Common Street Spiritual Center

Sacred Stillness - A Midweek Mindfulness Meditation
2025-03-19 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-03-26 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join Pooja for a 60-minute guided meditation. In this sacred space, you’ll be guided to pause, reconnect, and center yourself amidst the busy rhythms of life.
Whether you’re feeling the weight of a hectic schedule, seeking a moment of grounding, or simply in need of a peaceful reset, this session will help you realign and nourish your soul. With gentle guidance, you’ll release stress, calm racing thoughts, and anchor yourself in the present moment—creating a foundation of peace that supports you throughout the week.
This offering is by donation, allowing you to contribute what feels most aligned for you. Your donation helps maintain the accessibility of this space, but please know that it is not required. We warmly invite everyone to join us—this sacred space is for everyone.
Donations can be made via Venmo (@Pmahtani) or PayPal (https://tinyurl.com/donate-Pooja). Thank you for your support!
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Once registered, you’ll receive a confirmation email with Zoom details for each session. ?
We look forward to sharing this sacred time with you! ✨
We look forward to sharing this sacred pause with you! ✨

Adult Ballet
2025-03-19 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-21 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-26 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-28 09:30 - 11:00

Beginner Ballet
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:15, 2025-03-26 19:00 - 20:15

A Course in Miracles
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-03-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
A Course in Miracles was channeled by Jesus in the 60’s to a Columbia University medical school faculty member, perhaps to help us remember the message he came to teach when he walked on this earth.
Each week we begin our exploration by reading the short introduction which includes these words “the course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim however at removing the blocks to the awareness of Love’s presence which is your natural inheritance.”
Has any other subject been written or sung about more often than love? Isn’t it the organizing principle of all religions? So popular and prominent in our daily discourse, yet so elusive. And don’t we yearn for an alternative to fear, guilt and hatred, suspicion and divisiveness?
Whether a beginner, a student of many years, or an on-again/off again inquirer, you are invited to join us in seeking to learn how to love and enjoy being in love. It’s not a solo performance. Only together, is love manifest.
We meet by ZOOM, every Wednesday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
ZOOM LINK: https://commonstreet.zoom.us/j/92894618915?pwd=[REDACTED]

Modern/Jazz Dance Class
2025-03-20 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-27 09:30 - 11:00

Power of Play Game Night and Potluck Dinner
2025-03-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Game Night & Potluck Dinner
Join us for a fun-filled evening of games, laughter, and great food! Bring your favorite VEGAN dish (because we value ALL life and Mother Earth). Bring your favorite game if you have one to share and get ready for some friendly competition with board games, card games, and more. Whether you’re here for the food, the fun, or the connections, it’s the perfect way to unwind and enjoy good company. Can’t wait to see you there! Email Amanda at Divineconnectionsboston@gmail.com to RSVP

Mohanji Meditations
2025-03-20 19:00 - 20:15, 2025-03-27 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.

Intro to Qi Gong
2025-03-22 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.

Bollywood Dance Workout
2025-03-22 11:45 - 12:45 | 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.bollywoodstepbystep.com/booking-calendar/in-person-in-natick-center-1?referral=service_list_widget

Celebration of Life for Susan Lane
2025-03-22 15:00 - 18:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Family and friends are invited to join for a celebration of the completed life of Susan Lane, hosted by her son Jay Lane.

Susan “Tuve” Lane Obituary

NATICK- Susan “Tuve” Marie Lane, 61 years of age, passed away on Wednesday March 12th, 2025 from complications of a heart attack surrounded by her loving family at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Susan was born in Norwood, Mass and grew up in Norwood, graduating from Norwood High School Class of 1981. She moved to Natick in 1996 when she opened Flowers by the Depot in Natick. Susan owned and operated the flower shop alongside her son for 25 years in Natick Center. In 2014, Susan was diagnosed with a rare strain of streptococcal pneumonia leading to bacterial meningitis and sepsis which caused her to become a quadruple amputee. She was in a wheelchair for many years with her son being her sole caretaker. For most people this would be a life-pausing tragedy. But to Susan, this was a newfound purpose and determination. Her personality, sharp wit, penchant for laughter was something she will always be loved and remembered for. She was a self-proclaimed “tough old broad”, bold, and stubborn but in the positive way. Her fearlessness helped her into becoming an amputee peer support councilor where it was her mission to help support those who had gone through similar treatment and offered her help in every way she could. Susan was an avid Boston sports fan, especially the Boston Bruins. She was a huge supporter of the Boston Marathon. In her later years, she started a Facebook group called “Natick talks respectfully” aimed at unifying the town of Natick that she loved so much to be a part of. Her sense of community helped bring a lot of the town together to see each other’s humanity rather than be divided by partisan or religious barriers. Susan dedicated her life to helping and serving others and saw it as a mission whenever she could. She loved all pets and owned dogs, cats, birds, various fish, and reptiles for most of her life. She loved music and always had classic rock playing in the background. Above all else, Susan’s greatest pride was in being a mother and grandmother. She is survived by her devoted son Jason “Jay” Lane of Natick, her loving granddaughter Adeline Marie Lane, and the Parris Family of Natick. She was the daughter of the late Francis and Lorraine (Attar) Lane. She also leaves behind numerous close friends and extended family members who are deeply saddened by her passing and will miss her dearly.
In lieu of flowers in Susan’s memory, donations can be made to: Donate Here
To plant a beautiful memorial tree in memory of Susan “Tuve” Marie Lane, please visit our Tree Store.

