Common Street Spiritual Center

Conscious Kundalini Yoga
2023-11-09 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-11-16 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-11-23 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-11-30 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-12-07 09:15 - 10:15 (America/New_York) | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Join Nelya for a Kundalini-inspired community class to restore spirit, mind, and body. We start by tuning in with breath work and mantra, followed by a warm up and Kriya (set of Kundalini exercises). We’ll end with a relaxing meditation. Each class focuses on a unique theme, from self love and immune support to connecting with your intuition. This class is an invitation to slow down and look inward to connect with a deeper consciousness. All levels welcome, no experience needed.

Members – $11
Non-members – $15
To register, Venmo @Nelya-Binder (#6560) or email nelya@rootedsanctuary.com
To learn more about Nelya’s yoga, healing, and community work, check out www.rootedsanctuary.com.

Mohanji Meditations
2023-11-09 19:00 - 20:15, 2023-11-16 19:00 - 20:15, 2023-11-23 19:00 - 20:15, 2023-11-30 19:00 - 20:15, 2023-12-07 19:00 - 20:15 | Choir Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
The Mohanji Meditation is a powerful heart-opening guided meditation that offers release from binding patterns through love and gratitude.
All are welcome. No prior experience necessary.

Mohanji Meditations (Virtual)
2023-11-09 19:00 - 20:15, 2023-11-16 19:00 - 20:15 | Choir Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
The Mohanji Meditation is a powerful heart-opening guided meditation that offers release from binding patterns through love and gratitude.
All are welcome. No prior experience necessary.
For 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23, sessions will be held online at the link below:
When:Every Thursday
Time: 7pm
Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85141271883?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 851 4127 1883
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Community Herbal Tea Ceremony
2023-11-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Description: The world around us is abundant with plants waiting to share their medicine and gifts with us. Join this open-hearted community in connecting with herbal allies using our senses, emotions, and spirit. We will come together in circle for an opening meditation, herbal education, tea ceremony with music, and sharing. You will learn about plant energetics and medicinal qualities while connecting with the plants on a deeper, spiritual level through the ceremony. Please bring a journal if you wish. Plants are organically grown or locally harvested in a sustainable way.

**Space limited to 13, so please register in advance**

Donation: Members: $20-$35, Non-Members: $30-$45. Energy exchange available for those with financial constraints ~ just reach out to nelya@rootedsanctuary.com.

To register: Please Venmo your donation to @Nelya-Binder to confirm your space. If you have any questions or do not have Venmo, feel free to send an email to nelya@rootedsanctuary.com.

About Nelya: Nelya is a wellbeing coach, herbalist, certified yoga teacher, and energy medicine practitioner. After spending years as a corporate attorney experiencing disconnect between spirit, mind, and body, Nelya followed her purpose to empower people to be their own greatest healers. Nelya’s mission is to guide others towards an awakened and healthful life with energy medicine, herbs, sovereign wellness tools, and meditation. Nelya’s current 1:1 practice focuses primarily on sovereign women’s care, from cycle wellbeing to fertility. To learn more about Nelya and her medicine, visit www.rootedsanctuary.com or follow her on Instagram ~ @rooted.with.nelya.

Joyful Warrior: Self-Care & Wild Wellness Circle
2023-11-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Meeting Room of CSSC
Come in cozy clothes for a rejuvenating self-care session and leave feeling uplifted and supported in your self-care journey.
Popularized self-care seems to be all about buying things and sitting in a bathtub, but this workshop goes into holistic, sustainable, and new approaches to self-care inspired by listening to your specific needs and Wild Wellness practices for wellness and wholeness.
Our circle consists of an opening grounding practice and a brief lecture that flows into open sharing.

Skills for Bridging the Divide a Braver Angels Workshop
2023-11-11 14:00 - 17:00
In our current polarized political environment, many people avoid or dread political conversations with friends or family members whose politics differ from their own. They worry, rightly so, that any attempts at political discussions will devolve into arguments and acrimony, and result in hurt feelings or anger.
Braver Angels Skills for Bridging the Divide Workshops teach skills for having respectful conversations that clarify differences, search for common ground, and affirm the importance of the relationship. They also give participants a safe environment to practice those skills.
This workshop is approximately 2 ½ hours long.

Group Healing Goddess Circle
2023-11-11 16:30 - 18:30 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
What is a Group Healing Goddess Circle?
Group healings are powerful opportunities to clear and release issues that participants share collectively. Each group healing is different, since Spirit determines what we address. Sometimes, we work deeply to release an issue like fear held in the body. At other times, Spirit upgrades our energy system, giving us tools to help others. The healings are transformative and support our awakening. Usually, group healings last 45-60 minutes. Participants are welcome to ask for support with a specific issue beforehand. After the healing, we meditate in the stillness. Finally, those who are moved are invited to share their experiences.
How are the Healings Transmitted?
Diana leads group healings with help from Spirit, the Arenal Volcano, Jaguar energy, and the Archangels.
Diana Phillips- is a gifted practitioner who has worked in the healing arts since 2004. In the last few years, Spirit has given her a very strong set of healing energies that she uses to release issues of our physical, mental, emotional bodies, past lives, and ancestors.

