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Happy Vesak from East Bay Meditation Center! "Ves Happy Vesak from East Bay Meditation Center! 
"Vesak", the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world. It is believed that on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B.C., that the Buddha was born. (United Nations) Vesak, also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists in South Asia and Southeast Asia as well as Tibet and Mongolia. The festival commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha in Theravada, Tibetan Buddhism and Navayana. (Wikipedia)
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Greetings Dharma Family 🪷✨ Help us offer a w Greetings Dharma Family 🪷✨

Help us offer a warm welcome to one of our newest Staff Members, Jane W, who has joined our team as a Retreat Manager for our Spiritual Teacher & Leadership program. 🪷✨

Jane is a life-long learner from Los Angeles, the land of the Tongva People. She has been an educator for over a decade--teaching middle school, high school, and now adults. She stumbled upon meditation in 2019 at her first meditation retreat at Deer Park Monastery, and it profoundly changed her to realize that mindfulness is a way of life. Since then, she's found a spiritual home in EBMC's Alphabet and Asian American Deep Refuge Sanghas. She is passionate about serving others and connecting to herself through trauma-informed, holistic practices. She is happiest when she's traveling, reading, dancing, cooking, writing, learning, and having deep conversations with people. 
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Welcome, Jane! 💛
A gentle reminder: No mud, no lotus. 🪷 Photo A gentle reminder: 
No mud, no lotus. 
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Each person deserves a day away in which no proble Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. - Maya Angelou 

Hi Dharma Family! 

EBMC's small & mighty staff team will be taking a Collective Rest from Monday, May 9th to Friday, May 13th. 

When we center and practice our own sustainability and rest we are better equipped to show up in community and serve our beloved sangha. 

Thank you for being supportive of our rest. 🙏🏾❤️

#VowNotToBurnOut 

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Our friendships, partnerships, work and family rel Our friendships, partnerships, work and family relationships can be a source of joy and support, and also of struggle and suffering. 

How do we bring our practice to all the relationships in our lives, to both ease our suffering and awaken our freedom?

During our four week online course, “Finding Liberation in Relationship” we will be exploring concrete practices grounded in Buddhist meditation, somatics, and transformative justice. We will practice feedback, boundaries, and nervous system regulation, while applying mindfulness to investigate our conditioned tendencies and positionality in power relations.

More love, more liberation. 
Join us! 

Finding Liberation in Relationship: Accountability, Conflict, Boundaries and Feedback
An Online Class Series with René Rivera and Dawn Haney
Mondays May 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th
6:30 – 8:30PM PST
ASL Interpretation and 
Closed Captioning Provided
Register: LINK IN BIO 
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Introduction to Insight Meditation for Black, Indi Introduction to Insight Meditation for Black, Indigenous and People of Color with beloved Core Teacher, Arisika Razak, starts tomorrow Thursday May 5th.
Please join us ♥️📿💻

All the Details: 
Introduction to Insight Meditation: Mindful Breath, Body, Feelings and Thought for Black, Indigenous and POC. 

An Online Class Series with Arisika Razak 

Thursdays May 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th 
6-7:30PM PST 
via Zoom 
Closed captions provided 

Register: LINK IN BIO 

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Stopping by to share some #joyful pictures from EB Stopping by to share some #joyful pictures from EBMC’s Board / Staff Retreat this past weekend. 

This special retreat also served as the first time that many LSangha & Staff members got to meet in person, as our family grew during the past few years of working remotely and cultivating virtual sangha. 

Excitingly, our retreat also gave us the opportunity to test out our hybrid model that we’ve been envisioning. Gratitude to our IT & Operations Director, wei li king, for helping to guide this process and making the retreat accessible to those who needed to join remotely. 

Deep bows to our gracious and wonderful host, @anjalilifecoach who provided a beautiful backyard oasis for our time together. 

♥️📿

#EBMCoakland
Lots of hellos to new EBMC staff family members la Lots of hellos to new EBMC staff family members lately! 🥰

Please help us warmly welcome the very wonderful Kristal I, who recently joined our Events team as an Event Manager & Zoom Host. 📿💻♥️ 

Kristal (she/her) manages events for the East Bay Meditation Center and volunteers for the Alphabet Sangha coordinating committee.  She also works as a certified #massage therapist, instructor, and Reiki practitioner.  Her homebase is Oakland, CA, on the land of the Ohlone People.  Through personal experiences and studies about history, nature, the human body, trauma, and self work, Kristal has committed to living in service of balance, joy, and compassion for herself and others.  She loves to integrate the practices of meditation, Buddhism, and therapeutic bodywork to promote holistic wellbeing.  EBMC is Kristal's beloved spiritual home and she is deeply grateful for the loving communities and teachings she has found here.  Some of her favorite interests include camping, reading, music, road trips, cooking, and being with loved ones, including her two small dogs.

Yay, welcome Kristal! ♥️♥️♥️
Please help us offer a warm welcome to one of our Please help us offer a warm welcome to one of our newest staff members, Anna B, who recently joined us as an Events Manager. 

Anna (she / her) grew up in the Bay Area and came to Soto Zen practice as a teenager. She is now a member of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center and is the Operations Manager for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. After moving to the East Bay, Anna enrolled in EBMC’s White and Awakening in Sangha program and continued connecting with EBMC leaders through her work with SZBA online programs.

Her current interests include gardening, cooking, travel and expanding access and equity in Buddhist practice.

Deep bows to you, Anna! 📿💻
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