Let Your Heart Lead You: To Community, Healing, and Joy through Loving Kindness Meditation

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

Let Your Heart Lead You: To Community, Healing, and Joy through Loving Kindness Meditation with Mushim Ikeda and Deb Kerr The practice of lovingkindness has the power to transform our lives. Taught by the Buddha as an antidote to fear and ill-will, lovingkindness meditation reconnects us to our heart’s natural ability to be open and […]

Gratitude for All the Things – Joys and Sorrows on the Path of Awakening

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

with Melvin Escboar Buddhist practice teaches us to cultivate gratitude for the 10,000 joys and sorrows of our lives. As we deepen our practice we begin to appreciate both the bountiful blessings in life and the improbable gifts that arise from suffering. Is it possible to transform the resentments we carry as a result of […]

Love: Supported by the Four Divine States

Love: Supported by the Four Divine States

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

Open to All expressions of love: friends, partners, siblings, parent/child, roommates, etc. with Rev. Liên Shutt  Co-Sponsored by Access To Zen   We all want love.  And, having and holding love and loving feelings can be challenging. Join us in exploring how love can be when expressed in conjunction with the qualities of the Four […]

Tai Chi Chih – Joy through Movement

Tai Chi Chih – Joy through Movement

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

Join us for Alphabet Dharma in Motion Tai Chi Chih – Joy through Movement with Jenn Biehn, EBMC Tai Chi Chih teacher Drop In Format, No Pre-Registration Required. A form of qigong, Tai Chi Chih is a moving meditation consisting of 20 easy-to-learn, access-centered movements. Tai Chi circulates, balances, and gathers the chi or energy […]

Path of the Bodhisattva 2 & Bodhisattva Precepts Ceremony

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

with Mushim Ikeda  4 class series:  Path of the Bodhisattva 2, Weds, Oct 30 – Nov 20, 6:30 – 8:30pm Daylong: Receiving or Witnessing the Bodhisattva Precepts & Vows, Dec 14, 10am – 4:30pm  *Separate registration is needed for each part of the Path of the Bodhisattva class series (Part I, Part II + Precepts […]

Five Realms Meditative Movement

Five Realms Meditative Movement

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

Master Ellis will teach Five Realms Meditative Movement to explore the connections and flow between your body, mind and spirit on each Friday November 22 through December 20 during the Friday Dharma in Motion classes. Balance your Yin and Yang energies by harnessing the innate and universal, physical and metaphysical, power of Air, Fire, Earth, Water, and Space. Relieve […]

Love: Supported by the Four Divine States

Love: Supported by the Four Divine States

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

Open to All expressions of love: friends, partners, siblings, parent/child, roommates, etc. with Rev. Liên Shutt  Co-Sponsored by Access To Zen   We all want love.  And, having and holding love and loving feelings can be challenging. Join us in exploring how love can be when expressed in conjunction with the qualities of the Four […]

Five Realms Meditative Movement

Five Realms Meditative Movement

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

Master Ellis will teach Five Realms Meditative Movement to explore the connections and flow between your body, mind and spirit on each Friday November 22 through December 20 during the Friday Dharma in Motion classes. Balance your Yin and Yang energies by harnessing the innate and universal, physical and metaphysical, power of Air, Fire, Earth, Water, and Space. Relieve […]

Five Realms Meditative Movement

Five Realms Meditative Movement

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

Master Ellis will teach Five Realms Meditative Movement to explore the connections and flow between your body, mind and spirit on each Friday November 22 through December 20 during the Friday Dharma in Motion classes. Balance your Yin and Yang energies by harnessing the innate and universal, physical and metaphysical, power of Air, Fire, Earth, Water, and Space. Relieve […]

Beyond the Binary: Mindfulness of Gender

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

with Bri Barnett, Louije Kim, JD Doyle and René Rivera Open to All *and* we extend a special invitation to those who identity as non-binary, gender nonconforming and their allies.   Gender identities and presentations profoundly impact all areas of our lives providing us both joy and difficulties.  How do we create communities that are […]