*Jan 28th: Embodying Compassion: A Day of Healing for Black Women

Embodying Compassion: A Day of Healing for Black Women

with Arisika Razak

East Bay Meditation Center

285 17th Street, Oakland

Saturday, January 28, 2018 - 10AM - 4:00PM

How, as Black women, do we move from "surviving" to "thriving" in a society that does not love our bodies and our achievements? What ancestral wisdom is available to us that supports our journey? How can we use the Buddha's teaching on the body to move into greater love for our physical forms, while embracing their impermanence? And how do we turn the compassion and service we offer to our families and our communities to our own healing, and self-love? In this day which focuses on self care and compassion, we will use meditation, movement, teachings of the Dharma, small group discussions, and ritual to identify the tools that provide us with greater ease, and joy as we walk through the world alone, and together.

Arisika Razak RN, NM, MPH is the former Chair of the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her teachings incorporate diverse spiritual traditions, women's health and healing, multicultural feminisms, queer theory, and contemporary diversity theory. Arisika has led national and international spiritual and healing workshops and ritual celebrations for women for over three decades, as well as embodied spiritual workshops for women and men, including several day-long workshops at EBMC. She has co-facilitated workshops with Marlene Jones at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

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