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ONLINE: Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

April 29 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Monday, repeating until April 29, 2024

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Transforming Anxiety and Depression Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

An Online Class Series with Melvin Escobar 

4 Monday sessions, April 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, 2024

6:00 – 8PM PST (Time Zone Converter)

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness is a central teaching in Buddhist practice. They can provide a solid basis for understanding how anxiety and depression are an inevitable part of human experience. We will explore these teachings and interweave them with contemporary psychological frameworks, informed by an understanding of structural oppression. Through talks, interactive exercises, stationary and gentle moving meditation, and recommendations for home practice, participants will gain awareness of how to work with these mood states to help us be more in the moment and fully appreciate this one precious life.

Attend all or some:

Week 1 – Mindfulness of Body

Week 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling

Week 3 – Mindfulness of Mind

Week 4 – Mindfulness of Dhamma

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All registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email. 
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Melvin Escobar is a bilingual-bicultural Dharma teacher, licensed psychotherapist, and certified yoga instructor. He is a graduate of EBMC’s Commit to Dharma, and for more than a decade has served EBMC in a variety of roles, including on the development team for Resilience, Refuge and (R)evolution, a six-month leadership program for People of Color. He is a U.S.-born bilingual-bi-cultural Salvadoran who has walked the path of service for most of his life, drawing on his life experiences as a working-class queer man of color. Having encountered the priceless wisdom embodied in Buddhism and Yoga, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.

 

To support the teachings, please do so via:

Venmo: @Melvin-Escobar
To make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center, please do so via:
Paypal: paypal.me/eastbaymeditation
Our website: eastbaymeditation.org/dana

 

For Zoom participation, these are our Universal Access Guidelines:

– Please do not use virtual or blurred backgrounds

– Please keep your camera still when it’s turned on

– Please say your name when you speak

– Facilitators will attempt to read any comments in the chat out loud

– Please mute when you’re not speaking.

Details

Date:
April 29
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Venue

East Bay Meditation Center
285 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States
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Phone:
510-268-0696

Details

Date:
April 29
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Categories:
,

Venue

East Bay Meditation Center
285 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States
+ Google Map
Phone:
510-268-0696