About SMAG
The Sarasota Meditation and Art Gallery was established to provide support in the discovery of one’s innate goodness and wisdom. This discovery creates intelligent and skillful actions that further benefit all who interact with us: family, friends, community and world. It provides the impetus to appreciate the world we live in, and help create harmony and happiness.
Once one realizes and experiences one’s own true nature, we develop bravery and courage that allows us to discover self-confidence, to be who we want to be, and to make a better world. This brings inspiration to our world to engage and support others to discover the truth and potential for true compassion and wisdom.
Developing genuineness requires bravery. Bravery to relate to those areas of our life that are clouded in confusion and unhappiness. The importance of skillfulness in the development of bravery cannot be understated. This requires true compassion based on insight and wisdom that is the result of our meditation practice. Please join us in our journey in furthering self-awareness and wisdom for the benefit of all.
Reference Links:
https://stpetersburg.shambhala.org
MEET LAMA RINA OTERO
LAMA RINA OTERO
BIO
- Entrepreneur - Owner, Boulder Gardens Flower Shop, Boulder, Colorado
- Program Consultant, Boulder Valley School District, Boulder, Colorado. -Drop-out Program Coordinator 99.8 success rate)
- Curriculum Specialist, North Lake Community College, Irving Texas
- Founder of Goldlake Consultants Inc. - an educational consulting company
- Founder and Principal of King’s View Academy, a junior/senior high school in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2000. Recognized by the University of Toronto as being in the top 50 of schools in Canada. Retired in 2017.
MEDITATION CREDENTIALS
Studied with Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche in 1974 and authorized as a Meditation Instructor and Program Coordinator for Shambhala Training in Miami, FL, Boulder, CO, and Halifax, NS Canada. Completed Traditional Tibetan 3 Year, 3 Month Retreat, at His Holiness Karmapa’s retreat center with Khenpo Karthar. Rimpoche as retreat master. Both have authored many books.
Director for Sarasota Meditation Art Gallery 2023 ( www.meditationartgallery.com)