Watch the Live Opening Session with Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Spring Washam
The Live Opening Session with Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD and Spring Washam will be hosted on Zoom on Thursday, Feburary 18th 12:00pm EST | See Your Timezone. The call recording will be posted here within 24 hours after the initial airing.
If you are unable to join on Zoom, you can also access the Youtube Livestream below (once the session begins).
Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Spring Washam
Live Opening Session
About This Session
Join summit host Ayo Yetunde (coeditor of the book Black and Buddhist), along with meditation teacher and shamanic practitioner Spring Washam (author of A Fierce Heart), for a celebratory opening session to the Black and Buddhist online summit.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD is the co-editor of Black and Buddhist. She is a chaplain and pastoral counselor, co-founder of Center of the Heart, a spiritual wellness organization that focuses on body, behavior, and beliefs. She is also founder of Audre: Spiritual Care for Women with Cancer. Ayo has written for Lion's Roar magazine and has published other books on Buddhism.
Ayo's articles on Buddhism can be found on Lion's Roar and Ayo's books can be found here.
About Spring Washam
Spring Washam is a well-known meditation teacher, author and visionary leader based in California and Peru. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities. She is one of the founders and core teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, located in downtown Oakland, CA. She received extensive training by Jack Kornfield, is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in northern California, and has practiced and studied Buddhist philosophy in both the Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism for the last 20 years. In addition to being a teacher, she is also a shamanic practitioner and has studied indigenous healing practices for over a decade. She is the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, an organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom. Her writing and teachings have appeared in many online journals and publications such as Lions Roar, Tricycle, and Belief.net. She has been a guest on many popular podcasts and radio shows. She currently travels and teaches meditation retreats, workshops and classes worldwide.
You can learn more about her work and sign up for her mailing list on her website. You can connect with her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. You can also join her on one of her Peru retreats through Lotus Vine Journeys.
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About This Session
Join summit host Ayo Yetunde (coeditor of the book Black and Buddhist), along with meditation teacher and shamanic practitioner Spring Washam (author of A Fierce Heart), for a celebratory opening session to the Black and Buddhist online summit.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD is the co-editor of Black and Buddhist. She is a chaplain and pastoral counselor, co-founder of Center of the Heart, a spiritual wellness organization that focuses on body, behavior, and beliefs. She is also founder of Audre: Spiritual Care for Women with Cancer. Ayo has written for Lion's Roar magazine and has published other books on Buddhism.
Ayo's articles on Buddhism can be found on Lion's Roar and Ayo's books can be found here.
About Spring Washam
Spring Washam is a well-known meditation teacher, author and visionary leader based in California and Peru. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities. She is one of the founders and core teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, located in downtown Oakland, CA. She received extensive training by Jack Kornfield, is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in northern California, and has practiced and studied Buddhist philosophy in both the Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism for the last 20 years. In addition to being a teacher, she is also a shamanic practitioner and has studied indigenous healing practices for over a decade. She is the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, an organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom. Her writing and teachings have appeared in many online journals and publications such as Lions Roar, Tricycle, and Belief.net. She has been a guest on many popular podcasts and radio shows. She currently travels and teaches meditation retreats, workshops and classes worldwide.
You can learn more about her work and sign up for her mailing list on her website. You can connect with her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. You can also join her on one of her Peru retreats through Lotus Vine Journeys.
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can the talks be recorded due to time conflicts?
The talks will be recorded and available to watch for the next 48 hours!
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I am loving this talk with Spring. So timely and important.
Thank you for the hope… wonderful, inspiring opening. Can hardly wait for more!’
Love to all
Inspiring talk, thank you!
wow, what a beautiful opening gift❤-🙏with gratitude
Educated, passionate, proud to be a WOMAN OF COLOR, and HUMBLE…the best of all worlds.. thank you for this…
Help – ZOOM closed after the session with Spring and I’m trying tolog on. . . They want a passcode.
On January 25th, 2020 I took 10 pictures of an image of Harriet Tubman taken in 1911. Her left hand was resting on the wooden arm of the chair where she was seated, dressed in white from head to to, looking straight at me. I didn’t know why I took those pictures. Now I do.
Thank you. Your webinar was inspirational, informative, and hopeful……
Having trouble accessing the recording of the Opening Session.
Thanks for info on how to watch sessions during the 48 hours after they are presented.
I don’t think it has been posted yet, Lisa.
Also having trouble watching the replay, any assistance is greatly appreciated!
How do we access the opening session on a replay? Your site does not tell us.
I’m grateful to be able to tune into the webinar. So many good nuggets for me to contemplate. I’m watching PBS’s The Black Church and hearing about how important the church/spirituality and the collective energies kept black folks uplifted and alive. Spring’s opening story helped me put more things into perspective and to dig deeper. Thank you!
