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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:February 13th Update: Until further notice\, all programs will be online-only\, due to the theft of audio/video tech during a break in. We are hoping by late February we will have our new technology installed.\n\nWednesdays\, March 1st\, 8th\, 15th and 22nd\, 2023 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nOnline on Zoom and in-person @ 285 17th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n\n \n\nEveryone wants to live and be happy\, yet human life is marked by suffering. Many are intimately and historically affected by social injustice\, and we all experience loss of what is dear to us\, sickness\, aging\, and death. How do we develop wisdom (insight) and spiritual strength (a practice that sustains us during the hard times)? The Buddha’s teaching of the Eightfold Path is a roadmap for a life well-lived. This class series will include meditation\, Dharma talks\, and discussion. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being/2023-03-08/
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:February 13th Update: Until further notice\, all programs will be online-only\, due to the theft of audio/video tech during a break in. We are hoping by late February we will have our new technology installed.\n\nWednesdays\, March 1st\, 8th\, 15th and 22nd\, 2023 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nOnline on Zoom and in-person @ 285 17th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n\n \n\nEveryone wants to live and be happy\, yet human life is marked by suffering. Many are intimately and historically affected by social injustice\, and we all experience loss of what is dear to us\, sickness\, aging\, and death. How do we develop wisdom (insight) and spiritual strength (a practice that sustains us during the hard times)? The Buddha’s teaching of the Eightfold Path is a roadmap for a life well-lived. This class series will include meditation\, Dharma talks\, and discussion. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being/2023-03-15/
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:February 13th Update: Until further notice\, all programs will be online-only\, due to the theft of audio/video tech during a break in. We are hoping by late February we will have our new technology installed.\n\nWednesdays\, March 1st\, 8th\, 15th and 22nd\, 2023 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nOnline on Zoom and in-person @ 285 17th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \n\n \n\nEveryone wants to live and be happy\, yet human life is marked by suffering. Many are intimately and historically affected by social injustice\, and we all experience loss of what is dear to us\, sickness\, aging\, and death. How do we develop wisdom (insight) and spiritual strength (a practice that sustains us during the hard times)? The Buddha’s teaching of the Eightfold Path is a roadmap for a life well-lived. This class series will include meditation\, Dharma talks\, and discussion. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being/2023-03-22/
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SUMMARY:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith Crystal Johnson\, Heather Lear\, and special guests\n \nSundays\, January 22\, February 26\, March 26\, April 23 and June 4\, 2023\n \n10:00AM – 12:00PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \n\n\n\n\nSince we first launched the White and Awakening in Sangha course in 2014 (and its sibling/cousin courses at SRMC\, SFZC\, SZBA and Branching Streams) we have had the privilege of being in community with hundreds of white identified people seeking to see more clearly into the delusion of race and move into wise action to disrupt the operation of white supremacy culture and the harm of race-based oppression.  Many of you have asked for a regular forum to support your ongoing (un)learning and action. \nThis edition of Continuing on the Path will consist of 5 2-hour sessions (90 minutes just wasn’t enough!) on Sundays from 10:00-12:00 Pacific Time\, January 22\, February 26\, March 26\, April 23 and June 4\, 2023 with Crystal Johnson and Heather Lear.  We will focus on Metta (Lovingkindness) and Karuna (Compassion) as practices that support\, sustain and inspire our efforts.  Technology and COVID willing\, we will do our best to hold some of these dates as hybrid programs\, so that folks in the Bay Area can gather in person (!)\, and those who can’t come in person can join us via Zoom. \nThese meetings are a time for us to gather in community as white identified people working to operate in the world in a way that fosters equity\, healing and community building.  If you are like us\, you find yourself from time to time overextending\, or worrying about whether you are doing “enough\,” or whether you are too concerned with your own happiness when there is so much suffering in the world.  These are deeply conditioned mental/emotional habits that drain energy and get in the way of being effective and joyful.  The practices of metta and karuna support you to build a sustainable course of action that fosters joy and connection. \nIn this series\, we will offer brief dharma talks\, guided practice\, small and large group sharing and discussion\, and\, of course\, lots of resources and some new readings.  If you would like to be part of a small\, peer-led group in between meetings\, we will help you arrange that with other participants.  We will offer partial recordings of the sessions for those who can’t attend live\, but still want to see what we are up to. \nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning. \nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us. \n  \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path/2023-03-26/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Black People Meditate: Compassion Practice for The Resilient Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Online Retreat with Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith and Fresh “Lev” White  \nSunday March 26\, 2023 \n10:00 am – 4:00 pm PT (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nLet’s get together as self-identified Black/African/African American people of all identities\, genders\, shades\, blends\, and sexualities for a day of reflection\, compassion\, and mindfulness\, to support our resiliency at this time\, in this life. \nPlease join Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith and Fresh Lev White for a day of practice for Black people of the African diaspora. We will practice compassion and introduce equanimity as tools for strengthening our hearts. We will offer silent and guided meditation\, accessible movement and periods of discussion. \nAll levels of practitioners are welcome. You’re invited to prepare snacks\, drinks\, and have a notebook nearby for your convenience. We will take a 45 minute break.  \n \n  \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \nTeacher Bios: \n \nRamona Lisa Ortiz-Smith\, MBA\, brings over 25 years of cumulative meditation practice and spiritual studies to her livelihood as a Spiritual Teacher and Leader. Silent Vipassana (insight) meditation retreats\, Theravada Buddhist studies and earth-based indigenous spirituality and healing arts are at the heart of her practice. Ramona Lisa is passionate about spiritual studies and sharing wisdom teachings. She is a MTI Certified Mindfulness Teacher and Certified Cloud Sangha Mentor\, as well as a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP6) and East Bay Meditation Center’s (EBMC) Commit to Dharma Program (C2D3) and Spiritual Teacher and Leadership training. She will complete her certification in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT) in Spring 2023. Ramona Lisa serves as a mentor\, facilitator and/or teacher for multiple organizations\, including EBMC\, Cloud Sangha\, Dhamma Dena Retreat Center\, Peace At Any Pace\, Inc.’s Deep Time Liberation ancestral healing journey retreats\, Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley\, Marin Sangha\, Mills College Love and Liberation Sangha\, Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group\, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center-BiPOC Sundays. Ramona Lisa offers classes\, retreats and mentoring through her business\, FREE SPIRIT \nFresh “Lev” White is a lover of life and all beings\, who lives to reflect and offer the possibilities of unconditional love and self-compassion to his diverse global community through his writing\, mindfulness offerings\, and Diversity Trainings. A graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership Program\, Lev offers Dharma at centers around the SF Bay Area\, including his sangha home at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC). He is founder of the Bay Area’s first Trans and GQ Mindfulness Sangha\, and contributor to the following: of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners\, edited by Brenda Salgaldo\, Trans Buddhist Anthology (Nov. 2019); and Trans Bodies; Trans Selves\, a resource guide\, edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth\, for the Transgender community and those who support them socially and professionally.  \nLearn more about Lev on LinkedIn at: “Fresh “Lev” White” \n\nTo 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-black-people-meditate-compassion-practice-for-the-resilient-heart/
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:An Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nOnline on Zoom and in-person @ 285 17th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nWednesdays March 29th\, April 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 2023\n \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2023-03-29/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE ONLY: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Part of Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nOnline on Zoom\n \nWednesdays March 29th\, April 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 2023\n \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity-2023-04-05/
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:An Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nOnline on Zoom and in-person @ 285 17th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nWednesdays March 29th\, April 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 2023\n \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2023-04-12/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Grieving While Queer
DESCRIPTION:A 3 part online class with Tania Triana and Amanda Ream \nThree Thursday evenings – April 13\, 20\, 275:30 – 7pm\, Online \n(Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nIn this three part series we will hold space for change\, loss and the unknown. Grief is a powerful emotion that can lead us towards meaning\, connection and freedom if we tend to what it’s asking for. Working through the queer body we will ask ourselves this simple question: what is needed now? And allow what’s here to be felt and known within a container of support and belgoning. \nThis class combines dharma teachings with the methodology of generative somatics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n\n \n\n\n\n\nTania Triana [pronouns: she/they/ella/elle] is an educator\, activist\, and translator raised in Rochester\, NY. She joined EBMC in 2014 soon after relocating to Oakland\, and accepted the Bodhisattva vows and precepts at a ceremony at EBMC in 2017\, and renewed them in 2020. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community here\, and currently serves on the L-Sangha as Board Secretary. When she’s not teaching at the College Preparatory School\, Tania enjoys yoga\, traveling\, cooking\, reading\, and being tía to the best sobrinitos ever\, Javier and Nicolás. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda Ream\, pronouns: They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner 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 co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and the Deep Refuge Group “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioner’s” and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics. They began practicing in the Western Insight Tradition in 2006\, and with Generative Somatics in 2011. \n\n\n\n\nCost: 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. \nTo 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-grieving-while-queer/2023-04-13/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:An Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nOnline on Zoom and in-person @ 285 17th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nWednesdays March 29th\, April 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 2023\n \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThe Brahmaviharas (Divine Abodes)\, also called the Four Immeasurables\, are Buddhist teachings and practices that help us to access dynamic calming\, stilling\, and healing mindbody states. As we cultivate the limitless qualities of loving goodwill\, compassion\, empathetic joy\, and equanimity\, in time we harvest true happiness\, spiritual strength\, and awakening insight. These practices are considered complementary to insight (mindfulness) meditation. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n\n\n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2023-04-19/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Grieving While Queer
