Common Street Spiritual Center

Open Circle Gathering
2024-05-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-05-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-05-26 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-06-09 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-06-16 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

Vasantha Dance Recital
2024-05-12 15:00 - 16:30 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Vasantha, celebration of spring, is a student recital of the NATyA Dance Studio with a special guest performance by an amazing 18-year-old virtuoso who has won local and national classical Indian dance competitions. There will be chai, mango lassi and snacks afterwards. Open to all in the community.

Meditation Mondays
2024-05-13 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-05-27 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-03 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-10 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-17 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
2024-05-13 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-03 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-17 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

Unnamed Poetry Group
2024-05-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Join us at the Unnamed Poetry Group on Thursday, May 16th!
This month’s topic is Free of form! Flowers, sproutings, springings, galore!

We’ll listen to and reflect on what’s currently alive in your poetic world! Bring any poems of your own or of published authors to share.

A small insight:
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi.

Flashmob Style Dance for Natick Holi
2024-05-18 14:00 - 15:00
Event – May 18th 2pm in Natick Center.
Holi is a Spring Festival of Colors originating from India. To celebrate it, we will throw organic and safe color powders at each other, dance to some of the best Bollywood and some traditional music and celebrate. It’s a festival of colors, let’s make it so, no matter what culture/color you are, let’s celebrate our diversity.

Last year many in Natick regretted missing this beautiful and fun event. This year Purnima, a Bollywood Dance Teacher, is offering a FREE class at Common Street Spiritual center to teach the choreography AND she will also send you video tutorials to practice at your convenience.

Never danced in your life? No problem! Purnima takes great pride in teaching dance to non-dancers, according to her it’s one of the greatest joys of her life.
And dancers? What are you even waiting for???
Signup HERE

Kaula Tantra Yoga
2024-05-18 16:00 - 19:00 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
What is Kaula Tantra Yoga?
Kaula Tantra Yoga is a deeply meditative yoga practice combining standing poses and floor-based postures that increase strength, flexibility and overall health. The focus is on relaxing the body into the postures, allowing the body to soften and enjoy the longer holds of the poses (asanas). The Kaula Tantra Yoga series helps balance and activate every area of one’s life through equilibrating one’s intrinsic energy (Prana).
It is a slow-paced sequence of postures divided into 3 main series. The postures work with the lower three chakras: the root, the sacral, and the solar plexus. By relaxing these parts of our body, we may release traumas stored in the body related to childhood, family lineages, stressful experiences, and previous bodily injuries. Beginner yogis will be able to exercise all of the postures in Kaula Tantra Yoga, but this practice will also challenge advanced yogis as the real practice occurs within you.
Students flow between long meditative states cultivated in shavasana to different gentle asanas throughout the practice, always coming back to deep relaxation through careful cueing of the breath, body, and mind. A deeply nurturing and compassionate practice, students are guided to their own field of trust in their ability to know each day what their body needs from the practice– that there is no “perfect” asana. Even the teachers of Kaula Tantra Yoga don’t do the asanas ‘perfectly’ because perfection is a judgment; in this form of yoga, imperfection is accepted as being beautiful and thus Tantra sees all life’s experiences as being perfect.
Thus, Kaula Tantra Yoga gives the student the conscious freedom to push their body, connect with themselves on a deeper level, observing without judgment and being fully present, in the moment.
Suggested Donation*
$20-25 by Cash or Venmo
Venmo: @Rebecca-Jemma-Phillips
*This is an inclusive, community practice, so if donating is a barrier, we welcome you to come for free.
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/KFvtCo5A77fxizGL9
***Please note:***
The practice does NOT involve nudity or sexual contact and no partner is required. It is suitable for all ages and for those new to yoga as well as experienced.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact Becca @ 781-690-0525
Please bring a yoga mat and a scarf for stretching if you have them.
We can’t wait to practice with you!

Yoga in the Sanctuary
2024-05-20 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-17 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

Meditation Monday Soundbath
2024-05-20 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.

This week we’ll have a Soundbath. Please join us for a very relaxing and restoring experience.
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

Grief and Loss Support Group
2024-05-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
An open group that provides a space for all community members to connect with others who have experienced personal loss.
Community members are welcome to share their experiences, gain insight into their own grief and offer and find mutual support.
The group will be facilitated by Elda Zeko, one of our community members.

John Hardin’s Electric Didgeridoo Experience & Workshop
2024-05-29 17:00 - 21:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
John Hardin takes the ancient aboriginal instrument called “didgeridoo” to new places via digital technology. His music transports the listener with ethereal, otherworldly soundscapes, organic rhythms and primal dance grooves.

