Common Street Spiritual Center

Mohanji Meditations
2024-08-01 19:00 - 20:15, 2024-08-08 19:00 - 20:15, 2024-08-15 19:00 - 20:15, 2024-08-22 19:00 - 20:15, 2024-08-29 19:00 - 20:15, 2024-09-05 19:00 - 20:15, 2024-09-12 19:00 - 20:15, 2024-09-19 19:00 - 20:15 (America/New_York) and 6 more dates | 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.

The Artist's Way
2024-08-09 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-09-13 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-10-11 10:00 - 11:30 | Studio @ Common Street, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
The Artist’s Way is a monthly drop-in group for aspiring or established creatives.
We will create an open, no-pressure space to experiment, share, collaborate and be in community with others.
Themes from Julia Cameron’s book will be discussed. Contact Nathaniel@plantseyeview.com to register or for more information.

Creating the Great Turning
2024-08-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Are you concerned and overwhelmed about the dire threat to our biosphere from the climate crisis?
Do you long to serve the healing of our world in a more powerful and effective way?
If so, please join us for
Creating the Great Turning
A 2- hour monthly gathering to reinforce our interdependence, honor our grief for this world, explore new perspectives on these complex problems and manifest a life-sustaining society.
Our interactive approach uses “The Work That Reconnects.”, developed by Joanna Macy and others, which integrates systems thinking, deep ecology and deep time, spiritual traditions and undoing oppression.
We highly recommend listening to the first episode of the podcast “We Are the Great Turning” before the meeting, as it provides an excellent introduction to The Work That Reconnects process.
Join us on Wednesday, June 26th, from 7-9 PM in the CSSC Moon Room.Co-Facilitators
Laura Hake
Michael Corthell
Colleen Puzas
Each of our co-facilitators has extensive experience creating safe spaces for learning and building community, along with a deep love for our good green Earth.
Our only request is that you are present and ready to begin promptly at 7 PM.
Meeting Schedule
We plan to meet monthly. You are welcome to join us for as many meetings as you would like.
July 24, 7-9 PM, CSSC Moon Room
August 21, 7-9 PM, CSSC Sanctuary
Join us as we embark on this journey of understanding and action for the healing of our world.

Shavorã: Yawanawá Music of Magic and Revolution
2024-10-01 18:30 - 22:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Come experience the musical magic, mystery, and revolutionary love of Shavora!

Experience the transformative power of the Yawanawá indigenous traditions with sacred music, cultural ceremony, and spiritual sharing.

We are honored to collaborate with @savanahealerchurch in bringing this offering to our community.

Tuesday night Oct 1st, doors at 6:30pm!

Call of Love Yoga
2024-10-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-06 08:30 - 21:30, 2024-10-13 08:30 - 21:30, 2024-10-20 08:30 - 21:30 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Call of Love
Channeled song and messages from the Divine
Experience channeled sources of Love into song while you relax at the end of a gentle yoga class. Your practice will include guided breathing, chair or mat asana, restorative poses and meditation. Coming home to the oneness in our hearts, we can cultivate a sense of unity that brings us together into wholeness, solace, peace and hope
8:30-9:30, Sundays mornings (except for the last Sunday of the month)
Common Street Spiritual Center Sanctuary
Donations welcome
Cash or Venmo: @Judith-Thapa
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.
You can follow Judy on FB at Varunayoga

