Oscar Paul Medina is a meditation educator, and transformative leader who is integrating the fields of consciousness and healing with community and restorative justice work. His personal battles with trauma and addiction led him to the path of meditation, somatic healing and ancestral indigenous wisdom. As a Dalai Lama Fellow and co-founder of Mindful Garden Collective, he created a community wellness garden and environmental restoration project centered around meditation, yoga, ecology, and growing organic food for Oakland families in need. At Mind Body Awareness Project, he has been leading mindfulness and healing circles with inner-city youth, incarcerated populations, along with educators and community workers, since 2014. Currently, he is co-leading a project that is providing mindfulness and trauma resilience training to Alameda County Sherff's Department deputies, clinical staff, and incarcerated populations at Santa Rita Jail. He is a 2020 Culture of Health Fellow, and is building a movement to empower Latinx communities and leaders on the leading edge science of mindfulness, trauma-resilience, well-being and wisdom.
