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Booker is a heart-centered, spirit-driven activist and meditation teacher committed to creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing. She completed Spirit Rock’s 4-year Retreat Teacher Training in 2020, and shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with New York City’s most vulnerable populations for over a decade. Booker has co-authored and contributed to several publications including the trauma-informed anthology Practicing Liberation and its accompanying workbook, for folks working towards social justice. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement. Booker moved to Philadelphia in August of 2020 to vote in a swing state, and currently serves as the Guiding Teacher of New York Insight. For more information: https://www.lesliebooker.com/

Coral is a non-binary community dharma leader in the Insight/Theravada tradition with two decades of practice, and a Certified Community Dharma Teacher with True North Insight since 2022. Born in 1973 on Lkwungen land (Victoria, BC), Coral brings a unique perspective to dharma teaching, informed by their sober punk anarchist roots and their commitment to addressing systemic oppression through compassionate awareness.

Coral's teaching integrates Buddhist wisdom with somatic practice, drawing on training in Generative Somatics and Somatic Experiencing. For a decade, they have been building inclusive spiritual communities as co-founder of Queer Sanghas in Montréal and Berlin, creating warm, welcoming spaces where 2SLGBTQ+ practitioners can find refuge.