Celebrate Winter Solstice with Mindful Movement
Saturday, December 21, 2024
9:00 – 10:30 AM PT
With Rosetta Saunders and Jenn Biehn
Hybrid in person at EBMC and on Zoom
We invite you to join us in engaging movement meditation as we welcome the season of Winter. We will practice easy-to-learn tai chi and qigong movements that gather the chi/the life force from the earth and circulate the chi in our bodies. These accessible movements invite softness and continuity as they release tension, negativity and stress and bring healing to the body-heart-mind.
Embodying mindful awareness, we experience a profound synergy and ever-deepening interconnectedness – so important in these challenging times. Movements will be offered both seated and standing.
No prior experience necessary.
Join us as we welcome the winter season!
OPTIONAL SOCIALIZING AT THE CENTER: Join us for snacks and fellowship in the EBMC kitchen after the program, from 10:30-11:15am!
PLEASE NOTE: In-person ticket sales end on Dec. 19, so we can finalize the headcount for the center. If you want to register for in-person after Dec. 19, please email kristal@eastbaymeditation.org. Thank you!
Cost
The teachings are regarded as priceless. So they are offered without a fee. You are invited to support the teachings and our efforts by contributing voluntary donations (the practice of “Dana”) for the expenses of the meditation center and the support of the teachers.
The ticket prices are listed as different tiers with suggested donations. For those who wish to give more, you may choose an “add-on” to your ticket. For those unable to give, there is an option for that. And lastly, there is an option to name your own gift.
To make a gift to support the teachings, please do so via
PayPal: sweetdrum8@gmail.com
or Venmo: @Rosetta-Saunders
(please reference “Winter Solstice”; the teachers will share the gifts)
For in-person participation:
For those wishing to practice in person, space will be limited to 60 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) Please note: The teacher may be unmasked while teaching.
To 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: https://eastbaymeditation.org/resources/fragrance-free-at-ebmc/
East Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible.
For Zoom participation, these are our Universal Access Guidelines:
– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds
– If you or your camera are moving a lot, please keep your video off
– Please say your name when you speak
– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud
– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
Teachers
Rosetta Saunders is a retired educator and historian with over 20 years teaching “People of Colors History” in the United States. Currently a core facilitator for Deep Time Liberation, Ancestral Healing retreats, Rosetta’s passion for West African and Afro-Cuban drumming has primarily been a source for individual and collective healing. She aligns herself with her ancestral lineage through Earth based practices. She was introduced to the Buddha/Dharma in 2002 and completed a two-year Dharmacharya program with Venerable Pannavati and Pannadipa receiving Confirmation of Ordination and recently completed the Braided Wisdom Leadership training program and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction certification program.
Active with EBMC for the past 14 years, Jenn Biehn has served on the Leadership Sangha and is a co-founder of Dharma in Motion, Restorative Practices for Dharma Practitioners, and Midday Sangha. She has taught Transforming White Privilege on the Path to Racial Equity with Neighbors for Racial Justice and currently teaches Tai Chi Chih – Joy Through Movement through EBMC and other Bay Area community centers. She was recently an elder mentor for the Braided Wisdom Leadership Training Program which included cross cultural mindfulness practices. Jenn’s spiritual practice includes engaging with nature through cross country skiing and backpacking in the high Sierra as well as embodying awareness and healing movement in her life-long journey of building community.
