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SUMMARY:ONLINE: 8 Step Buddhist Recovery Deep Refuge
DESCRIPTION:Every Saturday from 10AM – 11:30AM PST / PDT ONLINE \nCompassionate Dharma Deep Refuge Buddhist meetings focus on ways to heal addiction. Based on the Eight Steps to Recovery developed by Dr. Mason-John M.A (hon.doc) and Dr Groves\, we believe this inclusive approach can build a solid foundation for those at any level of recovery and for those who have yet to seek help. \nThrough these practices we hope you gain a practice that can sustain you in your recovery. \nWe are a multi-recovery space. Whether you are navigating addiction to substances like drugs and alcohol\, or process addictions\, such as disordered eating\, codependency\, or sex and love addiction–you are welcome here. \nAdvance Registration is not required. \nFor additional information\, please contact: ebmcrecovery at gmail dot com.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/8-step-recovery/2026-07-11/
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SUMMARY:Watering Our Roots\, Planting Seeds: Exploring South Asian Lineages and Collective Futures
DESCRIPTION:Watering Our Roots\, Planting Seeds: \nExploring South Asian Lineages and Collective Futures \nSaturday\, July 11th 2026 \n12:30 pm to 5:30pm PT \nIn-person at EBMC (2406 Webster St.\, Oakland CA) \nOnline via Zoom \nMasking is strongly encouraged. The center is wheelchair accessible and fragrance-free. \nTogether with Access to Zen\, EBMC is excited to invite EVERYONE to attend our biggest summer event\, “Watering Our Roots\, Planting Seeds: Exploring South Asian Lineages and Collective Futures”! Join us for a very special afternoon dedicated to uplifting the South Asian histories of Buddhism\, music\, dance\, and yoga. We’ll also look at what it means for a diverse community to practice with these lineages today and in the future. \nLet’s come together to celebrate past and present\, our personal and shared heritages\, and an afternoon of joy in community! All are welcome\, including families! (recommended ages 8+) \nFeaturing: \n\nLive Indian classical music concert with Srinivas Reddy (sitar) and Ferhan Najeeb Qureshi (tabla)\nPanel discussion about with Srinivas Reddy\, Jyoti Argade\, and Anjali Rao\, moderated by Rahil Rojiani\nOpening ritual with Sakkshi\nInteractive altar designed by Shreya Shankar\nDJ\, dancing\, food\, and social time!\nNEW: Chetna Mehta\, creator of “Cultivating Compassion in Times of Fascism” will host a coloring corner for kids (and kids at heart)!!\n\nPLEASE NOTE THE ADDRESS OF EBMC’S NEW BUILDING: \n2406 Webster St.\, Oakland\, CA \n[If you are using a navigation/map app\, DO NOT type in East Bay Meditation Center. That will take you to our 285 17th St. location instead.] \nIn person attendance: Space is limited to the first 200 people who register. \nPlease allow time for parking! We recommend using public transit if possible. \nSchedule: \n12:30 pm Doors and altar interaction \n1:00 pm Program begins \n1:30 – 2:30 pm Panel discussion with Q&A \n3- 4:00 pm Live music concert \n4 – 5:30 pm DJ\, dancing\, food\, mingling \nCost \nWe’re continuing to fundraise for EBMC so that we can keep our center sustained. The tickets are sliding scale and there is an option to name your own donation amount. We humbly request that folx give at the highest level they can for the benefit of the collective. If you are able\, please purchase a Generosity Ticket for someone who cannot afford to buy one for themselves (you can donate any amount). Thank you! \nIf you wish to RECEIVE a Generosity Ticket\, please email kristal@eastbaymeditation.org \n  \nOur Organizations \nLearn more about EBMC here. \nLearn more about Access to Zen here. \n \n  \nSPECIAL GUESTS! \n \nSrinivas Reddy (musician & panelist) is a scholar\, translator and musician. He studied classical sitar in the traditional guru-shishya style with Pandit Partha Chatterjee\, a direct disciple of the late sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Srinivas also trained in classical South Asian languages and literatures at Brown University and UC Berkeley. He has released three CDs and published five books including the latest Illuminating Worlds: An Anthology of Classical Indian Literature (Bloomsbury 2024). Srinivas is currently Associate Professor of South Asian Studies at Nayanta University in Pune\, India. www.sankalpana.org \n \nFerhan