*Feb 25: Healing, Love & Celebration for Self-Identified Women of African Descent

With Noliwe Alexander & Shahara Godfrey

Spend an insightful day celebrating your journey to freedom and deep love. With engaging exercises of deep listening and wise speech, through sitting, walking and movement meditation, we will create a framework for the Buddha’s 8 fold-path, cultivating a strong pure heart, while holding the possibilities for self-love, self-care & healing.

Noliwe Alexander has been a student of Vipassana meditation for over 15 years. She became a dedicated practitioner after attending the 2nd POC Vipassana retreat at Spirit Rock in 2000 and the African American Retreat in 2002. She is a graduate of Community Dharma Leaders 4 program though Spirit Rock Meditation Center, completed the Commit2Dharma (C2D) program through EBMC and delivers Dharma talks at the Alphabet and POC Sanghas at EBMC and throughout the SF Bay Area. Noliwe is a Life & Business Coach, empowerment workshop facilitator, dedicating her coaching & Dharma practice to the LGBT, At Risk and Elder communities.

Shahara Godfrey, Ph.D., has trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition for over 20 years. Other influences have been spiritual teachers from various cultures and traditions as well as the creative arts. She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders and Path of Engagement programs at Spirit Rock. .

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.

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EBMC TEACHERS ARE NOT PAID BY THE CENTER and and you can offer a voluntary financial gift to them at the class.

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