DESCRIPTION:A 3 part online class with Tania Triana and Amanda Ream \nThree Thursday evenings – April 13\, 20\, 275:30 – 7pm\, Online \n(Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nIn this three part series we will hold space for change\, loss and the unknown. Grief is a powerful emotion that can lead us towards meaning\, connection and freedom if we tend to what it’s asking for. Working through the queer body we will ask ourselves this simple question: what is needed now? And allow what’s here to be felt and known within a container of support and belgoning. \nThis class combines dharma teachings with the methodology of generative somatics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n\n \n\n\n\n\nTania Triana [pronouns: she/they/ella/elle] is an educator\, activist\, and translator raised in Rochester\, NY. She joined EBMC in 2014 soon after relocating to Oakland\, and accepted the Bodhisattva vows and precepts at a ceremony at EBMC in 2017\, and renewed them in 2020. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community here\, and currently serves on the L-Sangha as Board Secretary. When she’s not teaching at the College Preparatory School\, Tania enjoys yoga\, traveling\, cooking\, reading\, and being tía to the best sobrinitos ever\, Javier and Nicolás. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda Ream\, pronouns: They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner 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 co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and the Deep Refuge Group “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioner’s” and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics. They began practicing in the Western Insight Tradition in 2006\, and with Generative Somatics in 2011. \n\n\n\n\nCost: 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. \nTo 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-grieving-while-queer/2023-04-20/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith Crystal Johnson\, Heather Lear\, and special guests\n \nSundays\, January 22\, February 26\, March 26\, April 23 and June 4\, 2023\n \n10:00AM – 12:00PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \n\n\n\n\nSince we first launched the White and Awakening in Sangha course in 2014 (and its sibling/cousin courses at SRMC\, SFZC\, SZBA and Branching Streams) we have had the privilege of being in community with hundreds of white identified people seeking to see more clearly into the delusion of race and move into wise action to disrupt the operation of white supremacy culture and the harm of race-based oppression.  Many of you have asked for a regular forum to support your ongoing (un)learning and action. \nThis edition of Continuing on the Path will consist of 5 2-hour sessions (90 minutes just wasn’t enough!) on Sundays from 10:00-12:00 Pacific Time\, January 22\, February 26\, March 26\, April 23 and June 4\, 2023 with Crystal Johnson and Heather Lear.  We will focus on Metta (Lovingkindness) and Karuna (Compassion) as practices that support\, sustain and inspire our efforts.  Technology and COVID willing\, we will do our best to hold some of these dates as hybrid programs\, so that folks in the Bay Area can gather in person (!)\, and those who can’t come in person can join us via Zoom. \nThese meetings are a time for us to gather in community as white identified people working to operate in the world in a way that fosters equity\, healing and community building.  If you are like us\, you find yourself from time to time overextending\, or worrying about whether you are doing “enough\,” or whether you are too concerned with your own happiness when there is so much suffering in the world.  These are deeply conditioned mental/emotional habits that drain energy and get in the way of being effective and joyful.  The practices of metta and karuna support you to build a sustainable course of action that fosters joy and connection. \nIn this series\, we will offer brief dharma talks\, guided practice\, small and large group sharing and discussion\, and\, of course\, lots of resources and some new readings.  If you would like to be part of a small\, peer-led group in between meetings\, we will help you arrange that with other participants.  We will offer partial recordings of the sessions for those who can’t attend live\, but still want to see what we are up to. \nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning. \nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us. \n  \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path/2023-04-23/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:An Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nWednesdays April 26th\, May 3rd\, 10th\, 17th \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThree years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as use of fossil fuels\, responsible social media\, and gun responsibility. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach to the Precepts. \n  \n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-the-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2023-04-26/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Grieving While Queer
DESCRIPTION:A 3 part online class with Tania Triana and Amanda Ream \nThree Thursday evenings – April 13\, 20\, 275:30 – 7pm\, Online \n(Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nIn this three part series we will hold space for change\, loss and the unknown. Grief is a powerful emotion that can lead us towards meaning\, connection and freedom if we tend to what it’s asking for. Working through the queer body we will ask ourselves this simple question: what is needed now? And allow what’s here to be felt and known within a container of support and belgoning. \nThis class combines dharma teachings with the methodology of generative somatics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n\n \n\n\n\n\nTania Triana [pronouns: she/they/ella/elle] is an educator\, activist\, and translator raised in Rochester\, NY. She joined EBMC in 2014 soon after relocating to Oakland\, and accepted the Bodhisattva vows and precepts at a ceremony at EBMC in 2017\, and renewed them in 2020. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community here\, and currently serves on the L-Sangha as Board Secretary. When she’s not teaching at the College Preparatory School\, Tania enjoys yoga\, traveling\, cooking\, reading\, and being tía to the best sobrinitos ever\, Javier and Nicolás. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda Ream\, pronouns: They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner 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 co-founder of EBMC’s Social Justice Sangha\, and the Deep Refuge Group “Racial Justice Skills for White Practitioner’s” and graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016. Ream is a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics. They began practicing in the Western Insight Tradition in 2006\, and with Generative Somatics in 2011. \n\n\n\n\nCost: 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. \nTo 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-grieving-while-queer/2023-04-27/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T203000
