Blue Mountain Center of Meditation Information

The BMCM pulled up its Berke­ley stakes in 1970 when most of its mem­bers moved to Ram­a­giri Ashram, founded in 1969 in north­ern Marin County on a rural prop­erty acquired from a Catholic order who had used it as a novitiate. Over the next few years, though, Easwaran came back to Berke­ley every week to give pub­lic talks on Tues­day and Wednes­day nights. For part of that time, the venue was a hand­some brick Unity church on a hill just north of the UC Berke­ley campus. Just recently, the BMCM offered a half-day intro­duc­tory retreat in Berke­ley, its first pub­lic offer­ing there since the '70s. Only when the pre­sen­ters arrived in the morn­ing to set things up did they real­ize they had truly come all the way back to their Berke­ley roots. The friend who had made arrange­ments for the retreat didn't know it, but she had brought them to the same Unity church where they had attended Easwaran's talks more than thirty years ago. It felt very much like the old days. Fifty-five peo­ple attended the retreat, and we've already heard from sev­eral who are inter­ested in look­ing fur­ther into the prac­tice of pas­sage meditation.