Meditation Mondays
2023-07-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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 every first and third Monday of the month. FREE. No registration required.

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

Heart To Heart - Cacao Ceremony & Deep Connection Games (In Person)
2023-07-19 18:30 - 21:00
You are invited to join us at a truly unique and connected event: Heart To Heart. During this special evening we’ll be blending two of my favorite things:
A magical Cacao ceremony to help us all drop into our hearts, followed by some really fun, deeply engaging connection games.
WHAT IS A CACAO CEREMONY?
A Cacao Ceremony is a ritualistic gathering where participants drink ceremonial-grade Cacao to foster a sense of unity, openness, and introspection.
The ceremonial-grade Cacao serves as a natural heart opener, encouraging a deep emotional connection to oneself and to others in the group.
The value of this ceremony lies in its power to dissolve barriers, enhance mindfulness, and nurture a warm sense of community, helping individuals to experience deeper levels of connection and understanding.
WHAT MAKES THIS CACAO SPECIAL?
I pride myself on serving some of the best-tasting ceremonial Cacao you’ll ever have. Cacao is not the same thing as hot chocolate. It’s a bitter stimulant, and it’s generally fairly watery and bitter.
Mine is different.
I prepare mine with full fat oat milk for a smooth, creamy base and source our Cacao from Prophecy Chocolate, known for its premium quality.
Then I add a unique blend of spices (including a hint of cayenne pepper), vanilla, and maple syrup to sweeten it.
It’s a heartwarming drink that not only tastes great but also helps set the stage for deeper, more meaningful interactions.
Next we move into playing some deep connection games
WHAT ARE DEEP CONNECTION GAMES?
Rather than having a bunch of polite small talk, we will focus on playing games that create heartfelt connections with each other.
By participating in these heart opening games, you’ll not only have a lot of fun, but you’ll learn a so much about yourself and the people around you. You’ll get to share things you would normally never get to share at a typical social gathering.
Does that sound like music to your ears? I am excited to co-create this intentional social / ceremonial gathering together with you.
EVENT DETAILS & LOGISTICS
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 6:30 PM and go until 9:00 PM (with a break in the middle). Please plan on arriving by 6:15pm so you have time to park, and then settle in and meet the others.
HOW TO REGISTER: Pricing and registration details are on the Eventbrite page here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/674546906957
I’m looking forward to seeing you there.
Warmly,
Jason
P.S. – Please check the FAQ section at the bottom of the Eventbrite link to make sure Cacao is safe for you. It generally is for most people, but it’s good to have a look to be sure.

Dub Yoga
2023-07-20 19:00 - 20:00
A vinyasa flow yoga class set to live roots and dub Reggae

Yes, Yoga and Reggae fusion!

FREE & open to the community

w/ Dr. Jen Kurz and DJ Jah Rich, live!!

Curious about the meaning of “Dub”?

What is Dub music? Dub is one of the many sub genres of Reggae music. Dub is instrumental Reggae that is artistically enhanced and layered with effects like echo and reverb as well as production techniques like splicing in snipits of vocals or sporadically dropping out all the instruments except for the powerful, stripped down drum and bass.

Dub gives the recording engineer the opportunity to become the musician as their multi-track mixing console acts as the instrument. An engineer making Dub is like a chef creating a unique meal not often seen on most menus!

Jamaican producer and engineer King Tubby is commonly known as the creator of Dub, as he first experimented with ways to manipulate and “dub out” his instrumental tracks in the early 1970s. Today, his innovation and influence is widely seen in genres like techno, drum and bass, and electronic music overall. Dub stands as another example of the rich contributions of Jamaican music.

Jah Rich 7/19/23

Open Circle Gathering
2023-07-23 10:30 - 12:00, 2023-08-13 10:30 - 12:00, 2023-08-20 10:30 - 12:00, 2023-08-27 10:30 - 12:00
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

Our current schedule for Open Circle is that we are meeting in person on 1st, 2nd, and 4th Sundays, and virtually or hybrid on 3rd Sundays. 1st Sundays include a potluck brunch and are less formal. However, in 2023 we are experimenting with a hybrid 3rd Sundays, with both in person and virtual options.

