Emotional Surfing with Brian Basham

Wed Nov 19 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm UTC-08:00

The Berkeley Alembic | Berkeley

The Berkeley Alembic Foundation
Publisher/HostThe Berkeley Alembic Foundation
Emotional Surfing with Brian Basham
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This Emotional Surfing class is like personal training for feeling your emotions.
About this Event

We resist emotions by distorting our attention and awareness. Emotional surfing is a meditation technique that allows us to relax those distortions and find clarity and alignment.


This technique provides provides relief for those moments when:

* You’re distracting yourself with unimportant tasks

* You can’t stop thinking about an argument you had

* You’re reacting from anger

* You’re worrying about an upcoming event

* You’re numbing out on your phone or addiction of choice


Side effects include:

* Joy

* Engagement with life

* Feeling like you’re tripping but you haven’t taken anything

* Sobbing that feels painful and amazing at the same time


This Emotional Surfing class is like personal training for feeling your emotions. You’ll work with emotions arising in your life and learn how to meet and feel them in a way that lets them digest.


A personal trainer can help you discover when you’re using the ‘wrong’ muscles for an exercise, and can help you feel what it feels like to use the muscles that you aren’t yet used to using. In this workshop, you’ll get targeted feedback on the muscles of attention you’re using when you’re feeling your emotions, and be given some experiments to try that may make your relationship with your emotions more easeful.

Be prepared to bring current situations from your life that bring up challenging emotions to practice with.


This event is a closed container, lobby door will lock at 7:15.

Email [email protected] for a No One Turned Away For LAck Of Funds ticket.


Brian Basham creates mischief for the benefit of all beings.

He loves a good math olympiad problem, Neal Stephenson novels, and board games. He’s a proud uncle and a goofball.

He coaches software engineering leaders on utilizing the daily struggles of their jobs as fuel for transformation and awakening.

Emotional Surfing is Brian’s unique twist on timeless wisdom. He studied Emotional Resolution with Cedric Bertelli, which greatly improved his quality of life and became the basis for the practice of Emotional Surfing. He’s a devoted meditator, with experience in Tibetan Buddhist meditation, Realization Process, Nondual Tantric Shaivism and other schools. His experience in those traditions has deeply informed the philosophy behind Emotional Surfing.


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The Berkeley Alembic, 2820 Seventh Street, Berkeley, United States

Tickets

USD 23.18 to USD 39.19

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