Holistic Living: Mind and Body

Elevate Pleasure: Sex and Cannabis Workshop

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 7 PM - 9 PM

The Laundry

3359 26th Street,

San Francisco, CA

Dr. Alison Ash, sex and intimacy coach and founder of TurnON.Love (www.turnon.love), will give us the lowdown on turning it up in the bedroom. Feel confident communicating your yeses and noes so you can feel safe to explore your desires. Learn how to get into your body and discover ways to expand your capacity for pleasure. This workshop will empower you to take sexual pleasure to the next level.

After we’ve learned how to get into the best head and body space, we will discuss options for integrating cannabis into your sexual experiences. From learning about the effects of different products to dialing in dosing, this event will provide the latest information on cannabis products for maximizing pleasure.

Dr. Ash is a sex and intimacy coach and sexual empowerment educator who has been exploring the intricacies of sex and gender for more than a decade. As a sociologist with a PhD from Stanford, Dr. Ash has a comprehensive understanding of the complex societal challenges that often lead to unsatisfying and disempowering sexual experiences. A champion for others overcoming shame and deepening pleasure, Dr. Ash helps her clients radically explore and courageously express themselves.

Cost: $20

https://cannabisandsex.brownpapertickets.com/

Women's Full Moon Circle & Fire Ceremony

Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Hidden Villa Farm & Wilderness Preserve

Wolken Education Center

26870 Moody Rd

Los Altos Hills, CA

Empower Your Intentions with a Healing Circle & Outdoor Fire Ceremony

Tap into wisdom. Co-create sacred space. Connect and commune with creative feminine energy, the Moon, singing frogs, hooting owls, Stars, Air, Earth, Fire, Water: The Greater Web of Life. From a place of safety, warmth and honoring, we can share, learn, give, receive, open, renew and grow.

FOR: Women, Teen Girls

Facilitator: Katherine Glasa

Cost: Pay cash at the door: age 13+ $25/person; Parking fee already included. No need to pay parking at entrance.

https://www.meetup.com/DevaGnosis/events/249968854

Drum Circle in San Jose

Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 7:15 PM to 8:45 PM

Center for Creative Living

1460 Koll Circle, Suite C

San Jose, CA

Mark your calendars for the last Saturday of every month - Saturday night drum circle is happening again! Find your groove in this friendly and supportive drum circle!

Recreational group drumming is a great practice that supports health & well-being. It's transformational: it can uplift your mood, decrease your blood pressure, decrease anxiety, increase your energy, increase your feelings of connection and IT'S JUST PURE FUN!

Help build and become part of this monthly Saturday night drumming community. This is a facilitated event; newcomers are always welcome and will be guided into finding their rhythms while more experienced drummers will have the chance to show us their chops while supporting the group experience. I have plenty of instruments to share (let me know if you need one).

Facilitator: Heather Holland

Cost: $10

https://www.meetup.com/rhythm-and-sound-healing/events/249309642

Ayurveda Revival: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Wellness

Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM PDT

The Center SF

548 Fillmore Street

San Francisco, CA

2018 is well underway. By the end of April, we'll have transitioned through two seasons, one lunar eclipse, four full moons and a mercury retrograde, just for good measure. Have the seasonal effects and cosmic influences fully crept in? Despite your best of intentions, are you…

· Feeling over-committed and overwhelmed? Or perhaps even underwhelmed with how things are evolving?

· Unsure of how to create balance between work, play and rest?

· Wondering where in the #$*! the year is going and FINALLY ready to develop a daily ritual that supports your 2018 goals for total wellbeing?

If you've "Been there, felt that!" and are ready to explore an alternative...

Take a deep dive into Ayurveda – a 5,000-year-old system of health and healing that teaches you to harness the infinite wisdom of nature - how to extract the nectar from its rhythms and cycles - to feel more balanced, energized, and revived. Top to bottom, inside and out.

Ayurveda Revival is a unique, experiential, hands-on workshop that takes the guess work out of how to harmonize with nature to create + maintain your personal wellness ritual. In just 2.5 hours, you will:

· Understand your unique mind/body personality type and how it relates to seasonal change + natural cyclical rhythms

· Play with color, sound, food, breath and movement to promote total wellbeing

· Create a personalized daily wellness ritual that you will WANT to stick with

· Reduce stress, anxiety, inflammation and fatigue with simple, practical, effective life-hack techniques

· Increase energy and vibrancy to help you soar through the second half of the year

Together, we will distill this ancient wisdom into a modern approach to health and wellness that will Revive every fiber of your being.

No experience necessary. Just an honest desire to Be Well.

Facilitator: Monica Graves

Cost: $35 in advance / $40 at the door

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ayurveda-revival-ancient-wisdom-modern-wellness-tickets-43004736324

Body Wisdom for Health Solutions

Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Breathe Holistic Health

Suite 101

900 North San Antonio Road

Los Altos, CA

What we'll do:

Learn how to ask your body questions about your health and what natural approach and remedies are the best for your individual body to get better.

How we are doing this?

Find out:

- what is your body's 'yes' and 'no'

- what questions to ask and what questions not to ask

- how to learn to trust your body's answers

- any hidden food allergies

- toxicity from pollution and how best to get it out of the body

- underlying weaknesses and how to nurture your organs back to strong

- and much more..

Bring your own specific question. Several individual coaching sessions will be available as time allows it.

