with Arisika Razak

How, as Black women, do we move from “surviving” to “thriving” in a society that hates our bodies and denies our achievements?  What traumas occurred in our families of origin, and how do the Buddha’s teaching support our recovery and healing? What ancestral wisdom supports our journeys in these perilous times – and what do we need to leave behind in our quests for liberation?  Join us as we use movement, meditation, writing, Dharma teachings and small group discussions to focus on self-care, healing, and compassion, ritually reclaiming our joy and empowerment while releasing the histories that no longer serve us.

Please bring an item to place on our community altar and a gift to share with another Black woman.

Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. Click HERE to register.

Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events. However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or “dana”). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher.

Thank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.

Fragrance-free: In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

EBMC is wheelchair accessible.