Tending the Fire Within: A Therapy Group for Men In This group we will embrace and explore issues that men often find themselves struggling with. Together we will share and learn to work with our anger, humiliation, grief, loneliness, and sense of power in order to create lives with more passion and connection. By supporting each other’s experience, we will dive more deeply into our own expressions of masculinity and learn how we can feel more alive by holding our issues with compassion and hear …

HappierSanFrancisco was formed to facilitate exploration of positive psychology - the science of happiness. After more than a decade of rigorous scientific research, we know that happiness can be measured and we know that happiness can be taught. Increasing your happiness is possible through tools developed in the science of positive psychology. The club is free to join and open to everyone with an interest in positive psychology, wellness, health, happiness, flourishing, positivity, therapy an …

Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique and community healing circle on Sundays 2-5pm.  EFT is an amalgamation of Chinese Medicine (meridian therapy), modern day psychology, and unconditional love. This class will introduce you to the basic meridian points, increase your emotional stability, support you in strengthening your nervous system, and increasing overall internal awareness.  You will walk away with a new self healing tool to support harmony and success in personal and professional r …

It can take 1-2 years or more to recover from divorce or separation. You need to create a new identity, discovering who you are as a single person, finding a sense of belonging in your community, finding or consolidating social networks, and adjusting to single parenthood. If you have kids, you have to re-learn how to deal with your ex, shifting communication styles, becoming more formal and distant. It may be hard to create new boundaries with your ex. The fighting may continue, or one of you m …

WHERE Are you stuck In Your Life?????? Clients usually do a constellation for a major block or issue that seems immune to all their efforts to change it.So, to explain a constellation just a little, all people carry with them an energetic field or blueprint of their biological families--this field has been called by some a family soul, or family conscience. That field has an enormous unconscious effect on each family members life and all the people they interact with. Long standing problems wi …

Sick of setting goals but not meeting them? .. of having aspirations and desires but not the balls or perseverance to reach them without giving up or getting distracted? .. of desiring closeness but sabotaging it or pushing away? "Self Sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen." GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY You will open to more ease and aliveness through: - learning to recognize self sabotaging forces/ voices/ behaviors - gaining tools to manage th …

ANNOUNCEMENT: We've moved all our meetup scheduling to Crohnology. Please sign up for an account on Crohnology at Crohnology.com/join to see and join our ongoing meetups for people with Crohn's & Colitis in the San Francisco Bay Area. You won't find most new meetups posted here, instead find us on Crohnology. Crohnology is an information sharing network for people with Crohn's & Colitis, that allows us to share our health and treatment histories so we can all learn from one another, try diets an …

The San Francisco SPCA has been saving the lives of cats and dogs in San Francisco for 143 years. As the leader in the no-kill shelter movement, the SF SPCA finds new homes for over 4,000 animals a year and treats thousands more through community outreach programs. The SF SPCA mission is to end animal abandonment by reducing the population through aggressive spay/neuter campaigns, by providing resources and information to people to keep animals in the home, and by strengthening the human-animal …

Bienvenido! Tom Lewis & I specialize in teaching Argentine tango to beginners and to people who have never danced before. We are passionate about tango and both of us have other professions but tango is central to our lives. I am Camille Cusumano, author of Tango, an Argentine Love Story, a memoir of a "woman who loved, lost, got mad, and decided to dance." I quit my day job in 2005 and went to live in Buenos Aires, where I danced tango, wrote, lived. and loved like never before. I experienced t …

The Bay Area Lifetech group is a meetup every few weeks to bring our local community of Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Stem Cell, and Health scientists, investors, executives, practictioners and anyone else interested in creating therapies that benefit the health of society. We also heartily welcome patients to participate in this group!! The goal of the Lifetech group is to get outside the lab, office or home and organize events in and around the Bay Area in the spirit of buildi …

This is a group created to host opportunities of education on using essential oils for greater health and wellness in the Bay Area.

This group provides massage training for those wishing to use it with family and friends. Workshops are given mostly on the weekends in a park, on a beach or at hot springs resorts. The goal is to provide a place where people can come together to learn the techniques and trade massages, helping each other to be healthier and happier. Massages provide deep relaxing experiences when done with right techniques and a caring attitude. As an experienced massage therapist, I know the best way to keep …

Em-BODY Your Greatness! Although we are not given a manual on how to effectively take care of the body, to be happy, healthy, and free of disease is possible. The more I learn, the more that I realize that the body is one of the easiest things to correct and "make healthy". The thing is: the body can affect our spirit, our mind, and our emotions. It is our vessel throughout life! I have been more consistent with my workouts, and have noticed an incredible positive difference in my mood. That com …

Mevident (www.mevident.com) is a network of highly qualified collaborative wellness practitioners. Mevident brings its wellness benefit platform to corporate clients so that their employees will be able to access our qualified practitioners. This Meetup is a place where Mevident practitioners can create local events, meet with each other, discuss recent advancement in wellness care delivery, and build a collaborative care delivery team. Also they can promote their wellness practices in their ow …

Art Journaling can be a catalyst for self-expression and reflection a way to give shape and form to the words, symbols and images that are part of one’s chronicled story. Carve some time to nurture yourself and free your creative spirit. No art experience necessary! Brief tutorial and guidance provided, emphasis will be on the creative process, loosening up and losing yourself in paper and art supplies. A safe and nurturing space will be created for all to explore and come out and play, particul …

For those who have taken the Prague School courses on Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization and Reflex-locomotion. This group's purpose is to create a community of practitioners who utilize and practice the DNS principles. For more info on the Prague School of Rehabilitation go to www.rehabps.com *In order to become a member of this group you must have attended one of the DNS courses.

