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Want to learn how to open the lines of communication to talking to your kids about sexual ethics and consent?
In a time where the national conversation is dominated by stories about sexual harassment and sexual assault, it’s critical for parents and educators to be preemptive and proactive with their kids, which means starting–and continuing–conversations about sexual ethics with both children and teens.
Join Sexual Literacy and Consent Educator, Natasha Singh (www.sexlited.com), for an evening packed with information and strategies about how to talk to kids about sex and sexual ethics and why it’s important to start sooner than later.
In this 2 hour workshop, you will learn:
– The most common myths that prevent parents from talking to their kids about sex
– Why teaching sexual ethics matters even if you think your child isn’t ready
– What to do if your child is intentionally or unintentionally exposed to porn
– Strategies for talking to kids about resilience, consent, sexting, gender, and media consumption
– Strategies for moving past your own discomfort when talking about sex
– That you’re more capable of having these conversations than you think!
Natasha will share invaluable frameworks, tools, and language that parents can use at home.
This workshop is perfect for any parents of young children and adolescents, as well as new and upcoming parents wishing to gain more knowledge in the areas of taking to kids about sex.
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NATASHA SINGH
Natasha Singh is a writer and sexual literacy educator who teaches about consent, sexual ethics, effective communication, healthy relationships, the difference between porn and sex, undoing gender-role training, learning mindful masculinity and a whole lot more. She’s worked in education for the past twenty years and taught at Rutgers University, Collegiate School for Boys, and the Branson School, before leaving academic institutions altogether to promote healthy relationships and prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment. She co-chairs the board of Center for Domestic Peace, is an advisor to Freedom Fwd and the Gaines-Jones Education Foundation, and the co-founder of the Diasporadics fine arts and activism festival. She also runs runs Asha Rising, a small nonprofit that provides housing for women who have aged out of the sex industry in India. Natasha speaks widely on sexual literacy, consent, and ending gender-based violence, and has long been immersed in a world of teaching students how to navigate stories about gender, power, sex, communication, consent, and relationships. Learn more at https://www.sexlited.com/
*********ABOUT LEARN TO LOVE*************************************
LEARN TO LOVE is a monthly workshop series, examining the role that love plays in our lives and culture. Featuring leading psychologists, therapists, relationship coaches, and sex educators, each wisdom-packed session will equip participants with deeper insights, tools and knowledge to bring more love into their lives. Learn more at www.the-heart-center.com
ZACH BEACH, MA
Zach Beach is an internationally renowned yoga teacher, best-selling author, poet, love coach, and founder of The Heart Center love school. Committed to building a world based on unconditional love and connection, Zach regularly leads Power of Love retreats, heart-opening workshops, embodiment classes and transformational teacher trainings, and is a popular speaker from conferences to college campuses. Learn more at www.zachbeach.com
Website: www.the-heart-center.com
Like us: facebook.com/learntolovenow
Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/
Dear Sister~
* Are you a smart, single, spiritually savvy woman who’s ready to create a lifelong, loving soulmate relationship?
* Are you wanting to attract your ideal partner to you in a way that’s free from pushing and efforting; and instead is filled with pleasurable ease and natural magnetism?
Then, this is the workshop for you!
Join Jan Robinson, feminine manifesting mentor and sex & relationship expert, for this half-day experiential playshop where you get to tap in to your deep feminine power & pleasure, unleash your feminine magic, and call in soulmate love!
You will come away with:
* simple techniques for tapping into your feminine embodied wisdom so you can trust your inner compass and stop wasting time choosing the wrong men
* 3 keys for easily and instantly switching out of masculine mode and into your irresistible feminine radiance and magnetic allure
* an empowering new model for understanding and embracing the beauty and power of your feminine sexuality that will free you from shame and give you more joy and pleasure
* tips on communicating your desires authentically, playfully, and irresistibly!
* a short, sensual feminine energy practice you can use daily to feel more juicy and orgasmic, and begin to magnetize soul-aligned passionate love & intimate partnership to you!
Discover how leading with your embodied feminine wisdom and the power of your pleasure can dissolve your feelings of fear, doubt, and insecurity and dramatically increase your confidence, ease and joy when it comes to dating and attracting love!
Save your space today and get ready for the course of your love and pleasure life to change forever!
—–> Purchase your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/your-feminine-empowerment-playshop-connect-wyour-embodied-power-pleasure-tickets-54159875646S
One DJ, three Tea-J’s, twelve teas, endless tastings, and you.
Join The Well for Tea-J Tuesdays, featuring three Tea-J’s each with a station to hold tea ceremonies. Each Tea-J will be sampling four teas throughout the evening. There will be a Chinese tea station, herbal tea station, and a matcha station.
Show your ticket to get your wristband. Once you have your wristband, you are welcome to go to any Tea-J from 8-10 and try the tea they have on rotation. From 10-11, your wristband gets you unlimited pots of tea off of The Well’s menu so that you can dive deeper into your favorites of the evening.
A DJ will be setting the mood each week.
Meet your Tea-J’s:
Annie Chen – resident Chinese Tea-J
“Within the region of Guangdong province, is my birth place, and the origin of gongfu tea. The tradition of 功夫茶, gongfu cha, has been a practice dating back to the Song dynasty.