Najeeb Qureshi (musician) is a senior disciple of the legendary tabla master Ustad Tari Khan. Prior to his ongoing training with Ustad Tari Khan\, Ferhan took his initial lessons in Hindustani music theory and practice with Surinder Singh Mann. Ferhan studies the Punjab gharana of classical tabla which both of his teachers represent. In addition to performing tabla lehra (tabla solo)\, Ferhan Qureshi has also accompanied numerous distinguished classical artists (vocalists\, instrumentalists and dancers) both in the United States and in Pakistan. \n \nAnjali Rao (panelist) brings an intersectional and decolonial feminist lens to the study of philosophy and religion integrating storytelling\, art and poetry. Deeply influenced by her yoga practice and dance training\,  her work emphasizes an embodied approach and explores how spirituality\, power and politics intersect. Her first book\, Yoga As Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens in Caste\, Gender And Sacred Resilience in Yoga History\, North Atlantic Books was named as one of the 10 most inspiring\, insightful and seriously worthwhile books of 2025 by Yoga Journal and  “a scholarly work and a deeply personal journey” by L.A Book Review. \nShe is on the faculty of multiple yoga education programs. She considers herself a first\, foremost and forever a student and is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy and Religion (Women’s Spirituality) in California Institute of Integral Studies. \n \nJyoti Argade (panelist) is a bharatanatyam artist\, scholar\, and educator whose work sits at the intersection of devotion\, embodied practice\, and critical inquiry into South Asian performance traditions. Born into a family of bharatanatyam teachers\, she trained under her mother\, Srimati Veena Argade\, and later with V.P. and Shantha Dhananjayan in the Kalakshetra style. She has performed at The Asia Society\, The Brooklyn Museum\, The Guggenheim\, The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art\, and the American Dance Festival\, among others. \nJyoti holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and served as Chair and Associate Professor of Dance at the University of East London. As a producer\, she produced Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company’s historic first tour to India\, where she chaired public dialogues on diaspora\, identity\, and the politics of contemporary South Asian dance. Her scholarly work examines the historical\, devotional\, and political dimensions of South Asian dance traditions\, with ongoing research into the devadasi lineage and bharatanatyam’s modern reconstruction for nationalist and global stages. She runs a bharatanatyam studio in Berkeley and leads The Actual Project\, a consultancy focused on leadership and organizational development. Jyoti is also the mother to two extraordinary humans. \n \nRahil Rojiani (they/them) (panel moderator & planning team) is a queer\, genderfluid\, South Asian facilitator and healer\, currently swimming the waters of capitalism as an abolitionist trauma-oriented psychiatrist. They are committed to a path of weaving together the many threads and contradictions of their life\, spanning decades of community organizing\, neuroscience research and medical training in ivory tower academia\, contemplative and somatic healing practices\, and a primary orientation toward Spirit. Rahil’s spiritual lineages include Mahamudra and Dzogchen schools of Buddhism\, the esoteric tradition of Ismaili Islam in which they were raised\, and Hindustani classical music through sitar under Srinivas Reddy and the Ali Akbar College of Music. They feel most alive when supporting queer and trans BIPOC communities in healing complex trauma through conscious use of psychiatric tools\, liberatory somatics\, shadow work\, and reconnecting to Spirit for the sake of our collective liberation in apocalyptic times. When not making long lists\, you might find them climbing\, gardening\, reading\, or deliciously lost in deep conversation and cuddles with their dear ones. \n \nShreya Shankar (interactive altar designer) Shreya’s practice is where ancestral forms and futurisms meet across the mediums of design\, mythology\, worldbuilding\, place-keeping\, and meaning-making. \nTheir work engages collective memory and the radical imagination\, seamlessly prototyping across mediums and forms to create functional ritual sculptural art