Meet Our Practice Leaders

Our Community Practice Leaders have practiced together since 2019. After showing up consistently for well over 100 practices, they began apprenticing with Tony (practicing the arts of placemaking and facilitating our three core practice forms: movement, silent meditation, and mindful dialogue practice) while continuing to attend practices as participants on most days. This intensive practice-study, which is as much un-learning coercive norms as learning our ways, prepared them to lead practices on their own with sincerity. 

Our foundational attitude is that we practice-with, not teach-to. This is why we refer to our role as “Practice Leader” and not “Teacher”. In practice, we are all people, equal. There are no bosses, no police. We offer guidance in our forms in as few words as possible and lead by example. This is why we practice in a circle: there’s no front or back of the room. This is why you are always free to move as your body recommends in movement practice, and we practice meditation without words and without striving. This is why there’s no such thing as showing up late or leaving early. Arrive when you can and leave when you want. The door is always open in both directions. There is nothing to achieve or attain. We’re practicing being natural, not-pretending, listening very closely to our ordinary hearts, and caring for each other.

Please tap/click on the photos if you’d like to learn more from our practice leaders in their own words.

Photos: Marissa Byers

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