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:An Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nWednesdays April 26th\, May 3rd\, 10th\, 17th \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThree years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as use of fossil fuels\, responsible social media\, and gun responsibility. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach to the Precepts. \n  \n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-the-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2023-05-03/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:An Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nWednesdays April 26th\, May 3rd\, 10th\, 17th \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThree years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as use of fossil fuels\, responsible social media\, and gun responsibility. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach to the Precepts. \n  \n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-the-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2023-05-10/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:An Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nWednesdays April 26th\, May 3rd\, 10th\, 17th \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nThree years ago\, pandemic-panicked people in the United States were hoarding toilet paper and steaks. Today we’re dealing with ongoing volatile ethical issues such as use of fossil fuels\, responsible social media\, and gun responsibility. Rooted in EBMC’s mindfulness-based\, diversity-equity-inclusion and social justice-centered mission\, this four-class series offers a path to reflect on current ethical discernment and action. Buddhist life\, for both laypersons and monastics\, is rooted in Five Precepts\, guidelines that are paths of deep contemplative investigation resulting in behaviors and actions aligned toward non-harm\, in the service of all life. The compassionate realization of our “interbeing\,” and the sometimes complex relationship of intent to impact are woven into this “Living Dharma” approach to the Precepts. \n  \n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-the-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2023-05-17/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: How Have the Buddha's Teachings Helped Me?
DESCRIPTION:Wrap-up class for EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan-May 2023 \nwith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nWednesday May 24th \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nFor those who have taken either some or all of EBMC’s 7-Month “Buddhist Core Teachings” in Jan – May 2023\, this is a wrap-up class where you can bring your “biggest” Buddhist practice questions\, meet Dharma companions on the path\, and rejoice in the merit that you have generated!  \nPlease note: The focus of this Class is on what you are doing to deepen your spiritual practice and to transform your life through these wisdom teachings. \n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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  \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-how-have-the-buddhas-teachings-helped-me/
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SUMMARY:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith Crystal Johnson\, Heather Lear\, and special guests\n \nSundays\, January 22\, February 26\, March 26\, April 23 and June 4\, 2023\n \n10:00AM – 12:00PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \n\n\n\n\nSince we first launched the White and Awakening in Sangha course in 2014 (and its sibling/cousin courses at SRMC\, SFZC\, SZBA and Branching Streams) we have had the privilege of being in community with hundreds of white identified people seeking to see more clearly into the delusion of race and move into wise action to disrupt the operation of white supremacy culture and the harm of race-based oppression.  Many of you have asked for a regular forum to support your ongoing (un)learning and action. \nThis edition of Continuing on the Path will consist of 5 2-hour sessions (90 minutes just wasn’t enough!) on Sundays from 10:00-12:00 Pacific Time\, January 22\, February 26\, March 26\, April 23 and June 4\, 2023 with Crystal Johnson and Heather Lear.  We will focus on Metta (Lovingkindness) and Karuna (Compassion) as practices that support\, sustain and inspire our efforts.  Technology and COVID willing\, we will do our best to hold some of these dates as hybrid programs\, so that folks in the Bay Area can gather in person (!)\, and those who can’t come in person can join us via Zoom. \nThese meetings are a time for us to gather in community as white identified people working to operate in the world in a way that fosters equity\, healing and community building.  If you are like us\, you find yourself from time to time overextending\, or worrying about whether you are doing “enough\,” or whether you are too concerned with your own happiness when there is so much suffering in the world.  These are deeply conditioned mental/emotional habits that drain energy and get in the way of being effective and joyful.  The practices of metta and karuna support you to build a sustainable course of action that fosters joy and connection. \nIn this series\, we will offer brief dharma talks\, guided practice\, small and large group sharing and discussion\, and\, of course\, lots of resources and some new readings.  If you would like to be part of a small\, peer-led group in between meetings\, we will help you arrange that with other participants.  We will offer partial recordings of the sessions for those who can’t attend live\, but still want to see what we are up to. \nIf you are white and have not taken the original course\, you are also welcome here; just know that this is not a beginning discussion. If you are biracial or otherwise identify with a significant dose of European ancestry\, you are also welcome.  