We are spritual friends and practitioners, helping eachother bring practice into daily life.
Jennifer Wang (she/her)
Jennifer grew up in Los Angeles (Tongva land) alongside her twin sister, younger sister, mother and father, who moved to the US as teenagers from Taiwan and Hong Kong, respectively.
Jennifer has been a regular practitioner of mindfulness and meditation for over 15 years in the Theravada Insight, Shambhala, and Plum Village traditions. She has sat multiple residential and silent retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, Deer Park Monastery, Magnolia Grove Monastery, Southern Dharma, and other beautiful retreat centers close to nature. She has also completed multiple instructor certification courses, including in the Shambhala and Insight traditions and at Vanderbilt University.
Jennifer is the founder of the Nashville POC Sangha, a facilitator at One Dharma and Wild Heart meditation centers, serves on the boards of the Maddox Fund, Tennessee Environmental Council, and the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Committee.
Jennifer’s professional journey has brought together her backgrounds in business and social change to the climate change space, focusing on financial innovation for the global clean energy accelerator New Energy Nexus.
Kit Canlas (she/her/siya)
Kit is a queer identifying first generation Filipinx American who has resided in “Nashville” for sixteen years now. Her journey as a mindfulness practitioner began as a teenager in her hometown of “Houston, Texas” at Chung Tai Zen monastery. Since her move to Tennessee in 2007, she has predominantly practiced with Wild Heart Meditation Center, where she now serves as Co-director. She is a school social worker and singer by academia. Although she originally moved to Music City to work in the entertainment industry, her life has always centered around justice. For years, she worked as a professional burlesque performer, using body positivity as a form of activism and storytelling. She’s currently Vice President of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers and served as the inaugural board chair of Asian Pacific Islanders of Middle Tennessee.