Intro to Akasha Codes Healing
2025-03-22 17:00 - 18:30 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Intro to Akasha Codes Healing with Pooja Mahtani
Embark on a Transformative 90-Minute Journey with Akasha Codes Healing
Step into a sacred space where ancient wisdom and intuitive energy work unite to realign you with your highest truth.
In this powerful session, we will access the Akashic Records of your Soul, unveiling profound insights from your past, present, and future—bringing clarity, guidance, and deep healing. You’ll also receive an energy healing session designed to clear emotional blocks, balance your chakras, and restore harmony to your mind, body, and spirit.
Whether you are curious about Akashic Records, seek answers, healing, or inspiration, this journey invites you to connect with your inner wisdom and emerge feeling lighter, peaceful, and deeply aligned with your soul’s essence.
✨ Energy Exchange: $15–$35 (pay what feels aligned for you). Your support helps keep this offering accessible to all as we build a welcoming community. If cost is a barrier, please reach out—we’re happy to explore other options.
? Payment Options: We kindly ask for pre-payment via Venmo (@akashacodes) or PayPal (https://paypal.me/akashacodes), but if you prefer, you’re welcome to pay in person with cash. Thank you for your support!
? Register: RSVPs are appreciated to help us prepare the space: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/qbNiVXZ/akashacodes
? Location: This session will be held in the Moon Room.
? What to Bring: A mat, water bottle, and anything else for your comfort while sitting or lying down during the journey. We have some available at the center if needed.
This class will be led by Pooja Mahtani. Learn more about Pooja at www.akashacodes.com/about
We look forward to holding this sacred space with you! ?✨

Call of Love Yoga
2025-03-23 08:30 - 09:45 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Experience a gentle, mindful yoga where divine sources of love are channeled into messages that are often in the form of songs, poems, and mudras: hand gestures to help guide the flow of energy in the body and focus the mind
Donations welcome: Cash or Venmo @Judith-Thapa
Varunayoga.com / 617.417.4386 / Judy.thapa@ gmail
Common Street Spiritual Center Sanctuary
Sundays 8:30-9:30 a.m. (except last Sunday)
Judy is a teacher of yoga since 1998. She is a certified yoga therapist, energy healer and channel.

Open Circle Gathering
2025-03-23 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

Gentle Jaguar Path Yoga
2025-03-24 07:30 - 08:30, 2025-03-26 07:30 - 08:30, 2025-03-28 07:30 - 08:30
Jaguar Path yoga incorporates Vinyasa flow postures with a focus on opening the body’s meridians and expanding the Energy Body.
This sixty minute all-levels class provides a gentle and complete physical stretch with space for breath awareness and meditation.
Email leo.j.ryan@gmail to confirm your attendance.
Suggested donation $10. Meets every Mon, Wed, and Fri morning at 7:30am.
More info at www.energymatters2u.com

Coffee With a Purpose
2025-03-24 09:00 - 11:00
Conversations that Matter.
We welcome you to make this part of your week! We gather every Monday morning to hear from guest presenters on various themes of local, national, or global interest, followed by questions and discussion. Most all sessions are recorded: check out our CWAP You Tube channel to get a taste. Our meetings are hybrid – both in person and via zoom. Email the organizers Doug Hanna (natickhanna@rcn.com) or Martin Kessel (mgk49natick@comcast.net) to get attendance details or learn more.

Yoga in the Sanctuary
2025-03-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Yoga is a practice that brings together the mind and body. In fact, yoga means “to yoke” or unite. It is an ancient healing practice that is both physical and spiritual, incorporating postures, breath, and meditation. Yoga heals! Yoga provides relief from numerous forms of trauma, anxiety, and physical stiffness. It also builds a strong physical and spiritual core.

