Solstice with Eve and Chandra
Channel: SF Dharma Collective
Date: 23/12/2022

Well of Being, solstice edition, was led tonight by Eve and Chandra! Chandra led us in a meditation that included visualizing our inner light, and Eve continued reading from Thich Nhat Hanh's "Old Path White Clouds".  Eve and Chandra spoke about a number of themes in chapters 7-9, with a focus on the role that Siddhartha Gautama's wife, Yasodhara, played in his life.

Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the Assistant Spiritual Director and Lead Authorized Teacher for Tara Mandala Retreat Center, founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. She is currently writing a book on the 21 Taras in Buddhism. Visit www.shunyatayoga.com and www.taramandala.org.

Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD, is the director of training at the Greater Good Science Center. She is also a UC Berkeley- and UCSF-trained social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher and has had meaningful collaborations with her father, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman. Their most recent project, The Atlas of Emotions, is an online visual tool to teach a language for improving our emotional awareness that was commissioned and supported by the Dalai Lama. Eve is the co-lead instructor for Cultivating Emotional Balance, an evidence-based meditation and emotion regulation training developed by Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace.

Eve and Chandra teach every Wednesday at 7 pm PT at the SF Dharma Collective - https://sfdharmacollective.org/events/r/hybrid-well-of-being-wednesdays-with-eve-and-chandra. Join us at 2929 24th Street in San Francisco OR online. 

You can donate to the dharma collective here (leave us a note to tell us that it's for Eve AND Chandra!):  https://sfdharmacollective.org/donate

☀️