Growing up with tea, this practice and philosophy has stayed with me. The farther I am from home, the more I find comfort in reconnecting to simplicity, to a feeling that predates a description with words.” (teaphile.com)
Cay LaOrangetree – resident herbal Tea-J
Cayla blends modern herbalism, magic, and sensuality to share the power of plant wisdom with her community. She believes everyone has the ability to communicate with plant spirits and receive wholesome healing. She currently leads medicinal plant walks, workshops & She is is an apprentice at the Ohlone Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA where she is falling more in love with her practice. You may follow her on Instagram @soltree_alchemy to join her on this elemental journey.
Sasha Kay – resident matcha Tea-J
Sasha Kaori Hippard has practiced Japanese tea ceremony since learning the tradition in her mother’s home town of Sendai, Japan and at the San Francisco Japanese community center. A personal practice of family and community, she is thrilled to share the nuanced flavors of matcha, traditional and modern.
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door
www.eventbrite.com/e/49663464760
Please Note: For the Month of January – classes will be held in the TELEGRAPH ROOM!
Embrace the day with a little more love for your body through movement & mindfulness practices. This is a ONE HOUR yoga flow focused on breath work, core strength and dynamic movements. This class is designed for ALL body types! Big bodies, small bodies, bodies with injuries, all welcome!
Self care and self love is the main focus of this one hour class, and will be acknowledged throughout the hour. Angela uses Health at Every Size, Yoga For All, Curvy Yoga and Hatha principles.
Focus:
-Breath work
-Core Strength
-Feeling sensational
Sliding Scale $12-20. SIGN UP HERE: https://calendly.com/bigyogalife
If money is an issue please email me! [email protected] Please contact me before class if you have any limitations with being on the floor. You are more than welcome to do chair modifications, but this isn’t a specific chair yoga class. Space is wheelchair accessible. Please arrive as scent free as possible. More info on my website www.bigyogalife.com
Open times are unstructured periods when EBCS is open to everyone, under the guidance of a volunteer host. During these times, the main space and mezzanine are available for play, dance, personal yoga practice, hanging out or sharing a meal.
Bob will be here every Thursday from 3pm – 5pm and would be delighted to meet you and show you around EBCS!
Information about classes is available on our calendar. Note that some classes and open times may be cancelled due to holidays. If you would like to teach a class of your own, please see our page on weekday rentals. For more information, or if you would like to host open times, you can also contact us.
Enter at 5447 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA 94609.
Maisha Lani; S H A P E S H I F T I N G Album Release Party ~
https://maishalanimusic.com/
‘Soulful folky pop jazz’ ~ Expect a harmony rich sound with soulful infusions of heartfelt story telling and sassy grooves; guitar, violin, bass, banjo, drums and our open lungs!
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Papa Bear and the Easy Love
https://papabearandtheeasylove.bandcamp.com/
The intention of this project is to spread love and joy through music. Over the years Aaron Glass (Papa Bear) has assembled a beautiful catalogue of songs, and an awe inspiring cast of musicians to perform them. Aaron writes in a style that connects the old with the new, the ancient with the future… All with the purpose to help people connect to each other and themselves.
*Album Artwork By: Tess Vosevich Keller
#MeToo Healing Day
Align with Love is a nonprofit started by Dr. Ashyanna Keli Rodriguez. One of the missions of Align with Love is providing free alternative health care to women and women-identified people who are healing from sexual assault.
Dr. Rodriguez has put together a stellar team of healers to provide chiropractic care, acupuncture, breath work, Reiki, craniosacral therapy, mindfulness-based sessions, and massage therapy FREE to any woman who feels like she is healing from sexual assault, no matter how long ago the assault was.
This is an amazing opportunity for women to just come and receive healing. No appointments necessary. First come, first served. Dress in comfortable clothing. Women may receive more than one treatment, as availability allows.
Please invite your friends and spread the word!! I have invited many men to this event just to let you know it is going on so you can invite any women you know who could benefit from this healing day.
Details:
Who: Any women healing from sexual assault
When: Saturday, Jan. 26. Healing sessions will begin at 10AM and end at 1PM
Where: East Bay Community Space in Oakland
What: Chiropractic care, acupuncture, breath work, Reiki, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction sessions
Bonus: At 11:00 in the mezzanine (upstairs), there will be an experiential mind-body awareness talk on the amazing gift of a healthy nervous system. It will cover practical strategies we can all access in an instant, to reset us to the frequency of ease in our body and in our life utilizing breath, movement, and energy.
At 11:30 there will be a guided meditation.
Practitioners and offerings:
Dr. Ashyanna Keli Rodriguez ~ Chiropractic care
Dr. Maria Scarano ~ Chiropractic care
Dr. Liz Dobbins ~ Network Spinal Somato Respiratory Integration (breath work)
Amy Gerard ~ Massage therapy
Sage McClive ~ Massage therapy
Jessica Catano ~ Massage therapy
Tamara Sharp ~ Massage therapy
Shana Walt ~ Massage therapy & Craniosacral therapy
Julie Ginsburg, L.Ac ~ Acupuncture
Grace Chang, L.Ac ~ Acupuncture
Dhammala (Scott Everson) ~ Reiki
Kimberly Smith ~ Reiki
Toni Campbell ~ Reiki and Craniosacral therapy
Nichole Proffitt ~ Mindfulness and Somatic Experiencing sessions
Jose Rodriguez ~ Chiropractic intern speaking on Mind-Body Awareness
Gianna Mautone ~ Chiropractic intern speaking on Mind-Body Awareness
More about Align with Love:
In 2009, Ashyanna was violently sexually assaulted, and through her holistic healing journey, she knew that helping women heal from the PTSD due to sexual assault was part of her purpose. In 2017 she created Align with Love, a 501(c)(3) with two missions: to provide affordable high-quality chiropractic care in her office to people with low income, and to provide free alternative health care to women who are healing from sexual assault. For more information about Dr. Ashyanna, or to schedule a chiropractic appointment with her, please visit her website at: www.thecentralbody.com.
