We are a new LGBTQI spiritual community taking shape in LA. Whether you call it God, Buddha, Krishna, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, The Great I Am, Spirit, Energy, or simply LOVE, you are most welcomed, & deeply valued at Project: Service L.A.  Our website is here: Project: Service L.A. - [url=http://projectservicela.org]http://projectservicela.org[/url] What you need to know about us: We're all about building community, having fun, making the most of life and having quality relationships with ourselve …

ACADEMY FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL GROW By changing your thoughts, you can let go of limiting beliefs and emotional blocks from the past that are holding you back. You can become focused and purposeful about your personal goals. You can experience the confidence and self-esteem that comes with success in the areas that are important to you. You can unlock the power within you to make the changes you want. We are looking for Professional Alternative Wellness Practitioner!!! The purpose of this group is t …

About Shift Long Beach Shift Long Beach is a community-based organization whose mission is to create positive social change in Long Beach through educational, interactive events that empower local communities. The objectives of Shift Long Beach include providing a platform for artistic expression, promoting sustainable living options, and creating space for discussion of diverse perspectives on issues that affect the quality of life in Long Beach. Shift LB is fiscally sponsored by Catalys …

This meetup is for people who want to have eco-friendly fun, (mostly for free!) with like-minded friends who come together to eat, watch movies, learn, laugh and spread the love! Green Veggies is a non-profit formed to explain how eating meat directly causes climate change and how we can all save the world by the fastest, easiest, cheapest means possible. We offer a friendly, supportive approach to empower people to Eat Green, go vegetarian, and connect with a growing movement. Read more at gree …

Wikipedia states "a salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ("aut delectare aut prodesse est"). Salons, commonly associated with French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th century and 18th centuries, were car …

Go out dancing with God as your partner! Featuring hip, current, old school and world dance tunes played by a pro DJ intersperced with brief 'Soul Moments' designed to take you as high as you want to go.   Your outer movement becomes a conduit to Spiritual inner awareness so that your dance becomes a prayer, a spiritual exercise and just outrageously free and joyful. "Without a doubt this is the best free form dance event in LA!" (Matthew, Entrepreneur) "Better than chocolate, sex, or runner's h …

This group is a newly formed hub for the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality, in particular a new spiritual teaching called Evolutionary Enlightenment, recently synthesized into a book of the same name written by spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. Our most basic goal is to host regular gatherings and events that convey the essential ideas of this new spiritual perspective. Towards this, the core of our meetup will focus on discussions using excerpts or chapters from the book as starting poi …

Basic Instinct is an Environmentally-Specific Women's Self-Protection Training Course. If that sounds like a mouthful, it is, but the idea is rather simple. We train women in real locations where we know statistically they are most likely to be attacked and or harassed. This is a unique quality to women's self-protection training that no one else is teaching. Also, what makes us different from the rest is that we spend a good amount of time training students in awareness. If you can see a violen …

What is Contact Improvisation? Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for movement and exploration. Jams usually takes place without music so that dancers can define their own pace. People dance contact in any combination of genders, there are no “steps,” and it’s entirely improvised. The practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. I …

This class will explore Authentic Movement, movement that is generated from within using inner feeling and impulses to create movement. The format will have a mover and a witnesser and will explore different kinds of sound to create movement. The meetups will start in Mid-Feb in the Sherman Oaks and Topanga area. This does not require being in fit physical condition. If you would like more info, there is plenty of it online.

Conscious Mamas are fun-loving, expressive, connected, giving, strong, wise, and joyful mothers. Conscious Mamas are mothers who, day by day, make the world just a little brighter by sharing their light and wisdom. When women gather together, it's a powerful thing. For when women meet, they have the ability to lift one another up, to motivate, to give, to guide, to grow. The support and sisterhood that can come from a group of women is tremendous. That's why I was called to create the Conscious …

Whether you're just learning to meditate or you want to deepen your current practice, this group is for you. Join us, and you just might find that you feel much more joyful, centered, energized, balanced, and connected. By delving into deep breathing, light stretching, dance, movement, and other exercises, we will connect to our deepest selves in a very powerful way. The meditation that I do is based in Tantra, which allows for the experiencing of very ecstatic and blissful states. These medit …

The Vortex Holistic and Movement Center We've created a space for all Healing Arts Come-into-Unity in Downtown Los Angeles as we are a collective group seeking to raise consciousness, love, healing and the joy of connecting with others on the same path. We host a myriad of events some are free but all of which are created to shift, transform and re-invent those who participate. Sign up to receive invites to Healing Fairs, Holistic      Health Events and mixers, and low cost Energy Healing Clini …

