Common Street Spiritual Center

Bollywood Dance Workout
2025-11-15 11:45 - 12:45, 2025-11-22 11:45 - 12:45, 2025-11-29 11:45 - 12:45, 2025-12-06 11:45 - 12:45, 2025-12-13 11:45 - 12:45, 2025-12-20 11:45 - 12:45, 2025-12-27 11:45 - 12:45, 2026-01-03 11:45 - 12:45 (America/New_York) and 14 more dates | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Whoever said no pain no gain, obviously has never worked out to Bollywood music. Join me for BollyX – Bollywood Dance Workout. Let’s dance and workout together to remain healthy, physically and mentally while having lots of fun!
Get ready to groove to the beats of the vibrant Bollywood tunes while burning 400 – 800 calories. No prior dance experience is required; I will guide you through the steps, show modifications and ensure a fun-filled session. So, grab your friends or make new friends at the class, put on your dancing shoes, and get ready to unleash your inner Bollywood star!
Register here: https://www.thebollywooddance.com/booking-calendar/bollyx-in-natick?referral=service_list_widget

Because I Dance - Before the world ends
2025-11-30 16:00 - 19:00 | Fellowship Hall @ Common Street, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Before the World Ends – An Intuitive Dance Experience
Get ready to immerse yourself in a space of freedom, presence, and authentic expression. Before the World Ends is an intuitive dance experience by Because I Dance, created for us to release fear, reclaim our vital energy, and nourish our days with hope and courage. It’s an opportunity to transform the path of your life, even in difficult times, and leave a legacy of pure love and art, expressed through the body.
Here, movement is your voice. All emotions are welcome. There are no right or wrong steps—only the chance to express yourself honestly and freely.
Guidelines:
– Wear that outfit you’ve always wanted to wear but never had the chance—now is the time, before the world ends! (Make sure it’s comfortable enough to move freely).
– Shoes off: come barefoot and with an open heart.
– Mutual respect: everyone has their own rhythm, choices, and boundaries.
– Consent: touch and interactions only with clear permission.
– Authenticity: feel, move, express yourself without fear of judgment.
– Body care: listen to your physical limits and stay hydrated.
Schedule:
4pm – Conversation and reflections on the theme: why dance in difficult times?
4:30pm – Intuitive dance practice.
6pm / 7pm – Time for integration, sharing, and closing.
People of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and genders are welcome and celebrated. Your greatest power is being exactly who you are.
Let’s create together a dance space that reminds us of what truly matters: living fully, without fear, here and now, before the world ends.
Sliding scale – pay what you can – $16, $26, or $36. Venmo @carolne-gomes-10 to reserve your spot.

Biodanza Discovery Class
2026-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
What is Biodanza? Biodanza promotes deeper connection to life through beautiful music, movement and group interaction. There are no set steps to learn and no dance experience needed, only a desire to reawaken one’s enchantment with life through Vivencia – the experience of life lived fully in each moment! Carefully crafted exercises of circles, games, archetypal gestures, and encounters with others are offered in a warm and welcoming environment. Biodanza is an invitation to open one’s heart to rediscovering the joy of being alive…together!
Whether you are new to Biodanza or interested in experiencing Biodanza for the very first time, you are invited to a discovery class where we will use music, movement and human connection to open more fully to life. No experience needed!
Music Includes:

Latin
Brazilian
Jazz
African Rhythm
Classical

This event is free, and donations to the Common Street Spiritual Center are most welcome.
Wear comfy clothes, socks/bare feet. Bring a cushion and water bottle.
Questions or to Register, please email Lthibault55@gmail.com
Class facilitated by Laurie Thibault and Doug Costello: Facilitator-trainees under the supervision of the Biodanza School SRT Montreal, Southwest Quebec
Learn more: https://www.ashlandreiki.com/biodanza

Sufi Zikr and Whirling
2026-02-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Join us for a magical experience of Mevlevi Sufi dancing and singing in celebration of Divine Presence. For over forty years, the Mevlevi Order of America has offered gatherings with music, poetry and dervish whirling and chanting. We will lead a Zikr practice in the tradition of Rumi.

The Mevlevi tradition hearkens back to Sufi master Rumi (1207-1273), who has become the best-selling poet in America. Rumi’s poetry is filled with a longing for God the Friend and the Beloved. His realization expressed the Source of all religions and spiritual paths, the Way of Love, that unites those of many cultures and traditions.

‘Zikhr’, a Sufi chanting practice, means ‘Remembrance of God’. It awakens us from the state of forgetfulness, forgetting why one has come to Earth. It is a channel opener which helps with attaining true knowledge.

The musicians will share devotional music played on traditional instruments. Everyone attending a Zikr is a participant; as the gathering unfolds, all are tuned, by the music and language of the Heart, to the baraka (blessing)-filled atmosphere of love.

“When a human being performs zikr, their spirit—their heart starts to open. Their intelligence becomes more refined and more expansive. Their bodies become healthier. A beautiful condition comes about—similar to the one that is brought about by good music. The whole being opens up like a flower, and the divine secret—the things you couldn’t understand or know about before—begin to be revealed to you.”
Suleyman Hayati Dede, founder of the Mevlevi Order of America

Suggested donation: $20+ (cash or Venmo at the door)
Advance registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sufi-zikr-and-whirling-tickets-1979468882714?aff=oddtdtcreator

About Mevlevi Order of America:
http://hayatidede.org/aboutmoa

The Turning Practice of The Whirling Dervishes
2026-02-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
All are welcome. No experience necessary. From the tradition of the great love poet Rumi, these classes provide instruction in the whirling practice which polishes the heart, clears the mind, and trains the body to participate in wordless prayer.
The format of the classes will usually include warm-up exercises, then turning instruction, Zikr, and/or other aspects of Mevlevi Sufi tradition such as teachings from Rumi.
First class by donation. There is a fee for ongoing classes, however, a tight budget should not prevent participation.
Contact vnkpayton@gmail.com for more information, or if in doubt about cancellation due to weather.

Sensing Tango — A Beginner's Course
2026-04-02 19:15 - 20:30, 2026-04-09 19:15 - 20:30, 2026-04-16 19:15 - 20:30 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Argentine tango is one of the most intimate social dances in the world — and one of the most misunderstood. Most people learn it as a set of steps. This course teaches it as a conversation.
Over six classes, we’ll build the foundational skills of tango from the inside out: how to stand, embrace, and move with a partner — not through drilling technique, but through guided exercises in body awareness, breath, and attentive listening. You’ll learn to feel what your partner is communicating, and to express yourself clearly and kindly in return.
You’ll leave with enough grounding to enjoy a social tango event — and a set of inner tools that will deepen every dance you take on from here.
No experience necessary. No partner required.
Time: Thursdays, Apr 2 – May 7, 7.15pm (6 classes)
Location: Common Street Spiritual Center, Moon Room. 13 Common St Natick, MA 01760
$20 per class · $100 for the series · NOTAFLOF · Drop-ins welcome, and like tango itself, the material rewards revisiting.
To pre-register: https://forms.gle/tCTr9DUdPLHgDc666

About the instructor
Anatoliy Kats began his tango journey in 2017 and hasn’t stopped since. He studies in Buenos Aires at Studio Dinzel, which pioneered the teaching of tango as a practice of wellness and self-development more than 20 years ago. He holds a degree in clinical mental health counseling from Lesley University, and his work as a therapist informs how he teaches the dance. He is supervised by Dmitry Antonyuk of St. Petersburg, Russia — a Studio Dinzel alumnus with 14 years of tango teaching experience.
