long-Term Programs

Designed for organizers, educators, cultural workers, healers or others engaged in transformative action, PiTA 2.0 will equip you with:🧘 Skills to facilitate foundational mindfulness practices📿 Tools to connect Buddhist principles with personal resilience and collective liberation🌱 Support to co-create spaces of healing, transformation, and joyful, non-violent community. Join a vibrant cohort committed to deep practice, bold compassion, and transformative action. Let’s build the world we dream of—together.

STL is a comprehensive, two-year training offered by the East Bay Meditation Center for dedicated Dharma practitioners who are leading or coordinating meditation/Dharma groups and/or participating in programs at EBMC. The core curriculum will be offered by guiding teachers. Selected guests will offer teachings in their specific fields. Participants will meet monthly in training configurations that include: two, week-long residential retreats, non-residential and single day retreats. All participants are expected to commit to full participation for the two-year period.

Facilitated by Crystal Johnson, Sarah Emerson, Heather Lear, Kitsy Schoen and guests, the monthly sangha is an opportunity for white people to gather and discuss their dilemmas and successes in waking up to whiteness and making a difference in undermining white supremacy culture in all of its many manifestations, including in our sanghas. Our intention is to create a supportive space that allows us to do the hard and painful inner work that frees us to take action in the world.