*December 22nd: Taming Anxiety for People of Color

Taming Anxiety for People of Color

with Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt

East Bay Meditation Center

285 17th Street, Oakland

Saturday, December 22nd 9AM - 3:00PM

Does your mind seem to “be all over the place”? Do you find yourself worrying a lot? Do you feel easily overwhelmed and filled with anxiety? Do you obsess about “shoulds’” and “coulds’” and, therefore, find it hard to focus?

Buddhist teachings and meditation practices have long addressed ways to be with such emotions and thoughts. In this one-day, we will gather and to learn ways in which we can work with worry and anxiety. You’ll learn ways to be with these emotions and be able to practice meditations, which can foster calm and ease in body and mind.

Sitting and walking meditations, Dharma teachings, group discussions and experiential exercises are offered.

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.

Teacher Bio:

Keiryu Liên Shutt is a Dharma heir in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage. Drawing from her monastic practices in the U.S. and overseas, she endeavors to share ways in which the deep settledness of traditional practices can be brought into everyday life. Based at San Francisco Zen Center, Liên also teaches at East Bay Meditation Center and other Bay Area groups. To access talks, schedule a practice discussion (PD), and other retreat or workshop information, please go to AccessToZen.org