An immersive evening of enlightenment entertainment & ritual arts. Medicine Woman Ama Nkwa will gift spiritual soul food thru talks surrounding the current state of the world into the New Shift that we’re ushering onto the planet; a channeling from the wisdom of her vagina. Join us in Freeing Earth’s people with special guests, live performances, and celebration. Music Frequencies hosted by DJ DEITY powered by healing rhythmic magic. Come sip from the sweet nectar of Truth.
One DJ, three Tea-J’s, twelve teas, endless tastings, and you.
Join The Well for Tea-J Tuesdays, featuring three Tea-J’s each with a station to hold tea ceremonies. Each Tea-J will be sampling four teas throughout the evening. There will be a Chinese tea station, herbal tea station, and a matcha station.
Show your ticket to get your wristband. Once you have your wristband, you are welcome to go to any Tea-J from 8-10 and try the tea they have on rotation. From 10-11, your wristband gets you unlimited pots of tea off of The Well’s menu so that you can dive deeper into your favorites of the evening.
A DJ will be setting the mood each week.
Meet your Tea-J’s:
Annie Chen – resident Chinese Tea-J
“Within the region of Guangdong province, is my birth place, and the origin of gongfu tea. The tradition of 功夫茶, gongfu cha, has been a practice dating back to the Song dynasty.
Growing up with tea, this practice and philosophy has stayed with me. The farther I am from home, the more I find comfort in reconnecting to simplicity, to a feeling that predates a description with words.” (teaphile.com)
Cay LaOrangetree – resident herbal Tea-J
Cayla blends modern herbalism, magic, and sensuality to share the power of plant wisdom with her community. She believes everyone has the ability to communicate with plant spirits and receive wholesome healing. She currently leads medicinal plant walks, workshops & She is is an apprentice at the Ohlone Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA where she is falling more in love with her practice. You may follow her on Instagram @soltree_alchemy to join her on this elemental journey.
Sasha Kay – resident matcha Tea-J
Sasha Kaori Hippard has practiced Japanese tea ceremony since learning the tradition in her mother’s home town of Sendai, Japan and at the San Francisco Japanese community center. A personal practice of family and community, she is thrilled to share the nuanced flavors of matcha, traditional and modern.
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door
www.eventbrite.com/e/49663464760
Please Note: For the Month of January – classes will be held in the TELEGRAPH ROOM!
Embrace the day with a little more love for your body through movement & mindfulness practices. This is a ONE HOUR yoga flow focused on breath work, core strength and dynamic movements. This class is designed for ALL body types! Big bodies, small bodies, bodies with injuries, all welcome!
Self care and self love is the main focus of this one hour class, and will be acknowledged throughout the hour. Angela uses Health at Every Size, Yoga For All, Curvy Yoga and Hatha principles.
Focus:
-Breath work
-Core Strength
-Feeling sensational
Sliding Scale $12-20. SIGN UP HERE: https://calendly.com/bigyogalife
If money is an issue please email me! [email protected] Please contact me before class if you have any limitations with being on the floor. You are more than welcome to do chair modifications, but this isn’t a specific chair yoga class. Space is wheelchair accessible. Please arrive as scent free as possible. More info on my website www.bigyogalife.com
Open times are unstructured periods when EBCS is open to everyone, under the guidance of a volunteer host. During these times, the main space and mezzanine are available for play, dance, personal yoga practice, hanging out or sharing a meal.
Bob will be here every Thursday from 3pm – 5pm and would be delighted to meet you and show you around EBCS!
Information about classes is available on our calendar. Note that some classes and open times may be cancelled due to holidays. If you would like to teach a class of your own, please see our page on weekday rentals. For more information, or if you would like to host open times, you can also contact us.
Enter at 5447 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA 94609.
Note: Course is 10am-3pm on Saturday and Sunday.
IMPACT Bay Area’s 10-hour Teen Course course focuses on preventing stranger and peer violence, empowering students to understand, respect and defend their own boundaries! This course gives students the opportunity to practice verbal boundary setting with strangers as well as people they know, and teaches a range of physical self-defense skills practiced “full force” in realistic and safe scenarios against a mock assailant, our highly trained IMPACT Instructors in padded suits. This method of teaching provides the benefits of “muscle memory” – students will remember the techniques in a crisis situation. Students gain the confidence and skills needed to feel safer in the world. This course is open to self-identified girls ages 12-16.
Scholarship and Flexible Payment Plans: We are committed to making our classes available to all people, regardless of ability to pay. Fill out our online scholarship form to apply or contact us at [email protected] to learn more about our flexible payment plans.
