Common Street Spiritual Center

Open Circle Gathering
2024-02-18 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-02-25 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-03-03 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-03-10 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-03-17 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
The Open Circle is a weekly gathering of like-minded spiritual seekers who show up to connect authentically, share our truths, and be held in the space of a growth-oriented and loving community.

In the Open Circle, everyone has a chance to contribute as we move around the circle. You’re welcome to bring poems, songs, prayers, and insights to share.

Free and open to the public–yes, you can simply show up!

If you’re new to Open Circle, you’re welcome to register here so you can be in the loop for future gatherings: https://forms.gle/Aa18ZuGfyy4Nv3gq7\n
The Spiritual Center community is holding space for change in the lives of our members and in our world.
*we embrace diverse forms of spiritual practice and artistic expression
*we cultivate a hopeful societal vision built on principles of compassion and justice
*we support the growth of a consciousness of interconnection across human differences and between people and the whole web of life around us
*we build authentic community based on principles like love, respect, kindness, and collaboration

If this resonates, please join us! You’re welcome to become a member simply by filling out the form on this page: www.commonstreet.org/membership

Meditation Mondays
2024-02-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-11 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Meditation Room @ Common Street, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Whether you’re curious to begin or years into a practice, start the week off right with Meditation Mondays. Try out breathwork, chanting, sound baths and other techniques in a collaborative and supportive setting.

Meditators of all levels are welcome to drop in 7-8PM on Monday nights! Come every week or as often as works in your schedule. FREE. No registration required.

For more information, please email weronika.zawora@gmail.com

Yoga in the Sanctuary
2024-02-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Yoga in the Sanctuary with Dr. Jen Kurz: This moderate level vinyasa class can improve strength, balance, and well-being through yoga postures, breath, and sound.
The class meets in the sanctuary and is a beautiful way to attend to your physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Donations are welcome and all proceeds support our Common Purse fund, so it is also a charitable form of yoga!
Suggested donation $10-15, cash or venmo @commonstreet
Meets every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month.
www.doctorjenkurz.com
www.finerprogram.org

Transformation Circle | Breathwork & Sound Healing
2024-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Join us for an immersion into collective presence in 2 hours container night. With multiple modalities celebrating aliveness together, we will weave interactive sharing circle, breathwork, sound healing and connection with one another.
We’ll practice together how to surrender anything that has been held in your heart. We’ll gently hold them together in a circle and transmute into light through vibration and breath.

Tuesday February 20th – @ 7pm – 9pm

What to bring: Yoga Mat / Blanket / Eye Cover / Pillow / Water
Main Entrance, Sanctuary

Healing Circle: Breathwork & Sound Healing
2024-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Real change happens through real conscious decisions. Just the same way we decide to shop for new clothes and change the way we look, we can consider new ways of thinking and change the way we feel.
To step into the heart, open up and bring healing to your life it takes a conscious decision. Of course one that would impact your life in a powerful way. Join us for a journey through which we will tap into the energy of the heart and your own body’s ability to heal you.
This Journey will include:
* Story telling
* Guided Meditation/breathwork accompanied by sound healing
* Sharing circle
Feb 23rd, 7-9pm
2nd Floor, Moon Room
13 Common St, Natick,Ma
20-40$ Sliding Scale Cash or Venmo @Parsa-Medhati
Looking forward to seeing you there! – Parsa

A Community Dialogue on Gaza
2024-02-25 13:30 - 15:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
We invite members and friends of the Spiritual Center community to gather for a dialogue about the war that is raging in Gaza. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Sadik Kassim, who is a seasoned interfaith leader with years of experience in the facilitation of conversations on interfaith peacemaking and understanding.

Our community wants to foster a dialogue about what’s happening in Gaza and how we can make a difference for the people suffering there. We also want to bring our diverse local community together around this issue to seek understanding, respect, and connection across our differences.

Seven Sacred Talking Circles: Indigenous Wisdom from Within
2024-02-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
In honor of one of the primary principles of a Talking Circle, to be able to look into each persons’ eyes, we are holding space for 20 people at the most. You are welcome to sign up for as many, or as few, as you are called to and your schedule allows. It’s okay to over or under register and come back to the form and add or subtract a registration. If a Circle is filled you will be put on a wait list and be notified of that status, and you will be notified when a space opens. You should also expect an email a week or so ahead of time to confirm your registration. This will help ensure people on the wait list can get a spot that may have become available.

Register here: https://forms.gle/WK2jpJjKGkWNVAKf9

Sun, Jan 28 – Truth
Sun, Feb 11 – Humility
Sun, Feb 25 – Respect
Sun, Mar 10 – Love
Sun, Mar 24 – Courage
Sun, Apr 7 – Honesty
Sun, Apr 21 – Wisdom

The Seven topics are Seven Sacred Indigenous topics. How the Circle moves and what comes forth individually and collectively will be a result of who shows up on any given date. Each Circle will hold its own magic and connection to what is already embedded in you. Come and explore life through an Indigenous lens. You may be pleasantly surprised by what you find out about life and how you are called to walk in it!

Once the Seven Circles are complete, we intend to host a collective integration on Zoom where all participants can come on to share how things are moving, or have moved, since they participated in one or more of the gatherings. It promises to be a beautiful experience!

Wuniish – A gift and blessing to all from Medicine Story

Introduction to Danza Mexica
2024-02-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Tokalli Macewalli ( Home of Indigenous people) humbly invites you to join us for Danza Mexica introduction.

We are families and young adults, who come together to learn the ways of the cultural dance tradition.

Donations to the Center are appreciated, and we openly invite all people to come in a good way to meet the dancers, our community, and learn about this tradition and who we are.

