Muna Shaheen is a Palestinian single mother of three living in Haifa. She is a long-term practitioner, who co-founded “Ihna-Hon,” an open Arabic-speaking mindfulness-meditation space, and later founded “Marsa” a dedicated Arabic-speaking Sangha, in which she teaches Dharma. In addition she is an assistant teacher in an MBSR teacher-training-course.Muna regards mindfulness teaching as her major social activism, while she holds a veterinarian certificate and promotes awareness to animal welfare both as an educational consultant in the Ministries of Agriculture and Education and teaching at university level. She is an environmental activist, co-founder of the “One Climate” movement, and formerly established a Palestinian Sea advocacy community in Haifa. Muna also leads children’s group in nature bonding them to earth.For more information about One Climate, please visit the following link:https://www.facebook.com/climatejustice4all/
To make a donation, Muna recommends the following link:
https://www.every.org/youth-passageways/f/special-projects-donorWe discussed environmental education for children and teaching youths about non-violence through compassion towards animals, belonging to the land and receiving olives as gifts from ancient beings, anxiety and finding a personal Vipassana practice as well as a heart connection to Native American spirituality, developing Palestinian sanghas and viewing practice as social activism, and the importance of knowing that the Buddhist path reveals itself.