One DJ, three Tea-J’s, twelve teas, endless tastings, and you.
Join The Well for Tea-J Tuesdays, featuring three Tea-J’s each with a station to hold tea ceremonies. Each Tea-J will be sampling four teas throughout the evening. There will be a Chinese tea station, herbal tea station, and a matcha station.
Show your ticket to get your wristband. Once you have your wristband, you are welcome to go to any Tea-J from 8-10 and try the tea they have on rotation. From 10-11, your wristband gets you unlimited pots of tea off of The Well’s menu so that you can dive deeper into your favorites of the evening.
A DJ will be setting the mood each week.
Meet your Tea-J’s:
Annie Chen – resident Chinese Tea-J
“Within the region of Guangdong province, is my birth place, and the origin of gongfu tea. The tradition of 功夫茶, gongfu cha, has been a practice dating back to the Song dynasty.
Growing up with tea, this practice and philosophy has stayed with me. The farther I am from home, the more I find comfort in reconnecting to simplicity, to a feeling that predates a description with words.” (teaphile.com)
Cay LaOrangetree – resident herbal Tea-J
Cayla blends modern herbalism, magic, and sensuality to share the power of plant wisdom with her community. She believes everyone has the ability to communicate with plant spirits and receive wholesome healing. She currently leads medicinal plant walks, workshops & She is is an apprentice at the Ohlone Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA where she is falling more in love with her practice. You may follow her on Instagram @soltree_alchemy to join her on this elemental journey.
Sasha Kay – resident matcha Tea-J
Sasha Kaori Hippard has practiced Japanese tea ceremony since learning the tradition in her mother’s home town of Sendai, Japan and at the San Francisco Japanese community center. A personal practice of family and community, she is thrilled to share the nuanced flavors of matcha, traditional and modern.
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door
www.eventbrite.com/e/49663464760
Please Note: For the Month of January – classes will be held in the TELEGRAPH ROOM!
Embrace the day with a little more love for your body through movement & mindfulness practices. This is a ONE HOUR yoga flow focused on breath work, core strength and dynamic movements. This class is designed for ALL body types! Big bodies, small bodies, bodies with injuries, all welcome!
Self care and self love is the main focus of this one hour class, and will be acknowledged throughout the hour. Angela uses Health at Every Size, Yoga For All, Curvy Yoga and Hatha principles.
Focus:
-Breath work
-Core Strength
-Feeling sensational
Sliding Scale $12-20. SIGN UP HERE: https://calendly.com/bigyogalife
If money is an issue please email me! [email protected] Please contact me before class if you have any limitations with being on the floor. You are more than welcome to do chair modifications, but this isn’t a specific chair yoga class. Space is wheelchair accessible. Please arrive as scent free as possible. More info on my website www.bigyogalife.com
Open times are unstructured periods when EBCS is open to everyone, under the guidance of a volunteer host. During these times, the main space and mezzanine are available for play, dance, personal yoga practice, hanging out or sharing a meal.
Bob will be here every Thursday from 3pm – 5pm and would be delighted to meet you and show you around EBCS!
Information about classes is available on our calendar. Note that some classes and open times may be cancelled due to holidays. If you would like to teach a class of your own, please see our page on weekday rentals. For more information, or if you would like to host open times, you can also contact us.
Enter at 5447 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA 94609.
Bring your friends and your games for a night of nerdy fun!
Friendly folks on hand to help explain games and join in on the action.
Snacks and drinks provided. $5 Suggested Donation. NOTAFLOF
You can bring beer/wine.
Welcome to the Second Friday Herbal Medicine Salon with Maya Blow at The Well.
This monthly class explores different properties of herbal plants and our relationships to them.
Classes will be held in the backspace of The Well. Space is limited, please reserve your spot with a ticket in advance.
Tickets $30 adv ; $35 door
Materials fee $0-$15 to be collected in cash at the door
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/49791855781
Please email [email protected] if you need a scholarship for a class.
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SEPTEMBER 14TH: Spiritual Properties of Plants
For all those interested in plant spirit medicine, this class offers the opportunity to explore the spiritual and energetic properties of plants. Join us in deepening and re-scripting our relationship to them as living and wise beings! We will discuss properties of sacred plants used in ceremony and ritual as well as several powerful allies we can grow and harvest locally. We will also journey through some plant and medicine meditations.
*materials fee $0 to be collected in cash at the door
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OCTOBER 12TH: Working with Medicinal Roots
Fall is the best time to harvest and prepare our rooty medicinal allies for replenishing through the seasons. The roots of medicinal plants often hold potent constituents for healing our internal organs as well as the nutritious starches our bodies need to be nourished deeply. In this class we will learn how to properly harvest, wash, dry, tincture and powder roots as well as make a tasty syrup. We will explore the uses of comfrey, burdock, elecampane and yellow dock.
*materials fee $10 to be collected in cash at the door
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NOVEMBER 9TH: Nervines – Herbs for Anxiety, Stress, Pain, Depression & Sleep
Nervines are plants that have a beneficial effect on the nervous system. In this class we will focus on three groups of nervines, those that are relaxing, stimulating and restoring. We will explore plant allies that can sooth and support the nervous system, ease anxiety, stress, trauma, pain and help you sleep! Meet milky oats, skullcap, passionflower, California poppy, damiana, and rose. Learn their uses, differences, make a simple effective formula.
