On August 10, 2025, we'll be meeting again in "hybrid" format! We will offer our usual internet connection, AND we will meet in-person.
Join us in person at St. Luke Church, 10 Bayview Drive, San Rafael.
FOR MORE INFO AND ZOOM LINK GO TO
www.MarinSangha.org
Many of us go out to dinner in San Rafael after meeting in-person. Please consider joining us, it's a nice way to foster the friendliness of shared practice!
Eve has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1991, and has attended more than 50 silent retreats in the Vipassana tradition ranging in length from 6-90 days. She has been teaching mindfulness, self-compassion and more since 2006. She has been singing, songwriting, and performing since childhood.
Eve is a graduate of UC Berkeley, and the Path of Engagement and Community Dharma Leader training programs at Spirit Rock Center in California. She also completed a two year training in the Hakomi Method (a form of mindfulness centered somatic psychotherapy). She has trained in and teaches the Awakening Joy curriculum developed by James Baraz, the Transforming Judgmental Mind curriculum developed by Donald Rothberg, and Mindful Self-Compassion, developed by Kristen Neff and Christopher Germer.
Eve created and leads groups on ‘Lovingkindness-for-Self’ (teachings, music and practices to increase our capacity for self acceptance). She teaches regular Monday and Wednesday classes on a range of topics based in Buddhism, and coaches people individually. She co-leads, with James Baraz, the Insight Community of Berkeley; she is a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program headed by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach; and she teaches for the family program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She has also has podcast, produced by her brother Ben Decker, titled LOVED: Mindful and Musical Perspectives on Daily Life (found on Apple Music and Spotify).
In the 1990's she co-founded, played, recorded and toured with the feminist folk trio Rebecca Riots. Rebecca Riots was dubbed “Best Band with a Conscience” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. They toured the country multiple times, played lots of sold out shows and folk festivals across the country, and released five CDs.
Since then, Eve has released four solo CDs of original, mindfulness-based music, ("Commentary on Perfections of the Heart", produced by Ben Decker; "Simple Truth", produced by Julie Wolf; and "IN: Chants of Mindfulness and Compassion", produced by Julie Wolf; and "Hey Little Puppy: Songs of Mindfulness and Kindness for Kids and Families", produced by Lisa Zeiler). Eve and Julie Wolf also produced a compilation album titled "Awakening Joy", based on the music performed at James Baraz's Awakening Joy course, hailed in O! The Oprah Magazine.
Eve co-teaches, with Rabbi Chaya Gusfield, workshops that use both Jewish and Buddhist practices and music. They annually lead the service for second day Rosh Hashana at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland. She also works as song-leader and cantorial soloist at Beth Chaim Congregation in Danville, CA.
Eve lives in Berkeley, CA with her partner Diane and their dog, Kimba.
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