Embodying Compassion: A Day of Healing for Black Women with Arisika Razak

How, as Black women, do we move from “surviving” to “thriving” in a society that does not love our bodies and our achievements? What ancestral wisdom is available to us that supports our journey? How can we use the Buddha’s teaching on the body to move into greater love for our physical forms, while embracing their impermanence? And how do we turn the compassion and service we offer to our families and our communities to our own healing, and self-love? In this day which focuses on self care and compassion, we will use meditation, movement, teachings of the Dharma, small group discussions, and ritual to identify the tools that provide us with greater ease, and joy as we walk through the world alone, and together.

Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. Click here to register.

Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events.  However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or “dana”). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher.

Thank you for your generosity.  EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.

Fragrance-free: In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

  EBMC is wheelchair accessible.