Again\, just know that our focus is on whiteness and white conditioning. \nAbout the money: at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC)\, we practice Gift Economics\, which means\, among other things\, that we welcome you into our community\, and invite you to contribute according to your capacity and inspiration\, rather than as if you are purchasing a product/course.  Those of you who have taken the course know that the teachers have always donated their time and wisdom as a personal practice of reparation.  All proceeds from your registration contributions will go to support the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).  By donating to EBMC\, you are supporting a community founded and dedicated to creating a dharma refuge for BIPOC\, LGBTQI2+\, people with disabilities\, other marginalized communities\, and everyone (including us white identified folks) who seek to end suffering and cultivate happiness. Our mission is to foster liberation\, personal and interpersonal healing\, social action\, and inclusive community building.  We hope that you will join us. \n  \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path/2023-05-28/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Nourish to Flourish: A Daylong Retreat for Teachers
DESCRIPTION:A Hybrid Daylong Retreat with Tania Triana and Kinshasa Bennett \nSaturday June 3rd 2023  \n10 AM – 4 PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nThis daylong retreat aims to create a space of rest and restoration for teachers as the academic school year draws to a close. The daylong will consist of silent and guided meditation time\, gentle movement\, time for rest\, and mindfulness practices to replenish our compassionate hearts and learn to release what is not ours to carry. During our time together we will explore the heart practices (compassion\, love\, joy\, and equanimity)\, with special attention to cultivating equanimity and inner resilience as we cross the finish line at the end of the school year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n\n \n\n\n\nTania Triana [pronouns: she/they/ella/elle] is an educator\, activist\, and translator raised in Rochester\, NY. She joined EBMC in 2014 soon after relocating to Oakland\, and accepted the Bodhisattva vows and precepts at a ceremony at EBMC in 2017\, and renewed them in 2020. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community here\, and currently serves on the L-Sangha as Board Secretary. When she’s not teaching at the College Preparatory School\, Tania enjoys yoga\, traveling\, cooking\, reading\, and being tía to the best sobrinitos ever\, Javier and Nicolás. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKinshasa (she/her). Queer\, African-American\, pet parent. Psychologist by day. Magic weaver by night (and also day). Currently integrating sitting\, dancing\, praying\, and vocal meditation practices. Incorporating ritual\, indigeneity\, and authenticity into my life as a Buddhist and keeping sangha in my heart. Launched from EBMC in 2009 and Spirit Rock in 2011. You can find me watching Sci-fi\, women’s sports\, or dancing in my living room. \n\n\n\n\nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-nourish-to-flourish-a-daylong-retreat-for-teachers/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Honoring Elderhood: Sharing and Caring as We Walk the Path Together.
DESCRIPTION:An Online Offering For Those 50 And Older \nWith Arisika Razak\, Jenn Biehn\, and Rosetta Saunders \nTUESDAYS – June 6 and 13\, 2023 \n10 AM – 1 PM (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nAs we honor our path to elderhood\, we want to share with one another the richness of our aging process – sharing what we have gathered – the skills\, the lessons\, the creativity\, the stories. As elders\, we have all encountered losses and limitations and are actively engaged in transforming them into wisdom.  \nWe may ask ourselves what does becoming an elder mean today? What is my relationship to my ancestors – and to those who are coming after me? What wounds and struggles am I leaving behind\, and what new challenges and gifts are emerging? How am I embodying spiritual\, mental\, physical\, and emotional balance at this time?  \nJoin us as we explore our individual and collective answers to these questions through drumming\, movement\, silent meditation\, writing\, art and small and large group sharing.  \nPlease bring a sacred object for our virtual altar\, as well as writing and/or drawing materials. We invite all bodies\, genders\, ethnicities\, sexual preferences\, and abilities to share in our co-creative exploration of the gifts\, challenges\, and power of elderhood. We welcome those who came to our first offerings in February as well as new folks wanting to join us in June.  \n  \n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \nTeachers\n \nArisika Razak\, MPH\, is professor emerita\, and the former Chair of the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She served as an inner city nurse-midwife for twenty years\, and her teachings incorporate diverse spiritual traditions\, women’s health and healing\, multicultural feminisms\, queer theory\, and diversity theory. Arisika has led national and international healing workshops and ritual celebrations for women for over four decades\, and has facilitated embodied spiritual workshops for people of all genders for 30 years. She has been an active participant at EMBC for over a decade and is a core teacher there. \n \nActive with EBMC for the past 12 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 teaches Transforming White Privilege on the Path to Racial Equity with Neighbors for Racial Justice and 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 and embodying awareness and healing movement in her life-long journey of building community. \n \nRosetta 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. Rosetta teachsTai Chi Chih regularly at EBMC and has participated over the past decade in many offerings from EMBC. \n~ \nTo make a gift to support the teachings\, please do so via PayPal: sweetdrum8@gmail.com or Venmo: @Rosetta-Saunders. \nThe offering will be shared equally amongst the three teachers.  \nTo 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.  \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-honoring-elderhood-walking-the-path-together/2023-06-06/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:IN-PERSON: Connecting to the Elements Through Creative Expression
