Zac Ispa-Landa will offer a dharma talk and lead us in a meditation, followed by a discussion on how our mindfulness practice can connect us to sources of wisdom, refuge, and transformation, offering support during times of disruption and upheaval.

This event is free to the public. All are welcome. For more information, email mcasarico@gmail.com

Zac Ispa-Landa is a mindfulness teacher and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vermont.

At the University, he teaches courses on ecology, environmental justice, mindfulness in the Anthropocene, honey bee biology and beekeeping, and sustainability. He teaches mindfulness at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Inward Bound Mindfulness, MIT Sloan School, the Burlington Dharma Collective, and Bhumisparsha.

He began meditating and studying Dharma twenty years ago, inspired by a vision of personal and collective liberation, and has spent thousands of hours in meditation and hundreds of days on retreat since. He began mindfulness practice with vipassana (Insight) meditation and, in recent years, has been practicing Vajrayana (tantric) Buddhism with Lama Rod Owens, who he's worked and taught with since 2017. Zac lives Winooski, Vermont with his partner, son, and tens of thousands of honeybees.

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