Community Yoga Class FREE
2023-07-24 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-08-14 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-08-28 19:00 - 20:00
COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS with Dr. Jen Kurz
Please register by email to doctorjenkurz@gmail.com
YOGA: (yoga citta vrtti nirodah): Translates, from Sanskrit, as “the cessation of the fluctuations of mind.” Patanjali, a great yogi sage, defines it in his “Yoga Sutras” as the ability to direct the mind exclusively toward an object and sustain that direction, without distractions.
For many westerners and Americans, yoga practice involves particular asanas, or mat exercises and stretches, which build strength, flexibility, and balance. It may also be a way to find stillness in the mind in the effort to reach a state of focused attention and self-awareness — through guided sound, breath, and posture. This class will be geared towards those who are looking for a moderate to fast paced flow, as well as a deeper understanding of the mind body connection.
Dr. Jen Kurz is a pain management physiatrist (www.doctorkurz.com for further information).
Dr. Kurz witnesses the limits of conventional care in the treatment of conditions as complex and difficult as chronic pain, addiction, and related mood disorders. If we lose our ability to move due to chronic pain, we know the central and peripheral nervous systems are involved. Neurons that fire together, wire together. Can we redirect our minds and rewire neurons towards health and wellbeing?
Yoga is a powerful healing and preventative practice for chronic, painful physical conditions – including chronic spine and joint pain, muscle pain, weakness, tightness, and postural imbalances. Yoga may enable you to awaken to root mental causes, conditions, and obstacles that may be overcome with practice. Previous experience with yoga is recommended for this class.
This is a free offering and anyone from the community is welcome, whether or not you are a member of the Spiritual Center.

Conscious Kundalini Yoga
2023-07-25 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-08-01 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-08-08 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-08-15 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-08-22 09:15 - 10:15, 2023-08-29 09:15 - 10:15 | 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.

Sound Meditation with Mike Tamburo
2023-07-25 19:00 - 21:00
Sound Meditation with Mike Tamburo
Enter a timeless space of listening as Crown of Eternity’s Mike Tamburo orchestrates his way through 40+ overtone rich instruments including Gongs, Bells, Hammered Dulcimer and tuned metal instruments. Listeners have described Mike Tamburo’s music as an adventure in listening; sonic bliss; a deep and lasting vibrational rejuvenation for body and spirit; a profound aesthetic experience; a journey through the senses and a perceptual rollercoaster. Allow yourself to be still and listen.
Bio
Mike Tamburo is a world-renowned musician, composer, artist and educator. He is known and loved for his transformational live concerts performed on his personally curated set of gongs, bells and other metal instruments.
A lifelong multi-instrumentalist, Tamburo has focused his talents on metal percussion instruments, string instruments (hammered dulcimer, guitar, zither, shahi baaja), as well as electronic instruments (synths, looping).
Since 1994, Tamburo has shared more than 2,000 concerts and workshops. He has recorded over 70 albums, both solo and in collaboration with Crown of Eternity, Meisha, Arco Flute Foundation, Psychic Frost, Brother Ong and more, ranging from epic gong music to ecstatic and transcendental string music, as well as folk, drone, space rock, ambient, mantra music and sometimes unclassifiable sounds. This man loves music in all its forms!
He teaches gong music, both in person and online with School of Gong. He is also a part of the far-reaching ethnomusicology trio, Dig Deeper, with Mitch Nur and Thomas Orr Anderson. Their online classes have explored countless musical concepts with a focus on the cultural and personal uses of sound for healing, meditation, trance, ecstatic states, relaxation, self transformation, perception, psycho-acoustics, scientific discovery, time and community.
An early adoptee of meditation, Tamburo’s music offers space for journeying, self-exploration and deep introspection. During many of his early performances, he experienced altered states of consciousness and out of body experiences. To understand these experiences, he explored kundalini yoga, energy work, the therapeutic use of sound and how sound impacts consciousness, human perception and self healing. His love for long sustained drones, overtones and psychoacoustics continues to inspire him to explore music in further directions.
Tamburo is also an interdisciplinary sound artist, instrument builder, video artist, sound therapist, writer and meditation teacher.
www.miketamburomusic.com
Instagram.
@mike_tamburo
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Videos

https://tickets.brightstarevents.com/event/mike-tamburo-live-in-natick

Full Moon Sound Healing
2023-08-01 19:00 - 20:30
Full Moon Sound Healing with Nicole Ward and Lara Woolfson

Mohanji Meditations
2023-08-03 19:00 - 20:15, 2023-08-10 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.

Rubaba Ecstatic Kirtan - Chanting & Healing
2023-08-03 19:00 - 21:00
The practice of Kirtan has been found to provide a number of mental health benefits, including improved mood, decreased anxiety, stress, and cortisol levels, as well as decrease insomnia. Hemant combines Bhakti and Gyana yoga paths. During this session he will take us through chants based on seven different ragas, each aligned with a chakra, the energy centers. Each mantra is examined for pronunciation and meaning prior to engaging in chanting (Ohm, Ram, Hare Krishna and more). Finally all participants will be invited to express themselves through dance and end the shared experience with the Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu!