*materials fee $10 to be collected in cash at the door
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DECEMBER 14TH: Homemade Herbal Body Products
Learn how to feed your skin and hair with simple, healthy & nourishing “foods”. Natural healing oils, medicinal herbs and detoxifying salts and clays are the basis of this workshop. Join Maya for a fun, empowering class making herbal creams, salves and salt scrubs that can also be replicated for beautiful holiday gifts! You will take home samples of all we make.
*materials fee $15 to be collected in cash at the door
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JANUARY 11TH: Herbal First Aid
In this class we will learn about how the plant kingdom can support us in emergencies. We will discuss how to create a thorough first aid kit including an herbal antibiotic tincture, antimicrobial salve, insect repellent, liniment for muscle aches and pains, anti itch/poison oak treatment as well as herbs that stop bleeding. We will focus on local and native plants that can be found in our surrounding east bay region. You will leave with an all purpose healing anti microbial salve and a handful of DIY recipes.
*materials fee $10 to be collected in cash at the door
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Maya Blow is an herbalist and classical homeopath practicing at the Emeryville Health and Wellness Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied undergraduate history at Clark Atlanta University and San Fransisco State University. Maya studied herbal medicine at the California School of Herbal Studies in Northern California and also completed four years of homeopathic medical school at the Institute of Classical Homoeopathy in San Francisco. After graduating Maya went on to teach homeopathic materia medica at the ICH. She is a current teacher for the California Women of Color Herbal Symposium, as well as on the faculty of the Institute of Urban Homesteading based out of Oakland California. Maya has been studying, practicing and making herbal medicine for over fifteen years and brings to her practice an innate sensitivity, empathy and powerful intuition towards her clients. Besides her passion for holistic and alternative medicine, Maya is an artist, mother of two, farmer, and avid crafter. Maya teaches nature studies, gardening, herbal medicine making and many other homesteading and DIY classes. She has been making and teaching art for two decades and continues to draw her inspiration from her love of nature. Some of her hobbies include organic gardening, animal husbandry, foraging for wild food, fermenting and canning, making herbal medicine, cheese making, and dying with plants. Maya runs a handcrafted herbalism CSA from her organic farm where she grows fruit, vegetables and medicinal herbs, as well as tends bees and raises chickens and jersey milk cows. Some of her most recent work and adventures include speaking at the Black Farmers and Urban Growers Conference Oakland, California 2015, representing the Black Permaculture Network at the International Permaculture Convergence in England 2015, participating as a North American representative at the Agricultural Biodiversity Community Conference in Thika, Kenya 2015, speaking at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show 2016, speaking at the Women’s Visionary Congress in Petaluma, California 2016, and teaching for the Bay Area Farmer Training Program through the Multi National Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture.
Couples: Ignite Your Passion! – A Valentine’s Workshop
Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/yaaq8o8b
* Are you looking for a juicy and fun Valentine’s Day date that’s totally unique?
* Interested in creating more spark and connection in your relationship?
* Have you felt that calling for something deeper and more meaningful to lovemaking?
* Are you curious about Tantra?
Come join us for “Ignite Your Passion” to learn tools and practices to create your own lovemaking ritual AND directly experience deep and exciting connection with your partner in this interactive Valentine’s Day workshop.
You will learn how to:
* Create your own Valentine’s Day ritual with your partner
* Explore Tantra and sacred lovemaking practices
* Bring the sacred and deep presence into your relationship and lovemaking
* Practices for calling in the divine to flow through you and your partner
* Move beyond genital-centered climaxes into full-body bliss!!
* Beyond all the learning and tools, you’ll also get to drop into radical
BEING with your partner.
We will guide you into breath-work, connection exercises and ceremony to drop in deeply with your partner and ignite all your passion!
And you will have the invitation to experience:
* Letting go of expectations and limiting beliefs around desires
* Inhabiting the spontaneous present moment through connection
* Opening up to more intimacy
* Channeling your body’s energy and sharing it with a partner
* How to create an epic Valentine’s ritual together!
What is Tantra?
Tantra approaches lovemaking as an intentional practice where we harness our energy for spiritual growth. Learn how intimate connection can be a path to experiencing the true nature of self and universe. Tantric lovemaking has no goal beyond realization and its only aim is the practice of radical presence. In fact, the practice involves removing all pre-conceptions and expectations. Instead, we follow the spontaneous unfolding of the present moment into divine bliss. Moving beyond the stories and beliefs about what lovemaking means, we become truly alive and deeply connected through this powerful spiritual practice.
Is this workshop for me?
Appropriate for all levels of experience. While we will be talking about lovemaking and guiding some simple exercises to connect with your partner, this fully-clothed event offers a safe space where you can explore at exactly the level the feels right for you both. We support our whole community – low income application form: https://goo.gl/15aWoA
Facilitated By
Caity Flanagan – Modern-day medicine woman, Tantric and shamanic practitioner dedicated to supporting other on the journey of radical embodiment, sensual awakening, and coming home to the Heart. She is the co-founder of Embodied Erotic and is the founder of Serpent & Rose. Caity has spent the last 4+ years teaching about core shamanic practices, earth-based ritual, the sacredness of plants as medicine, embodiment as a gateway to trauma healing and sensual awakening, and the Heart as the path.
