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For the tenth time, EBMC will offer two class series exploring what it means to creatively embody the Bodhisattva teachings. Embodiment! Joy! Commitment! Strategic Action! In Mahayana Buddhism, the Bodhisattva works and plays ceaselessly to liberate all suffering beings, lifetime after lifetime. And – how do you and I show up, day after day, in the gigantic mess of our times, to do the great work?

Designed for organizers, educators, cultural workers, healers or others engaged in transformative action, PiTA 2.1 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.

We are a peer-led meditation group for those of us who have a meditation practice and are queer and leather/kink-identified. Our group provides an accepting space where we can include the queer and leather/kinky parts of our identities and experiences when talking about how we practice both in community and in our daily lives.

The purpose of this refuge group is to provide a space for sex workers to connect with each other, build sangha, and to deepen our spiritual practices in community. Sex workers continue to be a marginalized group in society and this sangha is a place where we support each other in bringing our whole selves into our spiritual lives.

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.

This deep refuge group is by and for trans/gender-expansive people. Our goal is to provide a welcoming community space for trans/gender-expansive folks who are interested in exploring meditation and other aspects of Buddhist practice. Both beginners and experienced practitioners welcome!

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.