Rubaba is a multi-instrumentalist, classically trained Musician and a vocalist and has played around the globe in a number of festivals. His unique style is very simple yet uplifting to follow. His mantras are in English, vidhi, Sanskrit and Urdu. He has been fusing his love for music and his devotion to finding the deeper spiritual meaning in life for more than 30 years

Suggested donations:
$30 (members $20)

EYE AM Breathwork
2023-08-04 18:00 - 21:00

Open Circle and Community Brunch
2023-08-06 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

Meditation Mondays
2023-08-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-08-14 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-08-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-08-28 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

Community Herbal Tea Ceremony
2023-08-24 18:30 - 20:30 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 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.

Women's Moon Lodge
2023-08-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Calling the women who are desiring deeper connection!
Are you craving an environment where you can show up in your rawness and vulnerability, and to be witnessed and heard by other women in a sacred way?
Are you hungry for more than light and fluffy meditations and aching for rebirth and renewal?
Welcome to the mysteries of the Moon Lodge, a space where maidens, mothers, queens, and crones meet and share our stories, our pain, our sorrows, our joys, and celebrations. Take a deep dive into the realm of the Divine Feminine, and be held and cradled in sisterhood.
“When we attune to the rhythm of Grandmother Moon, we step into remembrance of our divine feminine blueprint, recognize our place in the natural world, feel connected with women everywhere, and embody our truth from the sacred source of love …” ~
Achintya Devi

What happens at a Moon Lodge Ceremony?
We open ceremony with agreements about how we hold space for each other, without rescuing or taking away from someone’s process.
We share what is in our hearts, souls, and bodies, and we embody our truest authentic form without fear of judgment from others.
We discuss the astrology and the moon phases and how these energies and cycles affect our lives.
We honor where we are at in our cycles and rejoice in the wonderfulness that is our brilliant bodies!
You will be taken on a guided journey into your heart space to connect with what is alive for you and what you’re desiring to release or welcome into your lives.
If this ignites a spark of interest in you and sets your soul ablaze, then please join us!
This event is open to those who identify as women, wherever you are at in your cycle.

Energy exchange:
$20 for members
$25 for non-members
Please send your offering to Stephanie at https://venmo.com/u/Stephanie-Brown-558
Please include your email address and “Moon Lodge” in the memo.Or reach out to Stephanie Brown at stephaniebrown1217@gmail.com or 508-333-1290 to make other arrangements.

Things to bring:
blankets or whatever you need to get comfortable.
a journal and pen to take notes and write intentions.
a snack to share if you feel called.
a mug or cup for tea.
wear clothes that make you feel beautiful and celebrate you.
-Please reach out to Stephanie with any needs you may have or accommodations you need assistance with.
-Please let me know of any sensitivities or sensory challenges you may have to either sound, smells, lighting, etc.

Location:
Common Street Spiritual Center
13 Common St, Natick, MA 01760

About your host:
Stephanie Lynn Brown is a licensed and trauma informed massage therapist, craniosacral therapist, certified practitioner of Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® with over 16 years experience in hands-on healing and bodywork. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and background in mental health specializing in behavior modification, and has been training in ceremonial arts for close to a decade. Stephanie is a Tantric Priestess and has studied divine embodiment and sacred sexuality, and is passionate about encouraging folks with mental illness, disabilities, and history of trauma to live their best lives and advocate for themselves in a variety of ways. She is an avid herbalist, animal communicator, and life-long student and seeker of Truth. She is a proponent for safe and ethical use of psychedelics and entheogens for healing trauma and working through energetic blockages.

Intro to Ayurveda - IN PERSON
2023-08-30 19:00 - 20:30
Known as Yoga’s “sister science,” Ayurveda is the world’s oldest system of health and healing. This time-tested, nature-based wisdom empowers us with principles and practices to maximize our existing health and prevent the onset of future “dis-ease.” Ayurveda uses nature’s basic elements (space, air, fire, water and earth) as a foundational framework to understand everything we see in the material world including the design of our unique body/mind constitution.

By observing ourselves through the lens of elemental qualities, we learn how the seasons, weather, physical environments, emotions, food, relationships, and all life activities have an impact on our constitution – how they support balance or lead to imbalance within our own unique organism. This deeper self-awareness can lead us to better life choices and combined with Ayurvedic practices, improve our overall physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

Join this workshop to learn…
• Origins of Ayurveda & the practice of Ayurveda today in the US
• Key concepts in Ayurveda and its unique view of health
• Potential benefits of practicing Ayurveda
• Your unique constitution through a take home assessment (Vata, Pitta, Kapha doshsa)

To register, email rebecca@illuminate-discover.com indicating you intended date of attendance.
