This is Your Brain on Meditation: Bringing diversity and community engagement to the neuroscience of meditation

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Open to all Food provided at 6:30 pm Program: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm With Dr. Helen Weng Studies on the neuroscience of meditation in the U.S. have historically included meditators from the dominant culture. Over the past year, Dr. Helen Weng has collaborated with EBMC to engage in community dialogue so we can increase […]

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Meditation Training: Establishing a Meditation Practice in Four Weeks

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Open to all 4 Wednesdays: July 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm With Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt Want to learn how to meditate? Or, have you tried at different times but just can’t quite figure how to make it work for you? In this series, specific and easy-to-follow instructions will be […]

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Making Friends with the Hindrances

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Open to all 3 Mondays: July 17, 24, 31 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Attendance is not required at all 3 classes. With Louije Kim The Five Hindrances—sensual desire, ill-will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and doubt—are mental factors that are typically experienced with some degree of suffering and discomfort. They distort our mind’s ability to […]

Meditation Training: Establishing a Meditation Practice in Four Weeks

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Open to all 4 Wednesdays: July 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm With Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt Want to learn how to meditate? Or, have you tried at different times but just can’t quite figure how to make it work for you? In this series, specific and easy-to-follow instructions will be […]

Exploring Intimacy Through the Buddha’s Teaching for the LGBTQ and Gender Non-Conforming Community

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Open to all self-identified LGBTQ & gender non-conforming practitioners Beginners are welcome! With Shahara Godfrey and Baruch Golden “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope”. - Maya Angelou "The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that […]

Meditation Training Practice Day Long Retreat

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

With Keiryu Liên Shutt A one-day retreat geared to all those who have completed any of the Meditation Training 4-week classes offered by Rev. Liên, or a comparable meditation program. The day offers an opportunity to put the various meditations taught in the four-week training class into practice. The schedule will be set up to […]

Free Your Heart

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Led by Spring Washam The potential exists in every human being to love without defenses or fear, so that true intimacy - direct, unobstructed, heart-to-heart connection with ourselves and others - becomes a way of life. We can learn to share, one heart to another, through the power of unconditional love. We can become more […]

Mindfulness of Breathing: Working Towards Peace and Insight

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

With Devin Berry In this daylong, geared toward new meditators and those seeking a refresher course, we will explore the Buddha’s own teaching on cultivating both tranquility and deep insight through the full awareness of breathing. Please bring a beginner’s mind and an open heart. Devin Berry is a co-founder of Deeper Still, the teen […]

The Ultimate Refuge: One Day Retreat for People of Color

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

With H. Margarita Loinaz, MD In the Buddhist tradition, we take refuge in the Three Jewels: The Buddha, The Dharma and The Sangha. In the Great Perfection Teachings of the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, we add the refuge of the Great Mother - The Perfection of Sublime Knowing. This ultimate refuge has also been […]

Restorative Practices: Cultivating and Sustaining Multicultural Sangha through Community Building and Healing Circles

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Led by the Restorative Practices for Dharma Practitioners Sangha How do we deepen, maintain healthy and wholesome connections within our multicultural sanghas that foster an atmosphere of mutual respect for everyone? Community Building and Healing Circles provide a transformative space for people to recognize their mutual interdependence in the struggle to work and live collectively. […]