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With Lunar New Year almost upon us, it's a great opportunity for us to reset and check in with ourselves. Even amidst personal and collective grief, confusion and anger, we can always practice on nurturing the seeds of goodness within our consciousness. Join mindfulness teacher Kim Thai for a talk on the Four Nutriments, how to cultivate it, and what intentions we can make to bring more joy, peace and ease into our everyday life.
Kim Thai (she/her) is a writer, Emmy-award winning producer, community organizer, and an educator of the heart. She is dedicated to rewriting the limiting narratives that we tell about ourselves and each other through mindfulness practices and sharing her own story as a first-gen Queer Asian woman. She is the founder of Joyful Liberation Collective, a grassroots community organization that creates liberatory spaces to transform oppression into personal joy, community care, and social awareness. She is a certified yoga and meditation teacher; a facilitator for the Trauma Resource Institute; and has developed social-emotional learning programs that have empowered more than 100 high school teachers across America to make their classrooms more curious, compassionate and courageous.
She is currently committed to the Bodhisattva path in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition and was given the dharma name Ancestral River of the Heart to widen and deepen the insight from Buddhist teachings. Using meditation and contemplative practice as a vehicle, she is currently focused on sharing teachings on being your authentic self, how to be of service to others and tapping into the limitless capacity of the heart.
Jungmin Kang, the recipient of the 2023-2024 Award for Mindfulness and Racial/Social Justice, is a second year J.D. Candidate at Columbia Law School, and an international student from the Republic of Korea. At Columbia, he is involved in the Queer and Trans Students of Color (QTPOC) Organization, the Gastronomy Society, OUTLAWS, and the International Student Alliance (CLISA). Prior to law school, Jungmin spent time as a professional translator, performer, and officer in the Korean Air Force.
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