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Join our Vegan Spirituality Meetup to explore veganism as a spiritual practice! Our monthly gatherings include discussions on veganism and spirituality, moral support, guided meditations, and delicious potluck vegan food. Our annual retreats offer speaker presentations, yoga classes, guided meditation, catered vegan food, group discussions, nature hikes, and animal blessings. Hope you can join us to build a Vegan Spirituality community in Los Angeles! We have thriving sister communities in Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, Olympia, and Vancouver.
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See all- Vegan MeditationLink visible for attendees
Please join us online for a peaceful half-hour of vegan-oriented meditation and mindful sharing. We’ll meditate together in silence for 15 minutes, then share brief thoughts on a topic related to compassion, mindfulness or veganism. Our aim through this practice is to cultivate greater internal peace and presence, and to bring greater mindfulness and compassion to our interactions with the external world and all its inhabitants.
We meet Monday evenings at 6pm Pacific / 7pm MT / 8pm CT / 9pm ET. Please note that while our route to mindfulness and compassion generally follows a vegan path, all are welcome – vegan, vegan-curious, and vegan-supportive. For our annual schedule and weekly discussion topics, click here.
Vegan Meditation is affiliated with the Compassion Consortium.
Please note these important details:
- As a security precaution, you must be signed in to a Zoom account to join the meeting. Zoom accounts are free at https://www.zoom.us/ (click signup) and you'll need to log in there BEFORE joining the meditation. If this is your first time, please register at that link in advance because doing so takes a few minutes.
- Please use a computer or tablet, as some Zoom features don’t work on a phone, and phones in general don't work well for our Zoom Meetups.
- Talking during the discussion is completely optional, but to help reduce trolling we ask that all participants keep their webcams on (and stay on webcam) during the entire session.
- Meditation begins promptly on the hour, so please arrive on time. When you enter, you'll see a meditation timer counting down from 15 minutes – that's your cue to begin meditating silently (or listen to your own guided meditation). We don't provide meditation instruction, but the basics are easy to learn through various online resources such as those here and here.
- While we officially end at the half-hour mark, depending on the number of people sharing, we may run later. If that happens, please feel free to stay or leave any time after the half-hour mark as you choose.
- The Zoom link will be displayed on the Meetup event page after you RSVP. We'll also send the Zoom link and discussion topic in a reminder email the day of the event. If you'd like to receive this reminder email, please keep your Meetup notification settings turned on.
See you soon!
- COMPASSION CONSORTIUM: AN INTERVIEW WITH LISA KEMMERER AND DONNY MOSSLink visible for attendees
The Compassion Consortium Service on Sunday, May 19, 2024, will feature our Special Spiritual Guest Lisa Kemmerer. www,compassionconsortium.org
Our Spiritual Guest for May 19 will be the renowned animal rights activist, scholar, and philosopher Lisa Kemmerer. Lisa Kemmerer is an American academic who has written on animal ethics and environmental ethics. She is the author or editor of nine books. In 2012 she researched wildlife conservation in Kenya and Peru.
Kemmerer studied at Reed College, at Harvard and at Glasgow University in Scotland, where in 1999 she completed a PhD with a dissertation on Protectionism: Applying Ethics Consistently. She is an associate professor at Montana State University in Billings, Montana.
Kemmerer has coined the term anymal as a “correct” term for non-human animals.
Publications:
In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals
Curly Tails and Cloven Hooves, poems
As editor, with Anthony J. Nocella: Call to Compassion: Reflections on World Religions and Animal Advocacy
Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice
Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
Animals and World Religions: Rightful Relations
As editor: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
Bear Necessities: Protecting Bears through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, Activism, and the Quest for Common Ground
Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
Learn more about Lisa at: Lisa Kemmerer
For the Compassion Consortium Compassion in Action on May 19 our guest will be Donny Moss.
Donny is a NYC-based animal rights activist who runs local campaigns and produces videos for TheirTurn.net. In 2008, Moss made the award-winning film BLINDERS that documents NYC’s controversial horse-drawn carriage trade.
In May 2015, he launched a grass roots campaign to compel the NY Blood Center to pay for the care of 66 chimpanzees who the organization abandoned with no food or water on islands in Liberia. That campaign ended in May 2017, when the organization made a $6M contribution to pay for the lifelong care of the chimps.
Donny also recently led protests inside of Adidas’s flagship store in New York City as part of a global effort to compel the sportswear giant to stop using kangaroo skin in its soccer cleats. Approximately thirty animal rights disrupted business inside of Adidas’s flagship store in New York City as part of a global effort to compel the sportswear giant to stop using kangaroo skin in its soccer cleats. The protest was organized by the animal rights groups NYCLASS and Donny’s TheirTurn organization with the support of The Center for A Humane Economy, a Washington-D.C.-based animal welfare organization running a global campaign to compel sneaker manufacturers to replace “k-leather” with cruelty-free materials.
For more information about Donny see: www.TheirTurn.net
