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HYBRID Daylong: Ceasefire! Practice for Liberation with Palestine

May 27 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Yellow background with two white peace doves holding a green leafy branch. Green text in the center reads: Ceasefire! Practice for Liberation: A New Daylong. With Tania Triana, Ream, and Andres Gonzalez. Hybrid at EBMC and online. Monday, May 27th, 10am to 2pm pacific time. Black icons for closed captioning, wheelchair, and a mask are at the bottom.

Ceasefire! Practice for Liberation with Palestine

Hybrid Daylong

With Tania Triana, Ream, Andrés González, Kimi Mojica, and anuradha bhagwati

Monday, May 27th

10 AM – 2 PM

Open to all

Closed Captioning Provided on Zoom

The center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible

N95/KN95 masks required

 

This nourishing day of practice will hold space for the dharma of Palestinian Liberation. Across the world, people are rising up in support of Palestine.  Many thousands of people gather every day, taking action in the streets, making calls and sending letters, organizing their people and communities, to practice with this call for land and freedom, for respect for life and self-determination, and an end to colonization and racism. We follow the call from Palestinians, Jews and people of conscience across the world who say “Ceasefire Now.”

This ceasefire sangha daylong will offer you support and belonging to continue your work for a meaningful and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Through mindfulness practice with the full range of our experience, internally and externally, as well as sharing from the heart and working with the body to contact grief, anger and love with compassion, we intend to strengthen our community’s response to Palestine.  

In the streets we hear the chant, “We are not freeing Palestine, Palestine is freeing us.”  We know that the work of liberation happens at the individual, collective, and societal level. Our hearts are with Palestine at this time, with gratitude for what we are learning about freedom in taking action to end the genocide in Gaza. We welcome you to practice together in community with us towards this freedom.

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All registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email. 

 

Teacher Information

Photo of Tania Triana, a brown-skinned person with short gray hair, wearing circular earrings and smiling.

Dr. Tania Triana. Pronouns:  She/They/Ella/Elle is an educator, activist, and translator who began a Buddhist practice in 2014 soon after relocating to Oakland. She currently serves on the Board of East Bay Meditation Center. Tania is a graduate of EBMC’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Program.

Photo of Ream, a light-skinned person with short dark hair, wearing a denim jacket and smiling.

Ream. Pronouns: They/Them is a queer organizer of European ancestry on unceded Ohlone Land, working for over 25 years in the labor movement, currently as the Strategic Campaigns Director for the United Domestic Workers’ Union. Ream is a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, a co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha, and leads “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioners” there, and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics, co-leading “Somatics for White Racial Justice Organizers.” 

Photo of Andrés González, a Latinx person with short dark hair, a nose piercing, and short facial hair. Wearing a white collared shirt and smiling with a tree in the background.

Andrés González. Pronouns: He/they/él/elle is a two-spirit Mestizo with primarily Yaqui, Mexican, Spanish, & Scottish ancestries. He’s also a transracial adoptee, connected to a lineage of indigenous adoptees separated from family, land, & culture by way of the U.S. child welfare system. Andrés’ lived experience walking between these many worlds has informed his path as a healer and Dharma teacher. Trained as a psychotherapist, he holds a masters degree in social work. He is also a graduate of EBMC’s two-year Spiritual Teacher & Leadership Training and is presently participating in the 2023-2024 certificate program in psychedelic facilitation at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Weaving the sacred traditions of Theravada & Mahayana Buddhism with his ancestral curanderismo lineage, Andrés brings a wide-range of practices & perspectives into his healing-justice work with individuals & communities. He now resides on Yokuts’ land (aka Bakersfield, CA). 

As a dedicated practitioner of meditation since 2003, Kimi Mojica first walked into the doors of EBMC’s POC Sangha in 2007, and has considered EBMC as one of their spiritual and political homes ever since. Their commitment to racial, gender and healing justice is evident through the dynamic ways they hold space and process as a storyteller, facilitator, trainer, coach, and conflict transformation practitioner. Kimi loves creating and exploring liberatory practices in everyday life, and within the context of sangha building.

Kimi is a graduate of Commit2Dharma, and is a proud member of EBMC’s inaugural Spiritual Teacher and Leadership (STL) Training. They have previously served as a Leadership Sangha Board Chair, and a coordinating member of the Restorative Practices for Dharma Practitioners (RPDP) practice group.

Born in San Francisco, Kimi currently lives in Oakland, CA/Ohlone Territory. They believe in the power of creativity and imagination, and can often be found grooving to music, being surrounded by nature, or geeking out on somatics and martial arts.

anuradha bhagwati (she/her) is a disabled, queer, indian-american activist, policy advocate, and writer. She is the critically acclaimed author of Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience and the award-winning co-founder and first executive director of the Service Women’s Action Network. A former United States Marine Corps officer, anuradha helped lead national campaigns to open ground combat positions to women and to stop military sexual assault and harassment. She found her way to her dharma roots as a way of healing from military-related violence. anuradha taught trauma-informed hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation to veterans in New York City for over a decade, and is a long-time practitioner of Theravadan Buddhism. She is committed to cultivating an anti-colonial warrior practice based on love, compassion, equity and justice. She is the founder of Decolonial Dharma, and facilitates both the Buddhists for Justice in Palestine and Disability Solidarity practice groups. anuradha is currently at work on a book about mental health, disability, and life with her rollicking service dog and guide, Duke.

 

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.

To make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center, please do so via Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana 100% of our programming is sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds. Thank you for the gifts of your generosity and for supporting the work of East Bay Meditation Center and our beloved teachers who have volunteered their time.

 

For in-person participation:

For those wishing to practice in person, space will be limited to 40 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.)

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.

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

– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on

– 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.

Details

Date:
May 27
Time:
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Event Categories:
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Venue

East Bay Meditation Center
285 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States
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Phone:
510-268-0696

Details

Date:
May 27
Time:
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Event Categories:
,

Venue

East Bay Meditation Center
285 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States
+ Google Map
Phone:
510-268-0696