Saber Battle SF 2017

Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 8 PM - 10 PM

SPARK Social SF

601 Mission Bay Blvd N,

San Francisco, CA

Join us for a massive saber battle in San Francisco. Pick a side, good or evil and use a glowing sword to fight in the ultimate nocturnal showdown.

For every $10 ($5 early bird) you contribute we will reserve one glow sword for you. Each saber changes up to 6 colors, is about 3' long, and you will be able to pick them up or have them delivered.

This year's venue is an amazing new park and will feature food trucks, a licensed area, and music.

We will start to gather at 8:00, split into two sides a little after 9:00, and the battle will begin. Glow on!

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https://www.facebook.com/events/1990376984515674/

1-day Retreat: Yoga, Meditation, Reiki, Coaching & Reset before the Holidays

Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST

2518 San Pablo Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94702

This one-day immersive retreat will restore and revitalize your energy before the holidays!

Release any stress and get into ZEN before the Holidays. All Services are included and a Healthy Lunch is also included!

- Restorative Yoga (1-hour class, % of proceeds from your ticket going to feed the homeless in SF)

- Rich Healthy Lunch

- Release Bad Habits

- Renew your Confidence

- Reclaim your Power

- Remove Past Patterns

- Recorded Meditation

- Results Coaching

- Renew your Energy

Have fun creating a New Year Vision for 2018!

Cost: $100

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1-day-retreat-10-4-yoga-meditation-reiki-coaching-reset-before-the-holidays-tickets-39573681948

Embrace the Light - SHAMATi 5th Night Hanukah Dance Concert

Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM PST

JCC East Bay Berkeley Branch

1414 Walnut Street

Berkeley, CA 94709

Come join east-bay Jewgrassy Jam Band SHAMATi as we celebrate the release of our Chanukah Live CD - "Embrace the Light" - and celebrate the 5th night of Chanukah!!

With Isaac Zones, Nathaniel Markman, Craig Bravo Miller, Ben Bernstein, Jordan Feinstein and Byron Rynes turning the heat up — you’ll want to put your dancing shoes on and get ready to boogie - this is a party you don't want to miss!!

The first 54 tickets sold will be gifted with a free copy of "Embrace the Light".

Cost: $18

https://allevents.in/berkeley/embrace-the-light-shamati-5th-night-chanukah-dance-concert/1966985460220695

Coming Home to Ourselves: Compassion and Radical Self-Acceptance for Women

Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 10 AM - 4:30 PM

Shambhala Meditation Center

1231 Stevenson St,

San Francisco, CA

The most RADICAL (and revolutionary) thing a woman can do is accept herself!

In this daylong meditation retreat, for self-identified women of all ages, we will focus our meditation practice on cultivating Compassion and Radical Self-Acceptance. Together we will explore the fundamentals of mindfulness, loving kindness and compassion through sitting meditation, movement, relational and creative practices, and of course, connection with other women.

Our focus will be to open our hearts to ourselves and to get curious about what gets in our way of fully loving and accepting ourselves. We will explore new narratives and practice letting go of whatever is keeping you stuck in a cycle of not realizing or accepting your immeasurable value and beauty. You will learn new ways to relate to the critic in your mind, bringing compassion and care to the amazing woman you are!

Please join me for what is certain to be a heart opening a day of reflection, connection, rejuvenation and meditation.

Practices and activities will include:

-mindfulness practices

-Loving kindness and compassion practices

-counsel discussion

-mindful movement

-journaling and personal reflection

-dyad relational practices

-resting

-etc.

Facilitator: Nichole Proffitt

Cost: $100 - $130 (sliding scale)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqTXVr-CDCUsj_uZ_rRfn2dqVwSDT3m-pTzYcipz9KHWY0Bg/viewform

Mastery of Relationship

Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM PST

The Loft

2501 Harrison St #15

San Francisco, CA

Join Erwan and Alicia Davon, experts in creating exceptional love and sex lives, as they spend this evening discussing cutting-edge material. Topics range from spirituality & psychology, to how to succeed in romantic relationship, to how to have a great sex life!

Cost: $15

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mastery-of-relationship-tickets-35063511908

Presence & Play: Meditation and Healing Through Improvisation

Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 7 PM - 9:30 PM

IntraHealth

21020 Homestead Rd, Ste 2,

Cupertino, CA

Come join us in this evening of presence and play, using meditation and comedy improvisation to access our potential, embody the way we want to show up in the world, and release anything that keeps us from expressing our truth and fullness of who we are.