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 10th 2023 \n10AM – 4:30 PM PT (Time Zone Converter) \nIn-person at EBMC \nDuring this gathering we’ll explore how nature and the elements are present in our bodies/in our practice and develop ways of connecting more deeply to the elements through guided meditation\, dharma talks\, movement exercises\, and guided writing/drawing prompts. We’ll practice mindful listening and speaking through small group shares and come together in the larger group to harvest learnings.  \nPlease bring a journal or notebook and writing utensil \n \nTeachers \n \nNoliwe Alexander has been a student of Vipassana meditation for over 20 years. Throughout this time of deep devotion to the Dharma\, Noliwe has become a dedicated practitioner\, meditation teacher of various retreats and sitting groups\, day-longs and class series programs. She dedicates her coaching & Dharma practice to the POC\, LGBTQIA+\, At Risk and Elder communities. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s CDL4 program\, EBMC’s Commit 2 Dharma program in 2010 and a graduate of Spirit Rock Teacher Training from 2017-2020. As founder of Peace At Any Pace\, Inc\, Noliwe offers a Journey to Healing from Intergenerational & Ancestral Trauma retreats\, presented exclusively to people from the African Diaspora. Noliwe is a wisdom keeper and humbled by the presence of her ancestor’s spirit that lives within and walks beside her. \n\n \nRebekah Eppley is a white identified queer person born and raised among rivers and trees on Abenaki land in Vermont. She’s lived in the Bay Area since 1991. She was first introduced to meditation and the Dharma through a Mindful Writing course in 2013 by her late teacher Chris Malcomb and started a more formal meditation practice with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel at the Still Breathing Center in 2014. She found her way to EBMC in late 2014 where she’s been practicing since. \nRebekah has had many rewarding experiences at EBMC including serving as a Temple Keeper. She made her Bodhisattva vows with Mushim Ikeda in 2017. She was part of the Restorative Practices Deep Refuge group and serves on the Maha Sangha Coordinating Committee. Currently she’s part of the first cohort of EBMC’s Spiritual Teacher Leadership Training program which she will complete in 2023. \nFor 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 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.) \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \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/ \nTo 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/in-person-connecting-to-the-elements-through-creative-expression/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Pride Celebration: The House of the Divine Abodes
DESCRIPTION:Pride Celebration: The House of the Divine Abodes – a daylong for the Alphabet community \nSaturday June 17th 2023  \n10 AM – 2 PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nCome celebrate Pride by taking refuge in the Divine Abodes (Love\, Compassion\, Joy\, and Peace). We will offer guided meditations and interactive activities to help co-create the healing that is possible when we gather in queer community.  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n\n \n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar (he/him) is a core teacher at EBMC. He has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a cisgender queer man of color from an immigrant working-class background. He continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices based in Buddhism\, Yoga and other wisdom traditions for personal and social healing. \nIf you would like to make a gift to Melvin\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com \nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKinshasa (she/her). Queer\, African-American\, pet parent. Psychologist by day. Magic weaver by night (and also day). Currently integrating sitting\, dancing\, praying\, and vocal meditation practices. Incorporating ritual\, indigeneity\, and authenticity into my life as a Buddhist and keeping sangha in my heart. Launched from EBMC in 2009 and Spirit Rock in 2011. You can find me watching Sci-fi\, women’s sports\, or dancing in my living room. \n\n\n\n\n\nRascal Roubos LCSW (they/them) – Rascal is white transmasculine therapist based in Oakland\, CA who integrates dharma into daily life through an anti-oppression lens and somatic focused approaches. As a graduate of the Dedicated Practitioners Program\, a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction instructor\, and a recent graduate of the Spiritual Teacher and Leadership training program at East Bay Meditation Center\, Rascal loves collaborating to share the dharma in community. They feel most connected to dharma and at home in their being when practicing in nature\, or when dancing. A favorite recent experience was playing with giant bubbles with their three kids\, partner and friends in the redwoods in Oakland.  \nIf you would like to make a gift to Rascal\, please do so via: \nPayPal: connect@katherinerouboslcsw.com \nVenmo: @Katherine-Roubos \n \nMy name is Ramón Honea (He/They/Them). With deep roots in the Bay Area\, I am biracial gay man who finds service and joy in holding space for education and meditation. I have been in public school education for twenty years as both teacher and administrator. I hold a Master of Science in Educational Leadership\, a teaching and administrative credential as well as a Mindfulness teaching certificate and a Mindfulness Mentoring Certificate from the Cloud Sangha. I am recently graduated from the first cohort of EBMC’s 2-year Spiritual Teacher and Leadership training. I am working with Braided Wisdom and Carol Cano\, co-teaching and zoom-hosting various classes. Connecting that braiding of my cultural learnings with the Buddha-dharma and the teaching of Mindfulness is my focus. Covid took me from my job as a residential Retreat Manager at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and my current aspiration is to build a residential retreat center\, both urban and accessible\, for black and brown men+ and to run week long Mindfulness Retreats. \nSupport the Teacher/Artist \ncash.app/$Ramons \nVenmo: @Ramon-Honea \nPaypal: paypal.me/RamonHonea (phone ends 0967) \n\n\n\n\n\nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-pride-celebration-the-house-of-the-divine-abodes/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230621T090000
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Celebrate Summer Solstice with Chakra Tai Chi
