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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Trust the Struggles: Making Peace with the Five Hindrances to Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:An Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, February 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 26th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nWhy’s it so hard to meditate!? This question is as old as the practice. Join us for this class series that gets to the root of our struggles: The Five Obstacles. We’ll learn ways to work with these “hindrances” guided by Buddhist teachings\, contemporary psychological frameworks and an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness on how to use each of the five obstacles as gateways to deepen our practice. \nAttend some or all: \nWeek 1 – Doubt \nWeek 2 – Sloth + Torpor and Ill Will \nWeek 3 – Restlessness + Worry \nWeek 4 – Sensual Desire \n \nAll Registered participants will receive a Confirmation Email & Zoom Link via EventBrite.  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nA good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\nTeacher Bio: \n \n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who haswalked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\n\n\n\n  \nCost: There is no registration fee for attending this event\, nor most EBMC events. However\, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving\, or “dana”). Please donate generously\, in proportion to your ability: \n* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).\n* Or directly to the teacher: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\nThank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/trust-the-struggles-2024/2024-02-05/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Buddha's Four Big Truths (4 Noble Truths)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays January 31st\, February 7th\, 14th and 21st 2024 \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nOnline on Zoom  \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nWhy do we suffer? How can we be released from suffering? The Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. These form the foundation of Buddhist life and understanding. The four “big” truths address human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and describe a path of liberation from human suffering that is both profound and practical. Dharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \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.  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nA good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-buddhas-four-big-truths-4-noble-truths/2024-02-07/
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Trust the Struggles: Making Peace with the Five Hindrances to Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:An Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, February 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 26th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nWhy’s it so hard to meditate!? This question is as old as the practice. Join us for this class series that gets to the root of our struggles: The Five Obstacles. We’ll learn ways to work with these “hindrances” guided by Buddhist teachings\, contemporary psychological frameworks and an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness on how to use each of the five obstacles as gateways to deepen our practice. \nAttend some or all: \nWeek 1 – Doubt \nWeek 2 – Sloth + Torpor and Ill Will \nWeek 3 – Restlessness + Worry \nWeek 4 – Sensual Desire \n \nAll Registered participants will receive a Confirmation Email & Zoom Link via EventBrite.  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nA good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\nTeacher Bio: \n \n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who haswalked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\n\n\n\n  \nCost: There is no registration fee for attending this event\, nor most EBMC events. However\, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving\, or “dana”). Please donate generously\, in proportion to your ability: \n* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).\n* Or directly to the teacher: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\nThank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/trust-the-struggles-2024/2024-02-12/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Buddha's Four Big Truths (4 Noble Truths)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays January 31st\, February 7th\, 14th and 21st 2024 \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nOnline on Zoom  \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nWhy do we suffer? How can we be released from suffering? The Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. These form the foundation of Buddhist life and understanding. The four “big” truths address human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and describe a path of liberation from human suffering that is both profound and practical. Dharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \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.  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nA good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-buddhas-four-big-truths-4-noble-truths/2024-02-14/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Nourishing Freedom: Finding the Middle Path to Body Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Online\, Saturday\, February 17th\, 2024 (via Zoom) \nWith Melvin Escobar and Marcella Raimondo \n10am – 2pm PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nRadically accepting ourselves and our experiences is a revolutionary act. We receive many problematic messages about food that make it challenging to nourish ourselves. Our bodies\, especially those of us living in larger bodies\, continue to be subject to great harm and derision. By weaving the timeless Dhamma with contemporary psychological frameworks\, we will deconstruct aspects of structural oppression (including diet culture). We will be invited into somatic awareness practices\, along with interactive and reflective exercises to explore kinder ways of relating to our bodies to create community on the middle path to body liberation for all. \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 \nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who haswalked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing. \n \nMarcella Raimondo\, PhD\, MPH is a queer cisgender able-bodied woman of color and a passionate and spirited clinical trainer speaking from her heart on multicultural issues in eating disorders since 1995. Marcella currently serves as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Kaiser Oakland’s eating disorder clinic and also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco and UC Berkeley Extension. Marcella herself recovered from anorexia nervosa over 15 years ago. Marcella trains in Kajukenbo at Hand to Hand Kajukenbo Self Defense Center in Oakland and holds a first degree black belt. Her recovery and her martial arts training inspire her dedication to multicultural body nurturance and community celebration. \n  \nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so on 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-nourishing-freedom-finding-the-middle-path-to-body-liberation-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Trust the Struggles: Making Peace with the Five Hindrances to Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:An Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, February 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 26th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nWhy’s it so hard to meditate!? This question is as old as the practice. Join us for this class series that gets to the root of our struggles: The Five Obstacles. We’ll learn ways to work with these “hindrances” guided by Buddhist teachings\, contemporary psychological frameworks and an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness on how to use each of the five obstacles as gateways to deepen our practice. \nAttend some or all: \nWeek 1 – Doubt \nWeek 2 – Sloth + Torpor and Ill Will \nWeek 3 – Restlessness + Worry \nWeek 4 – Sensual Desire \n \nAll Registered participants will receive a Confirmation Email & Zoom Link via EventBrite.  