Power Up Your Purpose
2024-10-10 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-10-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Are you feeling a deep calling but struggling to answer it? Are you pouring your heart into your business yet finding it hard to gain traction and make the impact you envision?
If you’re ready to embrace your purpose and elevate your spiritual journey, the Power Up Your Purpose workshop is the transformative experience you’ve been searching for!
Why Attend the Power Up Your Purpose Workshop?
This unique program is designed to help you connect deeply with your divine purpose and create a body of work that transcends your individual identity. Your contributions can heal the world in profound ways or create ripples in the global consciousness.
What You Will Gain:
Massive Energetic Shift: Align your life’s purpose with the global consciousness through powerful, divinely guided processes.
Overcome Self-Doubt: Release imposter syndrome and confidently embrace your gifts.
Clarity and Direction: Gain unwavering certainty about your path forward.
Visibility Activation: Overcome the fears that keep you hidden and step confidently into your authentic self.
Portal to Your Future Professional Self: Open a portal to your divine future, envisioning the professional life you are meant to live.
Abundance Flow: Release financial blocks and allow money to flow freely into your life.
Healing the Inner Child: Examine and heal the aspects of your wounded inner child that are hindering your professional growth.
This training is ideal for individuals who:
Wish to amplify their influence and expand their reach, making a more significant impact in their personal and professional lives.
They are ready to release limiting beliefs and overcome obstacles that prevent them from fully embracing and delivering their life’s purpose.
What to Expect:
During the Power Up Your Purpose workshop, you’ll experience powerful energy transmissions facilitated by Diana, channeling the energy of the sacred Arenal Volcano. Many participants find themselves deeply relaxed, often falling asleep during the transmissions.
Integration: After the workshop, your system will take a few days to integrate these big shifts, leading to noticeable changes in how you feel and express your purpose.
Why This Training is Different
Divinely Inspired Content: Access teachings directly channeled from sacred energies.
Connection: Join a network of like-minded people on the same journey.
Expert Facilitation: Diana Phillips is a gifted healer whose journey in the healing arts began in 2004 after graduating from the Rolf Institute. With over two decades of experience, she has developed her unique gifts through learning from various energy work teachers and cultivating her path.
While tending to medicinal herbs and raising goats on her organic farm, Diana discovered that plants communicate their healing properties to her, leading her to conduct transformative plant spirit healings (non-psychedelic). In 2021, Diana visited the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica for the first time. As a master healer, Diana offered a spontaneous healing to the Volcano, which led to the beginning of a profound partnership that deeply upgraded her energy system.
During one of Diana’s many trips back to visit the Sacred Volcano, Diana received the Soul 13 teachings through thirteen transformative soul initiations. Diana is committed to sharing this wisdom and empowering others on their healing journeys.
Limited Spots Available—Reserve Your Seat Today!
This transformative workshop has limited availability to ensure a personalized experience. Don’t miss this opportunity to step into your power and transform your life.
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. What makes this workshop unique?
The teachings are divinely inspired, downloaded from the sacred Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica, offering insights that are not available in traditional settings.
2. Is this suitable for everyone?
This workshop is ideal for participants who have already cultivated some aspect of their intuition and possess the capacity for self-reflection.
3. What should I bring?
An open heart, a journal, a yoga mat, a pillow, a blanket, sneakers to walk in the woods during integration time, a lunch,, and a willingness to explore your divine purpose.
4. What should I leave at home?: We kindly ask participants to refrain from using any substances, including plant medicines such as cannabis, to maintain a clear energetic space for everyone. Prescription medications are, of course, welcome to support your health and well-being.
Take the Next Step Toward Your Purpose!
Your divine calling awaits. Join us for a transformative experience that will empower you to live your purpose boldly.

The Book of Bob
2024-10-10 19:00 - 21:30 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Let’s get together and feel alright, in this experience of the love, wisdom, and power of Bob Marley’s story.
Alex DeGroot and friends will create a vibe of celebration, learning, and spiritual seeking through music, history, truth-telling, open sharing, dance, and many other ways of connecting with the Book of Bob, the revelations that he brought for humanity through his music.
Everyone is welcome, of all backgrounds, lifestyles, beliefs, and even music tastes. The event is free and open to the public.

Self-Love Sacral Chakra Retreat
2024-10-13 14:00 - 19:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Join a community of like-hearted souls in a powerful Self-Love Journey. In our second monthly chakra retreat, we will explore the powerful qualities of the Sacral Chakra: the energy center of creativity, sexuality, emotions, family, relationships, desire, movement, pleasure, innocence, openness to others, boundaries, transformation, and more. We will experience how this chakra supports our ability to create self-love through a variety of meaningful and fun chakra-supporting activities including yoga, guided meditation, journaling, community music-making, dance, and more!

SACRAL CHAKRA RETREAT SCHEDULE…

* Opening Circle (2 – 3 pm)
* Self-Love Sacral Chakra Yoga with Inbal (3:15 – 4:30 pm)
* Snack Break & Community Connection Time (*Featuring Sacral Chakra supporting snacks!) (4:30 – 5 pm)
* Guided Meditation with Desiree & Self-Love Journaling (5 – 5:30 pm)
* Small Group Discussion (5:30 – 5:45 pm)
* Sacral Chakra Celebration & Empowerment: Community Music & Ecstatic Dance! (5:45 – 6:45 pm)
* Closing Circle (6:45 – 7 pm)

(*Exact retreat timing subject to change! Participants may choose which activities they would like to participate in and are welcome to opt out of any retreat activities they wish to!)

