Meditation, transformative justice, and navigating a trans body w/ René Rivera
In this episode, Adam speaks to René Rivera who brings a lifetime of wisdom, stories, and practice to the podcast.
René is a meditation teacher and restorative justice facilitator working and learning in all the spaces in-between race, gender, and other perceived binaries, as a queer Latinx trans man. René teaches heart-centered, trauma-informed meditation, as a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center. He has co-led the first residential meditation retreats for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people, and offers classes and retreats for many Buddhist centers and groups. René is a restorative justice facilitator for the Ahimsa Collective, working to heal sexual and gender-based violence.