Resonance In The Garden
Saturday, June 15, 9:00 - 11:00am
Led by Deanna Danger (they/them)
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.
Join us for Resonance In The Garden on June 15, 9:00-11:00am with Deanna Danger (they/them). From 9:00 - 10:00 am join us for gardening in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden, and then Soak in a crystal singing bowl sound bath with Deanna Sophia Danger.
Allow yourself to wander from the garden, into tune with both Deanna and the cicadas, Resonance In The Garden invites participants to relax body, mind & spirit and integrate natural reciprocity with the abundant harmonies of Mother Earth.
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 with Jamaa Birth Village. Donations can be made at the workshop, or via Venmo or Paypal.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden
The Empowered Spaces Community Garden is an organic gardening cooperative dedicated to quality food access for all, embodied healing and wellness education, equitable and empowering community, and anti-racist solidarities. Through cooperative farming and community partnerships, we seek to create locally-based, environmentally sustainable, trauma-informed and justice-driven modes of connection, resiliency, and interdependence.
Meet Deanna Sophia Danger (they/them)
Certified Insight Meditation Teacher & Mentor | Queer Dharma Practitioner, Advisory Circle Member
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.