DiabetesSangha

05/04/2026

This week’s Weekly Dose is a gentle invitation to return to your body.

Join Diabetes Sangha facilitator Heather Nielsen for a short, accessible mindful movement practice—no experience, fitness level, or mobility required.

Move anywhere, any way.�Ground in your breath.�Notice simple sensations in the body.

Living with diabetes can often keep us in our heads—managing, calculating, adjusting. This practice offers a moment to soften that, and simply be with your body… just as it is.

You don’t need to change anything. You don’t need to push.
�You’re welcome to show up exactly as you are.
Even a few minutes of tuning in can begin to shift your relationship with your body from something to manage → to something to befriend.

As part of ’s Your Type of Moves campaign, we’ll be sharing a new Weekly Dose every Monday throughout May.

✨Follow along each week!
🔗Join the campaign through the link in our bio

05/03/2026

✨ Meet Our Facilitators ✨

Next up: Heather Nielsen Heather’s mindfulness journey began over 20 years ago with an MBSR class that changed her life — shaping how she meets each moment with awareness and compassion.

Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 27, Heather remembers those early years as anything but peaceful — filled with fear, stress, and perfectionism. Finding meditation became a turning point, transforming her relationship with her mind, body, and diabetes.

Living with both Type 1 diabetes and psoriatic arthritis, she understands firsthand how deeply stress and chronic conditions are connected — and how mindfulness can bring more ease, awareness, and resilience. As a licensed counselor and health coach, Heather brings a deeply grounded, compassionate presence to everything she does.

She often speaks about the power of community — the shared understanding and care that comes from people who truly “get it.”

She facilitates our Friday sessions at 11 AM ET — creating a space filled with compassion, support, and connection. This is one of our most highly-attended sessions, and she would love for you to join.

05/02/2026

Movement can be more than exercise—it can be a way to reconnect, reset, and care for ourselves.

This May, we’re partnering with for the Your Type of Moves campaign with a Mindful Movement Series led by Diabetes Sangha facilitators.

Each week, we’ll explore a new theme through simple, accessible practices designed to support both body and mind—wherever you are in your journey.
✨ New theme each week
✨ Guided by a rotating group of facilitators
✨ Clips shared weekly so you can follow along

To join the Your Type of Moves campaign, check out the linktree in our bio—and follow along here for our Weekly Dose every Monday.

04/29/2026

Tune in to this week’s Weekly Dose with Peter, offering a grounding meditation from the grounds of this past weekends retreat.

Through breath and awareness, explore what your heart is asking for—and how to meet it with compassion.
Watch the full video on YouTube.

04/27/2026

✨ Meet Our Facilitators ✨

Next up: Peter Friedfeld

We’re excited to introduce (and reintroduce) the people who help shape our community each week — those holding space, guiding reflection, and creating meaningful moments of connection within Diabetes Sangha.

Peter, 54, lives in Long Island, New York, and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes as an adult — an experience that came with a lot of challenge and adjustment. For a long time, he struggled with what it meant to navigate this new reality day in and day out.

It wasn’t until he found mindfulness that something began to shift.

Through his practice, Peter developed a different way of relating to what life was throwing at him — becoming more present, more aware, and better able to respond rather than react. Over time, this didn’t just change how he experienced diabetes, but how he moved through life as a whole.

For Peter, mindfulness isn’t about controlling everything or making things perfect — it’s about allowing what’s here and meeting it with clarity and compassion.

Through Diabetes Sangha, he shares these practices with others, helping create a space that feels grounded, supportive, and real.

04/13/2026

✨ Meet Our Facilitators ✨

We’re excited to introduce (and reintroduce) the people who help shape our community each week — those holding space, guiding reflection, and creating meaningful moments of connection within Diabetes Sangha.

First up: Sam Tullman.

Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 8, Sam has spent much of his life exploring a simple but profound question:�How do we live well — even when life is challenging?

As a behavior researcher and product leader in health and wellness, his work focuses on helping people better understand their habits and build systems that support real, sustainable care.

Alongside this, he’s a dedicated meditation practitioner, drawing from Buddhist traditions, psychology, and neuroscience to explore what it means to be fully human.

For Sam, meditation isn’t about escaping life or fixing everything.�It’s about learning how to be in relationship with what’s here.

This has deeply shaped how he relates to diabetes — shifting it from a constant struggle into an ongoing, evolving relationship.�Not always easy, but more compassionate and workable.

Through Diabetes Sangha, Sam helps others discover that same shift — supporting people in becoming a little kinder to themselves and more present in their lives.

04/10/2026

04/05/2026

Tonight , April 5th 7 pm EST -, Remote Reiki with

03/02/2026

Living with diabetes requires attention.
Daily decisions.
Constant adjustment.
That’s real.

But mindfulness changes how we meet it.
Practicing together changes the experience.
At DiabetesSangha, community isn’t just connection -
it’s shared awareness.

A space to pause.
To breathe.
To relate and reflect with people who truly understand.
To meet ourselves with compassion instead of criticism.

Here, you can show up exactly as you are -
and practice being with what is.

We gather for live meditations, courses, retreats,
and in a online space that’s accessible to all.

You don’t have to do this alone.

Practice with us this week! 
Link in bio to join any of our sessions.

02/02/2026

Join us tonight February 2 at 8:30 PM EST for Session Four: Settling in Sam’s Mindfulness of the Breath series ✨

This series explores mindfulness of the breath through the early stages of the sixteen stage meditation framework, supporting a deeper and more natural practice.

These sessions are primarily meditation based, with gentle instruction and brief references to traditional texts.

In Session Four: Settling, we explore the settling of the breath across all lengths, learning to trust the mind and allowing the practice to unfold naturally. The session invites the mind toward investigation or absorption.

What we will explore:
• Settling the breath
• Trusting the practice
• Investigation or absorption
• A short reading from the Satipatthana Sutta

Sam will close the series tonight with a Full Moon Meditation 🌕

👉 Join us on Zoom via the link in our bio or at diabetesangha.com