Free Your Heart: Transformational Workshop for Exploring Love

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

with 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 whole […]

Nourishing Our Relationship to Practice

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

with Larry Yang and Max Airborne How are we relating to our practice? Do we feel the beauty and kindness of practice? Do we relate to it with impatience, self-criticism, boredom or obligation? Why do we practice? Does our practice resemble our life, or does it feel separate from it? In this daylong for people […]

Mindfulness and Aging: Claiming our Eldership & Wisdom

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

Sunday, September 11, 2016 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm Half-day retreat for self-identified women and gender-fluid people With Noliwe Alexander and Arinna Weisman How do we open to aging; the loss of physical resilience, perhaps increasing illness, the decline of our mental faculties and memory? The Buddha offers us a path of mindfulness and loving […]

Meditation & Movement: Creating Space in Your Body & Your Life

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

Sunday, September 4, 2016 10 am – 4:30 pm with Mushim and Master Ellis Open to all  East Bay Meditation Center www.eastbaymeditation.org 285 17th Street, Oakland Event Description (100 words maximum): This class will use meditation and movement to explore how to create greater mindfulness and maintain spiritual balance throughout the day. Movements are taught […]

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For People of Color: Beginning a Meditation Practice

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

3 Wednesdays: September 7, 14, and 21, 2016 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm A class series for POC led by Mushim Are you a looking for a way to start a mindfulness meditation practice, but don’t quite know how? These classes will give you the basics of sitting and walking/movement meditation in the vipassana (insight) […]

Let’s Practice: Plain and Simple

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

Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Open to all Daylong retreat with Larry Yang No fancy titles or themes or descriptions. No attempts of language or description to convince anyone to do something or anything. Let us just have a spiritual practice day together. Let us meditate together. Let us be still […]

Family Practice Class: Opening the Heart through the Buddha’s Teachings

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

with Eve Decker, Baruch Golden, and Michele Ku We invite you to come and help create the diverse family sangha at EBMC.  We welcome families with babies, toddlers and children up to age 12.  The teachers will offer the Buddha's teachings and mindful practices that can be practiced at home. Parents/caregivers and young people will […]

Mindfulness and Aging: Claiming our Eldership & Wisdom

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

Half-day retreat for self-identified women and gender-fluid people with Noliwe Alexander and Arinna Weisman How do we open to aging; the loss of physical resilience, perhaps increasing illness, the decline of our mental faculties and memory? The Buddha offers us a path of mindfulness and loving kindness that challenges the habitual ways we have 'owned' […]

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Interconnected: Challenging Racism and White Privilege with Mindfulness and Compassion

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

A class series for white people 4 Monday evenings & 1 weekend daylong Mondays, September 12, 19, 26 & October 3: 6:30 – 9:00 pm Sunday, October 2: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm *We ask participants to commit to and attend all sessions. with Kitsy Schoen and Gregory Mengel Mindfulness practices are incomplete if they […]

Annual Brunch Celebrating EBMC’s Volunteers, Past & Present!

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

Calling all #EBMC volunteers, present *and* past, we want to celebrate and thank YOU at our annual Path of Service Sangha brunch and optional open mic talent share on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, from 10 am to 1 pm! To RSVP, fill out this brief questionnaire at http://svy.mk/2bkZubr to help us organize the potluck lunch […]