Discover the profound healing power of Metta (loving-kindness) in this transformative workshop. Guided by the timeless wisdom of the heart, this session invites participants to cultivate unconditional love, compassion, and deep inner peace. Through guided meditations, teachings, and reflective practices, you will explore how Metta serves as an antidote to fear, helping to dissolve self-judgment and foster a sense of connection with yourself and others. By awakening the radiant light of loving-kindness within, you can shift from fear and separation to a state of openness, resilience, and wholeness.
This workshop is an opportunity to:
- Illuminate the Heart’s Wisdom: Learn how Metta practice connects you to the innate light of love and compassion that resides within.
- Take Refuge in the Heart: Explore the practice of resting in the heart’s embrace as a sanctuary of safety, love, and healing.
- Heal Through Love: Understand how the energy of unconditional love can soothe past hurts, release self-criticism, and restore inner harmony.
- Awaken Love’s Frequency: Practice sending loving-kindness to yourself, loved ones, and even those you find challenging, expanding your capacity to radiate light in every direction.
- Serve Others with Love: Discover how Metta empowers you to radiate compassion outward, offering your love to uplift and heal those around you while creating a ripple effect of kindness and care.
- Cultivate Inner Peace: Use Metta to quiet the mind, transform challenging emotions, and embrace the present moment with grace.
By deepening our awareness of this connection, we not only embrace our heritage but also heal intergenerational wounds and uncover the inner strength needed to live more purposeful lives. Rooted in mindfulness, shamanic traditions, and reverence for cultural diversity, this workshop will inspire you to see yourself as part of a continuous, loving lineage.
What You’ll Experience:
- Techniques for Connecting with Ancestors: Guided meditations, visualization practices, and journaling exercises to develop your relationship with your lineage.
- Honoring Ancestral Wisdom: Discover how to cultivate reverence and gratitude for those who came before you.
- Healing Through Connection: Learn how to engage with ancestors to release inherited patterns and invite emotional and spiritual healing.
- Sacred Offerings to Ancestors: Explore the art of making sacred offerings as a gesture of respect and gratitude. From creating a small altar to offering symbolic gifts like food, flowers, or written messages, you’ll learn how to set intentions and create rituals to honor your ancestors and deepen your relationship with them.
Rooted in mindfulness and timeless spiritual teachings, this workshop is ideal for those new to Metta practice, offering an accessible and welcoming introduction to loving-kindness. For experienced practitioners, it serves as a powerful booster to deepen your practice and refresh your connection to the transformative power of the heart.
Let your heart guide you—join us and unlock the wisdom and healing power of Metta.
Date & Time: April 6, 2025: 1:00pm-4:00pm EST
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: $40 - $150 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
About Spring Washam
Spring Washam is a celebrated dharma teacher, author, and visionary leader based in Atlanta, Georgia. Known for her dynamic and heartfelt teachings, she combines ancient Buddhist wisdom, indigenous healing traditions, and contemporary mindfulness practices to inspire personal and collective transformation. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment and The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground.
As a founding teacher of the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, Spring has spent decades guiding others on the path of spiritual awakening. Her deep training in Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, coupled with her shamanic healing practices from the Amazon region of Peru, makes her a unique bridge between ancient practices and modern healing modalities.
Spring is the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, a pioneering organization that integrates plant medicine with Buddhist teachings. She also co-founded the Spirit Underground Liberation Project and Church, a powerful movement dedicated to the healing and liberation of Black communities through contemplative practices, trauma recovery, and community care.
Her work has been featured in Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, and Belief.net, offering profound teachings on resilience, compassion, and transformation. Whether leading retreats, workshops, or ceremonies, Spring creates sacred spaces for healing through mindfulness, meditation, and somatic practices. She blends yoga, sound healing, and plant medicine to help others release deep trauma and rediscover their innate wholeness.
Join Spring on this transformative journey toward inner freedom, collective healing, and spiritual liberation.