Facilitator: Gabie Reiter

Cost: $10 (bring a friend for free)

https://www.meetup.com/Breathe-Holistic-Health-where-mind-body-and-soul-meet/events/249394655

Cannabis Enhanced Yoga in San Jose

Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM

N 1st Street

San Jose, CA

Inhale. Exhale. Savor this moment. Give yourself permission to press pause and enhance your mind and body connection.

Build community, learn how to integrate cannabis into your wellness routine and the variety of ways it can be consumed.

Then, explore the healing, blissful and therapeutic effects of cannabis enhanced yoga. Join Judy Ann K. for a slow mindful flow to warm up the body. Tap into the relaxation response with gentle stretching and restorative postures anchored by conscious breathing all while taking advantage of the increased awareness of sensations gained from consuming cannabis.

Rest assured, the blissful state you experience will linger long after the class ends!

*This class is accessible for everyBODY of all experience levels

*Must be 21+ (Bring photo ID)

*One ticket purchase per attendee (Liability Release/ Waiver will be emailed to you)

*Location disclosed when ticket is purchased

*Cannabis consumption is encouraged, not required

*Parking under building and street parking available

*Public transportation, Lyft/ Uber is highly recommended

Cost: $30

https://www.eventhi.io/event/cannabis-enhanced-yoga-163

Human Nurture Wellness Kickoff Mini-Retreat

Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT

Golden Gate Park

San Francisco, CA

Human Nurture, a Social Purpose Corporation, invites you to our Wellness Kickoff Mini-Retreat! Join us for a day at Golden Gate Park, where we'll partake in community and wellness-minded events, such as journaling, yoga, and dance, as well as activities that seek to connect us on a deeper level to each other and to our humanity.

We will be providing water, snack bars, and goodie bags. We will break for lunch – feel free to bring your own or buy some at the nearby Whole Foods. Please bring a yoga matt, and a notebook and pen for journaling.

Cost: $55 - $65

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/human-nurture-wellness-kickoff-mini-retreat-tickets-44311469799

Free Dancing in the Park SF 2018

Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 1 PM - 4:30 PM

Music Concourse Dr,

San Francisco, CA

Mark Foehringer Dance Project presents an annual, one day, admission free, outdoor event in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

Dancing in the Park SF features dance groups and dance artists from all around the Bay Area including professional dance companies, pre-professional programs and community groups. The event will be held in front of the Bandshell of the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, between the DeYoung Museum and Academy of Sciences. This event is free, and will be from 1pm-4:30pm.

This year's participants performing in Dancing in the Park SF include:

· LINES Ballet Training Program

· San Francisco Ballet School

· ODC Jam

· Mark Foehringer’s Conservatory for Contemporary Dance Arts (CCDA)

· Northern California Dance Conservatory

· ODC Crew

· Fact/SF

· Marika Brussel

· The Movement Messenger(s)

· Ktdavisdance

· Zohar Dance Company

· Diane Frank

· Christy Funsch and Nol Simonse

· The Anata Project

· Project B.

· Sean Dorsey

· AXIS Dance Company

· Mark Foehringer Dance Project Ensemble

· Post:Ballet

· Folklorico Nacional Mexicano

· Sambaxe

· Nemenzo Polynesian Dance Group

Bring a picnic, a hat, your friends and family, and sunscreen to enjoy watching a wonderful day of dance outdoors.

Cost: Free

https://www.facebook.com/events/1410685412368900/

Thai Massage Weekend Immersion

April 28 – 29, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday)

Yogalayam

1717 Alcatraz Ave.

Berkeley, CA

We invite you to take this special opportunity to immerse in the art of giving and receiving Thai Massage with seasoned bodywork practitioners and yoga teachers Alok Rocheleau and Anjuli Mahendra. Together they bring over 20 years of experience as therapists and teachers.

Thai Massage is a traditional healing art form that continues to thrive and evolve in Thailand and around the world. Rooted in the principles of Thai Medicine and Buddhist spirituality, the practice is framed by respect for all beings, balanced action, and loving-kindness.

Through joint mobilization, mindful passive stretching, acupressure, and emphasis on the breath, Thai Massage is an unparalleled therapeutic technique. With proper body mechanics, the practice truly becomes an effortless dance between giver and receiver. As yogis themselves, your teachers will be emphasizing the most fluid and easeful ways to offer compressions and stretching in this course allowing the giver to stay present with the receiver’s experience.

This training is open to everyone. It is a great skillset for yoga teachers, massage therapists or for anyone interested in well-being and bodywork. The work is done in comfortable clothing on a mat. The goal of all good bodywork is to deepen our sensitivity and intuition, prioritizing the client’s journey while taking care of our body as well. You will get the opportunity to practice both roles throughout the weekend. No prior yoga or massage experience is necessary. Come with a friend or solo - no partner needed.

In this course you will learn:
+ To structure and give a full-body Thai Massage
+ Basic principles of Chinese Meridians and Acupressure points
+ How to use your full body and weight for effective and deep massage
+ Biomechanics to give a massage with the least effort
+ How to cultivate energy and develop sensitivity
+ Basic tools to work with special conditions and injuries
+ Thai Yoga movements to adjust, balance and correct yoga asanas
+ An introduction to mindfulness and breathing

Schedule:
Sat+Sun: 11am-6pm with an hour break.

Cost: $290

https://www.contactyoga.org/register.html