Presence Collective is delighted to announce that our teachers will be offering live webinars each Monday. These sessions will include a teaching and practice designed to help support you during these challenging and uncertain times.  


Join us this Monday, April 6th from 4-5:00PM PST (7-8:00PM EST) for our next webinar! Presence Collective teacher Dr. Sará King will be offering a talk and practice on Creating a Compassionate Inner Sanctuary. 

For so many of us right now, we are collectively experiencing a profound disruption of the schedules, patterns, and social interactions we normally use to orient and feel safe inside of our own bodies. These adaptations call for the cultivation of great compassion and resilience—for ourselves and all those being impacted.

Dr. Sará King, an OHSU neuroscientist and medical anthropologist, will be offering a grounding compassion meditation practice using visualizations, gentle breath work, guided nervous system recalibration, and poetry or readings to help participants in connecting with and deepening their connection to their sacred inner sanctuary. There will be time for Q&A at the end of each session.

We hope to see you on Monday! Click here to join the webinar via Zoom.

These webinars are offered by donation. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

*Sliding scale language borrowed with permission from Rev. angel Kyodo williams.

  • $15 - Rebalancing: for those with more than enough financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.

  • $12 - Fair: for those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.

  • $10 - Supported: for those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.

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Dr. Sará King M.A., Ph.D. (she/her/they) is a UCLA-trained political and learning scientist, neuroscientist, social-entrepreneur, public speaker, and yoga and meditation instructor. She has over 20 years of experience as a research scientist, and specializes in the study of the relationship between mindfulness, community healing/medicine, and social justice.

She is also the founder of MindHeart Consulting, offering up workshops, seminars, and evidence-based research projects based on the framework she developed called the "Science of Social Justice" - a way of both studying (researching), teaching (facilitating), and healing individuals and communities from the dis-ease of othering - informed by an interdisciplinary framework that merges medical and cultural anthropology, political science, ethnic studies, feminist and queer studies, interpersonal neurobiology, cognitive and affective neuroscience, psychology, socio-linguistics, and public health.

As a life-long athlete and lover of movement and dance as expressions of her personal spiritual practice, Dr. King has been an avid student-practitioner of vinyasa and hatha yoga, as well as a student of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism for 15+ years.