A Daylong for People Living with Disability, Illness or Chronic Pain Led by Debra Kerr 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 […]

Core Teacher Diving Deeper Series Led by Mushim Ikeda REQUIRED: You need to have read the book and come prepared to discuss it. A half-day retreat on the modern spiritual classic, Cutting through Spiritual Materialism. In this book, “the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls […]

with Baruch Golden, Eve Decker, Fresh! White, Keisha Turner and Michele Ku For Children Ages 0-13 and Family / Caregivers 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 13. Children under 5 will need to have a parent/caregiver stay […]

with Arisika Razak  for Self Identified People of Color  Based on who we are and what we’ve been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors. - Ava DuVernay How are our lives informed by the actions of our ancestors […]

with Mushim Ikeda For those who have taken either some or all of EBMC’s 5-month “Buddhist core teachings” curriculum an evening class where you can bring your “biggest” Buddhist practice questions, meet Dharma companions on the Path, and rejoice in the merit that you have generated! Please note: The focus of this class is on […]

Open to White Men with Baruch Golden, Gregory Mengel & Tom Malarkey White men, including many of us who are committed to social justice, continue to wreak havoc in our world. We are ill prepared to unlearn the patterns of oppression we enact in part because of the social conditioning we receive as young boys. […]

Community Meeting: Celebrating East Bay Meditation Center's Strategic Plan! All EBMC Sangha members, past and present, are invited! Join us as we come together to celebrate the completion of our Strategic Plan! Our evening together will include an interactive presentation of our Strategic Plan, a lively discussion of the next two, five and ten years […]

with Baruch Golden Fresh! White and Shahara Godfrey 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 13. Children under 5 will need to have a parent/caregiver stay with them. This class features training on “Family Tea Time” and […]