objects\, sacred architectures\, altars\, sets\, literary and visual art. \nWith degrees in Environmental Policy\, Urban Planning\, and Architecture from UC Berkeley and CCA\, Shreya Shankar draws from spiritual ecology\, folklore\, and foresight to explore the rich territory between ancestral cosmologies and liberatory near-futures. \n \nA SF-based Bay Area native\, Neha aka jaag strives to weave different genres into a cohesive rhythmic fabric to create an environment of liberation\, joy\, and connection. Raised on the genre-bending South Asian producers of the 90s\, the hyphy movement of the 2000s\, and the vocalists of ancient Carnatic music\, her mixes keep you on your toes while taking you on a journey. She blends breaks\, electro\, leftfield bass\, trance\, acid\, and a plethora of global percussive genres\, and runs a party series called Maja Blast with fellow SF dj nofi\, which is centered on a genre-less\, set time-less experience where party goers can allow themselves to fully trust the dj and be surprised on the dance floor.  \n  \n \nSakkshi (she/her) (opening ritual & planning team) is a Queer immigrant rooted in Indian lineage and the living tradition of Sanathana Dharma  the eternal Vedic path she has walked alongside her family for over three decades. Her practice is supported by the rhythms of ancestral ritual and the wisdom of Jyotish aka Vedic astrology\, where our energetic footprint becomes a way to explore the relationship between karma and dharma\, a journey she holds space for through her Jyotish practice\, Cosmicdesi. In her work as the founder of a boutique residential design firm\, she brings this same philosophy into the spaces people inhabit\, understanding that the places we build are extensions of the lives we are creating. She is a devoted student of ancestral veneration and healing\, understanding that the wounds and gifts carried in our bloodlines are portals to collective liberation. For the past four years\, she has been co-facilitating weekly meditations at East Bay Meditation Center. At the heart of her work lives a single conviction: that separation is an illusion\, and that through conscious creation\, our remembering\, and aligned action we can return to a living relationship with our metaphysical existence as our birthright. \n \nSarwang Parikh (he/they) (planning team) is a decolonial psychotherapist and meditation teacher based on unceded Ohlone land in the SF Bay Area. Born into a devotional Indian lineage with an immigrant\, working-class background\, Sarwang has been practicing and studying the Dharma for over 25 years through their ancestral traditions of Vedic yoga\, Theravāda\, and Indian Vajrayāna. They have completed various multi-year teaching and study programs\, including East Bay Meditation Center’s (EBMC) 2-year Spiritual Teacher Leader program\, and are currently in Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader cohort. Sarwang teaches with Dharma Homies\, East Bay Meditation Center\, Braided Wisdom and Inward Bound Mindfulness where they also serve on the board. Rooted in a liberatory approach to mindfulness and healing\, Sarwang integrates deep ancestral wisdom with contemporary practices. They find joy in playing their handpan\, frolicking with friends in nature\, and getting free on the dance floor.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/watering-our-roots-planting-seeds-exploring-south-asian-lineages-and-collective-futures/
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Multiracial Peer-Led Deep Refuge Group
DESCRIPTION:The Multiracial Deep Refuge Group is a monthly exploratory Deep Refuge Group for and by people who identify as multiracial. Our meetings include periods of mindfulness meditation and sharing of narratives and perspectives as we come together to be seen and to see one another. By sitting and exploring our own unique stories\, we can come to know and care for the common threads that bind us together. Our collective work bravely expands the narrative that informs multiracial experience today. Meets 7pm-9pm on the second Saturdays of every month. Online and occasionally hybrid (in-person at EBMC + online). \nNewcomers welcome- please contact us before your first visit: mrdrcoordinators at googlegroups dot com
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/multiracial-peer-led-deep-refuge-group-2018-01-13/2026-07-11/
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