Plant-Based Meal Prep Workshop and Dinner
2023-11-12 16:00 - 19:00, 2023-11-19 16:00 - 19:00, 2023-11-26 16:00 - 19:00, 2023-12-03 16:00 - 19:00 | kitchen, 15 Common Street, Natick, MA
Plant-Based Meal Prep workshop and Dinner
Join us for a fun and informative evening at our Plant-Based Meal Prep Workshop and Dinner! Discover the delicious world of plant-based cooking and learn how to create nutritious meals that are good for you and the planet. Plus take home 5 meals to enjoy throughout the week!
During this hands-on workshop, chef Amanda Short will guide you through the process of preparing flavorful plant-based dishes from scratch. Learn essential cooking techniques, explore a variety of ingredients, and gain practical tips for incorporating more plant-based meals into your daily routine.
After the workshop, we’ll sit down together to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Indulge in a delicious dinner where you can savor the flavors of the dishes you helped create while connecting with like-minded individuals who share your passion for healthy and sustainable eating.
Whether you’re a seasoned plant-based eater or just curious about incorporating more plant-based meals into your diet, this workshop is perfect for you. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to expand your culinary skills and enjoy a mouthwatering plant-based feast!

Breathwork and Sound Healing
2023-11-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Join us for an immersion into collective presence in this 2 hour container on Friday night. With multiple modalities celebrating aliveness together, we will weave sharing circle, breath work, sound healing and connection with one another. We’ll practice together how to surrender anything that has been held in our hearts. We’ll gently hold them together in a circle and transmute to light through vibration and breath.

Natick Mushroom Fest ??
2023-11-18 14:00 - 17:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Join Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, a grassroots nonprofit, to learn how to grow mushrooms, make art, and meet other people interested in healing!
Beginning at 2pm, we’ll have fun and delicious mushroom snacks and a presentation on how mushrooms created and shaped humanity from the beginning of time. Attendees will then learn how to safely forage for mushrooms, how mushrooms can be grown with kits available for donation to support the nonprofit’s work, and —with the help of professional painter Colomba Klenner — learn to contribute to a community mural. Activities are kid-friendly and people of all ages are welcome!
Invite friends and please bring a donation fitting your budget to support this work. You can RSVP for updates (tinyurl.com/baystatersmeeting) and learn more about the group’s work (BaystatersNM.org)

Traditional Rattle Making Ceremony
2023-11-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Rattles are the sound of the North in the medicine wheel. Their sound assimilate the rain therefore a good cleanser of dense energies stuck in body, mind or spaces. They are also used for traveling into other realms, journeying to the North where our ancestors, teachers and guides live.
In this workshop you will craft a traditional corn filled Elk-rattle for ceremonial and healing use.
Once sacred space has been opened and everyone has voiced their presence in the circle we will receive the materials for bringing these tools through. The first step is to make the holes and sew them together. We will be filling them with sand to take the desired shape and let them dry while having lunch and embarking on a journey with Nelya Binder. She will will be offering a Conscious Yoga class to connect with Mother Earth and the elements inspired by rattle making. This Kundalini-inspired class will weave breath, sound, and meditative movement to clear stuck energies and deepen your intuition.
You can read more about her offerings here.
The final step of assembling the rattles and exchanging the sand for corn will tie the day together.
Exchange is $150 and includes all materials.
Drumbirthing workshop on Saturday 11/18 here.
Register by paying in full.
Venmo: mialuz33
Please provide your e-mail address and the date for the workshop.

Deep Connection Mixer - An Evening Of Unforgettable Connections
2023-11-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Have you ever attended a meetup or some other social gathering and gotten stuck in “small talk” that went nowhere?
Are you tired of polite, boring conversations that don’t light a spark and make you really feel something inside?
If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, then you’re going to love this.
This is a unique kind of social event where the focus is on playing games that create interesting conversations and profound connections with some warm and amazing people.
By participating in these eye-opening (and heart-opening) exercises, you’ll not only have a lot of fun, but you’ll learn a so much about yourself and the people around you.
And on a practical level, you’ll also learn tools that you can use in your everyday life to create deeper connections with others.
WHY COME TO A DEEP CONNECTION MIXER?
You’ll discover how you are truly experienced by others in fun, eye-opening, and compassionate ways.
You’ll learn to navigate those moments when you’re not sure what you’re going to say next, and surprise yourself at how interesting and creative you really are when you stop trying to manage how others see you.
You’ll learn how to share yourself more authentically in conversation, and that will serve you in other areas of your life as well.
Rather than having a night of boring small talk, you’ll actually get real with the people you meet… giving you the kind of deep, connected experience we often hope for at gatherings, but rarely experience.
And you’ll have a lot of fun!
Does that sound like music to your ears? This is going to be very different from what you typically experience at a meetup event. I’m excited to create this together with you!
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Where is it? – The event is held at the Common Street Spiritual Center in Natick, MA which is a beautiful facility for an event like this.
What time? – We start promptly at 7:00pm and go until 9:00pm (with a break in the middle). Please plan on arriving by 6:45pm so you have time to settle in and meet the other participants.
How much? – I wanted to keep this affordable for everyone, so it’s only $20 to attend. That is very inexpensive for a facilitated gathering where you are guaranteed to meet great people and actually have meaningful connections with them.
I’m looking forward to seeing you there.
Warmly,
Jason

Community Dialogue on Israel and Gaza
2023-11-26 12:30 - 14:00 | 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.