Yoga in the Sanctuary
2024-02-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-04 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Yoga in the Sanctuary with Dr. Jen Kurz: This moderate level vinyasa class can improve strength, balance, and well-being through yoga postures, breath, and sound.
The class meets in the sanctuary and is a beautiful way to attend to your physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Donations are welcome and all proceeds support our Common Purse fund, so it is also a charitable form of yoga!
Suggested donation $10-15, cash or venmo @commonstreet
Spring 2024 Schedule (Mondays from 7-8pm)
Jan 8, 22
Feb 5, 26
Mar 4, 18
Apr 1, 15, 29
May 6, 13
June 3, 17
www.doctorjenkurz.com
www.finerprogram.org

CSSC Annual Meeting
2024-02-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Our community meets once a year in February to vote to approve our annual budget and appoint new members to our council (aka board). We also reflect on the year that came before and look forward to what is to come.
There is much to celebrate!
This year we’re meeting on Tuesday, February 27th at 7pm via the zoom link below:
https://commonstreet.zoom.us/j/95279121225?pwd=[REDACTED]
Our goal is to have at least 20% of our members present, so that we can have an official quorum. Please mark your calendars and plan to be there if you are available.

Open Circle and Community Brunch
2024-03-03 10:30 - 12:00
On the first Sundays of the month, we combine our Open Circle Gathering with a community potluck brunch.

We gather and connect in a more relaxed, less structured way, yet with threads of meaning and spirituality tying it all together.

You’re welcome, if it would bring you joy, to contribute a food or drink item to share as part of the community brunch. Another option is to bring non-perishable food or toiletry items for our free mini-pantry.

If you’re new to Open Circle, you’re welcome to sign up here so you can be in the loop for future gatherings: https://forms.gle/Aa18ZuGfyy4Nv3gq7

Our community is finding a creative place in the spiritual world, where new forms of spiritual practice, artistic expression, and self-awareness are emerging to support humanity to meet the challenges of our times. We are finding balance within ourselves, making peace across differences, and stepping up to protect the Earth.

We welcome folks of all beliefs and backgrounds to build community with us as we align around a hopeful sense of common purpose. To become a member, please fill out the membership form here: www.commonstreet.org/membership

Transformation Circle | Breathwork & Soundhealing
2024-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Immersion into collective presence in 2 hours container night. With multiple modalities celebrating aliveness together, we will weave interactive sharing circle, breathwork, sound healing and connection with one another. We’ll practice together how to surrender anything that has been held in your heart. We’ll gently hold them together in a circle and transmute into light through vibration and breath.

Tuesday March 5th – @ 7pm – 9pm
What to bring: Yoga Mat / Blanket / Eye Cover / Pillow / Water
Main Entrance, Sanctuary

Suggested Donation
$20+ cash or venmo
Venmo: @tov-demirel

Meditation and Breath to Clear the Mind for Peaceful Sleep
2024-03-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Deep sleep. Clear mind. In this class you will learn a simple and effective chant, its hand and eye placement, and breathing technique. We will meditate with the chant for 12 to 30 minutes.
This four-class series is specifically designed to help you during the day, deliberately preparing you to settle down for a good slumber.
Join for all four classes, or walk-in the evening of Tuesday, March 12, 19, 26, April 2, from 7 – 8 p.m.
Class is for all levels. Beginners are encouraged to join.
complimentary, or by donation, Members: $8, Non Members: $10
Sarah Ering is a Licensed Massage Therapist with over 24 years of experience in the healing field. Her office located in Natick Center.

Rite of the Womb: Spring Equinox Celebration
2024-03-16 17:00 - 21:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
After a long Winter, join us as we welcome Spring and all the new opportunities it brings.

During the Winter we were asked to go inward and meet our shadows, get to know those deeper parts of ourselves we have been hiding from all of our lives.

As Spring rolls around, it is time to analyze which stories still resonate and align with our Souls, and which don’t, so that we may continue our journey through the year feeling lighter and with more open space for new things to grow.

During this month’s Rite of the Womb, we will be celebrating the Spring Equinox and we will use play and creativity to bring up and let go of our old narratives, and learn to plant and to cultivate new seeds, new stories about who we want to be and what we want to create in our lives.

For more information @milla.dalbem

Community Dialogue on Israel and Gaza
2024-03-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
We need each other. In this time of war and humanitarian crisis in Israel and Gaza, we are opening an inclusive and sensitive space for dialogue and listening.

In a process facilitated by Sadik Kassim, Rabbi Robin Sparr, and Rev. Dr. Ian Mevorach, we will share our thoughts and feelings, and listen to each other. The space will be free of hate speech, courteous, and respectful of all.

Our goal is to learn from each other, see how we can support each other in these times, and find ways to work together to create a more peaceful world.

FREE and open to the public.

Spring Equinox Labyrinth Walk
2024-03-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Paula Brown’s House, 62 School Street, Holliston, MA
Join us in reciting “Peace Seeds”, the multifaith prayers of The Peace Abbey, followed by a group walk through the labyrinth. Everyone Welcome. No Cost. Rain or Shine

Transformation Circle | Breathwork & Sound Healing
2024-03-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Immersion into collective presence in 2 hours container night. With multiple modalities celebrating aliveness together, we will weave interactive sharing circle, breathwork, sound healing and connection with one another. We’ll practice together how to surrender anything that has been held in your heart. We’ll gently hold them together in a circle and transmute into light through sound and breath.

Friday March 22th – @ 7pm – 9pm
What to bring: Yoga Mat / Blanket / Eye Cover / Pillow / Water
Main Entrance, Sanctuary

Suggested Donation
$20+ cash or venmo
Venmo: @tov-demirel
