Events

ONLINE: Meditation & Movement: Creating Space in Your Body & Your Life

with Mushim Ikeda and Master Ellis

Using practice, demonstrations, and discussions, this online retreat will use meditation and movement to explore how to create and maintain greater mindfulness and spiritual balance throughout the day. Simple meditation techniques are taught for a range of practitioners, especially beginners. Movements are taught standing, sitting and reclining, and are appropriate for people with diverse abilities.

Registered participants will receive a link to join us via Zoom with their EventBrite confirmation email.

Building the Beloved Community: A Day of Radically Inclusive Movement and Creativity

with Arisika Razak and Jessy Zapanta

“Liberatory access . . . resists . . . the world we don’t want and actively builds the world we do want.”
Mia Mingus

This workshop invites participants with a variety of abilities, disabilities and preferred modes of creative expression to come together to create a one-day sangha which honors diverse bodies, abilities, and creative modalities. Using radically inclusive movement, which prioritizes the needs and abilities of all participants, we will engage in chi kung, tapping, and gentle, playful movement meditations to embody the collective liberation and sense of belonging that our Buddha-natures desire. Music, writing and art will be used to support integration and reflection, and small and large group sharing will encourage community building across difference/s to create a Beloved community. Participants are invited to bring a item to share on the community altar. 

Space is limited and registration is requested.

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 to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* 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.

Meditation & Movement: Creating Space in Your Body & Your Life

with Mushim Ikeda and Master John Ellis

This class will use meditation and movement to explore how to create greater mindfulness and maintain spiritual balance throughout the day. Movements are taught standing, sitting and reclining, and are appropriate for people with diverse abilities. Class size limited to 50.

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 to donate to EBMC; the teachers will not receive any part of this online donation).
* 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.

Kapwa Flow: Dharma in Motion

Led by Jessy Kondo Zapanta

Drop in Format, No Advance Registration Required

“Kapwa” can be defined as “shared inner self”–the unity of “self” and “other.” Kapwa Flow invites you to embody what collective liberation might feel like, alongside kindred spirits. Jessy will begin circle with a restorative grounding meditation, followed by a check in to support access needs and individual requests. You will then be guided through a customized flow of dynamic movements, self-focused bodywork, and stationary practices based on your personal capacity. Since class is dependent on the combined needs of participants, no two sessions are the same. All movements can be done sitting, lying down, or standing up.

With extensive education in bodywork/somatic/energy practices and deep intuition informed by their life experience as a Bay Area-born mixed person of color surviving traumas and chronic illnesses, Jessy Kondo Zapanta brings compassion, curiosity and mind-body wisdom to class. Jessy is no stranger to injuries and accessibility needs, and hopes to create a nurturing space where all bodies feel welcomed.

Tai Chi Chih – Joy through Movement

Tai Chi Chih – Joy through Movement

with Jenn Biehn

Alphabet Dharma in Motion Class, Tuesdays 6-6:50
April 2 – May 28

Tai Chi Chih is a moving meditation consisting of 20 easy-to-learn, accessible movements. A form of qigong, Tai Chi Chih circulates and balances the chi or energy of the body with the intention of bringing stillness and calm to the heart mind in the midst of activity. Qigong stretches will be practiced at the beginning of each class to prepare for this moving meditation. Please come fragrance free.

A Buddha Dharma Sangha practitioner and Tai Chi Chih teacher for 30 years, Jenn loves including embodied awareness and healing movement as part of sangha building. She has taught and practiced Tai Chi Chih (TCC) – Joy through Movement at City College of SF and to those healing from trauma in several community-based organizations. She practices with Alphabet Sangha and Midday Sangha and currently helps steward EBMC as a member of the Leadership Sangha.