At Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness, community was our inspiration and the vehicle for our work together. From our grass roots, before we became an official entity in 2018, we learned and grew together. We understood that while the inner work is essential, it is in the ways we enact the practices in relationship and daily life that we find freedom. When we dared to be vulnerable, sharing our challenges as well as the ways our practices created a little more space for ease, kindness, and wisdom, we collectively benefitted from this generosity, courage and insight.