Wake Up To Financial Stability Workshop
This workshop series includes:
An introductory video
4 one-hour sessions scheduled in April on Saturdays from noon to 1 pm ET (April 6, 13, 20, and 27)
A 30-minute 1:1 consultation
Tools to support money management
Cultivating Resilience for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) (Sessions 2, 3, and 4)
This workshop series has four sessions.
Session 1 is FREE - March 16 from 3 - 5 pm ET
Sessions 2, 3, and 4 - March 23, March 30, and April 6
Cultivating Resilience for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) (Session 1 of 4 is FREE!)
This workshop series has four sessions.
Session 1 is FREE - March 16 from 3 - 5 pm ET
Sessions 2, 3, and 4 - March 23, March 30, and April 6
Casting Indra's Net – A Book Release Party!
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Ayo Yetunde's new book Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community. Creating compassionate communities takes more than good will—it requires a dedication to respecting cultural differences while remembering the fundamental spiritual kinship that exists between all people. Activist, counselor, and Buddhist teacher Ayo Yetunde creatively unpacks this condition through the metaphor of Indra’s Net—a universal net in which all beings reflect each other like jewels.
In the Body with the Breath: Guided Meditation for Greater Self-Compassion
Meditation class: Using the breath as an anchor, we will settle into the body and mindfully observe all that arises. Sessions will include a themed, guided meditation, optional sharing, and silent reflection. No special equipment or experience needed. You may want to practice from a space that is comfortable and where you won’t be disturbed. Consider lighting a candle or having a journal nearby to note any reflections.
Slow Your Roll Yoga for Women Age 40+
For women age 40 and older, this accessible yoga class does not require standing or getting down on the floor. You can do all the practices sitting in a chair or not using a chair at all. The class is appropriate for all body types, ability, flexibility, and strength.
Accessible Yoga for ALL Bodies
Accessible Yoga for ALL Bodies is a yoga class does not require standing or getting down on the floor. All practices may be done sitting in a chair, using props for support, or not using a chair at all. The class is appropriate for all body types, ability, flexibility, and strength. This gentle yoga class will include yogic breathing, meditation, and physical yoga poses.
Being with Grief and Loss During the Holiday Season
Grief and loss can feel especially sharp during the holidays. No matter the season, all feelings belong. We will gather to honor our varied experiences of grief and practice strategies for being tender witnesses to our own suffering, while staying connected to our capacity to nurture what is sweet and good. We can hold space for it all. This 90-minute ONLINE session will include a brief talk, discussion, and guided meditation. Facilitator: Barbara Gibson. Register to receive confirmation email with Zoom information.
The Afrikan Wisdom Summit
The Afrikan Wisdom Summit. We are excited that Center of the Heart co-founder Pamela Ayo Yetunde will be a speaker for this event, joining over 35 presenters for powerful conversations of liberation, inspiration and transformation for everyone. FREE ONLINE EVENT - April 5 - 11, 2022
The Transformation Summit. Wise Women Rising For Embodied Change
The Transformation Summit. Wise Women Rising For Embodied Change. The visionary speakers in this series, which include our co-founder Miriam Phields, will open you to the powers of conscious feminine centered leadership to co-create vibrant transformation and change for you, your loved ones, your clients and the world. FREE ONLINE EVENT - March 21-April 3, 2022
Slow Your Roll Yoga
FREE
Class starts at 7:00 p.m. EST
Tailored for Women 40 and over
Designed for ALL bodies and ALL levels
The Net: Living an Interdependent Spiritual Life
Authoritarianism grows through successful wedge-making strategies that use rhetoric, policies, legal systems, the press and social media, and our embrace of ignorance to keep humans believing we are separate entities, should continuing acting as separate entities, and should even use violence to maintain separateness when integration, interconnection, interdependence, and other forms of togetherness powerfully coalesce. How might we deepen our commitments to various forms of togetherness for a more nurturing world?
Black New England Conference
Crossing River Jordan: Healing Racial Wounds Through Accountability & Truth-Telling
A Virtual/Hybrid Conference
The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit
Discover the transformative power of compassion, as exemplified by the Dalai Lama, with teachings and meditations from 20+ experts in this worldwide free online event.
First Saturdays (June)
First Saturdays is the Center of the Heart’s (COH) monthly community offering to those interested in creating a spirit-filled life, supported by people near and far. When we gather, we will have a presentation topic, practice gentle yoga to experience the joy of being able to move while also supporting our resilience. Accessible yoga can be practiced using a chair and props. We will lead a guided meditation to bring focus, ease, and a sense of connection to our busy minds. First Saturdays are held online from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm EST.
June 5th | Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Meditation for Peace & Renewal
Broadcasting from Debra B. Pearson's forest, Debra will explain the Japanese practice Shinrin-Yoku and its many health benefits. She will lead a guided meditation and Shinrin-Yoku practice. Miriam Phields, registered yoga teacher, will lead a brief gentle yoga practice followed by a sound bath (headphones required). This First Saturdays program is free, and donations are welcome. You must register for this event.
Remarkable Relational Resilience: Living Nobly In the Midst of Ignobility (This Retreat is hosted and sponsored by the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
We welcome all Buddhist practitioners of any identities to join us in this at-home retreat. We will meet in the morning, afternoon (optional) and evening as a way of opening up space to be authentic, utilizing mindfulness practices, truthful and wise speech, and lovingkindness towards ourselves. We will talk about real feelings, and ways to think creatively about forming appropriate responses to live into nobility. We will also reflect on what African-American Buddhist lesbians in the Insight tradition have taught us about cultivating Remarkable Relational Resilience.
First Saturdays
First Saturdays is the Center of the Heart’s (COH) monthly community offering to those interested in creating a spirit-filled life, supported by people near and far. When we gather, we will begin with gentle and restorative yoga to experience the joy of being able to move while also supporting our resilience. Accessible yoga can be practiced using a chair and props. Yoga will be followed by guided visualization then silent meditation to bring focus, ease, and a sense of connection to our busy minds. After we attune our bodies and minds, we will engage in an “interspiritual scripture” reading to better acquaint ourselves to the wisdom of the ages.
April
Our selection for April will be The Tao te Ching, Stephen Mitchell’s, sections 1 – 40. Your hosts for this gathering will be COH co-founders Miriam Phields and Ayo Yetunde. You can participate regardless of whether you have access to the Tao te Ching. COH begins its First Saturdays with the Tao te Ching because it is a powerful book that is very likely to support your spiritual life. Please join us.“
The cost for First Saturdays is $35.
New Year's Retreat 2021
Join Center of the Heart for our New Year’s Retreat—a half-day retreat of contemplative and yogic practices to regain your inspiration, strength, and courage as you move into 2021.
How Could/Should Liberation Look Today in the U.S.?
In this conversation, Community Dharma Leader Ayo Yetunde, co-editor of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom, and Hozan Alan Senauke will discuss viewpoints from their intersectionalities of religion, race, gender, and sexuality, including Buddhist practices that support Remarkable Relational Resilience.
Spirituality in Session with Dr. Russell Siler Jones and Friends
Russell will be interviewed by Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares, Executive Director of Spiritual Directors International and also Russell's SIP co-instructor Pamela Ayo Yetunde. Rev. SeiFu will also interview Russell and Ayo about SIP. Ayo will interview Russell about his book. We expect a dynamic conversation between chaplains, spiritual directors, and psychotherapists. Here is an excerpt from Spirit in Session:
Black & Buddhist: A Groundbreaking Book Release Party
Join us as we celebrate the release of the groundbreaking book, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom.
