June 25th 2022 10AM - 4:00 PM PST

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Celebrate Pride Mindfully: A Focus on Self-Compassion with Andrés González, Ramon Honea and Phoenix Song

As an alternative to large and potentially unmasked crowds, we invite you to join us for what will be a fully-virtual Pride gathering focused on mindfulness & self-compassion through a multigenerational lens. We have a queer and multi-gender panel of teachers: Ramón Honea and Andrés González will guide you through a queering of ceremony and meditation on self-compassion. Phoenix Song will play healing, soulful music and help us free our voices with sound and song—together, we will move and stretch our bodies throughout the day. Additionally, there will be a Teacher Panel where we will share Pride-inspired, Dharmic stories, followed by a Q&A, and Dance Party. We will also have spaciousness for whole group discussions and smaller break-out groups to allow community connection and sharing. BIPOC and those that identify as LGBTQIA2S+ are highly encouraged to attend—however, this daylong is also open to our allied friends to join us with mindful presence and awareness of positionality. We look forward to celebrating 2022 Pride with you!

All levels of practitioners are welcome!

In preparation for the daylong, please consider preparing your lunch in advance. You might also want to have a beverage, snacks, and perhaps a pen and notebook nearby.

Andrés González, ASW is a multiracial, two-spirit, Indigiqueer whose path first opened to the Buddhadharma in 2015 through EBMC’s Thursday evening BIPOC Sangha. His evolving experience as a practitioner in the Theravada and Vipassana Buddhist lineages has occurred alongside (and interdependent with) the reclamation of his own indigenous spiritual practices and traditions. Andrés brings nearly a decade of experience as a youth worker and community organizer to his current happenings as a pre-licensed psychotherapist, harm reductionist, researcher, and writer focused primarily on uplifting and affirming the experiences of fellow transracial adoptees of color. He graduated in 2019 from Communities Rizing, a 200hr Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training for People of Color with core teachers, Rolf Gates and Spring Washam, and he is currently part of EBMC’s first teacher training program (STL). Andrés resides on unceded Lisjan Ohlone territory (aka Oakland, CA).

Ramón Honea (He/They/Them) is a biracial,gay, second generation Oakland Latinx native, he served for 20 years as a teacher/administrator in the SF/Oakland Unified School Districts. After that, through therapy he found meditation and the East Bay Meditation Centers “POC night” where he joined the coordinating committee for several years. Now working / currently on furlough, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center as a residential Retreat Manager, managing week long silent retreats. Obtained a mindfulness teaching credential through the Mindfulness Training Institute in 2019.To make a gift to support the teachings, please do so via Venmo: @Ramon-Honea or Paypal: paypal.me/RamonHonea, ramon.honea@gmail.com

Phoenix Song is a queer, non-binary Korean American adoptee teacher, performer and healer featured in SF Magazine's Best of the Bay for yoga music. They believe that everyone can sing and love to help people free their voices and rhythm in private and group classes. Phoenix leads ancestral healing, grief, and diversity/solidarity workshops and trainings that use expressive arts and somatic processes. If you would like to support Phoenix's teachings, please do so via Venmo @phoenixsongmusic or PayPal Phoenixsongmusic@gmail.com. To learn more about their sound healing offerings, classes, and performances, please visit https://phoenixsongmusic.com/