Eve Decker

Eve Decker co-leads the Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley. She teaches for the family program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, leads ongoing weekly groups, co-leads LGBTQIA+ and other meditation retreats, and she is the forthcoming author of a book on the transformative power of self-friendliness. Eve is also an accomplished musician. She was a founding member of the folk trio Rebecca Riots, and since then has released five collections of “Dharma Music” (songs inspired by Buddhist teachings). She has a podcast titled LOVED: Mindful and Musical Perspectives on Daily Life.

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 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).

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 and released five CDs.

Since then, Eve has released five 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 worked for many years as a children’s music and musical theater teacher, and a song leader and soloist at 3 progressive Bay Area synagogues.

Eve lives in Berkeley, CA with her partner Diane and their dog, Kimba.