Edomyas Solomon | Namchak Facilitator

Edomyas serves as the Director of the Compassion in Action Network at Namchak Foundation. Edomyas Solomon is also a Co-Founder and member of the Enlivened Cooperative, an eco-social for-impact organization offering relevant, meaningful and innovative learning experiences. Over the past 5 years, he has also been an active and contributing member of the Ecoversities Alliance of learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledge systems, relationships, and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education.

Edomyas has worked both in the non-profit and private sectors and over the past 5 years, more extensively with youth of all ages, in a variety of roles including directing and managing both recreational and academic summer programs, facilitating food justice courses and workshops, and developing curriculum that focuses on wellness and experiential learning.

Edomyas holds Masters degrees in Business Administration and in Transpersonal Psychology, with a specialization in Creativity and Innovation.

Edomyas’ lifelong commitment to spiritual reflection, awakening, and transformation was seeded via growing up in a deeply devotional Christian tradition; then finding some rooting in the Gelugpa lineage of Mahayana Tibetan Buddhism in his 20s; and over the past 10 years, flowering through finding deep resonance with the more secular non-dual philosophies and practices inspired and informed by the Indian Advaita Vedanta traditions.

Consequently, touched by love, freedom and beauty, Edomyas continues to be a willing and joyful instrument for the playful expression of the ineffable, through presence and friendship, and through the art of weaving stories through words, sounds, and images.

Edomyas’ other interests include playing Capoeira – a Brazilian martial arts form and cultural movement; listening to music and occasionally trying to play the trumpet; enjoying nature hikes; as well as drawing and painting…currently working on an illustrated children’s book focused on ecological regeneration and the power of community in creating sanctuary.

Originally from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and having lived in various places in the U.S., Edomyas is now based in Berkeley, California.