Journeying Home to the Heart of Love, with Fresh "Lev" White & Vickie Chang

Spend a day at the SFDC in contemplation and conversation with Fresh "Lev" White and Vickie Chang.

Indigenous West African (Dagara) elder Dr. Malidoma Somé says that many of us are born in exile…and that it can take a lifetime(s) to find our way home. In this daylong, find refuge with two POC teachers in movement and stillness. Using experiential exercises, we will explore how self-compassion, surrender, and the earth can be powerful allies in our journey home to our Buddha nature— the vast heart of love.

About the teachers:

The daughter of Chinese immigrants born and raised in the SF Bay Area, Vickie Chang first encountered the dharma through the doorway of mindfulness meditation in 2008. She graduated from the Spirit Rock DPP 4 program and has benefited from extended periods of retreat at Spirit Rock and IMS. She lived in a Taiwanese Guanyin Pusa monastery and worshipped at the feet of Arunachala. Most influential in her practice has been her relationship with the land, culture, and people of Tiruvannamalai, India, northern New Mexico, and the Divine Buddha Temple in Taiwan. Her main teacher is the Earth/body and her path is love. She is a psychologist in Oakland and Berkeley. www.vickiechangphd.com

Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassionate activist. He offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to loving and understanding others; thus, healing our communities, and planet.

Lev is a skilled and successful trainer who has offered over 200 trainings in the Bay Area and Beyond. He earned facilitation and leadership skills through the Co-Active Training Institute (formerly known as The Coaches Training Institute) in 2011. Grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center and Spirit Rock, Lev credits his ability to reach diverse audiences to his mindfulness practices. Lev aka Fresh!, is a contributor to Real World Mindfulness for Beginners; Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices, (Nov. 2019); and Trans Bodies; Trans Selves.