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nA good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\nTeacher Bio: \n \n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who haswalked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\n\n\n\n  \nCost: There is no registration fee for attending this event\, nor most EBMC events. However\, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving\, or “dana”). Please donate generously\, in proportion to your ability: \n* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).\n* Or directly to the teacher: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\nThank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/trust-the-struggles-2024/2024-02-19/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Buddha's Four Big Truths (4 Noble Truths)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays January 31st\, February 7th\, 14th and 21st 2024 \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nOnline on Zoom  \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) Closed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \nWhy do we suffer? How can we be released from suffering? The Buddha’s first teaching after his Enlightenment is called the Four Truths for Noble Ones. These form the foundation of Buddhist life and understanding. The four “big” truths address human suffering and oppression\, analyze their root causes\, and describe a path of liberation from human suffering that is both profound and practical. Dharma talks\, mindful journaling\, meditation\, community building and optional readings. Beginners in meditation are welcome. \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.  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nA good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-buddhas-four-big-truths-4-noble-truths/2024-02-21/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240224T100000
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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  \nSaturday February 24\, 2024 \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-2/
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CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240226T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240226T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
CREATED:20231221T210300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T010354Z
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Trust the Struggles: Making Peace with the Five Hindrances to Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:An Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, February 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 26th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided \nWhy’s it so hard to meditate!? This question is as old as the practice. Join us for this class series that gets to the root of our struggles: The Five Obstacles. We’ll learn ways to work with these “hindrances” guided by Buddhist teachings\, contemporary psychological frameworks and an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness on how to use each of the five obstacles as gateways to deepen our practice. \nAttend some or all: \nWeek 1 – Doubt \nWeek 2 – Sloth + Torpor and Ill Will \nWeek 3 – Restlessness + Worry \nWeek 4 – Sensual Desire \n \nAll Registered participants will receive a Confirmation Email & Zoom Link via EventBrite.  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nA good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\nTeacher Bio: \n \n\n\n\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who haswalked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\n\n\n\n  \nCost: There is no registration fee for attending this event\, nor most EBMC events. However\, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving\, or “dana”). Please donate generously\, in proportion to your ability: \n* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).\n* Or directly to the teacher: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\nThank you for your generosity. EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/trust-the-struggles-2024/2024-02-26/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
CREATED:20231221T203851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240224T203623Z
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Feburary 28th\, March 6th\, 13th\, 20th\, 2024\n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nHYBRID over Zoom and in-person at EBMC\n \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– A good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being-eightfold-path/2024-02-28/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
CREATED:20231221T203851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240224T203623Z
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Feburary 28th\, March 6th\, 13th\, 20th\, 2024\n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nHYBRID over Zoom and in-person at EBMC\n \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– A good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being-eightfold-path/2024-03-06/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Feburary 28th\, March 6th\, 13th\, 20th\, 2024\n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nHYBRID over Zoom and in-person at EBMC\n \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– A good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being-eightfold-path/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240320T183000
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DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being (Eightfold Path)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Feburary 28th\, March 6th\, 13th\, 20th\, 2024\n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda\n \nHYBRID over Zoom and in-person at EBMC\n \nClosed Captioning Provided \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7-month Curriculum \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– A good microphone\, strong internet connection\, and quiet environment help with audio access \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-the-buddhas-how-to-guide-to-a-life-of-happiness-and-well-being-eightfold-path/2024-03-20/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240324T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240324T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
CREATED:20231222T034159Z
