Virtual Donation-Based Meditation
Mondays, 7:15-8pm
NO CLASS THIS WEEK!

 

Join me for a donation-based* meditation practice every Monday evening from 7:15-8pm. The practice will include 25-30 minutes of guided meditation and 10-15 minutes for Q&A and guidance at the end of the sit. 

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR CLASS HERE 
(scroll down to 2020 Weekly Group Class Schedule)

*minimum donation is set at $10 via my online scheduler. If you'd like to donate more, you can do so via Venmo @EllieBurkeLife ; if you need to donate less, please just Venmo me whatever amount you are able to donate and I will send you the link.

Grow awareness through this alignment-based vinyasa class that allows you to feel both grounded and expansive. All are welcome.

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR CLASS HERE 
(scroll down to 2020 Weekly Group Class Schedule)

The class WILL be recorded so if you aren't able to attend live, please register via the website but email me so I can send you the recording.

 

So many of you have expressed similar feelings and experiences as white people seeing and wrestling with racial injustice, inequity, and how to best show up in this work. 

I feel grateful that I am in a place to be able to support you all in this critically important work of uncovering and working with unconscious (or conscious) bias and conditioning that is based in white supremacy ideology. Not one of us is free of it, though we all sit somewhere on a spectrum of varying degrees.

Undoing Unconscious Racism is a by-donation virtual workshop series and will include these components:

• Group workshop #1 (Saturday, July 18, 9-10:30am)

  • Understanding unconscious thinking (and unconscious bias)

  • I am racist vs I am A racist

  • Importance of being guided/led by BIPOC

  • Ruth King’s framework / Mindfulness

  • Divide into Racial Affinity groups (5-6 people per group) 

• Racial Affinity Groups (meet 2x/month) 

  • Self-guided / self-scheduled 

• Group meeting #2 (Saturday, August 22, 9am-10am)

  • Check-in / Group Coaching

• Group meeting #3 (Saturday, October 17, 9am-10am)

  • Check-in / Group Coaching

  • Resources for taking action - how to move from here

My intention is not to profit off of this work so I am accepting sliding-scale donations for this workshop series; 100% of donations will be funneled to organizations supporting anti-racist work locally and nationally (recipients are TBD; the last group raised $3000 and supported Peter Paul Development Center, Duron Chavis's local food justice work in Richmond, VA and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance). Donations of any amount will be accepted from $5-$250 - please pay what you are able and willing to invest in this work (for yourself and for the movement, in general).

Requirements for participation:
- purchase and read Ruth King's Mindful of Race (I've heard that copies are hard to find right now - I encourage you to order from one of these independent, black-owned shops.) This does not have to be read in its entirety prior to the workshop.

- commit to the 3 workshop sessions AND to at least 8 months with your Racial Affinity Group - we will discuss the importance of this during our first workshop (workshops will be held via Zoom)

- be open to the experience

In order to register, please Venmo me @EllieBurkeLife with the amount of your donation and please put "Undoing Unconscious Racism Workshop" in the memo. If you do not use Venmo, you can mail a check to Ellie Burke 203 E. 3rd Street, Richmond VA 23219 - please just email me to let me know that you've sent payment.

Once I receive your donation, I will send you a confirmation email with the Zoom link for our July 18th meeting. Please invite friends and family members. If you have any questions, please email me.