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Calming the Heartmind: Practicing Love, Compassion, Joy & Equanimity

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

Open to all Part of EBMC's Core Buddhist Teachings: 5-Month Curriculum Wednesdays, April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm With Mushim The 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 […]

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 With Baruch Golden, Michael Katz, 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 practices that can […]

Letting Go of the Past

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

With Spring Washam Learning to let go and live in the moment is at the very heart of the spiritual path. Everything can be summed up into these two words, “Let go”. We long for serenity but this only comes from making peace with the past. To transform our lives we have to be willing […]

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Dharma in Motion

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

A weekly offering of access-centered movement practices for all ages and abilities. Teachers and modalities will rotate every 5-6 weeks. Drop in format, no experience necessary. Please wear clothing that allows for gentle movement.

Visibility Movement & Meditation Gathering: A Practice for Men of Color

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

With EBMC’s Men of Color Deep Refuge Group Have you explored the benefits of collective movement meditation practices? This half daylong explores the benefits of cultivating movement meditation practices in a peer-led deep practice container. This event is designed to explore our fears and desires of being witnessed, publicly, as individual and collective bodies. In our supportive […]

A Daylong of Self-Care and Renewal in the Season of Spring

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

Open to all self-identified women With Carol Cano Letting go is part of the health of our heart. Difficulties at work, loss of a loved one, the changes of society; all of these transitions are a calling for us to pay attention to our bodies and our hearts, and the state of our mind and […]

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To Cherish All Life: Buddha’s 5 Precepts

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

Part of EBMC's Core Buddhist Teachings: 5-Month Curriculum 4 Wednesdays May 3, 10, 17, 24, 2017 7:00 – 9:00 pm With Mushim Together we’ll safely take a deep dive into how to hold the questions and ethical complexities that arise when we grapple with trying to live in accordance with the Precepts. The Buddha’s 5 […]

Wisdom Rising: A Daylong for Women of African Descent

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

Open to self-identified Women of African Descent With Alice Walker & Spring Washam Join us for a very special daylong celebrating our beauty, strength and wisdom in a circle of sisters. This day will include poetry, meditation and sharing circles. Please bring a sacred object and a flower to share on our altar. We will […]

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 With Eve Decker, Baruch Golden, Michele Ku, Fresh! White, 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 practices […]

Tender Self-Care in the Midst of Pain: A Daylong for People Living with Disability, Illness or Chronic Pain

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

With Debra Kerr and Mushim In this daylong meditation retreat, we will explore the possibility of finding space and ease, even while dealing with painful conditions of body or mind.  Mindfulness and sangha are powerful tools for finding ways of working with pain, for lessening isolation, and for increasing our compassion, both for our own […]