Healer's EXPO for World Peace
2024-06-01 11:00 - 16:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
This expo is a way for us to raise awareness that each healing that happens is a contribution to healing our planet and creating world peace.
We don’t often think of the cumulative effects of healing and can be easily focused on the negativity and aggression we hear about every day. This event is our way of bringing our community together to celebrate the healing so many of us do and recognize our collective contribution.
By participating in this healing event, we can each do our part to create the peace in our world that so many of us long for. Come join us for this inspirational event!
There will be a variety of healers explaining and/or demonstrating their healing modalities, and vendors selling healing products.
In addition to this, there will be group events held in individual rooms of the Center, such as crystal bowl healing, sound healing and a healing prayer group. A schedule of these events will be available at the Expo.
Please find more info and to register as a healer or vendor, please go here: https://commonstreet.org/healers-expo-for-world-peace/

Open Circle and Community Brunch
2024-06-02 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

Call of Love Yoga
2024-06-06 18:00 - 19:15, 2024-06-13 18:00 - 19:15, 2024-06-20 18:00 - 19:15 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Call of Love Yoga
Hear channeled sources of Love and align with Oneness
Thursdays, June 6th – June 27th
Common Street Spiritual Center, Natick, MA
6 – 7:15 pm
Donations welcome. Cash or Venmo: @Judith-Thapa
Experience heart centered meditation, breathwork, gentle to moderate yoga poses, guided deep relaxation and sources of love channeled into healing frequencies
Judy O’Leary Thapa is a channel, energy healer, yoga teacher and yoga therapist. She has certifications in Sivananda yoga, Prenatal yoga, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (Pryt.com) and with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT.org). Judy has over twenty years of experience teaching students of all ages.
Varunayoga.com / 617-417-4386 for yoga therapy and energy healing sessions.
Testimonials:
With Judy’s loving guidance, I had a profound experience of my body being filled with light. It was a heart opening and healing experience that has been an anchor through healing from injury and loss.”
~ Nia (Movement instructor)
“ Judy is a fantastic yoga instructor! I love how Judy guides you through every movement during your stretching to make sure you’re in the right position for your body. And then, she separates you from whatever was on your mind by getting you to focus on the here and now. “
~ Yoga participant at Project Comeback’s programming for veterans and rescued horses

Real Expressions Show
2024-06-16 13:00 - 15:30 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
The Real Expressions, plays their first hometown show in Natick! An excellent way to tribute Dad on Father’s Day.

Come kick back and listen to some classic rock songs along with some originals.

Special guest Poet Mountain opens the show @ 1:30pm. Band plays starting at 2pm.

Doors open at 1PM.

Check out our FB page (formerly The Regular Expressions) with clips from recent shows.

Free with suggested donation. All proceeds go to benefit the CSSC (Venmo: @commonstreet)

Understanding Blame and Shame & How to Work Through Them
2024-06-16 15:00 - 16:30 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Title: Understanding Blame and Shame and how to Work Through Them.
Presenter: Glenn C. Koenig
Description: An afternoon workshop running under 2 hours, consisting of a
talk with slides and exercises for participants, with a time for questions &
answers at the conclusion.
Date & Time: Sunday, June 16th, 3:00 PM
Location: Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA
01760, in the Moon Room.
Cost: Free
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-blame-and-shame-and-how-to-work-through-them-tickets-920560109067
Recommended for: Anyone of any background
Invitation: Why do we often blame each other or ourselves? Where does
shame come from and why is it so often difficult to overcome? In this
workshop we will look at the origin of these feelings from a new perspective
as we seek to understand the role they play in our lives. This workshop
includes a presentation along with some simple exercises in which you are
welcome to participate. So bring your curiosity, your sense of humor, and
let’s explore together.

Land Acknowledgment Reading
2024-06-23 10:30 - 12:00
The Open Circle is a space to immerse into an experience of the sacred with an inclusive and open-minded spiritual community. Together we seek truth and cultivate an atmosphere of respect, support, care, and inspiration.
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This Sunday we are excited to read, for the first time, our Land Acknowledgment, that we have been working on with the Natick Nipmuc Tribe. Please join us as we honor the Original Indigenous People of Natick with this Land Acknowledgment and the commitments it contains.
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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 stories to share that connect with the week’s theme.
Free and open to the public–yes, you can simply show up!

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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 exists to support the growth of a love-centered community of people who support each other on their journeys, find meaning and purpose together, and collaborate in the co-creation of a life-sustaining society.
As a community and a non-profit org, we play a supportive role in the greater movement of humanity’s awakening to compassion, understanding, and interconnection.
If you feel called to join our community, there’s more information about our inclusive and simple membership process here: www.commonstreet.org/membership
