The Bay Area Ipsalu Tantra Meetup is here for you to: Learn about and experience the joys and benefits of tantra practice in a safe, sacred, playful, loving environment. Meet other like-minded souls on a path of spiritual growth and ecstatic self-awareness Become more whole and self-realized by expanding and integrating the energies of heart * sex * consciousness Free yourself from the limits that hold you back ~ Recognize your Divine Magnificence! Discover the secrets to enjoying and sharing e …

This group is designed to help athletes, runners, bikers, martial artists, cross-trainers, and all types of fitness enthusiasts to discover the wonderful benefits of yoga. Learn how a powerful yoga practice can enhance your athletic performance, heal your injuries, calm and focus your mind, and improve overall endurance. Join us for fun, challenging classes. Meet other athletes and discover this dynamic practice together -- no chanting or praying invovled!

Are you procrastinating, or feeling tired and frustrated in your work? Are the usual productivity techniques -- color-coding your folders, reorganizing your e-mail inbox, and so on -- not doing the trick for you? In this group, we take getting things done to a deeper level. This group's classes are about using mindfulness practices, like meditation and yoga, to find focus and motivation while you work -- without even leaving your desk. The classes are led by Chris Edgar, author of Inner Produc …

Friday Night Launch We are spiritually conscious young adults who are creating community, coming together to support each other, deepen our spiritual practice, and together shift the consciousness of the planet by living from our hearts. We honor all paths to God, and are an open, inclusive community. We are deeply committed to living a spiritual life, but we’re not particularly religious. Not a lot of dogma, just a lot of love and connection to God and each other. We define young adults as gen …

Want to learn about the raw food lifestyle and/or meet like-minded vegan raw food enthusiasts? Then this is the place for you! We host regular potlucks and presentations about topics relevant to the raw and living foods lifestyle.

Join us on yoga inspired adventures leaving from the San Francisco Area. Our group is for anyone craving to get out of the city into nature with the goal of inviting more sweetness into every day. We've created and found the best day trips, urban adventures and international retreats, all inspired by yoga, dance, nature and all those things that invite us to move with more grace. You're invited! No matter what brings you, the yoga, the hot springs, the food, the nature, the people. You're invite …

Our meet-up group’s hope is to create a safe space for women to practice yoga with other women in the most limitless ways possible. Clothes can be limiting, in a physical, emotional and spiritual sense: Physically, the clothes limit the way we move.  Clothes are limiting. That is their basic purpose-–to limit your body’s experience of the elements, and to limit other people’s ability to see your body. Practicing yoga nude liberates your body, and doing it with other women heightens your sense of …

Let's Support each other in Social, Physical, and emotional ways. Keeping it local, green, and with good health as our main goal. Let's have support groups, physical activities, and social events for the community. Let's get to know each other. Please come try one of our classes/seminars/get-togethers! Shape up early morning 7:30am  Monday and Wed Shape up Easy Peasy  10am Tu and Thurs Shape up after work  Tuesday 530pm, Thursday 6pm and 7:30pm Shape up 10am Mon/Wed/ Saturday Prenatal yoga Begi …

Hoop dance is all about fun, fitness, and connecting with others. Get your hoop on every Monday night, make new friends, and be part of the East Bay hoop community. Whether you’re an experienced hooper looking to practice (and share) new moves, or a beginning hooper wanting a little help with the basics, this event is for you. You don’t need any experience, or even a hoop to join us! We provide special, non-marking hoops for use inside the yoga studio, and music to get you moving. Hoops also ava …

Learn how to end binging, stop hating your body and telling yourself I really shouldn’t be eating this, so you can free up your mental energy, love your body and focus your attention on the things that matters most in your life. If you have ever suffered from emotional or compulsive eating please join our events. We are a community of women who get together in a relaxed space, give support, share stories and learn specific tools to end the food fight so that we can have a peaceful mind and mov …

Sliding scale yoga in Lake Merritt, North Oakland, and West Oakland: $ 10 drop in $ 5 class card for 25 (must be used in 3 months)