Matt Sturm – Co-founder of Embodied Erotic, yoga teacher, somatic therapist, and sexual healer. I am following a calling to share the gift of sacred intimacy with the world. My work integrates meditation, yoga, and ritual into the path of spiritual growth. I teach hands-on methods for inhabiting our bodies, connecting with the breath, cultivating deep intimacy, and tuning in to the universal love within us all.
Flavors of Desire
An Erotic Playshop & Aphrodisiac Tasting Journey
$45 Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/yd67r5jk
Desire…eros…longing…those tantalizing cravings that well up from deep inside you. Erotic desire comes in many forms. Perhaps you feel your desire most when it’s expressed in its primal, raw, animal form? Maybe you crave for your desire to be deliciously lavished upon your lover like warm honey? Or does your desire shine tenderly from your heart space?
In this sensual playshop you’ll discover the different flavors of desire and erotic energy through the framework of the chakras.
Enhance your experience of each erotic expression through delicious, organic, herbal aphrodisiac treats!
This is truly a journey of delight for the senses!
Learn which erotic energy might be your default, which might be edgy or challenging for you to express, and how to meet others in the full range and expression of your authentic eroticism and desire. You’ll learn tools to enhance your capacity to feel and express these energies in a broader range, allowing you to become a more dynamic and conscious lover.
You’ll be immersed into the direct experience of these erotic expressions through a safe and supported environment. You’ll be invited to practice sharing these energies with our group through movement, breathwork and partnered exercises.
Here’s What We’ll Cover
* Deepen your understanding of the different flavors of desire and the erotic
* Delight in discovering new flavors and just how good the erotic can taste through our herbal aphrodisiacs treats!
* Understand what a chakra is in traditional and modern practice
* Learn which chakra is your dominant for erotic expression
* Explore different expressions of eros that may be more edgy or challenging for you
* Enhance your capacity to feel and express all these energies and broaden your range between them, becoming a more dynamic and conscious lover!
* Plus learn how you can work with herbal aphrodisiacs in your everyday to enhance your sensual and erotic experiences of yourself and with others
Part discovery and experiential learning, part playshop and connection games, part erotic discovery, and part divine tasting journey – this event makes for an amazing date night, an juicy space to connect with others, and a divine space to discover your true erotic flavors!
Come explore and delight through the sense with us!
Is this for me?
No prior experience necessary – just an open mind and an excitement to explore with us! We create a strong container where you are safe, resourced, and secure so you can express yourself. We’ll give you the opportunity to go deep into your experience while following what feels just right for you.
Open to singles, couples, triads, etc… and people of all genders. We support our whole community – low income application form: https://goo.gl/15aWoA
Facilitated By
Caity Flanagan – Modern-day medicine woman, Tantric and shamanic practitioner dedicated to supporting other on the journey of radical embodiment, sensual awakening, and coming home to the Heart. She is the co-founder of Embodied Erotic and is the founder of Seprent and Rose, which are both communities dedicated to sharing the teachings of sacred sexuality as pathways to spiritual healing and awakening. Caity has spent the last 4+ years teaching about core shamanic practices, earth-based ritual, the sacredness of plants as medicine, embodiment as a gateway to trauma healing and sensual awakening, and the Heart as the path.
Matt Sturm – Co-founder of Embodied Erotic, yoga teacher, somatic therapist, and sexual healer. I am following a calling to share the gift of sacred intimacy with the world. My work integrates meditation, yoga, and ritual into the path of spiritual growth. I teach hands-on methods for inhabiting our bodies, connecting with the breath, cultivating deep intimacy, and tuning in to the universal love within us all.
$45 Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/yd67r5jk
One DJ, three Tea-J’s, twelve teas, endless tastings, and you.
Join The Well for Tea-J Tuesdays, featuring three Tea-J’s each with a station to hold tea ceremonies. Each Tea-J will be sampling four teas throughout the evening. There will be a Chinese tea station, herbal tea station, and a matcha station.
Show your ticket to get your wristband. Once you have your wristband, you are welcome to go to any Tea-J from 8-10 and try the tea they have on rotation. From 10-11, your wristband gets you unlimited pots of tea off of The Well’s menu so that you can dive deeper into your favorites of the evening.
A DJ will be setting the mood each week.
Meet your Tea-J’s:
Annie Chen – resident Chinese Tea-J
“Within the region of Guangdong province, is my birth place, and the origin of gongfu tea. The tradition of 功夫茶, gongfu cha, has been a practice dating back to the Song dynasty.
Growing up with tea, this practice and philosophy has stayed with me. The farther I am from home, the more I find comfort in reconnecting to simplicity, to a feeling that predates a description with words.” (teaphile.com)
Cay LaOrangetree – resident herbal Tea-J
Cayla blends modern herbalism, magic, and sensuality to share the power of plant wisdom with her community. She believes everyone has the ability to communicate with plant spirits and receive wholesome healing. She currently leads medicinal plant walks, workshops & She is is an apprentice at the Ohlone Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA where she is falling more in love with her practice. You may follow her on Instagram @soltree_alchemy to join her on this elemental journey.
Sasha Kay – resident matcha Tea-J
Sasha Kaori Hippard has practiced Japanese tea ceremony since learning the tradition in her mother’s home town of Sendai, Japan and at the San Francisco Japanese community center. A personal practice of family and community, she is thrilled to share the nuanced flavors of matcha, traditional and modern.
