“I Am Large”

An EcoDharma Practice of Generative Expansion → Contraction → Action

Join Mushim Ikeda on Sunday, February 23rd for “I Am Large,” a daily EcoDharma practice in three short steps. How do we live with species extinction, 1.2 billion human climate refugees by 2050, and other environmental emergencies? How do we function daily, find joy, care for children and elders, continue to be of service?

Registration is now open.

Otter family next to a rivers.
River otter on the Salmon River in Oregon © Stephen Ikeda, used with permission

Join us for “I Am Large,” a daily EcoDharma practice in three short steps to connect us to a path of action within a dynamic and generative brief practice that offers hope, humor, and a deep Dharma perspective. Because as a social media meme says, “so many coping strategies are based on the idea that your anxiety is unwarranted, and right now needs more of an ‘okay, extremely warranted but you still gotta water the plants or you’ll have fascism AND dead plants’ approach.”

Let’s gather in loving community to water our plants, connect to what is creative, generative, juicy, and find ways to be both heartbroken and hopeful – together.

Mushim Patricia Ikeda is an internationally-known secular mindfulness and Buddhist teacher working primarily with justice activists and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) meditation practitioners. A core teacher at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, she is an author whose writing has been published in Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Buddhadharma and various anthologies. She is the founding and guiding teacher of EBMC’s Practice in Transformative Action, a yearlong program now in its ninth year, providing secular mindfulness training for justice activists and agents of change.

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Registration for this exploration is open now. This program is donation-based, with no required registration fee. We welcome your contributions to support this program and the work of One Earth Sangha.

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