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating Summer Solstice with Chakra Tai Chi \nWednesday\, June 21st 9AM – 10:15AM PST (Time Zone Converter)  \nClosed captioning will be provided. \nChakra Tai Chi is a cleansing\, empowering practice that includes easy-to-learn\, accessible Tai Chi movements\, visualizations\, colors\, elements\, and sounds. This moving meditation brings the chakras – the vortex of energy centers – into balance and allows the energy to move more freely. Once the energy is flowing in our bodies\, we can each find our own process for healing\, find our own body wisdom.  \nMovements offered both seated and standing. No prior experience necessary. Join us in welcoming the summer season!  \nCo-led by Jenn Biehn and Rosetta Saunders who have been practicing this movement meditation together for over two years\, co-creating various ways of presenting Tai Chi and Qi Gong. Jenn has been a certified Tai Chi Chih teacher for over 30 years and is now training new folks to bring these practices into their communities. Rosetta is a drum artist using sacred rhythms for intergenerational healing and cross cultural ceremonial circles. \n  \n \nRegistered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their Eventbrite confirmation email.  \n  \n \n \nTo make a gift to support the teachings\, please do so via PayPal: sweetdrum8@gmail.com or Venmo: @Rosetta-Saunders \nTo 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.  \n100% 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/taichi-june2023/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Honoring Elderhood: Sharing and Caring as We Walk the Path Together.
DESCRIPTION:An Online Offering For Those 50 And Older \nWith Arisika Razak\, Jenn Biehn\, and Rosetta Saunders \nFriday – June 23\, 2023 \n9:30 AM – 12 PM (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nAs we honor our path to elderhood\, we want to share with one another the richness of our aging process – sharing what we have gathered – the skills\, the lessons\, the creativity\, the stories. As elders\, we have all encountered losses and limitations and are actively engaged in transforming them into wisdom.  \nWe may ask ourselves what does becoming an elder mean today? What is my relationship to my ancestors – and to those who are coming after me? What wounds and struggles am I leaving behind\, and what new challenges and gifts are emerging? How am I embodying spiritual\, mental\, physical\, and emotional balance at this time?  \nJoin us as we explore our individual and collective answers to these questions through drumming\, movement\, silent meditation\, writing\, art and small and large group sharing.  \nPlease bring a sacred object for our virtual altar\, as well as writing and/or drawing materials. We invite all bodies\, genders\, ethnicities\, sexual preferences\, and abilities to share in our co-creative exploration of the gifts\, challenges\, and power of elderhood. We welcome those who came to our first offerings in February as well as new folks wanting to join us in June.  \n  \n \nPlease note: Registered participants will receive a zoom link to join us online with their Eventbrite confirmation email. Thank you for your support \nTeachers\n \nArisika Razak\, MPH\, is professor emerita\, and the former Chair of the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She served as an inner city nurse-midwife for twenty years\, and her teachings incorporate diverse spiritual traditions\, women’s health and healing\, multicultural feminisms\, queer theory\, and diversity theory. Arisika has led national and international healing workshops and ritual celebrations for women for over four decades\, and has facilitated embodied spiritual workshops for people of all genders for 30 years. She has been an active participant at EMBC for over a decade and is a core teacher there. \n \nActive with EBMC for the past 12 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 teaches Transforming White Privilege on the Path to Racial Equity with Neighbors for Racial Justice and 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 and embodying awareness and healing movement in her life-long journey of building community. \n \nRosetta 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. Rosetta teachsTai Chi Chih regularly at EBMC and has participated over the past decade in many offerings from EMBC. \n~ \nTo make a gift to support the teachings\, please do so via PayPal: sweetdrum8@gmail.com or Venmo: @Rosetta-Saunders. \nThe offering will be shared equally amongst the three teachers.  \nTo 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.  \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-honoring-elderhood-walking-the-path-together-2023-06-23/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Liberation from Suffering: Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for BIPOC
DESCRIPTION:A Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nWednesdays June 28th and July 5th\, 12th\, 19th 2023  \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nWhat do the basic teachings of Buddhism have to offer BIPOC? The Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. Together we’ll explore how “The Four Noble Truths” have been and continue to be a deep and empowering way for Black\, Indigenous and People of Color and multiracial persons to understand human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and engage as individuals and collectives in moving towards profound spiritual liberation\, ease and joy. Dharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. \nThis class is suitable for both new and experienced meditators and open to self-identified People of Color.\n \n\n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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  \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-liberation-from-suffering-buddhas-four-noble-truths-for-bipoc/2023-06-28/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Liberation from Suffering: Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for BIPOC
DESCRIPTION:A Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nWednesdays June 28th and July 5th\, 12th\, 19th 2023  \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nWhat do the basic teachings of Buddhism have to offer BIPOC? The Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. Together we’ll explore how “The Four Noble Truths” have been and continue to be a deep and empowering way for Black\, Indigenous and People of Color and multiracial persons to understand human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and engage as individuals and collectives in moving towards profound spiritual liberation\, ease and joy. Dharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. \nThis class is suitable for both new and experienced meditators and open to self-identified People of Color.\n \n\n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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  \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-liberation-from-suffering-buddhas-four-noble-truths-for-bipoc/2023-07-05/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Beginning Again: Introduction to Meditation
