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This is Your Brain on Meditation: Bringing diversity and community engagement to the neuroscience of meditation

July 10, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Open to all

Food provided at 6:30 pm
Program: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

With Dr. Helen Weng

Studies on the neuroscience of meditation in the U.S. have historically included meditators from the dominant culture. Over the past year, Dr. Helen Weng has collaborated with EBMC to engage in community dialogue so we can increase the diversity of meditators represented. This includes people of color, LGBTQI community, people with disabilities, and the fat community.

In this evening of dialogue, Dr. Weng will describe the current state of the field, and how her research brings in diverse meditators (including EBMC Sangha members). This includes groundbreaking neuroscientific methods that allow each meditator’s brain states to be individualized and community engagement.

Registration: Registration is required and space is limited. Click here or the link below to register.

http://eastbaymeditation.org/ebmcreg/?event=july17brain

Cost: There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events.  However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or “dana”). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

* Either online (you will be offered an opportunity during the online registration process)
* Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teacher

Thank you for your generosity.  EBMC will be only be sustained through our collective generosity.

Fragrance-free: In order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including “natural” fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.

  EBMC is wheelchair accessible.

Details

Date:
July 10, 2017
Time:
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Event Category:

Venue

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

Details

Date:
July 10, 2017
Time:
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Event Category:

Venue

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