Comedy Improvisation is great for:

* Awakening your creative potential and expression

* Expanding and sharpening your mind

* Feeling alive, invigorated, and inspired

* Learning how to deeply listen, be fully present and aware of yourself and others, in the body, in action

* Rekindling our childlike spirit of play, fun, joy, freedom and imagination

* Releasing inhibition around self-expression, and letting go of the inner critic

* Increasing confidence and finding your unique voice

* Working together as a team, learning about acceptance and trust, learning how to relate authentically and skillfully, and how to co-create with others

Improv is transformative on its own, and when combined with meditation and intention setting in a safe, welcoming space, we can access deep realms of the subconscious for powerful healing to take place. We can release old beliefs, patterns, wounds, and trauma that are holding us back and keeping us stuck. We can let all this go through joy and ease, with laughter and creativity, in supportive community.

We want to use our mind in clear, efficient, and creative ways, instead of being weighed down by our thoughts, believing they control and define us. With meditation and improv, we come back to our center, remember our power, and learn to use the mind as a fantastic tool in creating boundlessly and joyfully. We also practice using our intuitive compass and allowing creativity to move through us more freely.

Facilitator: Michaela Clara

Cost: $10 - $20 (sliding scale)

https://www.facebook.com/events/333221643810576

True relationship, or overcoming the existential abyss

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

970 Folsom St,

San Francisco, CA

You are invited for an interactive discussion with Tatiana Ginzburg

Have you ever felt tired of speed and extreme multiformity of modern life?

Do you have troubles with solving current issues and challenges?

Do you let consumption to absorb you?

Do you find yourself deep in absurdity of pragmatism?

Can you feel like you can be replaced by robot?

We invite you to discuss the extreme questions of human existence, like:

Who am I?

What is the meaning of my life?

Where shall I belong?

Trying to answer those questions by itself is already the attempt to overcome the existential abyss.

We'll try to do it together with the help of philosophy, especially the philosophy of Russian Cosmism,

Using the Charm of the Game as well as Logic and the Mind,

About Tatiana Ginzburg:

Tatiana is a Russian Psychologist, Philosopher and Game Master. She is a certified facilitator of Transformation Game and founder of PostNonClassical Science Center Russian House #1.

Cost: Donations

https://www.facebook.com/events/163443930924585/

The Klezmatics in Stanford

Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 7:30 PM - 10 PM

Stanford Live

327 Lasuen Street, Bing Concert Hall,

Stanford, CA

Woody Guthrie and Hanukkah? Who knew? Almost nobody. But in 1998 his daughter Nora discovered a trove of songs that the celebrated folksinger wrote in the 1940s. The Grammy-winning Klezmatics riff off Guthrie’s original melodies and create new tunes in this unremittingly cheerful fusion of Klezmer music and American sounds.

Cost: $40 - $60

http://live.stanford.edu/calendar/december-2017/klezmatics

New-Paradigm Relationships: Expanding Love & Sexuality

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 7 PM - 9:30 PM

Santa Cruz, California

Let's de-condition our co-dependent love stories and step into a higher vibration of being, into transformational partnerships that are genuinely committed to and supportive of growth.

In this workshop, we will be approaching the subject of new-paradigm relationships as well as sexual empowerment. This requires an in-depth knowledge of how: by becoming present time focused we can access sexual energy as fuel for life and also by exploring our current paradigm of relationship, so we can ultimately build embodied pleasure into expanded consciousness and access its healing potential.

What is it we are seeking from relationships? Let's explore fears, needs and desires and how to move from disconnection into deeper love in intimate relating.

Has your heart been armored, or do you have periods where your heart is closing in relationships? Do you find similar patterns playing out in your relationships? Do you want to have more in-depth understanding of expressing needs and boundaries?

Let's find how new relationship frames can be such a beautiful space for growth, healing and also surrender into the embrace of love. Whether you are in a relationship or not, this is a step in expanding love.

In this workshop, we will discuss:

- Exploring new relationship frames and finding solutions to relationship problems

- Liberation from cultural programming

- Experience the power of truly being present, open and the ability to surrender

- How sexual energy moves through the body and how to expand your orgasmic potential

- Using sexual energy for healing and altered blissful states in the body

- How your sexual energy has the ability to access higher levels of consciousness

- The nature of projection, emotional manipulation and healing the heart

- Having difficult conversations; being authentic, accountable and moving forward while honoring your own boundaries as well as others

- How to achieve increased sexual intimacy and access its spiritual potential

- Sacred sexual pathways

Cost: $30 - $40

https://www.facebook.com/events/350496358755852/

Envelop Yoga

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 7 PM - 8:30 PM

The Midway SF

900 Marin St,

San Francisco, CA

Enter Envelop at The Midway from the Michigan Street side of the building where you see the patio.

This is a next-level experience of yoga and music, set within the beautiful Envelop at The Midway listening space and it's 28 speakers surrounding us. This yoga class is led by Jennie Chien with music by Christopher Willits.

Hot tea available throughout the evening.

Please bring your own mat.

Cost: $30

https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1590932