Join us every Monday from 7-8 pm for a vinyasa flow that will strengthen and energize as well as promote flexibility and balance. We will also experience inner peace by the closing meditation called Shivasana. Please bring a mat and water bottle, and the class meets in the beautiful sanctuary. There is no registration required, and the cost per class is $10 or a food pantry donation (the pantry is located outside the center). Class will not meet on federal holidays. Venmo: Jennifer-Kurz-2. Please follow us on instagram: @yogadoc_

Soulfire Sisterhood
2025-03-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Moon Room @ Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, 01760, United States
Soulfire Sisterhood – The Alchemy of Healing & Transformation (Women’s Circle)
Every other Monday, 7:00–8:00 PM EST
I invite you to a sacred sisterhood—a space to reclaim your energy, reconnect with your truth, and rise in your power.
You pour so much into your family, your home, and your work—but when was the last time you poured into yourself?
This is your time. Together, we ignite the alchemy of healing and transformation, transmuting pain into wisdom, wounds into strength, and fear into love.
Through heart-centered practices—including energy healing, guided visualization, intuitive energy activations, and journaling—we create a nurturing sanctuary for deep self-reflection, emotional release, and soul nourishment. As we honor our individual healing journeys, we also awaken the wisdom of our lineage, drawing strength from those who walked before us.
This is an invitation to step fully into yourself—to be seen, heard, and held in the profound power of sisterhood.
Come as you are. Leave feeling rooted, radiant, and reignited with the fire of your soul.
Bring a friend to share this sacred time together!
✨ Energy Exchange per session: $15–$35 (pay what feels aligned for you). Your support helps keep this offering accessible to all as we build a welcoming community. If cost is a barrier, please reach out—we’re happy to explore other options.
? Payment Options: We kindly ask for pre-payment via Venmo (@akashacodes) or PayPal (https://paypal.me/akashacodes), but if you prefer, you’re welcome to pay in person with cash. Thank you for your support!
? Registration: RSVPs are appreciated to help us prepare the space: https://tinyurl.com/soulfire-sisterhood
? Location: This session will be held in the Moon Room.
? Please bring a mat, water bottle, and anything else you need for comfort while sitting or lying down during the journey.
This class will be led by Pooja Mahtani. Learn more about Pooja at www.akashacodes.com/about.
We look forward to holding this sacred space with you! ?✨

Tuesday morning devotions
2025-03-25 09:00 - 10:00
Join us on ZOOM with your prayers, writings, songs, inspiration from any and all religious traditions, sacred scriptures, humor, and love. We “go around the circle” for those who wish to share, or just come along to enjoy the inspiration
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89987098568?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 899 8709 8568
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Small Group Leader Wrap Up/Info Session
2025-03-25 19:30 - 20:30 | Online
Are you interested in volunteering to lead a small group for the Common Street community?
This online meeting is your opportunity to hear from the 10 people who led groups during the winter term, and learn the process and requirements for people interested in doing so this spring (April 27-June 21).
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88196003852?pwd=[REDACTED]
If you are interested in leading a small group but unable to attend, please email Anne at aranzie@gmail.com to get the recording.

Surviving on The Dance Floor Workshop and Ecstatic Dance Event
2025-03-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Sanctuary at Common Street Spiritual Center, 13 Common Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
TWO-LEFT FEET?
SELF-CONSCIOUS?
RHYTHMICALLY CHALLENGED?
Do you wish that you could just get out on the dance floor and have fun like everyone else, but you’re a little too self-conscious to take the risk?
Would you like to be able to blend in and have fun at parties, weddings, and even dance clubs?
If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, then you’re going to love this!
The truth is, there isn’t much help out there for total beginners when it comes to freestyle dancing. Sure, there are dozens of places to learn swing or salsa, but when it comes to basic vocabulary of dance moves or “fast dancing” with someone at a party, people just expect you to know how to do it.
The good news is that this workshop is perfect for total beginners to learn social dance floor basics, blend in, and have FUN at weddings, parties, events, and any dance floor!
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HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
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• How to “find the beat” in any music so you know exactly how to dance to it.
• The #1 secret you were never taught about how to have rhythm (once you know this, you can dance to any song and blend right in).
• You’ll learn exactly what to do with your feet and hands so you look totally natural on the dance floor.
• You’ll learn the basic framework of freestyle dance and how to use it to discover your own unique style of movement (it’s much easier than you think!)
• And much more!
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HOW TO JOIN US
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Where is it? The workshop is conveniently located at the Common Street Spiritual Center in Natick which is a beautiful facility for an event like this. There is parking behind the Center and on the street.
What time? Please plan on arriving by 6:15pm so you have time to settle in and meet the other members.
We start promptly at 6:30pm and go until 8:00pm.
Then…if you wish, stay afterwards for a freestyle/ectastic dance led by Jason Karol from 8:00pm – 9:00pm. Practice your moves and experience more play, fun, freedom, and joy!
How much? Very affordable at $25 for a how-to and fun event that makes a difference in your social life!
Go ahead and say YES right now! I’m looking forward to seeing you there!
Register via Eventbrite link – OR – cash, love donations, and Venmo available at the door – please email Lisa@SoulisticArts.com to secure your spot.
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BONUS!
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But wait, there’s more 🙂
Enjoy a follow-up class with Lisa via Zoom for clarity, Q&A, and practice!
Date TBA
QUESTIONS? Email Lisa@SoulisticArts.com
Created and Led by Lisa Medley, MA, CMT
Body Wisdom Wellness
Lisa@SoulisticArts.com
www.SoulisticArts.com
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The workshop will be followed by an ecstatic dance! Please bring an extra $20 cash donation to support the dj Jason Karol.
