Kaira Jewel Lingo

A Dharma teacher and ordained nun of 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, Kaira Jewel Lingo now leads retreats internationally, offering mindfulness programs for educators, parents and youth in schools, activists, people of color, artists, and families, in addition to individual spiritual mentoring. In addition to teaching in the Zen tradition and secular mindfulness, she is Spirit Rock-trained teacher in the Vipassana lineage as well. She teaches and mentors regularly with Schumacher College, Sangha Live, iBme, the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, the Power of Awareness online course, and is a guiding teacher for One Earth Sangha, and formerly with Mindful Schools. She edited Thich Nhat Hanh’s Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children and has been published in numerous other books and magazines.  She spent much of her early life dancing, doing theatre, and also playing capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art. She explores the interweaving of art, play, ecology and embodied mindfulness practice and is a certified yoga teacher and InterPlay leader, which she began sharing in 2005. She loves combining mindfulness and InterPlay in her teaching and practice.