Say hello to Devon (Dev) Brunner

Dev landed at the Red Cedar Community after searching for a meditation community around Bellingham. She had connected with sangha member Seishin Tyndall at a First Nation's sweat lodge around the area and it was there that Seishin introduced her to Red Cedar.  She has a deep connection to places of healing and renewal and has the aspiration to someday establish a retreat center around here which includes many forms of healing modalities, including meditation.

Dev is a yoga teacher with more than 10 years of experience, as well as scientist--and a gardener. She has a love of gardening and has a vision of perhaps including sustainable farming at the retreat center she is envisioning.

Dev was born in Texas, has lived all over the U.S. as well as in Thailand for her first few years, and remembers offering foods to the local monastics there.  The family traveled all over for her dad's work. She lived in Boston, and Boulder, CO, for a while also, and recently she was living in Dallas, working on a PhD program there, which she left, working on it remotely and then realizing that she had a yearning to move to the PNW.

She moved to Bellingham driven by the desire for green and ancient trees--as well as a place by both the mountains and the sea.

Dev has found Red Cedar to be a very beautiful and healing space as she was, and is, navigating through the ups and downs of life. She says she immediately felt loved and welcomed here.

Welcome, Dev!