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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Alphabet Sangha
DESCRIPTION:A meditation group for the Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, Queer\, Intersex\, Same-Gender Loving\, and Two-Spirit communities. Because that’s such a mouthful\, we call ourselves the Alphabet Sangha. \nTuesdays\n7:00 – 8:30 pm \nHYBRID on First and Third Tuesdays of the month! Meet at EBMC or online. \nPlease email: alphabetsangha at eastbaymeditation dot org to request Zoom link to join online.  \nFor more information\, visit the ALPHABET SANGHA WEBSITE
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-alphabet-sangha-2-2022-12-27/2023-07-04/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open Heart/Open House: EBMC's Reopening Gathering
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nEast Bay Meditation Center is celebrating our community by hosting a summer party at Snow Park! \n \nWe have been mostly online for over three years. As we learn to meet in person more safely\, we are looking forward to marking this new moment with a community celebration. Join us as we commemorate EBMC’s hybrid programming at our July 16th Reopening Celebration at Snow Park followed by a week of hybrid classes and practice groups. \nOn Sunday\, July 16th from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM we will be holding space at Snow Park\, a block from our center and also hosting group tours of the temple. We are honored to have one of our dear EBMC founders\, Larry Yang\, welcome us to the celebrations at the park. Join us for group meditations\, sound healing\, dance and drumming under the oak trees. You’re also invited to bring your spiritual friends and community\, roll out a blanket and catch up in the sun. \nSmall group tours of EBMC will happen on the hour\, with sign-ups at the park\, and include: access to a memorial altar honoring sangha/community members lost in these last three plus years\, a twenty-minute group meditation in the temple room\, and information about the center and upcoming programs. For the tour\, you will be asked to put on shoe booties at the door and to wear a KN95/N95 mask throughout your time inside the center. \nThere will be a closing circle at the Snow Park’s Putting Green at 1:45 pm. \nCome celebrate with us! Watch this space for the Sunday event and weeklong hybrid schedule. \nEmail ramon (at) eastbaymeditation.org if you want to volunteer\, have proposals or questions \nPlease save the date and look out for more details to come. \n \n\nLarry is a senior advisor in Mindfulness and Healing Justice for the Kataly Foundation\, to provide grants for supporting community-based mindfulness and awareness practices and projects for ethnically and racially diverse multicultural communities and organizations. For 20 years\, Larry has taught meditation retreats nationally. He has a special interest in creating access to both Buddhist and secular mindfulness for non-dominant cultures\, and in transforming the strong currents of White Supremacy in our Mindfulness communities. Larry has practiced meditation for 30+ years\, with extensive time in Burma and Thailand\, and a six month period of ordination as a Buddhist monastic. Larry is one of the founding teachers of both East Bay Meditation Center (Oakland) and Insight Community of the Desert (Palm Springs). He has trained teachers for spiritual leadership within communities of color and LGBTQI communities for 15 years. Larry was honored for his work in racial justice by being selected as the community Grand Marshal in the 2016 San Francisco LGBTIQ Pride Parade\, whose theme that year was “For Racial and Economic Justice.” His book\, “Awakening Together: the Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community\,” is published by Wisdom Publications.  \n\n  \n Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks and be fully vaccinated against covid19\, which at this time means having received the covid bivalent booster no less than two weeks before the event. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) \nTo attend in person\, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products — more information and a list of fragrance free products\, including those that are especially good for people of color\, appears on our website: \nhttps://eastbaymeditation.org/resources/fragrance-free-at-ebmc/ \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/open-heart-open-house-ebmcs-reopening-gathering/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Alphabet Sangha
DESCRIPTION:A meditation group for the Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, Queer\, Intersex\, Same-Gender Loving\, and Two-Spirit communities. Because that’s such a mouthful\, we call ourselves the Alphabet Sangha. \nTuesdays\n7:00 – 8:30 pm \nHYBRID on First and Third Tuesdays of the month! Meet at EBMC or online. \nPlease email: alphabetsangha at eastbaymeditation dot org to request Zoom link to join online.  \nFor more information\, visit the ALPHABET SANGHA WEBSITE
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-alphabet-sangha-2-2022-12-27-2/2023-07-18/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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