How do I access the session? I was not able to attend at noon
I couldn’t make the first meeting. Now I need a meeting I.D. # for Zoom to access the meeting after the meeting was over.
How do I access the next session?
Please send meeting I.D. # for accessing talk after it has finished
Please send the meeting I.D
Inspirational !
Thank you, Spring for that beautiful, educational introduction!
So enjoyed Spring Washam’s AWESOME talk this morning!!! Perfect way to kick off the B&B Summit! Thank you.
Dear All,
Appreciate for organizing this summit. I do have some meditation experience, and I wish to bring my meditation small group to this conversation. How could I contact you later on, because I am at my work. I am an Asian, the first generation of Mongols, who settled in Denver Colorado last two decades. I work during the day time. Recording the conversations would be grateful for me in order to catch up summit later on. Wish the best to your summit!
INSPIRING! Though if EACH white person who has grown up in this same oppressive system is viewed as oppressive, racist or as having no heritage of value, the result is to *continue* the bias, identity politics and oppressive system that already exists!! Now is the moment to make this sickening, horribly cruel system Better For at least the last 10 years, sociology-social work courses focusing on racism have taught that IT IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO *NOT RE-CREATE RACIST BELIEFS by our own actions, programs, and voices. LET’S BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE!!! First of all, let us highly value individuals Because they are HUMAN PEOPLE. We all feel pain! Let us not fall into the mind trap set by racism!!
Dear Ayo:
I remember our aspirant group and my visit to your house in Oakland the day before you moved. It touches me that you have come so far!
My email is still jerome@mountainsangha.org, if you would like to connect.
Appreciate for organizing this summit. Recordings and Zoom ID numbers would be grateful for me in order to catch up the daily sessions later on. Wish the best to your event!
As a white woman living on the unceded land of Lenape people (Manahatta), I feel humbled and grateful for this invitation to listen and learn. I hope to continue this work through family, relationships and social work. Thank you for this generous sharing of wisdom.
Thanks alot for this talk and organizing this summit
Hello, I’d love to read the book by Spring – is the book already available? Best wishes
So glad I tuned in. It was soul nourishment.
What a timely and perfect conversation to listen to. Thanks so much Spring. This talk literally sprung (not pun intended) me out of my writer’s block for my latest novel that involves afrofuturism, resilience, and possibility. I have visual reference to Harriet Tubman in the book and speaking about this was really inspiring and now I know what to write and how to start the process again.
What a bright and enthusiastic light to show us the way! I’m looking forward to hearing more from Spring and our Black Buddhist friends. Thank you ~
After the 48 hour access, is there any way planned for those interested to watch this opening again?
Thanks!
I’m enjoying the summit, Although I embrace Buddhist philosophy, I’m not Buddhist. I also read Buddhist philosophy, such as Pema Chodron. I embrace All Spiritual Philosophy. I study with various Spiritual Leaders/Teachers, as I have since my early 20’s. I’m now considered a “senior”. While I don’t believe it’s imperative to claim a specific religious path, I do believe it’s best to be on “the Path”. For me the awareness of being on “the path” automatically leads my Spiritual way. I find so many correspondences and this allows me to expand my consciousness. BUT, I’m truly grateful for this summit. I’m always looking to learn and expand and embrace more knowledge, understand people and be the beneficiary of hearing about the experiences of others. I appreciate this summit greatly. I already feel enrich and connected. Thank you!
So deeply grateful – just heard the session on black men and Buddhism (terrific!) as finally have time to sit and listen ….and was so looking forward to hearing the opening session, but it seems it’s gone ……if there is any chance we can get to hear it again without charge, that would be awesome! I know you are selling all of these but sadly my yoga classes do not allow me such a purchase 🙃 So just if works out – I’m not clinging 🙇🏽💕
I wold have liked to hear more about Tubman as a Bodhisattva than as a Prophet like Moses. Also, Spring used the term “Bodhicitta” apparently not knowing its definition. But she has a fun energy.
Sadly i’ve missed day one as the time zones, simple did not match up. When i tried to view, it wasn’t streamed, then i tried again, now i’ve missed it. disappointing as i had listened to the introduction and i was quite excited to learn /listen more.
Sensational
Thank you so much for the opportunity to participate in this summit!
I am a white female psychotherapist from germany; I work with traumatized patients and try to apply awareness and compassion wherever I can (within myself and in contact with the world).
I think it is so important that we share the feeling and knowing of interconnectedness, for being human, for being vulnerable and resiliant at the same time. And to learn from each other and our individual and collective history. This summit is a great chance for that learning – thank you!
Harriet and Moses – sent to the Earth to help lead people from their bondage. Thank you Spring for bringing their profound energy together in you discussion. Harriet has been helping you for the benefit of all people; this will ripple out to our planet and the universe. Thank you Pamela and Spring – will get a copy of your book, and bring it into my work as a teacher of yoga, and student of Buddhism.