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\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.\n\n\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\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-03-24/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240327T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \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 \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \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. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. (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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-03-27/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\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.\n\n\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\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-04-07/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \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\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-08/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \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 \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \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. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. (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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-04-10/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \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\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-15/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \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 \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \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. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. (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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\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.\n\n\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\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-04-21/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \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\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-22/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:Brahmaviharas: Buddhist Love\, Compassion\, Joy & Equanimity \nWith Mushim Patricia Ikeda \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Curriculum Jan – July 2024 \nHYBRID on Zoom and in person at EBMC \n4 Wednesdays:  March 27; & April 10\, 17\, 24\, 2024 \n(No class on April 3) \n6:30-8:30PM PST \nClosed Captions \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 \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \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. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. (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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-brahmaviharas-buddhist-love-compassion-joy-equanimity/2024-04-24/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T100000
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SUMMARY:IN PERSON: Healing the Healer: Cultivating Healing Within and In Community (for BIPOC and people of multi-heritage)
DESCRIPTION:Healing the Healer: Cultivating Healing Within and In Community \nFor BIPOC and people of multi-heritage \nwith Melvin Escobar and Jonathan Relucio \nSaturday\, April 27th\, 2024\n10am-4pm Pacific Time \nIn person at EBMC (285 17th St\, Oakland CA 94612) \n  \nHealers and caregivers are invited to this workshop for a day of rest and renewal.\nJonathan and Melvin have over forty years combined experience doing social justice\nwork and will offer how the teachings in Buddhism and Yoga can connect us to the\nhealing that is possible in community. We will explore how to cultivate and build\nresilience and self-compassion so that we can continue to be of service to self and\nothers. \n \nAll registered participants will receive an EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nFor in-person participation: \nSpace will be limited to 40 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants will be asked to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) Please note: Teachers may be unmasked while teaching. \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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nTeacher Bios \n \nMelvin Escobar is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center\, licensed\npsychotherapist\, and yoga instructor. He has walked the path of service for much of his life\, drawing on his experiences as a queer man of color from an immigrant working-class background. Melvin is driven by the desire to make wisdom teachings accessible in culturally relevant ways and continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing. \n \nFor a decade\, Jonathan Relucio taught trauma healing yoga\, meditation\, and\nmindfulness in urban schools\, mental health clinics and juvenile detention centers as\nSenior Trainer for Niroga Institute. He completed East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership (STL) Program and Spirit Rock’s Mindfulness\, Yoga and Meditation Training; he is grateful to be a practitioner and teacher at both centers. Jonathan facilitates transformation in social justice movements with Rockwood Leadership Institute; integrates mindfulness with restorative circles for healing and racial equity; and is the co-founder of AllThriveEd.org.  With over 20 years of experience in social services\, community organizing\, training\, and leadership development\, Jonathan values yoga and Dharma as liberation practices that heal us from oppressive systems. \n  \nTo support the teachings of Jonathan and Melvin\, please do so via: \n–For Jonathan — \nPayPal: discaya@gmail.com \nVenmo: @JonathanRelucio\, https://www.venmo.com/u/JonathanRelucio \n–For Melvin — \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\, paypal.me/PAYPALmelvinescobar \nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\, https://www.venmo.com/u/Melvin-Escobar \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. \n  \nThank 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-healing-the-healer-cultivating-healing-within-and-in-community-for-bipoc-and-people-of-multi-heritage/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,In-Person Only
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness \nAn Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar  \n4 Monday sessions\, April 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th\, 2024 \n6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \n\n\nThe Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks\, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks\, interactive exercises\, stationary and gentle moving meditation\, and recommendations for home practice\, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life. \nAttend all or some: \nWeek 1 – Mindfulness of Body \nWeek 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling \nWeek 3 – Mindfulness of Mind \nWeek 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma \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\nMelvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher\, licensed psychotherapist\, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma\, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles\, including on the development team for Resilience\, Refuge and (R)evolution\, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life\, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga\, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.\n\n\n\n\n  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \nPayPal: melvin@melvinescobar.com\nVenmo: @Melvin-Escobar\n\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via:\n\nPaypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation\nOur website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana\n\n\n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking.
