Ladan Yalzadeh

Community and wellness leader

Credit: Sam Taylor

Ladan Yalzadeh is an artist and a mindfulness and stress-release coach focused on healing and restoration. She helps individuals and communities find the resources within themselves to process stress, find resilience and reconnect with their inherent joy and wellbeing. Ladan has been creating and nurturing communities in-person and online since 2008, utilizing a range of mindfulness, embodiment and compassion practices. She is founder and coach at Honey in the Temple, which exists with the sole purpose of helping to build a society that is healthy, kind and open.

Ladan is particularly interested in compassionate communication, creating safe and inclusive spaces and working with those who are committed to healing themselves, our society and our planet. Prior to creating Honey in the Temple, Ladan was the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program manager at REI. Ladan is a long-time practitioner of Buddhism, as well as a trained Healing Circle Facilitator. Ladan holds an MFA from Transart Institute.

Ladan is currently co-developing a multidisciplinary piece with Robin Lynn Smith (USA), Fatima Dike (South Africa) and Elizabeth Heffron(USA) about women, love, power, violence and freedom from violence. She leads a monthly Women's Healing Circle as well as a monthly BIPOC Mediation Circle.