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door
www.eventbrite.com/e/49663464760
Please Note: For the Month of January – classes will be held in the TELEGRAPH ROOM!
Embrace the day with a little more love for your body through movement & mindfulness practices. This is a ONE HOUR yoga flow focused on breath work, core strength and dynamic movements. This class is designed for ALL body types! Big bodies, small bodies, bodies with injuries, all welcome!
Self care and self love is the main focus of this one hour class, and will be acknowledged throughout the hour. Angela uses Health at Every Size, Yoga For All, Curvy Yoga and Hatha principles.
Focus:
-Breath work
-Core Strength
-Feeling sensational
Sliding Scale $12-20. SIGN UP HERE: https://calendly.com/bigyogalife
If money is an issue please email me! [email protected] Please contact me before class if you have any limitations with being on the floor. You are more than welcome to do chair modifications, but this isn’t a specific chair yoga class. Space is wheelchair accessible. Please arrive as scent free as possible. More info on my website www.bigyogalife.com
Open times are unstructured periods when EBCS is open to everyone, under the guidance of a volunteer host. During these times, the main space and mezzanine are available for play, dance, personal yoga practice, hanging out or sharing a meal.
Bob will be here every Thursday from 3pm – 5pm and would be delighted to meet you and show you around EBCS!
Information about classes is available on our calendar. Note that some classes and open times may be cancelled due to holidays. If you would like to teach a class of your own, please see our page on weekday rentals. For more information, or if you would like to host open times, you can also contact us.
Enter at 5447 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA 94609.
Radiant Heart Ceremony
A Valentine’s Day Ritual
$45 Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/y8dsbvlh
Love’s energy flows through your body, toward a body, and into eternity again.
Surrender to this current of devotion and become one with the Body of Love.
~Radiance Sutras
Description
Looking for a conscious, embodied community to celebrate your Eros on Valentine’s Day?
Join us for a sacred ceremony of worship where we gather to open our hearts and celebrate the divine dance of sensation and awareness through our bodies. At the Radiant Heart Ceremony, we will be creating a safe space to call in the sacred, intimately connect, and expand our capacity for sensuality and presence. It’s a celebration of love the pulses through us all with a series of heart-opening partnered experiences. You’ll be guided into your senses through sacred poetry – connecting with your own body through movement and breath and to others through eye-gazing and consensual touch.
This Ceremony is based on the poetry of the Radiance Sutras, a modern interpretation of the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra, an ancient Tantric text. Through a series of meditations, Bhairava offers his consort, Devi, practices that lead into “joyous union with the life of the universe.”
After the Ceremony, we’ll be transitioning into a Snuggle Party. We’ll co-create an intentional connection space where you can enjoy cuddles and practice consent conversations. By sharing playful snuggles and heart-opening cuddles we will co-create a yummy space where you can feel safe, respected, connected, and loved.
Is this for me?
This event is perfect for anyone who thinks that sharing nourishing touch with presence and consent is an awesome way to celebrate V-Day. We welcome you to participate at exactly the level that feels right for you. We support our full community – apply here for a low income ticket: https://goo.gl/15aWoA
Facilitated By
Caity Flanagan – Modern-day medicine woman, Tantric and shamanic practitioner dedicated to supporting other on the journey of radical embodiment, sensual awakening, and coming home to the Heart. She is the co-founder of Embodied Erotic and is the founder of Seprent and Rose. Caity has spent the last 4+ years teaching about core shamanic practices, earth-based ritual, the sacredness of plants as medicine, embodiment as a gateway to trauma healing and sensual awakening, and the Heart as the path.
Matt Sturm – Co-founder of Embodied Erotic, yoga teacher, and somatic therapist. I am following a calling to share the gift of sacred intimacy with the world. My work integrates meditation, yoga, and ritual into the path of spiritual growth. I teach hands-on methods for inhabiting our bodies, connecting with the breath, cultivating deep intimacy, and tuning in to the universal love within us all.
$45 Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/y8dsbvlh
~*☆ CLASSY BAAM ☆*~
We are excited to be bringing BAAM to the wonderful East Bay Community Space for a special fundraising event, and silent auction! Come support local artists and musicians rocking this unique Oakland venue!
We will be hosting a silent auction for the Bay Area Arts Mixer. There will be amazing items from Bay Area artists and musicians, with all proceeds going to making this event happen and creating micro grants for artists and musicians. So, bring your friends, and those who like to support the local scenes. ♥
Rock out to local musicians booked back-to-back alongside local artists displaying their work. Indulge in refreshments, build your network and revel in community art making!
BAAM was created to bring local artists and musicians together across many platforms for collaboration, creative practice development, and live interaction. Whether you are an artist or an arts supporter, spend your Sunday afternoon with us.
Suggested Donation $5-20 at door.
