OFFERINGS ARCHIVE

This page reflects a body of work that has already unfolded, an archive of past offerings rooted in practice, study, and collective engagement. If you are looking for current or upcoming retreats, courses, or events, you are warmly invited to visit my offerings page and my Linktree (linktr.ee/afrolez), where offerings are shared as they are confirmed.

Past Residential Retreats:

  • Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Loving Kindness Meditation Retreat
    @ Insight Meditation Society. Monday, April 13, 2026 - Monday, April 20, 2026. 
    More information is available here

  • Steady Refuge: Annual BIPOC Retreat
    @ Insight Meditation Society. Wednesday, June 17, 2026 - Tuesday, June 23, 2026. 
    This retreat is subsidized - $210 minimum to attend plus free r/t Bus Travel from NYC.
    More information is available here

  • Liberating the Heart: Navigating Seven Gates to Inner Freedom
    (Designed for Self-Identified Womxn of Black/African Descent Only)
    @ Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Friday, August 21, 2026 - Friday, August 28, 2026.
    More information is available here


Past Community Dharma & Mindfulness -
Daylongs, Events, Weekly and Affinity Sanghas:

Delaware Valley Insight

  • Daylong, 10am - 4pm eastern time, Saturday, June 27, 2026 (hybrid)
    Compassion at the Pace of Our Capacity: A Path to the Boundless Heart
    More information is available here

  • Daylong 10am – 4pm eastern time, Saturday, September 26, 2026 (hybrid)
    Theme: TBA

  • Daylong, 10am – 4pm eastern time, Saturday, December 12, 2026 (hybrid)
    Theme: TBA

Refuge of Belonging

  • Daylong, 10am - 4pm pacific time, Saturday, July 11, 2026 (online)
    The Courage to Be Real: A Retreat with Aishah Shahidah Simmons & nico hase
    More information is available here

Insight of Western MA

  • Wednesday weekly sangha 7pm - 8:30pm eastern time
    June 24, 2026, and September 30, 2026, online only
    (information forthcoming)

  • Daylong, co-teaching with Bernadine Mellis, 11am – 5pm eastern time
    Saturday, October 3, 2026, online only
    (information forthcoming)

Insight Meditation Society (IMS)

Spirit Rock Meditation Center