Moving From I To We: A Day of Meditation, Connection & Mindful Lifestyle with LA's Top Meditation Leaders & Innovators
Join us for LA’s premiere meditation and mindful lifestyle industry event, 'Moving From I To We', hosted by Amanda Gilbert Meditation and The KINN.
This curated community gathering will bring together LA's top meditation leaders and brands at the forefront of the mindful lifestyle and wellness movement to discuss the current state of meditation in 2024 and the intersections between mindfulness and lifestyle, health and wellness, social equity and community care.
The day will include industry-leading panel discussions, workshops, activations, and a Mindful Marketplace with local vendors, artisans, meditation studios, mindful lifestyle brands and products.
Throughout the day, we will explore how living mindfully across all areas of our lives not only contributes to an individual healthy lifestyle but fosters the health and sustainability of our greater LA community, wellness workplace innovation, and the environment
Come and connect with like-minded attendees, Los Angeles meditators, creatives and entrepreneurs who are bringing mindfulness and wellness alive in fresh and innovative ways.
Schedule:
11:00 Welcome & Guided Meditation
11:30 Panel: Moving From I To We: A Conversation with LA's Top Meditation Leaders Sah D’Simone, Amanda Gilbert and Avery Whitmore. Moderated by Darlene Cordero.
12:30 Mindful Marketplace: Book Signing
12:45 Workshop: Meditative Sound Healing Experience with Ayres Nouveau
1:25 Workshop: The Mindful Eating Smoothie Experience with Pauline Leung of Sakara Life
2:00 Panel: Living With Mindfulness: Tea & Meditation Talk with Industry Leading Tea x Wellness Founders, Mel Nahas of Conscious City Guide, Max Ando of Nekohama Matcha and Colin Hudon of Living Tea. Moderated by Amanda Gilbert.
2:50 Closing Meditation & Community Integration
3:00 Networking & Mindful Connection
Panelists:
Panel: Moving From I To We: A Conversation with LA's Top Meditation Leaders
Sah D’Simone - Panelist
Sah D'Simone is a spiritual revolutionary, artist, and the internationally bestselling author of Spiritually, We and Spiritually Sassy. He's known for hosting the top-rated Spiritually Sassy Show podcast and for creating the Somatic Activated Healing (SAH) Method™. Sah works in the Spiritual Care Department at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and is a guest lecturer at Columbia University. His remarkable contributions to homeless youth in Venice Beach, California earned him the CARE award from the city and county of Los Angeles.
Amanda Gilbert - Panelist
Amanda Gilbert is a meditation teacher, speaker, recent lecturer of mindfulness at the University of Southern California, and the author of Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention and Compassion. Her meditation training has been with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, in Primordial Sound Meditation with Deepak Chopra and within the Insight Meditation tradition at InsightLA. Amanda’s teachings span from coast to coast in the US as well as online. She has led meditation for top companies and startups like NBC, Paramount Pictures, The W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy’s and YouTube.
Avery Whitmore - Panelist
Avery Whitmore is a student and Healing Arts Practitioner dedicated to the transformative powers of sound, breath, yoga, and meditation. As a certified Chopra yoga instructor, massage therapist, breathwork facilitator, and founder of the Sound Healing Studio in Los Angeles, Avery has spent nearly a decade honing his craft. He is intently focused on supporting the healing, well-being, and awakening of humanity.
His commitment to living a life of service has led him to many opportunities over the years, from working with powerful, mission-driven organizations – such as Chopra Global, Alo Moves, and more – to ongoing learning from teachers of a wide variety of wisdom and spiritual lineages. Avery has also been a driving force behind internal global wellness and meditation programs, helping to innovate and enhance well-being in corporate settings.
Darlene Cordero - Moderator
Darlene Cordero founded Wellness Culture, an organization dedicated to supporting wellness practitioners, teachers, and healers. Focused on nurturing and advocating for the success and well-being of this industry, she is guided by a passion for driving culture and collective consciousness.
As a strategic advisor for leaders, founders, and startups, Darlene facilitates crucial strategic decisions and connections. Her creative vision has led to impactful collaborations with luminaries such as Deepak Chopra and multi-Grammy award-winning Latin recording artist J Balvin, as well as with numerous other influential figures in the wellness industry.
Panel: Living With Mindfulness: Tea & Meditation Talk with Top Tea x Wellness Founders
Mel Nahas - Panelist
Mel Nahas is a creator and curator who has a passion for merging consciousness and mainstream culture. As a creative and entrepreneurial spirit she has collaborated with A-List talent around the world and has special relationships across music, entertainment, health, wellness and consciousness. In 2016 she co-founded the multiple Webby Award Nominated, Live Nation funded company Conscious City Guide with Kiki Falconer. She is continuously inspired to create opportunities where all her worlds intersect, fulfilling her mission to continue bringing the planet and its people into harmony. She has a daily tea ceremony practice and continually experiments living all of her life (including running a business!) through the lens of Human Design.
Colin Hudon - Panelist
Colin Hudon developed Living Tea through his lifelong immersion in Tea and Tao. As an herbalist, acupuncturist, and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he shares tea as a moving meditation, living art and plant medicine.
