You matter & You belong
Self-care is a radical act of love and self-compassion. Take the time to take care of yourself, so we can all take care of each other. Because we belong to each other. We need you and we need each other.
All cultural and spiritual backgrounds, races, nationalities, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, and abilities are welcome.
To increase access, courses will be offered on a sliding scale. Visit “The Green Bottle: Where You Fall on the Sliding Scale” to learn more. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please reach out!
Lynn is committed to teaching with a trauma-informed approach.
Monthly BIPOC Circle
Offered through Open Door Meditation Community in collaboration with Portland Dharma House
Join our BIPOC community to slow down, rest, practice and connect. This gathering will offer practices of deep nurturing and self-compassion for building nervous system capacity. We’ll create an embodied sense of Sangha (community) to practice in Circle, co-create a culture of belonging and allow wisdom to emerge from the collective. Together we'll rest, dream, move, journal, connect, share and deeply listen to ourselves and each other.
Each gathering will be gently held by a theme from the Dharma, with the first half of our time spent in personal practice (body scans, gentle movement, meditation, journaling) and the second half in relational practice (connecting, listening, sharing). Our Circle will be held by group agreements and trauma-informed principles. All offerings will be invitational and each community member is encouraged to practice in the way that feels right to them.
All those who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC) are welcome to attend. This gathering is offered freely by Open Door and Portland Dharma House.
Details:
Oct 27, Nov 24, Dec 22, Jan 26**, Feb 23, Mar 23, April 27, May 18
Sundays from 10:15-12:15
** on Jan 26 we will meet from 9:30-11:30
To Register: Drop-ins are welcome, although pre-registration is encouraged.
Cultivating Embodied Self-Care - Begins January 22
Offered virtually through Conscious Revolution, this is a 6-week practice circle cultivating deep rest, burnout recovery & resilience
About this course
Designed to support people to recover from and prevent burnout, this practice circle is a radical step towards rest, self-care, coming back to ourselves and supporting each other in community. We will learn ways to nurture our nervous systems, so that we feel less tense and stuck, and more at ease, grounded, and connected to who we are so we can grow back into our capacity to thrive and show up for ourselves, our loved ones, our colleagues, and the communities we support.
Sessions will include restful body scans, guided embodied still & movement practices, journaling and co-regulating relational exercises and discussion. Participants will be supported in developing their own self-care practice. They will also gain an understanding of how stress and traumatic experiences affect our mental health and physiology, how to work with our neurobiology to feel more balanced, widen our ability to meet the demands of life, and move from surviving to thriving.
Audio & video recordings, journal prompts, and additional resources will be provided to support your personal practice.
Details:
6 weeks
Wednesdays at 11:45-1pm ET / 4:45pm-6pm WET / 8:45am-10am PT
January 22, 29, Feb 5, 12, 26, Mar 5
Location: Offered virtually via Zoom
There will be a daylong retreat on February 27 offered both online & in-person (South Portland, ME)
Cost:
Members of Conscious Revolution: Free
Non-members: $350 for series (tiered pricing available for non-members)
About Lynn Teo, DACM, MSc (she/they)
Lynn’s mission is to support individuals and communities reduce stress and anxiety, increase resilience, and joy, and cultivate a deeper feeling of balance, wholeness, belonging and connection to ourselves, and each other.
Lynn has been teaching yoga, embodied awareness, and meditation for over 25 years. She focuses on teaching embodied practices for radical rest, resilience, and trauma / burnout recovery particularly for helpers, healers, artists, and activists.
Lynn meditates & teaches in the Buddhist tradition of Insight meditation (Vipassana) and is a student of Jonathan Foust, Leslie Booker and Bhikkhu Analayo. She is a graduate of Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and periodically teaches for Open Door Meditation Center in Portland.
A graduate of the Esther Myers yoga teacher-training program (750 hours), she teaches in the Scaravelli tradition which emphasizes connecting movement to the breath, a sense of grounding to the earth and freedom of the spine. In her classes, she creates a safe container of discovery, facilitating her students to find their own way into the practice. She encourages experimentation, curiosity and playfulness as a means to cultivate embodied wisdom, self-compassion, resilience and joy innate within all of us.
Having worked in complementary medicine for almost 20 years, Lynn combines acupuncture, shiatsu, and Somatic Experiencing ® at her clinic in Portland, ME. She specializes in helping patients suffering anxiety, stress, overwhelm, burnout and trauma as well as chronic pain and chronic conditions. Lynn is also a scientific researcher and published systematic and scoping reviews in complementary medicine.