This Meet Up gathering is to provide a support group to have conversations about and explore the connection between love and self-awareness. The understandings from the couples therapy world will be joined with the understandings from eastern religion to facilitate this exploration. More specifically we will focus on both how to access your most loving nature and how to restrain and manage more successfully unloving impulses. The leader of this group, Brian Ackerman, a Harvard Medical School t …

The Ethical Society of Boston is a non-theistic humanistic religious and educational fellowship inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society. Together we develop our ethical ideals, celebrate life's joys, and support one another through life's crises. We work for the improvement of our world and for the future of our children. Membership is open to those who agree with our principles regardless of race, religion, or national origin. As ethi …

Boston Holotropic is a dedicated group of experienced Grof-certified Holotropic Breathwork™ facilitators, trainees and supporting participants. We have seen the benefits of Holotropic Breathwork in our own lives, and also in the growth and healing in the lives of people who have participated in our workshops around New England.

Living On Purpose: Starting the Year with a Powerful Resolution and Resolve Each year, we make a commitment to ourselves for ourselves: to change something. Or to give something up. Or maybe to start a new project, or learn something. For most people, the coming year is going to be very important on many levels – financially, our relationships / interrelationships, and in our personal development. And the New Year is a powerful time to create this change and prepare for the coming year. We can c …

The ultimate freedom is to have a completely clear and free mind. The human mind is always changing and is always trying to add more desirable experiences. There is no end to this addition. The way to find peace and clarity is to know the real world, the True world, by subtracting the past that has been recorded and stored within the body and mind as pictures. There is nothing more valuable than one's mind. It shapes the entire world that one knows. Through subtracting in Maum Meditation the Uni …

Learn to express and live the full potential of your voice, harmonizing with yourself and others, experiencing the secret power of Harmonic Singing and its effects on subtle energies. Learn to use your active hearing and your voice as a door to deep meditation and contemplative insight. Open your heart and connect deeply with others beyond words through the blend of our sacred voices. The idea is to create an ongoing group, following a learning curriculum to be able to explore different levels o …

Anyone interested in Tibetan Buddhism may join and/or attend any practice or events.  Excellent opportunities to join in community and experience profound teachings and access to authentic experienced practitioners from Tibet and western senior students.

I have been practicing Meditation and Yoga for the last 5 years and would like to share my experience with you. Please join me to learn and practice simple breathing and meditation techniques that will lead you into a deeper connection to yourself. Use them as a tool in your everyday life to manage stress and stay connected at all times. I started this club to gather a community of people who are interested in using these practices for personal growth and social responsibility. I am looking forw …

This monthly event is geared at encouraging interaction with cinema from the diverse perspective of audience members. We screen a movie and discuss it. Inspired by the idea that movies are more than mere entertainment, we seek to engage with films as dialogue about life, faith, love, ideas, humanity, and our cultures. We want to actively be part of this conversation by viewing and discussing films in a group setting. The goal of The River Film Forum is to encourage diversity in our conversations …

Natural Dharma Fellowship is an organization of Buddhist practitioners offering basic meditation instructions in the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Our practices emphasize the innate wisdom of one’s inherent being and are led by Lama Willa and Natural Dharma meditation teachers. There is an option to pursue a Vajrayana path with Lama Willa for those drawn to it. We meet for meditation and discussion on Tuesday evenings from 7-8.30pm at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House …

This group is for anyone interested in studing the book A Course in Miracles. Anyone interested in removing the block to experiencing Love in there lives. I have lead groups for 30 years and receintly moved to Manchester by the Sea MA. I love leading groups and hearing about all the miracles that happen when doing so.

This is a group for those with an interest in shamanic presence & beauty as a path to healing. We will meet periodically, monthly or bi-monthly, at the local coffee shop to talk about topics relating to Contemporary Shamanism. Everyone is welcome. I'd love to share this quotation abut beauty and the shaman: "The shaman knows that the soul’s urge toward beauty is not about perfect symmetry and mainstream approval. It is not about opening doors in business, or snagging the right mate, or fitting i …

FRIENDLY IN BOSTON - Be cool.  Be kind. Do you love living in Boston, but not the not-so-friendly Boston vibe? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Friendly in Boston is a newly founded community, whose goal is to funkafy Boston with a more friendly vibe, as well as explore the concept of kindness/friendliness. Who we are and what to expect. Do I need to be a “touch-feely happy person” to join? Simply put, no. While we may “do good”, we are not innately a group of “do-gooders”, but rather a gr …

Here, we practice meditation. We are beginners who learn how to meditate, how to wake up peace inside ourselves. We take showers for our bodies everyday, so does mind. Our minds go out and face many different situations everyday. It's the time to clean our minds, relax ourselves. In the class, you can see many people. Some would like to develop themselves. Some are interested in inner peace. Some love to meditate. Come find out and see the power within you:)

Come join the "North Shore Meditates " Meetup Group initiated by members of the international Art of Living Foundation. This meetup functions as movement to spread awareness about the benefits of meditation, and hosts meditation and breathing workshops, meditation mixers, and free meditation experience sessions. Most of us are now leading hectic professional and personal lives. In fact, the busier one is the more one has to meditate. Meditation, when used as a daily practice helps one dive inwar …

We discuss, learn, share astrology topics. Beginners welcome. Each meetup will include a formal discussion of a topic and chart interpretations, as well as other astrology related activities and discussions. We will work through the planets, the signs, the houses, aspects, and transitions. And, generally try to create a welcoming, supportive, exciting astrology community on the North Shore.