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Relational Mindfulness
Foundations of Connection
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,
BECOMING A GOOD ANCESTOR
April 9, 16, 23, 30 | Thursdays 5pm-7pm PT | 8pm-10pm ET
Taught by Sara Shapouri & Sarwang Parikh
In this four-part series, we explore the foundational Buddhist teachings of the Five Remembrances—aging, sickness, death, change, and karma—as invitations to live with greater presence, courage, and care. Drawing from core Buddhist teachings we will examine how remembering our mortality can be a counter-cultural practice that deepens wisdom and compassion. Through guided meditation, relational reflection, somatic practices, nature connection and creative exploration, participants will develop skills to meet fear, grief, and impermanence with greater steadiness while reflecting on what it means to live responsibly and become a good ancestor while we are alive.
- Tier 1 – Community Builder - $195-250
- Tier 2 – Sustainer - $140–185
- Tier 3 – Supported Access - $95–135
*10% of all fees goes to cover admin costs and funds scholarship fund. Please choose the tier that reflects your financial reality and ability to support accessible offerings🙏🏽.
Registration is completed only once payment is received.
Community Care Series
In this series, we’ll explore skills and practices that support community and relational care. Each session focuses on a framework or set of tools that can help prepare us to navigate relationships, care for connection, share authentically, and meet the complexity of conflict. Our mindfulness practice is a key component to learning these skills, helping us to know clearly our inner landscape and to attune to others. Through inner and relational practice we can become clear and confident communicators and deepen our relationship with ourselves and others.
Highlights:
- Honestly honor, connect, and care for our inner landscape of feelings, thoughts, and needs
- Communicate to understand and be understood
- Cultivate curiosity and resourcing in order to support resilience in the face of challenge