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-transforming-anxiety-and-depression-using-the-four-foundations-of-mindfulness-2/2024-04-29/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times  \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid\, with one class Zoom only \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month Curriculum \n  \nWednesdays May 1\, 8 (Zoom only)\, 15\, 22 — 2024 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \nFour 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 war\, climate crisis\, use of AI (artificial intelligence) in tech\, and political divisiveness. 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. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \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. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. (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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path
DESCRIPTION:White and Awakening in Sangha: Continuing on the Path\nThe Wisdom of the Eightfold Path: A Online Anti-Racism Workshop Series for White People\nwith Crystal Johnson\, EBMC Community Teacher\n\n5 Sunday sessions on Zoom\nMarch 24\, April 7\, April 21\, May 5\, May 19\n10 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time\n\nA mind which is focused on achieving a certain result is motivated by greed. Wisdom knows the cause-effect relationships and it will therefore concentrate on fulfilling the causes and conditions.\n(The daily Tejaniya\, February 7\, 2024)\n\nThe dharma offers us priceless guidance as we work to free ourselves from the delusional conditioning of whiteness and fulfill the causes and conditions for the relief of the suffering arising from race-based oppression.  Last year\, we investigated the practices of the Brahmaviharas as supports to keep our anti-racism work wholesome and sustainable.  In this series\, we will focus on the teachings of the Eightfold Path as a source of guidance and inspiration.  The course will offer a space for you to bring your own dilemmas and challenges for discussion in a workshop format.  Each session will combine practice\, dharma reflections and an invitation for participants to share where you are feeling stuck or frustrated or confused.  We will harvest the wisdom of the group in the framework of the Eightfold Path as we learn together in community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\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.\n\n\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\nTo make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center\, please do so via or our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana. \n  \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \n  \nUniversal Access Requests for Zoom Participation: \n\nPlease do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds\nPlease keep your camera still when it’s turned on\nPlease repeat your name when you speak\nFacilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud\nPlease mute when you’re not speaking\n\n  \n \nCrystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland\, CA\, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. She completed the year long Commit2Dharma training at EBMC\, as well as the 2-year Dedicated Practitioner Program and the 2-year Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In her teaching\, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness\, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression\, and create truly inclusive sangha. Her courses include White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC\, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at the San Francisco Zen Center\, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center\, Unpacking Whiteness for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams. She offers consultation to individuals and organizations seeking to disrupt the practices of white supremacy culture and support change toward racial equity. \n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/white-and-awakening-in-sangha-continuing-on-the-path-2/2024-05-05/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times  \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid\, with one class Zoom only \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month Curriculum \n  \nWednesdays May 1\, 8 (Zoom only)\, 15\, 22 — 2024 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \nFour 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 war\, climate crisis\, use of AI (artificial intelligence) in tech\, and political divisiveness. 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. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \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. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. (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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2024-05-08/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T183000
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SUMMARY:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:HYBRID: Enduring Precepts: Basic Buddhist Ethics for Our Times  \nwith Mushim Ikeda \nHybrid\, with one class Zoom only \nPart of EBMC’s Core Buddhist Teachings – 7 month Curriculum \n  \nWednesdays May 1\, 8 (Zoom only)\, 15\, 22 — 2024 \n6:30 – 8:30PM PST (Time Zone Converter) \nClosed Captioning Provided on Zoom \nThe center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible \nN95/KN95 masks required \nFour 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 war\, climate crisis\, use of AI (artificial intelligence) in tech\, and political divisiveness. 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. Dharma talks\, discussion and Q&A. Instruction provided for beginners in meditation. \n \nAll registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.  \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. \n\n\nTo offer a gift to support the teachings\, please do so Venmo: Mushim Ikeda @MushimPatricia-Ikeda or PayPal: info@mushimikeda.com \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. \n  \nFor in-person participation: \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. (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. \nEast Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud \n– Please mute when you’re not speaking. \n\n\n 
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/hybrid-enduring-precepts-basic-buddhist-ethics-for-our-times/2024-05-15/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240516T184500
DTSTAMP:20260415T162836
CREATED:20240423T040624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T040624Z
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Grieving While Queer
DESCRIPTION:Grieving While Queer \nAn Online Class Series with Tania Triana and Ream \n3 Thursday sessions: May 16th\, 23rd\, and 30th\, 2024 \n5:15 – 6:45 PM Pacific Time (Time Zone Converter) \nOpen to all who self-identify as queer \nClosed captions available \n  \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 belonging. \n \nTeacher Information \n \nDr. Tania Triana (she/they/ella/elle) is a member of the inaugural class of East Bay Meditation Center’s Spiritual Teacher and Leadership Program\, and has served on EBMC’s Leadership Sangha (board of directors) since 2019. Tania is grateful to have found a spiritual home and social justice community at EBMC. \n \nReam\, 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  \nTo support the teachings\, please do so via: \n\nPayPal: taniatriana@gmail.com\nVenmo: @Tania-Triana\n\nAll dana will be shared amongst the teachers. \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. \n  \nThank 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. \n  \nFor Zoom participation\, these are our Universal Access Guidelines: \n– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds \n– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on \n– Please say your name when you speak \n– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud
URL:https://eastbaymeditation.org/calendar/online-grieving-while-queer-2/2024-05-16/
LOCATION:East Bay Meditation Center\, 285 17th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Online
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