The Other Shore is a new work in progress by SK Kerastas with Najee-Zaid Searcy, Helen Lee and AiRos 頌恩 medill involving movement, harmonic chanting, images and storytelling, all in rhythm. The piece connects regenerative patterns in nature with experiences of healing from gender affirming surgery, 12-step notions of spiritual surrender, neurodivergent rhythms and teachings of community as “one body” from Buddhist monastics at Plum Village Monastery. We are chanting the Heart Sutra, an ancient Buddhist text that is essentially about how everything is made up of everything else, so our separateness is an illusion.