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Stillco Sangha
Stillco Sangha
Stillco Sangha is a mindfulness meditation space for people who understand the risks of covid infections and are doing what they can to try to keep themselves and others safe.
The challenges of respecting SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the absence of responsible public health leadership adds complexity to the challenges we are already facing in our lives. Raising children, maintaining, ending, and starting relationships, navigating career prospects, retirement, work insecurity, thriving in areas of interest, and getting healthcare needs met all present unexpected difficulties. Differing social approaches to daily life, social ambivalence, and covid risk denial in society can increase social isolation.
Stillco Sangha is an online group space for exploring the ways mindfulness and meditation can support us as we navigate difficult times and conditions. All covid conscious people are welcome here.
Dana
Dana
Dana is a term for the practice of generosity and is a way of offering support that is most often used in mindfulness meditation spaces. The teachings are offered freely and if there is a course with a set rate, that will be clearly specified.
Learn more about dana and offer dana below.
Erica & Furiends
Erica & Furiends
I am Erica (she/her). Delray (black lab), Scrat (cat), and I live in the town of Olds Alberta, Canada on land unceded by the Siksikaitsitapi, part of Treaty 6 territory.
It is my joy to be holding spaces for exploring meditation and mindfulness practice within this community since February 2023. I will continue offering peer support groups, sangha talks, meditation courses, and day long retreats for the covid conscious in the seasons ahead
Like many others, I struggle with the absent public health leadership and societal cognitive dissonance (along with other challenges) that have come with living through this pandemic.
My intention: to create a space for those already practicing or newly interested in meditation to connect, learn, and practice together with other covid conscious people. My intention is to be a sharing student/companion-on-the-path.
Cultural influences: My experience is influenced by being in a mostly able, white cishet neurodivergent body and I endeavor to create a space that is inclusive and aware of cultural harm. I am on a healing journey from patriarchal and capitalist cultural conditioning as well as PTSD. I am grateful to learn from diverse communities I am in, in addition to the reflection and studying I pursue on my own.
NVC and Coaching: Teaching mindfulness groups online is still fairly new to me. I am supported by being a certified coach, having led nature and animal-based trauma-informed wellness retreats, and studying nonviolent communication.
Insight Teacher Training: I have practiced mostly insight meditation since 2014 and I graduated from a two year mindfulness meditation teacher training with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield in February 2025.
Trauma-informed: I began seriously studying trauma-informed approaches with an equine-facilitated wellness program in 2014 and have continued to learn about the neurophysiology of trauma as a paramedic and clinical educator. I provided trauma-informed canine-facilitated peer support and psychoeducation to EMS staff as the most recent part of a career in emergency services including fire, medivac, and ground ambulance since 2000.
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More about dana:
More about dana:
Dana is a pali and sanskrit term meaning generosity.
Dana is an ancient tradition in the east, offered when receiving teachings in an identified lineage.
It is not commonly used in the west outside of these teaching spaces and it helps to learn about the practice before offering dana.
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"...the Buddha took the principle of freedom all the way.
When asked where a gift should be given, he stated simply, “Wherever the mind feels inspired.”
-- This article by Thanissaro Bhikku handily explores the practice of dana: Lions Roar ____________________________________________________________
Dana is a way offering gratitude as well as exploring the inherent qualities of generosity.
Erica comment on dana:
Erica comment on dana:
I am grateful to share meditation practices in this space. This community is important to me and the best form of dana is practicing mindful awareness.
When money is given, it supports me to continue teaching and facilitating within this community. Contributions are welcome when there are means and a desire to give.
In this way, contributions truly make a difference and are warmly accepted with gratitude.
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