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SACRAL CHAKRA RETREAT DETAILS & REGISTRATION…

Date: Sunday, October 13, 2024

Time: 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Retreat Location: “Common Street Spiritual Center” (13 Common St, Natick, MA 01760)

Parking / Transportation: There is a parking lot behind the spiritual center and lots of street parking within walking distance that is free on Sundays! If you would like to come in by train, The Natick Center Station is only a 6 minute walk from the spiritual center! (If you are in need of a ride to Natick, please let us know, and we will attempt to put you in touch with someone in your area who is driving!)

Cost: $60 – $80 (*Sliding Scale!)

(Additional Financial Aid Available! We believe in making this retreat accessible to all who wish to participate. If you are in need of any additional financial assistance, please contact Desiree & Inbal at RavensongRetreats@gmail.com and we will happily work something out with you!)

Registration & Payment:

1) To sign-up, please email Desiree & Inbal at RavensongRetreats@gmail.com.

2) Please send a payment of $60-$80 prior to the retreat through Venmo to @inbaldagan or use this link to send a payment through credit card / PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/X62TZJ3KTZ5XL.

Cancellation Policy: There will be no refunds available for this retreat, but you are welcome to use your payment as a credit towards a future Self-Love Chakra Retreat! (See below for upcoming retreat dates!)

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UPCOMING SELF-LOVE RETREATS!

Solar Plexus Chakra Retreat: Sunday, November 17, 2024 (2-7 pm)

Heart Chakra Retreat: January, 2025 (Date TBA!)

Throat Chakra Retreat: February, 2025 (Date TBA!)

Third Eye Chakra Retreat: March, 2025 (Date TBA!)

Crown Chakra Retreat: April, 2025 (Date TBA!)

(*You are welcome to attend any or all chakra retreats! You may wish to use your intuition to see which chakras you are most drawn to strengthen at this time and determine which retreats would be most helpful for you to attend!)

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ABOUT INBAL DAGAN…

Inbal Dagan (she/her) is a yoga teacher, occupational therapist, and Reiki practitioner with a passion for supporting others in their journey of healing & embodiment. She believes that our self-love journey can be deeply strengthened by learning to be present and at home in our body, and is excited to share her yoga & creative movement practices with our self-love retreat community.

ABOUT DESIREE DENNIS…

Desiree Dennis (she/her) is a spirit medium, Reiki Master, and life-long musician who has facilitated spiritual workshops & retreats around the country. As a person who has spent many years in dedication to her own self-love journey, she is overjoyed to have the opportunity to continue exploring & deepening self-love within the supportive container of our conscious retreat community. (To learn more about Desiree, please visit www.spiritguidanceandhealing.com.)

Heart Mandala on Gaza
2024-10-21 20:30 - 22:30 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
When twelve hundred Israelis have been killed by Hamas, over eight thousand injured, and over two-hundred taken hostage; when over forty-two thousand Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, and over ninety-eight thousand injured; when hundreds of thousands of Gazans are starving and living amidst rubble, in tent cities without sanitation, in terror, despair and hopelessness; when Israelis are also living in constant fear of attack; when over sixteen thousand Gazan children have been killed; when many credible experts and humanitarians believe that the threshold of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been met*: there are no sides.

Our community members do not all agree about whether the Israeli government’s military campaign against Gaza constitutes a genocide, but we are all horrified by the suffering of the Palestinian people. We have also been mourning the victims of the heinous October 7th attack and are concerned about the safety and well-being of Israeli citizens who are caught in the crossfire of this conflict.

There are no sides in a crisis like this. This gathering is not about who is to blame, or which side is better or worse, it is about paying attention to the suffering that is taking place, truly feeling the horror of it. This spiritual practice is about finding our sense of purpose and agency to stop this downward spiral of hatred and violence and to move instead towards a loving, just, and peaceful solution, one that allows both Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace and safety, with equality and justice.

Why would we at the Spiritual Center community be concerned about events happening seemingly so far away from us? Because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Because our own government, the United States, is the primary funder and supplier of the weapons being used to kill Gazans. The U.S. military-industrial complex is profiting immensely off of this war and others. U.S. militarism in general is a highly relevant moral problem in our national politics: we have a right and duty to raise our voices in protest when the precious resources that our nation gathers via taxation are being spent primarily on wars that destroy life rather than on programs like education and healthcare that uplift and support human flourishing.

As an essential part of the civil discourse and moral evolution of this nation, religious and spiritual communities have always risen up to call for justice in the face of injustice, to call for peace in the face of war, to call for equality in the face of racism, sexism, and poverty, and in general to call for humanization in the face of dehumanization.

