*August 10th: Spiritual Friendship: Cultivating Wise Relations for Self Identified Women of Color

Spiritual Friendship: “The Whole of the Holy Life”

Cultivating Wise Relations

for Self Identified Women of Color

Saturday, August 10th

10:00 am – 4:00 pm

East Bay Meditation Center

285 17th Street, Oakland, CA 94612

Join us for a day of celebrating the depth of Spiritual Friendships, the Whole of the Holy Life.

Together we’ll explore this potent statement by the Buddha through the lens of our life-long, road buddies, confidants and everyday supports; our friends. While telling our stories, we’ll discover how to walk together on the path to liberation. We’ll speak our truths and unite in sister circles to connect with our divine natures. Seeing what is real for us and how to cultivate loving friendliness, compassion and appreciative joy towards our ourselves and our chosen family.

We will engage in mindful meditation reflections, walking meditation, interactive exercises and circle truth telling ~ this day long will still your minds, open your hearts and have you rejoicing in the glory of “belonging”.

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EBMC TEACHERS ARE NOT PAID BY THE CENTER. You are invited to offer a voluntary financial gift to them at the class. The East Bay Meditation Center operates using a generosity-based, gift economics model. This means we charge no set registration fees to attend our events and instead rely on the generous giving of our community. All classes at the Center do come with a financial cost. Class participants are offered an opportunity to make a voluntary gift to EBMC during the registration process or at an event itself. Please note that no one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you would like to explore any EBMC volunteer positions, please send an email expressing your interest to admin@eastbaymeditation.org.

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.

East Bay Meditation Center strives to be as accessible as possible. For the safety of our teachers, staff, volunteers and participants, we cannot provide assistance for personal needs such as transferring into and out of chairs, walking, eating, or using the restroom. If you require such assistance, you must bring a personal care assistant with you when you come to any event at EBMC.

About the Teacher:

Noliwe Alexander has been a student of Vipassana meditation for close to 20 years. Throughout this time of deep devotion to the Dharma, Noliwe has become a dedicated practitioner, teacher of various sitting groups around the Bay Area, facilitator of community workshops and Buddhist meditation day longs and class series programs. She is a Life & Business Coach dedicating both her coaching & Dharma practice to the POC, LGBT, At Risk and Elder communities. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock's CDL4 program and completed EBMC's Commit 2 Dharma program in 2010. Noliwe is currently participating in the Spirit Rock Teacher Training from 2017-2020. Noliwe is a wisdom keeper and humbled by the presence of her ancestor’s spirit that lives within and walks beside her.