I’m Robin Tejeda (they/all).

Rituals of Remembering grew from a longing to offer forms of contemplative practice, spiritual care, and community tending that are of the earth, on the ground, rooted in relationship, and responsive to the material conditions and collective crises of our time, while remembering the divine spaciousness of our beings.

I am a queer, gender-expansive person of mixed white Germanic and Jewish, Nuyorican, and Cuban ancestry, shaped by the creative adaptations, resilience, and ruptures of diaspora and living in the in-betweens. I came to Buddhist meditation and dharma as a young teenager growing up in Queens, New York through gateways of personal crisis and significant familial loss. Some of my earliest teachers were my own heartbreak, whispers in the wind through the trees, dandelions growing through sidewalk cracks, the aliveness of my own Queerness, and moments of playfulness and compassion between strangers waiting for the train. Long before I had verbal language for the vastness of contemplative practice, these ordinary encounters were already teaching me about impermanence, the resilient and responsive human heart, and remembering an innate freedom.

For more than 25 years, my dharma has been rooted in contemporary Indo-Tibetan Buddhist traditions, and I am an animist who moves through the world with reverence for the aliveness of all seen & unseen. I also tend relationship with my multicultural ancestral and magical traditions, including through ritual, spell work, plant magic and herbalism, and divination. Rather than understanding these paths as separate, I experience them as different yet interwoven technologies for coming into relationship with the many forms of intelligence that accompany us, a remembering of a birthright that modernity & coloniality has attempted to sever for so many of us. My spiritual practice has also always been inseparable from the work of collective liberation, and from examining how state violence, domination, and carceral conditioning live within our communities, our relationships, and ourselves.

Since moving to Colorado in 2007, the mountains have been some of my most enduring teachers. They continually invite me into relationship with land, Big Sky, the elements, the extremities of our seasons, the rapid impacts of ecological crisis, and the spirit worlds. They also ask me to practice with the awareness that I live as a settler on Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute lands, where my spiritual practice cannot be separated from the ongoing work of un-settling and Land Back.

Additionally, I have spent nearly a decade working with primarily queer and trans communities as a licensed therapist specializing in sex therapy, relationships, grief, and trauma. My vocational path has also included contemplative caregiving in disability care, elder care, and end-of-life care, as well as community-based consent culture educational work. I also teach graduate-level contemplative counseling, Buddhist psychology-informed coursework, meditation, and lead contemplative retreats in contemporary Tibetan traditions. While my clinical work remains distinct from Rituals of Remembering, each of these roles has deepened my understanding of relational presence, ethical & liberatory care, engaged & experiential pedagogy, and the practice of accompanying one another through life's thresholds.

My hope is that our time together supports a deepening relationship with yourself, your communities, and the more-than-human worlds, while cultivating the freedom, courage, and fierce compassion needed to participate in the ongoing work of collective liberation.

I'm honored to walk alongside you for whatever part of the journey we may share.