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 they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.” – Pema Chodron
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.” – Mary Oliver
The day will include periods of still and movement meditation with instruction.
The focus of the daylong is on deepening intimacy with ourselves, others, and all of life. Intimacy in relationships requires dialogue, transparency, vulnerability and reciprocity. Intimacy within ourselves requires an increasing awareness of our own mind states, moods, feelings and reactivity, and those of others. A talk, dialogue and relational exercises will be offered on exploring intimacy through the Buddha’s teaching.
Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. Click here or the link below to register.
http://eastbaymeditation.org/ebmcreg/?event=july17intimacy
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)
* 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.