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On Oct 21st, we will gather as one human family, as equals, without distinctions, to experience and hold our truths together. We welcome all perspectives, all expressions, all the love and truth and feeling we can muster to meet this moment together in unity and integrity.

Following the spiral process of the Work That Reconnects, we will ground in gratitude, honor our pain for the world, see with fresh eyes, and go forth with purpose.
In the Heart Mandala, the central ritual of the evening, all are welcome to share their fear, their anger, their sadness, their emptiness, and whatever other feelings want to be expressed. Without cross talk or criticism, we will witness each other in a sacred circle of trust, confidentiality, and love.

The process will be facilitated by Rev. Dr. Ian Mevorach, director of Common Street Spiritual Center.

This sacred gathering is offered free and is open to the public. All are welcome, without distinction.

You are welcome to bring candles, flowers, incense or other sacred objects to place on the altar table at the beginning of the process.

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*According to the March 2024 report of Francesca Albanese, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories, “[T]here are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.”

In specific, the Special Rapporteur identifies three genocidal crimes against Palestinians, which together meet the threshold of genocide: (A) “Killing members of the group,” (B) “Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group,” and (C) “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

To read the full report, please use this link: https://commonstreet.org/…/2024/10/a-hrc-55-73-auv.pdf

**The University Network for Human Rights has also determined that a genocide is taking place in Gaza and published a report to this effect on May 15, 2024: “In partnership with students and experts at Boston University, Cornell, University of Pretoria, and Yale, the University Network published Genocide in Gaza: Analysis of International Law and its Application to Israel’s Military Actions since October 7, 2023. The report is the most thorough legal analysis to date of the “crime of crimes” expressed in the 1948 Genocide Convention and the related international jurisprudence, as applied to the facts on the ground in Gaza since October 7. It concludes that Israel’s actions meet the legal threshold of genocide, producing legal obligations for Israel and the international community to end the slaughter.”

***There are many within the Common Street Spiritual Center (CSSC) community and the wider Natick-Metrowest community who do not agree that genocidal acts are taking place in Gaza, or who believe that the language of “genocide” in the context of this political discourse is at least at times being used in antisemitic ways. We are aware that there has been discomfort about this event in particular, and its framing in the original event description; we have received and reviewed considerable feedback from our neighbors about this, and so we have amended the description to be more inclusive and sensitive to their concerns. Our community stands against antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism of any kind. Also, we love, respect, and accept people of various views and warmly welcome people of all perspectives, including various political orientations and religious backgrounds, to participate in this particular event and in general to be a part of the life of our community. CSSC is an inclusive, love-centered community.

Bwiti Fire Talk: An Introduction to African Spirituality
2024-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
The Bwiti tradition is a spiritual practice that originated in southern Gabon but has now spread in different branches throughout Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, and beyond. Bwiti is not a religion, but a traditional spiritual path known to initiates as the “art of knowing” and the “study of life itself.”
The fire talk is an essential element of Bwiti healing practices. Every ceremony begins with a fire talk where Bwiti teachings are shared. In order to promote wisdom and groundedness in the village, elders and medicine carriers (Ngangas and Maboundis) provide counseling rooted in the Bwiti teachings before the community partakes in ingesting medicine.
This fire talk session will be co-facilitated by Pamela “Ngondet Na Di Puma” Rosario Pérez and
Will “Etsika Mbudi” Dickerson II. Ngondet and Etsika are traditional medicine and culture carriers of the Missoko Bwiti lineage, initiated by the 10th-generation nima Papa Moughenda Mikala.

Intro to Qi Gong
2024-11-02 08:00 - 09:00 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Intro to Qi Gong
How to cultivate balance in body and mind and improve your life energy (Qi)
Time: Saturdays from 8am – 9am

Qi Gong is a centuries-old system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training. These practices help cultivate concentration, peace of mind, strengthen and tone your body all at once.
All are welcome. No prior experience required.
Suggested donation: $5-10
Meets in the Moon Room on the 3rd floor. Enter through the school street door and come upstairs to find us.
About the Instructor:
Wei Li grew up in Mainland, China. She earned her Ph.D. in Biology at Tufts University in 2005. Since 2010, she has been studying Qi Gong and Tai Chi with Master Ming Wu and Master Shi Zhao. She finished her Fengyang Qi Gong Associate Instructor training in 2020 and has been teaching Qi Gong since at Wu Healing Center and Morse Institute Library.
