SPEAKING FOR BETTER OR WORSE:
ZEN MEDITATION
with Yvonne Rand
Thursday Evening, 7:30–9:00pm
June 5-26, 2008
4 weeks / $56

This course will focus on how speech can function for better or for worse in our lives and can lead to immediately discernible changes in our relations with ourselves and with others. We shall consider, among other modes of speech, ways of speaking which connect and ways which separate, ways of speaking which reduce and ways which exacerbate tension and irritability, and ways of speaking which clarify or alternatively muddle our perceptions. Each class will begin with a period of sitting meditation, followed by a talk and discussion.

Yvonne Rand is a meditation teacher and householder priest in the Soto Zen tradition. She began her practice and study of Zen with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Her other principal teachers and mentors have been Dainin Katagiri Roshi, Maureen Stuart Roshi, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Venerable Tara Tulku, and Shodo Harada Roshi.

To register for this class, send a check for $56 made payable to “The Yoga Room” to: The Yoga Room, 2640 College Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704. For more information, call 510–848–0993.