Current Classes

A 4-week in-person practice series 

(Wednesdays from 7-8:30 PM, July 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th)

​We're wired for connection; it's biological. But that doesn't mean it's easy. If you're anything like me, it can still be really hard, and I teach this stuff. This space is designed to facilitate connection and offer practices and games that make it feel safe enough to lean in.

​For four weeks, we'll practice leaning into connection. Each class, we'll start at home, connecting to our own direct experience, then we'll begin to lean out and practice with each other.

​And because we don't want the practice to live only in these curated spaces, we give you the meta lens: the how and the why beneath it all. You leave with the practice and the lens, ready to bring more presence and a deeper listening into your own relationships, community, and work; not as a credential to lead groups, but as a way of showing up more fully wherever you already are.

​This space is intentionally limited to 12 participants to keep the group small enough for real connection, depth, and safety.

​Our Intention for These Four Weeks

​Over these four weeks, we hope that you'll:

• ​Delight in a sense of belonging, connection, silliness, and depth
• ​Drop into present-moment awareness while staying in connection with others
• ​Develop the tools to bring these practices with you wherever you go

​Your facilitators: Dharma Homie Enrique Collazo & Guest Teacher Amelia Ravitz-Dworkin, with special appearances from other folks from the Dharma Homies crew.

​Amelia Ravitz-Dworkin entered mindfulness spaces at 16 through the doorway of chronic illness. Her training includes 14+ years of concentration and cultivation practices across secular settings, Theravada, Vajrayana, Mahayana lineages, and Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village Tradition. Amelia has led groups with East Bay Meditation Center, mentors teenagers with Inward Bound Meditation, and facilitates a Young Adult sangha in Oakland. She is a guest teacher at Dharma Homies and looks forward to connecting and practicing the reduction of internal and external violence for the benefit of all beings.

​We show up with these baseline agreements:

• ​What's shared here stays here
• ​Welcome All Conditions
• ​Cultivate Beginner's Mind
• ​Take Responsibility for Your Experience
• ​Practice Vulnerability
• ​Honor Connection and Boundaries

​20+ years of facilitation experience between teachers

​Conducted with an awareness of sensitive nervous systems and trauma.

​*Full flight of stairs to the home where we will be holding this series. 24 steps up to main floor from entryway, 3 steps up to the entryway,