Using a sharing circle format, 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.

Rekindle The Flame
2023-11-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Rekindle the flame is a yoga class with the purpose of helping you ignite the relationship between you and your body. As any other relationship in your life your connection to your body is crucial for survival. In this class gentle slow movement along with sound vibration and frequency therapy will be combined to foster the perfect environment to ignite the flame between body, soul and spirit. In this class we leave the mind at the door and only feel our way through the journey of enlightenment. Enjoying not only the destination but the journey along the way.

Morning yoga flow with live harp
2023-12-02 10:15 - 11:45 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Dear Friends,
We are happy to invite you to join the morning yoga flow practice with live music. Come to stretch, to breathe, to connect with yourself and others, come to be carried by beautiful music and harmonies.
December 2nd at 10:15 AM at Common Street Spiritual Center
Doors will open at 10:00 AM. Please be on time.
Bring a yoga mat, water bottle, and blanket for relaxation. Wear comfortable preferably light or colorful clothes (no black please).
Ticket Link: https://souldance.ticketleap.com/yogamusic/
Price- $40 for CSSC Members: $35
Please confirm your attendance and register by Nov 28th. We would appreciate it if you reserve your spot a bit in advance.
Blessings of harmony,
Volga

Yogic Open Mic
2023-12-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Come be youuu in this intentionally loving, divinely sacred, and deeply spiritual community.
There will be…
saging centering meditation sound bowl healing pranayama live music

~Halfway through~
An enlivening ecstatic dance lead by DJ Fae Bae followed by a powerful drumming circle lead by Dominic Castellano

more live music chanting poetry reading + more Oooo soo yummYYY!

Please arrive early if you would like to join in the opening meditation!

Sliding scale, $20-40, cash at door or venmo @commonstreet

We will have some percussive instruments available as well as yoga mats and blankets, but please bring if you have your own drums or mats, bolsters, anything to be totally comfortable!

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti See you there! Ali, Dominic, Jaclynn, & Miranda

SoulCollage® for Personal Growth and Development
2023-12-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
SoulCollage® is a fun collage art form using your imagination, creativity and intuition. It is an amazing process for accessing the many sides of your personality. You will create a series of collaged cards using found images from magazines or photos from which you will then journal and share your insights. SoulCollage® has proven to be a valuable tool for spiritual and personal growth! It’s FUN and no artistic experience is necessary! Collaging helps cultivate peace and relaxation of body, mind, and spirit. It provides an opportunity to improve your health, relationships and overall sense of wellbeing. SoulCollage® is a powerful tool that can help one achieve optimal growth and development by:
• Developing new and creative solutions to life’s difficulties.
• Fostering respect, empathy, and acceptance for self and others.
• Learning to experience and express emotions in a healthy manner.
• Providing insight in how to prevent or solve inner conflicts and emotional struggles.
• Improving self-worth and confidence in one’s abilities.
To register, Contact Nadine Lucas at nadineelucas@gmail.com

Introduction to Shamanic Journeying: Connect with Your Power Animal
2023-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Studio @ Common Street, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Introduction to Shamanic Journeying:
Connect with Your Power Animal
“Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the invisible worlds beyond ordinary reality in order to retrieve information for change in any area of our lives, from spirituality and health to work and relationships” (Sandra Ingerman, 2007).
Power animals are an elemental component of shamanism and all shamans work with power animals to help bring about spiritual, physical and emotional healing at the soul or spirit level. One or more power animals may help us throughout our lives. All of us have access to our power animals and our power animals want to work with us!
In this workshop, you will be guided to independently travel to the shamanic lower world through a meditative journeying state and meet your power animal. We will also discover the various ways to work with power animals in daily life and to assist in understanding specific intentions or gifts they have to offer.
It is recommended you bring any items that will help you descend into this state of consciousness. Such materials can include an eye covering, pillow, blanket, mat, and wearing comfortable clothing. Cushions, yoga mats, and blankets will be available.
In your shamanic journey space, you may gain information from the lower world spirits and your power animal. Bringing a journal can be valuable to record the messages received for further integration and referencing.
No prior shamanic or journeying experience necessary. All levels of shamanic practice are welcome! Email Sherry @ sherrysolchnp@gmail.com with questions.
Space limited to 12 participants, preregistration required by following this link: https://forms.gle/bjvX7HqCAhXo2TK38
Exchange $30
