consultant/Coach/Professor trained in Organization Development, Coaching, Crisis Intervention, and Conflict Resolution. He has also taught in Higher Education settings such as CIIS and Southwestern College. His education consists of a PhD in East/West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Master Degrees from The George Washington and DePauw Universities in the areas of Education and Human Development, Distance Education Leadership, and Organizational Psychology. He spent most of his professional life in the education and business environments and has been CEO of a Telecommunications organization, and Human Resources Director at Reynolds Aluminum both in Venezuela. Antonio was also the executive director of a non-profit international NGO affiliated with the United Nations and the director of Management Training for IBM in South America. His teaching experience includes working with Master’s and PhD–level students and as Academic Dean in two Graduate Schools for about 7 years.
Most of his academic orientation is based on Positive and Transpersonal Psychologies. He loves both classroom and online teaching with graduate-level students, having a particular skill set for creating experiential learning processes that promote thinking beyond the traditional.
Antonio is also returning to the Naropa Community, where he was a Board of Trustees member about 27 years ago before he moved away from Boulder. He now lives in Colorado since 2020 with his wife Zaida, their three daughters who attended and graduated from CU Boulder, and their five grandchildren.
He considers himself blessed for having the opportunity to once again share his Transpersonal background with a whole new team of students.
The Way of Tea as Collective Healing
Location: Naropa Tea House, ARAPAHOE Campus
Reserve your spot! Please note there is a 5-person limit per sitting.
Please join Chadō practitioners and Naropa Tea House Stewards Andrea Becker and Sarah Richards Graba for a bowl of tea in the historic Naropa Tea House. Small groups of guests will enjoy a sweet and a bowl of matcha prepared in the Urasenke style.
To practice tea is to practice mindful hospitality. Within the relationship between host and guest, we explore respect, harmony, pure intention, and tranquility. We form relationships of peace with one another, with the seasons, with the utensils, with the water, with the tea, with earth, and with life. Notice what happens to your mind and nervous system as we partake in this simple act of making and enjoying tea together.
Andrea “Drea” Becker (she/they) is an independent writer and photographer currently based in Denver, CO. Drea graduated from JKS in 2018 and has been studying Chadō for nearly ten years.
Sarah Richards Graba (she/her/hers) of the Naropa Tea House is a writer and teacher with an eclectic spiritual life that includes zen, yoga, witchcraft, shamanism, tea ceremony, and more. She is an adjunct professor at Naropa, primarily teaching writing in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She has been studying chanoyu for over ten years (after discovering it at the Naropa Tea House), and has been a lover of all tea for life.
Questions or tech issues? Contact us at naropateahouse@naropa.edu
Can’t make it on Practice Day? Find our hours and events here: https://discord.gg/XCaECd2hAM
Online Offerings: 3:15–4:30 PM
Tibetan Art as Healing: Collective Healing & Sacred Reciprocity
Lobsang Tsering
Location: On Zoom
This online workshop invites participants to use simple art-making, inspired by Tibetan contemplative art practices, as a gentle practice of reflection, healing, and connection. No art experience is needed. Participants are invited to bring paper and any materials they have available, such as pencils, pens, crayons, markers, colored pencils, or paint.
Through guided prompts, participants may explore color, symbols, words, and images as ways to express what they are carrying and what supports them. Practices include creating a healing image that moves from tension toward calm or hope; making a personal mandala of balance and intention; writing or drawing a compassionate letter to the heart; creating a gratitude drawing; or remembering a natural place that brings peace and considering how we can care for the environment and community in return.
The workshop will include a brief intention-setting and dedication of meditation.
Lobsang Tsering is a doctor of Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine practitioner, and a former Tibetan Buddhist monk. He graduated from Five Branches University, San Jose, California. His journey began in the Gyudmed monastery, where he spent many years devoted to study, practice, and teaching loving kindness. During that time, he had the profound privilege of sharing spiritual knowledge and sacred arts across the globe, including programs in Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic nations. These experiences showed him that kindness and love are not limited to family and friends and strangers, too, can offer you loving kindness unconditionally.
Naropa Community Art Studio (NCAS)
The Naropa Community Art Studio is back for a special appearance on Practice Day, Tuesday 10/13/26 from 6:00–8:00 pm!
We will be making wearable art together and providing ways to work with textiles and upcycling clothes. You’re also always welcome to bring your own ideas and spontaneously work on whatever you wish while at studio.
Location: Visual Art Studio 9124 & Ceramics Room 9138 (on first floor)
That’s right two spaces running at once. We’ll have use of multiple ceramic wheels. We hope you’ll mark your calendars and that you’ll come make art with us!
- Free, drop-in.
- Art materials & prompts provided or bring your own!
- Open to anyone that self-identifies as part of the Naropa Community: past, current, and prospective students, faculty, staff, friends, and family all welcome.
Contact: Emily Black at eblack@naropa.edu for more information.
Feedback Is Welcome: Your Voice Matters!
Practice Day is produced by Mission, Culture, and Inclusive Community where we are committed to a practice of giving and receiving feedback.
We rely on your voice to help us shape this event in the future, to be more in alignment with our Community Compass.
Please take a minute, literally it take less than a minute at the end of each session to provide your honest feedback for each session you attend. There is only one required question but space for you to write a small book. All your ideas are valuable and will be heard.
The same link may be used more than once and we appreciate your feedback for every session you attend.
