Saturday, July 25 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Please save the date for a Day of Mindfulness at Rossmoor in Walnut Creek.
(Note: The date and location have changed!)
Tamar Enoch
(510) 847-4615
tlxenoch@icloud.com
V Riglick
veronica.riglick@gmail.com
CANCELLED: June Day of Mindfulness
Saturday, June 20 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Many members of our community will be in France for the Order of Interbeing retreat during much of June, so we are cancelling our plans to hold a local Day of Mindfulness this month.
Please join us the following months at Shantideva and elsewhere around the Bay Area!
May Day of Mindfulness with Victoria Mausisa: Fierce Love — Resistance and Rest
Saturday, May 23 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm
A day for reflection, recovery, and engagement
NOTE: This Day of Mindfulness will be held at East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC). See details below.
With cruelty and injustice in the world running rampant every day, it can seem difficult to know what to do.
We invite you — activists, advocates, practitioners, and all who support the creation of a better world — to gather for a day of mindfulness at EBMC.
Our purpose, first, is to rest and recover our strength. If you have been protesting, come and let the sangha hold you for a day.
A second purpose is for mindful discussion about where we find hope, and how our actions might help realize our hopes.
Dharma teacher Victoria Mausisa will be offering a teaching, and other members of the NorCal Plum Village community will lead practices like sitting meditation, walking meditation, and eating meditation. Please bring a vegetarian lunch.
All are welcome!
East Bay Meditation Center is approximately 3–4 blocks from 19th Street BART in Oakland. Metered street parking is available, as well as at the Douglas Parking lot ($10.50/day) located at 1811 Harrison Street.
Participants will be offered to wear N95 or KN95 face masks, but face masks are not mandatory.
Fragrance-Free: East Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space. To attend in person, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products.
EBMC is wheelchair accessible.
Opportunity for Dana:
We joyfully receive your dana/donations as acts of generosity and want you to know your presence is enough. For transparency, we are renting EBMC for $250 to host this day together.
To support this Day of Mindfulness and help cover the space rental at EBMC, please consider sending a donation ahead of time, via Venmo to @JennaD7 .
By donation
As you are able
A Day of Mindfulness in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Saturday, April 25 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Take It Easy: Cultivating Ease with Our Practice
You are invited to a Day of Mindfulness in the redwoods inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching on the importance of calm, ease, smiling and letting go when navigating difficult times. Members of a panel will share practices and tools they use from the Plum Village tradition to cultivate ease. The day will include mindful sitting, walking, eating, movement and dharma sharing to help us embody well-being and ease.
LET US KNOW YOU ARE COMING!
To help us with planning and ride sharing, please RSVP here.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
- Ride Share Organizer
- Parking Guide
- Greeter
- Five Contemplations Reader
For questions or to volunteer:
Natascha Bruckner at njbruckner@gmail.com
Logan Payne at loganpayne@earthlink.net.
Free
Donations are welcome
March Day of Mindfulness in Vacaville (now on March 7)
Saturday, March 7 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Please save the date for a Day of Mindfulness at Pho Tri Wisdom Meditation School in Vacaville.
February Day of Mindfulness – CANCELED
Saturday, February 21 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Unfortunately, we are not able to hold a Day of Mindfulness at Shantideva Monastery.
The monastery’s septic system is undergoing repairs, and we cannot accommodate groups until that’s completed.
January Day of Mindfulness
Saturday, January 10 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
The Shantideva caretaking team will be offering a simple Day of Mindfulness at Shantideva Monastery.
We’ll start at 10am, so please plan to arrive between 9:30 and 9:45 to park, say hello, and settle in.
We should be done around 2pm.
The location is Thich Tu Luc’s Shantideva Monastery at 30345 Palomares Rd, Castro Valley, CA 94552. It’s about an hour’s drive from Berkeley, SF, or San Jose.
If you’re planning to attend, please sign up here. Parking is limited, so it is especially to sign up if you’re planning to drive, so we can anticipate the number of cars.
