Join guest teacher Alexa Redner in an exploration the Buddhist Paramita of Resolve. What happens when we cultivate a spirited and loving commitment towards our wholesome desires? Alexa Redner has been practicing mediation since 2003. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University and has been authorized to teach the Buddha’s Dharma by James Baraz. Alexa has been an educator in many realms over the last twenty years, dancing between the worlds of being a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher, program teacher for Mindful Schools, and Eating Disorders/Body Positive Educator at Beyond Hunger. Alexa is currently a mentor for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Certification Program and teaches for Banyan (formerly Cloud Sangha), leading weekly community discussion groups, meditations, and small sanghas. Alexa also has a private Dharma mentoring practice. As a Body Love activist, Alexa is interested in exploring how dharma practices can unwind the mind from the cultural conditioning of body shame and open to the heart to the sacred quality of living in a body on the Earth. Alexa brings a playful and soft approach to meditation practice, with an emphasis on inquiry. Alexa lives with her fiddler husband and young son in Portland, Oregon.