Let’s Practice: Plain and Simple

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

Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Open to all Daylong retreat with Larry Yang No fancy titles or themes or descriptions. No attempts of language or description to convince anyone to do something or anything. Let us just have a spiritual practice day together. Let us meditate together. Let us be still […]

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

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

with Eve Decker, Baruch Golden, and Michele Ku 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 be practiced at home. Parents/caregivers and young people will […]

Mindfulness and Aging: Claiming our Eldership & Wisdom

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

Half-day retreat for self-identified women and gender-fluid people with Noliwe Alexander and Arinna Weisman How do we open to aging; the loss of physical resilience, perhaps increasing illness, the decline of our mental faculties and memory? The Buddha offers us a path of mindfulness and loving kindness that challenges the habitual ways we have 'owned' […]

Recurring

Interconnected: Challenging Racism and White Privilege with Mindfulness and Compassion

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

A class series for white people 4 Monday evenings & 1 weekend daylong Mondays, September 12, 19, 26 & October 3: 6:30 – 9:00 pm Sunday, October 2: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm *We ask participants to commit to and attend all sessions. with Kitsy Schoen and Gregory Mengel Mindfulness practices are incomplete if they […]

Annual Brunch Celebrating EBMC’s Volunteers, Past & Present!

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

Calling all #EBMC volunteers, present *and* past, we want to celebrate and thank YOU at our annual Path of Service Sangha brunch and optional open mic talent share on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, from 10 am to 1 pm! To RSVP, fill out this brief questionnaire at http://svy.mk/2bkZubr to help us organize the potluck lunch […]

Cultivating a Meaningful Life and Building Community

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

with Carol Cano and Shahara Godfrey In this half-daylong retreat, we explore cross- cultural practices that will help embrace the long journey of healing from Addiction and Substance Abuse. In many cultures this journey is an initiation crucible, one that takes the individual through the deep territory of their inner self. We will practice the […]

Recurring

EBMC Teen Sangha Fall

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

Wednesdays: September 21 - December 14 2016 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Open to teens, ages 14-19 Led by the EBMC Teen Sangha Team: Raúl Kahlil Betancourt, Lulu Cook, Anthony “T” Maes, Sarwang Parikh, Adrienne Price, Syra Smith, and Phoenix Soleil EBMC Teen Sangha is a weekly meditation group for teens, ages 14-19. Our focus […]

Restorative Practices: Cultivating & Sustaining Sangha through Community Building & Healing Circles

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

with Restorative Practices for Dharma Practitioners Sangha How do we deepen, maintain healthy and wholesome connections within our multicultural sanghas that foster an atmosphere of mutual respect for everyone?  Community Building and Healing Circles provide a transformative space for people to recognize their mutual interdependence in the struggle to work and live collectively. Through the […]

Survival, Resistance and Resiliency: Practice for Men of Color

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

with EBMC’s Men of Color Deep Refuge Group We warmly invite all self-identified men of color and people of color who are on the spectrum of masculine identities including trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming.* Together, we will explore our diverse experiences and definitions of survival, resistance, and resiliency, and how we can bring balance to […]

Radical Transformation through Bodhisattva Vow

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

with Mushim Open to all aspiring or curious bodhisattvas “Samsara is burning down all of our houses. We need a path of radical transformation… and the Bodhisattva path is it.” – Mushim, in “I Vow Not to Burn Out,” Buddhadharma magazine, Fall 2016. “Beings are numberless; I vow to save them all,” is one of […]