Receiving & Understanding: An Interview with Margarita Loinaz

Margarita Loinaz and Rev. Liên talks about how practice and teachings to & from BIPOCs was challenging, shifted and transformed in the SF Bay Area since they first met at the Women of Color group in 1996. Margarita Loinaz, MD has trained in the Tibetan and Theravada traditions.  She met her root teacher Kalu Rimpoche in 1977 and is a Dzogchen student of Lama Drimed Norbu.  She is a graduate of the first Community Dharma Leader’s Program at SRMC and began teaching in l997 leading the Women of Color Sitting Group in Marin City with Marlene Jones and co-organizing the first People of Color Retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 1999.  Her current teaching integrates Dzogchen practice with social justice and environmental awareness.  As a physician, she served Day Laborers, the Latinx and Homeless communities in San Francisco.  She is a grandmother and originally from the Dominican Republic.Talks and Videos present on Youtube, Vimeo  and Dharma Seed,  EBMC POC Sangha recordings, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center recordings on programs such as BIPOC Voices,  day-longs and BIPOC retreats.She can be reached at:  [email protected]