We often hear these days that women are going to change the world and that we're the ones we’ve all been waiting for. But, we have to change ourselves in order to change the world. Entrenched patterns in our psyches and culture that go back generations too often dog our attempts to move beyond the status quo. Even with the breakthroughs of the last fifty years, old impulses, desires and beliefs still largely dictate our identities as women. While each one of us bears the weight of history, we al …

Welcome to the I Liq Chuan Los Angeles practice group. I Liq Chuan, Martial Art of Awareness, is an art of cultivating consciousness based on Tai Chi and Zen principles. Students of all levels and backgrounds are welcome to join. In practice sessions we are going to: LEARN - learn principles and philosophy of the art - start with some chi gong to warm up the body and let energy flow - do solo practice learning to unify one's body and increase body awareness - learn I Liq Chuan 21 form to feel t …

Are you an improvised dancer looking to have a stable group of dancers to play, learn and grow with? Do you love ecstatic dance and contact improv but long for a committed group to go deeper with? Perhaps you are a tantric practitioner looking to share your energetic attunement to others through conscious movement and dance. Maybe you are a qi gong, tai chi, capoeira or reiki tudent looking to dive into dance. So are we! We are a small group of dance lovers who inspire each other with new vision …

This group practices Yin Yang movement inspired by Taoist principles, the 5 elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Qi Gong. We practice Yin Yang movements developed by Paulie Zink (Founder of Yin Yang Yoga), which focus on increasing flexibility and joint mobility, core strength, awakening our innate primal movement and balancing the Yin Yang flow of the body.  We utilize circular motion, mimick the natural movements of animals, express Oneness with Nature and uniquely embody the dynamism …

This is a group interested in the deep, transformational healing experienced through sound and breath meditation...specifically sound from sacred instruments such as gongs, Himalayan singing bowls, crystal bowls, tingshaws, rainsticks and chimes and a three-part Prana Yama Breathwork practice. The first  event begins the evening of Saturday, June15, 2013. The cost for this four-hour event is $50.00 and includes an evening of non-stop sacred music (featuring one-dozen professional gongs set up in …

Inspired by the documentary "The Blue Jewel", powered by a strong belief in collective consciousness and driven by a deep desire to contribute to the healing of our beautiful mother earth, we (my friend Sheryl and I) felt called to gather those that share a concern for our planet. Earth Healing Circle meets every other Sunday to join our spiritual energies toward personal and planetary healing. Join us in meditation, drum circles, and other energy generating activities. We have only one Earth. S …

Looking for connection through meditation and movement, while sailing? This group will meet regularly to provide all three: connection, movement meditation and sailing on my 23' trimaran out of Marina Del Rey, California. There's room for about six each three-hour trip for people who want to experience feelings of union with breath, wind, water, sea life, boat and movement. We leave in the early afternoon and return at or before sunset for an experience of feeling in-the-moment with nature and r …

Sacred Dance is an ecstatic dance gathering for people who love to groove. We have a 1 hr yoga class taught by rotating teachers and then 90 minutes of free-form dancing with guest DJs. The night concludes with a luxurious sound meditation bath.  It's a great way to meet fun, healthy people and to let your spirit soar! Let's dance! 7:00 - 8:00pm Yoga with guest teachers 8:00 - 9:30pm Free-Form Ecstatic Dancing 9:30 - 10:00pm Sound Bath Meditation $20 love donation We average about 100 dancers * …

Do you want to feel more connected to your power? More Alive, More Authentic and more Empowered toward achieving your goals? Our easy transformative exercises bring a new sense of body awareness, vitality and well-being in a supportive and interactive way. You will have fun and grow with others achieving a sense of balance, grounding and connection. Find your edge and embody change!

We are the local chapter of the Pachamama Alliance. http://pachamama.org/ Our mission is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on the planet. We engage on a monthly basis to explore ways we can work together to support this mission in our community. Our main focus is to educate individuals and businesses in our community through the delivery of a free symposium called Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream. We are also looking for …

dear friends, why did i start this meet up? i just returned from india and had very powerful experiences working with the sex trafficked women and their children in the red light district of calcutta. as i stood in the brothel streets with my heart racing and feeling sick as i looked into the blank faces of the young women, i could not help but imagine how many of them had been brought there sold by their own families or had come to sex work because they felt they had no alternative in society. …