Return to Source

In this program, with Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe-Ward, we will explore practices that help us to experience our interconnectedness. Specifically, we will engage in the natural world with nature as our teacher and nature within. We will practice with our family, spiritual, and land ancestors.

As a community, we will reflect on Ambedkar’s legacy and what we might integrate from his teachings and example for our times.

Guided by a renowned team of Indigenous activist-scholars, artists, and Native farmers, including Roxanne Swentzell, Porter Swentzell, Keido Troy Fernandez, and Alonso Méndez, working in close collaboration with Upaya Zen Center teachers, the program will be grounded in daily meditation and socially engaged Buddhist training infused with the dynamic teachings of Native seedways and Traditional Ecological Knowledges.