Introducing the House of Yin

A Sanctuary for Spiritual and Queer Liberation

Join Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock, and One Earth Sangha for this EcoDharma Exploration on Sunday, November 23, at 10:30am PT/1:30pm EST to 12:30pm PT/3:30pm EST. All are welcome. Learn more about this upcoming gathering in the description below.

For the rest of 2025, our EcoDharma Explorations will be co-created by Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as part of a new initiative, the EcoDharma & Transformational Culture Program. Look for more programming from this collaboration over the next few months and years. We at One Earth Sangha are honored and excited to work with our new partners.

Registration is now open.

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

Come join a thoughtful and nourishing conversation exploring the revitalizing power of finding balance through right relations during these hyper-heated, hyper-consuming, and deeply controlling social and political times. The need for spiritual recentering calls for our most ancient wisdoms (led here by the Tao) to be brought through and applied to grave imbalances and harms in the modern project.

Many are feeling a deep personal and community call to rest, restoration, nourishment, and slowing down. Learn about the House of Yin, a liberatory community-learning home for reflective and relationship-grounded practitioners who want to continue to fortify the Yin in themselves and their work in the world. Fall into the call and medicine of the Yin, naturally flowing and growing during the autumn and winter seasons of the northern hemisphere, arriving seasonally and more broadly during the modern era as a balancing antidote to the Hyper-Yang times of excess growth, heat, consumption, and control. The medicines of spiritual and sacred inquiry, queerness as a liberatory force, and ecological wisdoms are required to bring Yin spirit-into-form. ‘Queerness’ is a word for an elemental quality of existence—a force of life—that refuses, transgresses and transmutes this deadly separation.

Through personal story, real-time takes on current social and political events, and guided small-group engagements, Sonali offers how the cosmic invitation of the Yin (rooting down, slowing down, turning towards relationship) emerges through queerness and spiritual practice as pathways to balance, ease, and liberation.

Sonali Sangeeta Balajee is a proud mother, artist, organizer, facilitator, mindfulness / yoga instructor, and emerging health practitioner who works at the intersection of spiritual wisdoms, queerness, and ecological knowledge. She is the founder and co-director of Spiritual Social Medicinal Apothecary (SSoMA) and founder of Our Bodhi Project, spiritual and political projects that elevate the medicines of our times, focusing particularly on the medicines of spiritual practice, sacred inquiry, queerness, and ecological wisdoms. Sonali’s life work has focused on strategies elevating wholeness, specifically calling for leading with multiple truths and perspectives required for collective health. She has spent 13 years in U.S. local government, creating and leading social justice and racial equity initiatives. Her community organizing background has focused on youth development, environmental justice, racial justice, and HIV / AIDS-related advocacy and service. Her current advocacy focus is on resource mobilization for projects and initiatives that speak to the spiritual-political antidotes our world so desperately needs.

     Pieces on One Earth Sangha

This Exploration is part of a short series in collaboration with Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock’s ecoDharma & Transformational Culture Program and One Earth Sangha. We’re honored and excited to work with our new partners.

 

This program is donation-based, with no required registration fee. We welcome your contributions to support this program and the work of Braided Wisdom and One Earth Sangha.

Registration for this exploration is open now.

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