The Healing Art of Ceremony, a Daylong Meditation Workshop

Schedule

Sat Jun 10 2023 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

Location

3111 Wissemann Drive,Sacramento,95826,US | Sacramento, CA

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An In-Person Daylong Meditation Workshop offered by Kyōshō Valorie Beer and Wa Den Barbara Baccei at the Sacramento Dharma Center.
The Healing Art of Ceremony
Valorie and Barbara will teach this retreat in person in Sacramento. Note: Please DO not continue with this registration UNLESS you intend to attend in person. Given the nature of this event, it is only offered in-person.
We don't do ceremonies in our culture. There's no time, they're too much like religion, and what good are they anyway? When we have to go to a ceremony, we drag our feet, desperate for an excuse not to go, afraid of the feelings that might come up. Then, by chance, we happen to see a ceremony, or be involved in one that touches us. Perhaps we start to cry. And we realize that ceremony offers a safe space to stop and feel what we're feeling, to express a cry of relief and release that's been too-long buried within us. We wish we could create ceremonies for the large and small events of our life, to mark them, to notice how they impact us, to transform them, and to let them go.
This workshop will have two parts: a morning of meditation to cultivate the silence and stillness in which we can identify a ceremony that would touch our heart, and an afternoon of personal ceremony creation. The morning will include demonstrations of four common Buddhist ceremonies (well-being, memorial, summer solstice, and meal/food gratitude). Since artistic expression is a helpful accompaniment to ceremonies, there will be a presentation and discussion of altar arrangement, visual art ideas, and other ways of making ceremonies that include your own artistic expressions.
Participants are asked to bring the following:
Art supplies for making altar or ceremonial pieces, such as: paper, cloth, ephemera, pens/pencils/markers, glue stick, scissors, rulers, sewing needles & thread, nature objects, photos. . .
Music or musical instruments
At the end of the day, participants will have the opportunity to conduct their ceremony within a small group (or alone), if they wish to do so. Scripts of various Buddhist ceremonies will be available, and participants can use those or create their own.
Registration
We offer this program on a sliding scale of $30 - $150. Registration includes a donation for the teachers. However, we turn no one away for lack of funds. We have a sliding-scale option for individuals who pay below our registration range.
Note: If you need a scholarship, contact the coordinator, Karson, at [email protected]
Our Teachers
Kyosho Valorie Beer has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1991. She was ordained as a priest in 2005 and received dharma transmission in 2013 from her teacher, Edward Espe Brown. She lived at Green Gulch Farm from 2003 to 2012, when she moved to City Center. After serving as the San Francisco Zen Center corporate secretary, she was the City Center ino, and is now a visiting teacher to SFZC’s Branching Streams sanghas. Before taking up monastic life, Valorie worked for two decades in corporate Human Resources at various high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. She is the author of four books, a private pilot, and the mother of a daughter who lives in the Bay Area.
Wa Den Ei Do Barbara Baccei is a teacher of Zen, art and yoga. She took Bodhisattva Vows in 2016 and will receive Soto Zen Lay Entrustment April 29, 2023 from her teacher Kyosho Valorie Beer Roshi. She is a contemplative artist working on fabric and paper, focused these days on artist books, scrolls and paper sculpture. A Zen sewing teacher, she has guided many in completing rakusus. She is a graduate of The Berkeley Yoga Room teacher training. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado.
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3111 Wissemann Drive,Sacramento,95826,US, United States

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