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EBMC Teen Sangha: Summer 2016

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

Wednesdays: July 6 – August 24, 2016 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Open to teens, ages 14-19 Led by the EBMC Teen Sangha Team: Raúl Kahlil Betancourt, Anthony “T” Maes, Sarwang Parikh, Adrienne Price, Syra Smith, and Phoenix Soleil EBMC Teen Sangha is a weekly meditation group for teens, ages 14-19. Our focus will be […]

The Bhakti Path: From Simple Listening to Self-Surrender

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

with Jay Nair Bhakti Yoga is also called heart opening yoga, and uses devotion as the primary motivational energy to practice all other aspects of yoga. This workshop will give an overview of Bhakti path and help develop a daily Bhakti Yoga practice with rejoicing, devotion and love as it core. The aspects covered in […]

A Benefit and Celebration for Shahara Godfrey

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

with musical performances by Melanie DeMore and Eve Decker Come join us to welcome Shahara Godfrey, beloved dharma teacher back to EBMC! Listen to the wonderful music of Melanie DeMore and Eve Decker and gather with our beautiful spiritual community to support Shahara's continued recovery. Our beloved teacher and friend, Shahara Godfrey, has courageously faced […]

Survival, Resistance and Resiliency: Practice for Men of Color

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

led by EBMC’s Men of Color Deep Refuge Group Together, we will explore the concepts of survival, resistance, and resiliency, and how we can bring balance to the individual and collective male experience in our global community. Through meditation, movement, and discussion, we will explore the subtle components of our masculine energy and uncover our […]

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 […]