Dancing with Difference: Growth, Compassion, and Healing in Intimate Multi-cultural Relationships

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

with Arisika Razak Open to self-identified people of color, including biracial and multi-ethnic individuals of all gender identities, and sexual orientations, whether currently in a relationship or not. Also open to those whose parents (biologic or adoptive) were of a different race or ethnicity. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our […]

Family Practice Class: Opening the Heart through the Buddha’s Teachings

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

For Children Ages 0-12 and Family/Caregivers October class led by Shahara Godfrey, Baruch Golden, Michele Ku, and Jenn Biehn (movement) We invite you to come and help create the diverse family sangha at EBMC. We welcome families with babies, toddlers and children up to age 12. The teachers will offer the Buddha's teachings and mindful […]

Cultivating a Compassionate Heart

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

A Day of Practice for the Alphabet Sangha with Shahara Godfrey As Lesbian, Gay, Genderqueer, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Same Gender Loving and/or Two-Spirit people (LGBTQISGL) and others in our Alphabet Sangha, we are often faced with societal challenges that can marginalize us. Together in community, this daylong will focus on the practice of […]

A Day of Healing, Love & Celebration for Self-Identified Women of African Descent

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

with Noliwe Alexander & Shahara Godfrey Spend an insightful day celebrating your journey to freedom and deep love. With engaging exercises of deep listening and wise speech, through sitting, walking and movement meditation, we will create a framework for the Buddha’s 8 fold-path, cultivating a strong pure heart, while holding the possibilities for self-love, self-care & healing. Registration: Registration is required […]

Recurring

The Buddha’s “How to” Guide to a Life of Happiness and Well-being

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

A class series on the Eightfold Path 4 Wednesdays: March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm With Mushim Everyone 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 […]

Exploring Addictions Through the Lens of the Buddhist and Wisdom Teachings

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Open to all in recovery with Shahara Godfrey and Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John During this one-day retreat we will explore, from a cross-cultural approach, ways to heal addiction. We will introduce you to the eight steps to recovery by Dr. Mason-John and practice specific meditation and wisdom teachings to work with our addiction. We believe this […]

Decolonizing Mindfulness: Teachings for Emotional Trauma for People of Color

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

with Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John and Shahara Godfrey This daylong retreat will take the participants on an exploration of negative mental states and how we can begin to transform them. The day will unfold with meditations to help soothe our internalized trauma due to the racism and other suffering that we experience. There will also be […]

Taming Anxiety

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

with Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt Does your mind seem to “be all over the place”? Do you find yourself worrying a lot? Do you feel easily overwhelmed and filled with anxiety? Do you obsess about “shoulds” and “coulds” and, therefore, find it hard to focus? Buddhist teachings and meditation practices have long addressed ways to […]

Family Practice Class: Opening the Heart through the Buddha’s Teachings

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

For Children Ages 0-13 and Family/Caregivers March class led by Eve Decker, Baruch Golden, Michele Ku, and Jenn Biehn (movement) We invite you to come and help create the diverse family sangha at EBMC. We welcome families with babies, toddlers and children up to age 12. The teachers will offer the Buddha's teachings and mindful […]

Embodying the Third Noble Truth: Brothers Becoming the End of Suffering

East Bay Meditation Center 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA

Daylong for Alphabet Brothers of Color We warmly invite all self-identified men of color and people of color who are on the spectrum of masculine identities including gay, bi, trans, queer, non-binary and gender nonconforming. with Patrick Brown, Nils Heymann and John Mifsud As Alphabet Brothers of Color, we sometimes feel isolated and unsupported facing […]