Amanda Gilbert - Moderator
Amanda Gilbert modern-day meditation leader, teacher, and author. She shares her inspiring approach to meditation with public audiences across the US, on online apps, and through wellness initiatives and activations. Amanda's message also includes mindful lifestyle practices, tea drinking, mindful eating, cooking, mindful movement, and collective wellness.
Workshop & Experiences:
Title: Meditative Sound Healing Experience with Ayres Nouveau
Join Ayres Nouveau as she takes us on a journey to deeper presence and guides us in a sacred sound bath meditation. This session is designed to cultivate harmony of the mind-body-spirit connection, within yourself and the world around you.
Ayres Nouveau, is a multidisciplinary healer and interfaith minister, who has dedicated her life over the last decade to helping others in their pursuit of enlightenment. She believes that awakening is a human birthright and is here to help you move beyond the physical and tap into something much more real. Empowering people from all walks of life to uncover their own ability to self heal, she has been featured on television shows, news networks, music festivals and graced stages such as the Hollywood Bowl. Ayres believes that in order to transform our community and world, we must first start from within.
Experience: The Mindful Eating Smoothie Experience with Pauline Leung & Sakara Life
Mindful Eating is a technique that can enhance your health, level of appreciation, and boost your energy levels. In this half-hour session, Pauline will guide you in exploring the advantages and how to fully engage the senses and awareness while eating. As part of the class, everyone will have the opportunity to try Sakara's Gut-Nourishing Green Smoothie. As we sip on smoothies, we will be guided to truly savor the flavors and embrace the mindful experience of nourishing our bodies.
Pauline Leung, a Certified High Performance Coach, is passionate about helping Working Professionals to lead a life filled with more purpose, happiness, wellbeing, and success. By blending her 19 years of corporate background with expertise in yoga, meditation, high performance science, and integrative nutrition coaching, she offers a holistic approach to supporting her clients. Pauline is also a Brand Ambassador for Sakara, a wellness company that focuses on transforming lives through plant-rich nutrition to nourish gut and metabolic health, helping the body and mind to thrive.
Mindful Marketplace Lifestyle Brands:
Conscious City Guide is a media and experience company uniting teachers, healers and event producers, to promote conscious events which has sold over 178,000+ tickets worldwide. Founded by Kiki Falconer and Mel Nahas in 2016, their mission is to evolutionize the way people think and live through these transformational experiences and enrich the connection to ourselves, our communities and the planet.
Funded by Live Nation Women in 2019, Conscious City Guide has produced events with Mercado Sagrado, Rich Roll & Julie Piatt, Bonnaroo, Edition Hotels and Mastercard. Conscious City Guide knows that experiences can change lives and that we’re in a time where great change is needed and that community and popular culture can catalyze change in an instant, so Conscious City Guide is creating the culture of consciousness to be realized in that same way.
SAMAYA is a meditation lifestyle brand founded in 2016 blending contemplative practice with daily life. Honoring practices developed centuries ago with a contemporary perspective, SAMAYA serves the modern meditator on their path to a more conscious way of living. Created by a designer with an eye for detail and precision, SAMAYA features meditation cushions made in-house in Los Angeles with a focus on ethical production and less waste using high quality fabrics and all-natural filling ingredients through partnering with farm co-ops and mills in the U.S.
Living Tea shares the rituals of tea for a more mindful, meaningful, and healthy life. Guided by Chinese Medicine and the traditions of the Way of Tea, we source fine teas that are grown with reverence for the plant and for the planet.
The Modern Medi Club is a donation-based online meditation studio We are dedicated to creating a space where individuals can deepen their practice and have their meditation community with them wherever they go. Our club provides a supportive environment that fosters personal growth, and a modern approach to meditation. Within our community, we offer various resources and opportunities to help you thrive in your meditation practice. From donation-based daily meditations with our certified modern meditation teachers to workshops and training programs there are plenty of avenues to further your skills and connect with fellow practitioners. This community is a place to share ideas, seek guidance, and build a life-long meditation practice
Galit Rydall is an artist out of Los Angeles with a background in Interior Design and Architecture. Focusing on digital art, photography and mixed media, she creates artworks inspired by nature as portals to elevate the frequency of any space, transforming it into a sanctuary of healing and self-discovery. The viewer is invited to experience the art as a gateway into an expanded vision of the many realms that exist around and within us. Her art evokes conversations with the soul – dialogues that connect us to the universal language of the heart.
Sofia Hagen x Studio Marmi bring together the latest in advanced 3D printing technology and artisanal craftsmanship to create a timeless design dedicated to mindfulness. Inspired by the principles of the traditional Zen Garden for contemplation, HEMPLA is a meditation furniture set that invites its users to create a sanctuary to relax and meditate in a variety of configurations.
VIP Ticket Experience: Receive signed copies of books authored by our panelists, mindful brand products and goodies, and some meditation takeaways to bring home to support your meditation practice.
ABOUT The KINN
The KINN is a membership club and beautiful co-work space for conscious entrepreneurs, based in Venice, CA. Elevate your impact with access to curated events, personalized educational programming, and a dynamic and mission-driven community. Apply and find out more at www.thekinn.co. Instagram @thekinn.co
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