EcoDharma: Hope As Active Compassion
Saturday, May 17, 9:00 - 11:00AM
Led by Deanna Danger (they/them)
Deanna (they/them), is bringing their “EcoDharma: Hope As Active Compassion” offering from STL Earth Day to our Empowered Spaces Community Garden on 5/17!
This offering is a group, regenerative somatic healing practice that weaves the felt-senses + nature elements + “karuna” or “active compassion” together to cultivate interdependent eco-care & climate justice. Deanna teaches from the Theravada and Engaged Buddhist lineages, find more info about their Somatics + Solidarity work at: www.deannadangersomatics.com .
Join us on May 17, 9:00-11:00am with Deanna Danger (they/them). From 9:00 - 10:15 am join us for gardening in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden, and then the workshop will begin at 10:15am.
In The Garden are a series of workshops in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden that explore integrative justice driven approaches to embodiment, mental health, and wellness, both individually and collectively.
The Empowered Spaces Community Garden is located at the heart of our holistic healing center. Our community-led garden is rooted in permaculture principles, perennial agriculture, environmental sustainability, and community care. We believe that food is medicine, that land stewardship is healing, and that everyone—regardless of income—deserves access to nutritious, high-quality food. Through our Collaborative Food Share Program we share the harvest with individuals and families in the community who are in need of access to quality food.
These workshops are free to our community garden members, and donation based to the larger community - pay what you can, if you can. 100% of all donations go to supporting the garden and our Collaborative Food Share Program. Donations can be made at the workshop, or via Venmo or Paypal.
Meet Deanna
Deanna Sophia Danger (they/them) is a Certified Insight Meditation Teacher & Mentor, queer Dharma practitioner, social impact organizer, retired professional performance artist, and WEAVER.
Deanna’s approach to the Dharma finds ground within the intersection of spirituality and social impact. In their full time work, they are the Systems Change & Healing Justice Facilitator for the St. Louis Queer+ Support & Healing (SQSH), where they are also a member of the STARLING Somatic Healers Collective. Deanna supports the St. Louis community as the facilitator of “STL QUEER SANGHA: You Can Sit With Us,” a monthly, inclusive Insight meditation group and community gathering for all LGBTQIA+ folks and co-conspirators, cultivating a path of Spiritual Solidarity, and an Advisory Circle Member here at Empowered Spaces. Deanna is accredited to teach Insight meditation through The Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California at Berkeley, and accredited as a Mindfulness Mentor through Banyan (formerly Cloud Sangha). Deanna’s guiding teachers are internationally recognized authors, Theravada Buddhist meditation teachers, and psychologists, Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.
Through an accessible, relatable, creatively expressive and engaged praxis of Spiritual Solidarity, Deanna is motivated by co-cultivating embodiment of liberation at the cellular and global levels. As a working class, queer, nonbinary, neurodiverse & chronically ill, IPV + trauma survivor, and former sex worker Deanna is passionate about weaving webs of support that take interdependence from transactional to reciprocal. Suitable for all experience levels & identities, Deanna’s interactive support meets you where you are. Their facilitation offers an intrinsically counteri-oppressive, trauma-aware and neurocognitive-aware foundation supporting you to hone your self-agency, dissolve shame & self-blame, move from dissociation to embodiment, and increase your access to joy, pleasure and felt-sense belonging.