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​Bay Area Meditation and Education Centers
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The Bay Area is rich in meditation, mindfulness and Buddhist learning opportunities and resources.  Following is a listing of a number of meditation centers in the Bay Area.  There are many others.  For additional information on a variety of other opportunities, visit: http://bayareabuddhism.blogspot.com

Against the Stream

2701 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA and other locations.  We are continuing to engage our community and build an organization that serves its population in ways that will support the dharma and our practice both on and off the cushion.  https://www.againstthestream.org

Berkeley Zen Center
1929 Russell St, Berkeley, CA 94703 - 510- 845-2403 - www.berkeleyzencenter.org
Offers many sits each week plus lectures and other activities.

Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Located in Berkeley, with organizations around the world, Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a beacon of light for socially engaged Buddhism.  To learn about its programs, visit www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org


Clear Water Zendo
607 Branciforte St, Vallejo, CA 94590 - 707- 649-2480 - www.vallejozencenter.org
A Soto Zen Buddhist Temple that offers a variety of sits, ceremonies and other programs. Led by Mary Mocine.

East Bay Meditation Center
285 17th Street, Oakland, CA 94612 - 510-268-0696 - www.eastbaymeditation.org

Insight Meditation Center
108 Birch Street, Redwood City, CA 94062 - 650-599-3456 - www.insightmeditationcenter.org
Offers one of the most extensive array of programs and retreats in the Bay Area. There is no registration cost to any program.  All programs are on a dana (volunteer contribution) basis.

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
Berkeley Buddhist Monastery , 2304 McKinley Avenue (at Bancroft), Berkeley, CA 94703 - 510-237-6020  www.insightberkeley.org  Thursday evenings, from 7:30 - 9:30 pm, led by James Baraz.

Insight Retreat Center (IRC)
1906 Glen Canyon Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 - 408- 663-1906 - www.insightretreatcenter.org
Offers multiple-day retreats on a dana basis. Registrations typically fill immediately.

Mountain Stream Meditation Center
710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959 - 530- 265-6111 - www.mtstream.org
Offers a variety of programs, sits and retreats.  Led by John Travis, Heather Sundberg and others.

Shambhala
2288 Fulton Street, #202, Berkeley, CA 74707 - 510-841-3242 - berkeley.shambhala.org
Shambhala is one of an international network of meditation centers.  
Offers a wide range of Shambhala, Buddhist, and contemplative education and practice programs.

Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Sir Frances Drake Blvd., Woodacre, CA - 415-488-0164 - www.spiritrock.org
One of the leading Buddhist mediation centers in the country.  Jack Kornfield, Sylvia Boorstein, James Baraz among the founders who studied Theravada traditions in Thailand in the 1970.  Offers extensive programs of varying lengths.


Sacremento Insight Meditation (SIMS)
Post Office Box 191951, Sacramento, California  95819 - 916- 471-6499 - www.sactoinsight.org

Offers Buddhist meditation training, meetings, one-day retreats, residential retreats and more.  Dennis Warren and other teachers.

ONLINE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Many organizations offer learning at a click, and downloads and podcasts that you can listen to at your leisure. 

Audiodharma
www.audiodharma.org 
A rich collection of meditations and dharma talks.

Berkeley Insight Meditation
www.berkeleyinsight.org
 
Along with many other Buddhist websites, Berkeley Insight Meditation offers a number of dharma talks.  In particular, there are talks by Bay Area teacher, James Baraz, who leads a Thursday evening Sangha.

Dharmaseed
www.dharmaseed.org 
You can listen and learn for a lifetime from the Vipassana teachings available on this site.

Spirit Rock Meditation Center
www.spiritrock.org  Online courses are offered at different times.


UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22  
A series of 3 - 19 minute guided meditations offered by the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.