This is a group for anyone interested in improving their health and vision! If you believe that not everything is fixed with surgeries and drugs, The School for Self-Healing is for you! SFSH is a non-profit school that teaches and provides movement work, massage, and vision therapy in San Francisco as well as around the globe for a wide variety of disorders, diseases and injuries. We provide private Sessions, free and low-cost public Workshops, as well as Training in the Self-Healing Method. Fre …

Emotional Freedom Technique is a potent and simple self-healing tool. EFT combines various effective eastern and western therapies with the universal healing power of acknowledgement, love, and compassion. This modality rolls them into one while applying a percussive tapping on the meridians (the same system used in acupuncture) to release excess emotional charge from the bodies energetic wiring that has jammed the body's natural ability to rapidly heal and balance itself. EFT unlocks and defuse …

Art Therapy is an amazing modality for working through, healing, and transforming, the trauma of sexual abuse. Through the use use of color and form we can communicate in ways that words can never touch. We can touch and heal emotions deeply and safely. You do not have to be an artist to be able to benefit from Art Therapy, you just have to be willing to put color and shapes on paper, or make forms out of clay. If you are an artist, don't worry your talent will not get in the way.

Bay Area Beings In Tune is a group for spiritual visionaries ages 14 and up who seek to raise their vibrations and transform their lives through Reiki, energy work, sound healing, and other forms of vibrational therapy. Beings In Tune heal themselves so that they can help heal our world, since we can only offer what is within us. Benefits of vibrational therapy: Deep relaxation Accelerated healing Relief from pain, stress, and allergies Balanced energies Increased immune system Cleansed toxins …

This is a support group for stutterers, organized as a Chapter of the National Stuttering Association (NSA). People who stutter, their family and friends, and anybody interested in increasing their understanding of stuttering, are all welcome to join our meetings. We do not promote any particular therapy and we encourage people to seek their own understanding, acceptance and solutions. The group provides a supporting environment for individual choices and personal issues related to stuttering. W …

Bondage Erotique proudly presents a series of workshops on the art of Japanese Rope Bondage known as Shibari. We offer these courses as a means to deepen the communication and intimacy between partners, as a playful, seductive and beautiful way to enrich sensation, connection and energy, and a tool to build a strong sense of surrender and trust. Workshops will take place in a safe and comfortable learning environment. Shibari can be practiced on many levels, including tying purely for the artis …

Welcome all Bay Area Massage Therapist in solo or small group practice -- this group is for you! As a small business owner, you might be wondering about the best ways to grow and run your practice. You may want to brainstorm on a new marketing idea, or need a partner to participate in an event. Your host is Irene Diamond, RT inductee in the World Massage Hall of Fame, and founder of the best-known internationally acclaimed online business success resource for massage therapists whose goal is to …

The Chakra System lies in the subtle body which reflects an aspect of consciousness essential to our lives. There are 7 main energy wheels that exist corresponding to an endocrine gland among other functions in the body. Come explore the options to balance each one to encourage healing physically, emotionally and spiritually. I offer a detailed workshop that includes asana, mediation, color and sound therapy along with questions to reflect on and group exercise to see where you are today in rega …

The Center SF is a communal hub that offers classes which teach you practices to support the transformation, joy, and healing of your Self and your communities. Whether your interests are physical, mental, emotional, interpersonal or spiritual, we have classes and special events that give you the opportunity to explore what's possible when we embrace and operate from expanded paradigms that acknowledge the influences that energetic, spiritual, and mental factors have on physical and emotional he …

About the Therapist: Kelly Nguyen is passionate about creating an environment where meaningful conversations take place in between people. She has extensive experience facilitating workshops on improving communication skills and managing social anxiety. For further details, please visit her website www.kellynguyentherapy.com.

Are you considering leaving your marriage or relationship? Confused about what you want? Feeling stuck in indecision? Caught in a cycle of trying to get out or stay out and blaming yourself for not being strong enough? Coming Full Circle is a therapy/support group for women exploring the separation or divorce process who want to cultivate inner resilience, develop fierce self love, and learn to access their own wisdom. When we lack these essential resources, getting out of relationship can paral …

Calling all ladies who want to know: should my man and I make up…or break up? Makeup Or Breakup is the meetup group for savvy women who want a proven approach to take a relationship that’s just not working from “Hum-Drum” to “Head Over Heels”. Join us for our events if you: - Aren’t sure if your man is really The One or just Mr. Right Now. - Want your man to be The One, but you need to fix some core relationship issues first. - Think couples therapy would help but know your man would NEVER see a …