DESCRIPTION:A two part hybrid class with René Rivera \nSaturdays\, July 8th and 15th 2023 \n1:30pm – 5:30pm (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nHow can meditation help us navigate these challenging times? The Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness and loving kindness point the way toward a freedom and peace that is built from the inside out and can become a home we carry with us. These two half days of practice\, with daily prompts in between\, will introduce Buddhist mindfulness and heart practices as a coming home to ourselves\, adapted for these times of trauma and uncertainty. Come explore these beloved wisdom and compassion practices as a path to increased connection with ourselves and others. We will start at the beginning\, with simple and accessible practices\, including still and moving meditation. This class is for those new to meditation or who find it challenging to practice amidst so much change\, stress and upheaval. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nRené Rivera (he\, him) is a meditation teacher\, restorative justice facilitator\, and leader\, working and learning in all the spaces in-between race\, gender\, and other perceived binaries\, as a queer\, mixed-race\, trans man. René teaches heart-centered\, trauma-informed meditation\, at the East Bay Meditation Center and other meditation centers. He has co-led the first residential meditation retreats for transgender\, nonbinary and gender expansive people. René is a restorative justice facilitator for the Ahimsa Collective\, working to heal sexual and gender based violence. \n  \n\n\n\n\nSpace is limited & registration is required. \nCost: 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. \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so via Paypal: PayPal.Me/ReneRiveraOak \nTo 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. \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-beginning-again-introduction-to-meditation/2023-07-08/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Liberation from Suffering: Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for BIPOC
DESCRIPTION:A Hybrid Class Series with Mushim Ikeda \nWednesdays June 28th and July 5th\, 12th\, 19th 2023  \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nWhat do the basic teachings of Buddhism have to offer BIPOC? The Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. Together we’ll explore how “The Four Noble Truths” have been and continue to be a deep and empowering way for Black\, Indigenous and People of Color and multiracial persons to understand human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and engage as individuals and collectives in moving towards profound spiritual liberation\, ease and joy. Dharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. \nThis class is suitable for both new and experienced meditators and open to self-identified People of Color.\n \n\n \n \nMushim Patricia Ikeda is a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher\, community activist\, diversity\, equity and inclusion consultant\, parent and author based in Oakland\, California. She has a background in both monastic and lay Buddhist practice. At EBMC\, Mushim is also guiding teacher of the award-winning yearlong Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA) program\, which provides secular mindfulness training for justice activists. Mushim is the recipient of a Global Diversity Leadership award; an honorary doctor of sacred theology degree from the Starr King School of Ministry; and was named one of Colorlines’s 20 transformative racial justice leaders in 2018.  \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \nTo 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.  \nFor 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 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  \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-liberation-from-suffering-buddhas-four-noble-truths-for-bipoc/2023-07-12/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Beginning Again: Introduction to Meditation
DESCRIPTION:A two part hybrid class with René Rivera \nSaturdays\, July 8th and 15th 2023 \n1:30pm – 5:30pm (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nHow can meditation help us navigate these challenging times? The Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness and loving kindness point the way toward a freedom and peace that is built from the inside out and can become a home we carry with us. These two half days of practice\, with daily prompts in between\, will introduce Buddhist mindfulness and heart practices as a coming home to ourselves\, adapted for these times of trauma and uncertainty. Come explore these beloved wisdom and compassion practices as a path to increased connection with ourselves and others. We will start at the beginning\, with simple and accessible practices\, including still and moving meditation. This class is for those new to meditation or who find it challenging to practice amidst so much change\, stress and upheaval. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nRené Rivera (he\, him) is a meditation teacher\, restorative justice facilitator\, and leader\, working and learning in all the spaces in-between race\, gender\, and other perceived binaries\, as a queer\, mixed-race\, trans man. René teaches heart-centered\, trauma-informed meditation\, at the East Bay Meditation Center and other meditation centers. He has co-led the first residential meditation retreats for transgender\, nonbinary and gender expansive people. René is a restorative justice facilitator for the Ahimsa Collective\, working to heal sexual and gender based violence. \n  \n\n\n\n\nSpace is limited & registration is required. \nCost: 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. \nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so via Paypal: PayPal.Me/ReneRiveraOak \nTo 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. \nFor 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 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.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-beginning-again-introduction-to-meditation/2023-07-15/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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