A friend bought this gorgeous mansion in Berkeley and I am forming a community there! There's a lot of work to be done on the house so move-in will be sometime this Spring, maybe April or May. This community will focus on celebrating diversity, creativity, and Spirituality of all different sorts. It will be a truly ecumenical community. We will do some spiritual practice together twice a month but practice that speaks to folks from many different backgrounds. We will share music together and gro …

Dance for Healing, Dance for Joy is a meet up group for passionate, creative, heartfelt women practicing Nia Technique movement in the East Bay. Never heart of Nia?? Nia draws from DANCE, MARTIAL ARTS, and healing arts like YOGA to create safe, enjoyable movement that engages your body, mind and spirit. Done BAREFOOT to diverse and inspiring music, Nia is a transformational movement practice. Still don't get it? Well if "Dance for Healing, Dance for Joy" sounds good to you, come give it a try. N …

DHARMA INC is an international community of people expressing lives filled with joy, freedom, and contribution to others. We welcome all and join together in an effort to cultivate natural wisdom in all aspects of living. All our classes are made available on a donation basis. We are a non-profit community center, supported entirely by community contributions. At Dharma INC Oakland, we offer classes and programs to the local community, so that all who see value in this approach to life have an o …

CCK SUP was started by a group of California Canoe & Kayak (CCK) Instructors. Our goal is to lower the barrier to Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP). Making it easier for the beginners to begin and for the experienced to get more water time with the best folks to learn from. Certified Instructors and seasoned CCK SUP members will always be on hand to offer guidance and support.

This is a group for yogis who are also hikers. We hike, we practice yoga, we meditate, we become friends. Our best sun salutations are in the wilderness where we feel complete and one whole with Mother Earth. Our hikes are challenging but our yoga retreats in the woods and in the mountains are peaceful. Our outings will be in small groups as wilderness and crowds do not go together. I am a member of other meetups and I learned from those experiences. I would like to set up this one differently. …

We are a growing group of people dedicated to cultivating a strong spirit and healthy body. We meet every Thursday evening from 7:00-8:00pm at the Harmony Yoga Studio/ Acupressure Institute (1533 Shattuck Ave, in North Berkeley, right across from Andronico’s) to perform the Peaceful Warrior and Meditation Practice. Basic instruction is provided and no previous experience is needed to participate. There is no cost to practice with us. Donations are welcome but not required. What is the Peaceful W …

Group is a non-denominational and open to all sincere seekers, i.e. no faith is advocated over another. Group activities may include, but not be limited to, informal vegetarian potlucks, listening to Vedic lectures, or just visiting the outdoors in good company.

We are three young women working everyday to spread holistic health and compassion in our new Berkeley community. We have a big, private, fenced-in backyard with plenty of room for guests to join together to practice connecting with our individual and collective mind-body-soul's. We invite you to stay after for heart-felt conversation over organic tea, green smoothies/juices, and/or healthy snacks after our practice depending on the specific event. All levels welcome. Breathing exercises and med …

Gentle exploration of the circular movements of cartwheels. Influenced by Capoeira, Tai Chi, Yoga, focused mostly on relaxed movement, connecting to the earth, strength and flexibility, meditative play, and natural awareness. Low impact exercises for any level. Full mobility not required. Bring your tumbling experience to share, and prepare to breathe. This is not just cartwheels.  It is exploration of somatic vortices, mirrored helical kinesthesia, closed eye horizon tracking, breathing, cleans …

Love to be outside? Love mind-body Movement? Then come do Pilates in the Park! Every week we will "meetup" in a new East Bay Park for a guided 1-hour Pilates Mat class focusing on alignment, control, balance, conditioning and of course, core strength. I am starting this group because I love teaching Pilates and now that its spring I'm excited to get outside and enjoy the good weather! No previous Pilates experience necessary! People with Injuries or special needs are welcome to join!

Dzogchen is an ancient Buddhist spiritual tradition developed in India and Tibet. In Dzogchen, the primordial enlightened state of being is seen not as something to be constructed or gained, but rather as our inherent nature and potential. A teacher of sufficient capacity is needed to explain, introduce and transmit the Dzogchen teachings. Practitioners of Dzogchen endeavor to develop awareness and integrate the teachings into their daily lives by discovering through practice their own inherent …