Things to bring:
- Something vegetarian to eat for lunch
- Water
- Layers, sunscreen, hat
- Something to share for tea/snacks (optional)
- A friend or two! (carpool if you can, please, as there is limited parking)
Activities will include:
- Movement meditation
- Chanting
- Sitting meditation
- Mindful lunch
- Dharma sharing
- Singing
This day is offered free of charge. Donations to support Shantideva are welcome.
See you there!
Free
Invitation to International Walking Meditation
November 29, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Groups in 100+ cities around the world walk for Peace
Saturday 11/29 — Golden Gate Park (Love Blocks)
Gather 10:45am — Walk 11am — Close by 12 noon
Free
Day of Mindfulness at Udumbara
October 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
DEAR FRIENDS,
Please join us at a beautiful spot in the Santa Cruz mountains for a Day of Mindfulness in the Plum Village Tradition. Our day will include sitting and walking meditation, a dharma talk, a mindful lunch and dharma sharing practices to invite our true presence and to cultivate our understanding of interbeing.
Please see the flyer for more details.
To help with planning and ride sharing, please RSVP here.
Jim Scott-Behrends
Jsbehrends@aol.com
Armistice Day Weekend Retreat: Continuing Our Lineage of Peace and Writing
November 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – November 10, 2025 @ 11:00 am
We are delighted to invite you to register for the Armistice Day Writing Retreat held at the Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, California (80 miles from the Bay Area), Nov. 7-10, 2025.
This retreat has historically been called the “Veterans Day Retreat.” It was started by a group of veterans and writers several decades ago. The current organizers are not veterans, but we aspire to carry forward the flame of peace and inspiration started by that group.
Retreat theme: “Continuing Our Lineage of Peace and Writing”
Our intention is to make this retreat an inclusive, restorative, safe space for practicing mindfulness together, along with space to work on our own writing or other creative projects.
The program will offer the opportunity to experience many Plum Village practices: silent meditation each morning and evening, Dharma talks, walking meditation and mindful movement practice, eating meals mindfully together, Dharma sharing in small groups (see the description on this page), and other activities. We will observe noble silence from after the evening program until the end of lunchtime the next day. In the afternoons and evenings, there will be time for mindful conversation.
Quaker Center is a beautiful retreat among the redwoods and oak trees in the hills above Santa Cruz. It is a quiet, peaceful location where the Plum Village community has been holding retreats for many years.
Date/Time: The retreat will begin Friday, November 7 at 6pm PT and end Monday, November 10, 2025 after lunch.
There will also be a writing workshop facilitated by Maxine Hong Kingston from 10am – 4pm on Friday, November 7. You can register for the retreat alone, the workshop alone, or for both.
Retreat meals will be provided by the wonderful chef Tod Nysether, starting Friday evening through Monday lunch.
Teachers: We are excited that Maxine Hong Kingston and Wendy Johnson have agreed to be our dharma teachers for this retreat, with Maxine leading an additional writing workshop during the day on Friday!
Costs: The cost of the retreat will vary by sleeping arrangement.
- For a room with 2 beds the cost per person will be $500 for the entire retreat, food included.
- For a dorm room that sleeps 4-6, or for tent campers, the cost will be $375 per person for the entire retreat, food included.
- We are happy to be able to offer some scholarships for BIPOC, Wake Up, and Veteran retreatants. Scholarships of 25% or 50% are available.
The workshop will cost $60, and will help fund scholarships to the retreat. We also welcome donations to the scholarship fund.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/84xwNZwJYEYpGjgy5
Please fill out the information requested in this Google Form by Friday October 10. Sophie, Miles, Melanie, and Dylan will review all completed registration forms and confirm your registration by Friday, October 17. At this time, we will send details on payment and lodging.
We aspire to create a retreat body that represents the diversity of the many people and communities practicing in the Plum Village lineage, including race/ethnicity, age, and gender, with an aspiration to have 50% people of color and 50% young people at our gathering. Please be patient with us as we do our best to accommodate your needs and to create the conditions for a supportive and inclusive space.
If you have any questions about registration, you are welcome to email Sophie Landau (sophiel42@gmail.com) or Melanie Gin (melaniegin1@gmail.com).
$190 – $500
Price varies depending on you accommodation and potential scholarships.
Dylan Tweney
+1 650-315-9607
dylan@tweney.com