“When we pay attention it gives us remembrance of choice to move through life in a different way than we have been accustomed to or habituated by.” ~La Sarmiento Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest La Sarmiento, LMT, CDL4, a non-binary, Filipino-American, body/energyworker and song-spoofing dharma teacher, in a conversation about what mindfulness is, and some of the ways mindfulness meditation and related practices have impacted La’s life including expanding self-acceptance and self-love. In the second half, La leads a self-compassion meditation to cultivate loving-kindness within and shares about their experiences and tips when working with tweens and teens. La Sarmiento is a non-binary, Filipino-American, body/energyworker and song-spoofing dharma teacher. They have are a retreat teacher/manager and guiding teacher of the LGBTIQ and People of Color Sanghas with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, teach retreats for LGBTIQ at the Garrison Institute, young adults at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and is a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. They live in Towson, MD with their life partner Wendy and their two Cairn Terriers Annabel and MacGregor. Connect with La: 3rd Person Pronouns: they/their/them Mobile: 202.997.1399 E-mail: lasarmiento108@gmail.com Web: www.lasarmiento.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BodhiLa/ Connect with Beth: Email: elizabeth@yoginos.com Web: www.yoginos.com Cell: +1 361 563 7448 Facebook: personal: www.facebook.com/elizreese Facebook: Yogiños: Yoga for Youth®: www.facebook.com/yoginos/ Instagram: yoginosyogaforyouth: www.instagram.com/yoginosyogaforyouth Twitter: @yoginos: twitter.com/Yoginos LinkedIn: Beth Reese, PhD
“When we pay attention it gives us remembrance of choice to move through life in a different way than we have been accustomed to or habituated by.”
~La Sarmiento
Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest La Sarmiento, LMT, CDL4, a non-binary, Filipino-American, body/energyworker and song-spoofing dharma teacher, in a conversation about what mindfulness is, and some of the ways mindfulness meditation and related practices have impacted La’s life including expanding self-acceptance and self-love. La says that as a five year old they felt like God didn’t make them the right way. “I had to figure out how am I going to survive being who I am in this world that’s nothing like me,” reflects La.
In the second half, La leads a self-compassion meditation to cultivate loving-kindness within. La shares that these practices helped them come to believe that “no matter what the world thinks of me, what matters most is what I think about myself.”
Additionally, La discusses their experiences and tips when working with tweens and teens and offers their insight: “what I have found most useful and powerful in working with teens is just being with them, being really present, and at the same time, as much as possible, embodying my practice, embodying compassion and loving kindness, and especially embodying patience—for them and for myself.”
La Sarmiento is a non-binary, Filipino-American, body/energyworker and song-spoofing dharma teacher. They have are a retreat teacher/manager and guiding teacher of the LGBTIQ and People of Color Sanghas with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, teach retreats for LGBTIQ at the Garrison Institute, young adults at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and is a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. They live in Towson, MD with their life partner Wendy and their two Cairn Terriers Annabel and MacGregor.
Connect with La:
3rd Person Pronouns: they/their/them
Mobile: 202.997.1399
E-mail: lasarmiento108@gmail.com
Web: www.lasarmiento.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BodhiLa/
Connect with Beth:
Email: elizabeth@yoginos.com
Web: www.yoginos.com
Cell: +1 361 563 7448
Facebook: personal: www.facebook.com/elizreese
Facebook: Yogiños: Yoga for Youth®: www.facebook.com/yoginos/
Instagram: yoginosyogaforyouth: www.instagram.com/yoginosyogaforyouth
Twitter: @yoginos: twitter.com/Yoginos
LinkedIn: Beth Reese, PhD