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well-known meditation teacher, author and visionary leader based in Oakland, California
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
We will accomplish this goal by offering Communities Rizing Teacher Trainings within urban communities starting in Oakland/Berkeley, and moving on to Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Houston. We will train thousands of yoga and meditation teachers of color to transform their own minds, bodies and spirits, and then transform their own communities from the ground up. We will heal individual and collective trauma in urban communities across America. We will start a community-based, grassroots movement of health and wellness, rooted in yogic wisdom and mindfulness-based practices
On the first evening of her Lotus Vine Journeys meditation retreats, Spring Washam explains the five ethical precepts: to refrain from the taking of life, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, and intoxicants. Over the next two weeks, Washam, a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, offers guided meditation sessions, compassion and loving-kindness practices, and other foundational Buddhist teachings. And on eight of the fourteen evenings, under her care and the direction of a Peruvian healer (curandero), a group of twenty retreatants drinks ayahuasca, the psychoactive brew made from a vine that grows in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. The group then meditates under the influence of ayahuasca for the next five to eight hours.