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🎶Performers! 🎶
2:10 – 2:30 : TBD
2:40 – 3:00 : TBD
3:15 – 3:45 : Catch Pritchard
4:00 – 4:30 : TBD
4:45 – 5:15 : Sapphire Lung
5:30 – 6:00 : Belle Curve
6:15 – 6:45 : TBD
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✨Artists! ✨
ERaeOn :: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ERaeOn
Taylor G. :: @taygersbachart :: http://taygersbach.virb.com/
Ragavon Designs :: www.ragavondesigns.com
Manny Velez :: paintings
Live Video/Photography:
John Lendved – JL Films
Leah VonEhrenkrook – Leah Von Photography
Don’t forget cash for:
—> *BAAM!* supporting, popcorn bar, Vegan Chili, Mac and Cheese and refreshments!
Come support artists and musicians in the Bay Area!
Interested in volunteering?
Contact [email protected]
One DJ, three Tea-J’s, twelve teas, endless tastings, and you.
Join The Well for Tea-J Tuesdays, featuring three Tea-J’s each with a station to hold tea ceremonies. Each Tea-J will be sampling four teas throughout the evening. There will be a Chinese tea station, herbal tea station, and a matcha station.
Show your ticket to get your wristband. Once you have your wristband, you are welcome to go to any Tea-J from 8-10 and try the tea they have on rotation. From 10-11, your wristband gets you unlimited pots of tea off of The Well’s menu so that you can dive deeper into your favorites of the evening.
A DJ will be setting the mood each week.
Meet your Tea-J’s:
Annie Chen – resident Chinese Tea-J
“Within the region of Guangdong province, is my birth place, and the origin of gongfu tea. The tradition of 功夫茶, gongfu cha, has been a practice dating back to the Song dynasty.
Growing up with tea, this practice and philosophy has stayed with me. The farther I am from home, the more I find comfort in reconnecting to simplicity, to a feeling that predates a description with words.” (teaphile.com)
Cay LaOrangetree – resident herbal Tea-J
Cayla blends modern herbalism, magic, and sensuality to share the power of plant wisdom with her community. She believes everyone has the ability to communicate with plant spirits and receive wholesome healing. She currently leads medicinal plant walks, workshops & She is is an apprentice at the Ohlone Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA where she is falling more in love with her practice. You may follow her on Instagram @soltree_alchemy to join her on this elemental journey.
Sasha Kay – resident matcha Tea-J
Sasha Kaori Hippard has practiced Japanese tea ceremony since learning the tradition in her mother’s home town of Sendai, Japan and at the San Francisco Japanese community center. A personal practice of family and community, she is thrilled to share the nuanced flavors of matcha, traditional and modern.
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door
www.eventbrite.com/e/49663464760
Please Note: For the Month of January – classes will be held in the TELEGRAPH ROOM!
Embrace the day with a little more love for your body through movement & mindfulness practices. This is a ONE HOUR yoga flow focused on breath work, core strength and dynamic movements. This class is designed for ALL body types! Big bodies, small bodies, bodies with injuries, all welcome!
Self care and self love is the main focus of this one hour class, and will be acknowledged throughout the hour. Angela uses Health at Every Size, Yoga For All, Curvy Yoga and Hatha principles.
Focus:
-Breath work
-Core Strength
-Feeling sensational
Sliding Scale $12-20. SIGN UP HERE: https://calendly.com/bigyogalife
If money is an issue please email me! [email protected] Please contact me before class if you have any limitations with being on the floor. You are more than welcome to do chair modifications, but this isn’t a specific chair yoga class. Space is wheelchair accessible. Please arrive as scent free as possible. More info on my website www.bigyogalife.com
Open times are unstructured periods when EBCS is open to everyone, under the guidance of a volunteer host. During these times, the main space and mezzanine are available for play, dance, personal yoga practice, hanging out or sharing a meal.
Bob will be here every Thursday from 3pm – 5pm and would be delighted to meet you and show you around EBCS!
Information about classes is available on our calendar. Note that some classes and open times may be cancelled due to holidays. If you would like to teach a class of your own, please see our page on weekday rentals. For more information, or if you would like to host open times, you can also contact us.
Enter at 5447 Telegraph Ave, Oakland CA 94609.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: https://space-pilots-in-spaaaace-episode-2-crashing-the-party.secretparty.io
Space Pilots in Spaaaace! is a super-fun interactive theatrical experience. Tickets are limited so everyone has room to enjoy themselves. All our Episode 1 shows were sold out well before opening, so don’t delay purchasing tix!
***DOORS AT 8PM
***ADVENTURE BEGINS AT 8:30PM
***DANCE PARTY 10-11PM
…THE YEAR IS 2819
Captain Knight and her motley crew of Space Pilots are on the run, trying to evade a ruthless Argasian Stardust dealer. Their ship is being bombarded with deadly mafipulation waves. It’s not going well.
…THE YEAR IS 2019
Amanda May and her budding Experience Design company are throwing a retro-neo-post-outerspace themed party. It’s also not going well.
Time folds in on itself and Captain Knight’s starship crashes into Amanda’s party, unwittingly threatening the future of the earth. Space Pilots and Experience Designers are forced to form an uneasy alliance. Can both the future and the party be saved?
JOIN THE CREW
Party-goers may be invited to become Space Pilot Ensigns in a race against time to save the universe! Do you have what it takes?
Space attire is welcome but not required
Missed Space Pilots In Spaaaace! Episode 1? No worries, spend 90 seconds here: https://vimeo.com/260588413
Space Pilots in Spaaaace! EPISODE 2: Crashing the Party
PRODUCED by Marria Grace
WRITTEN by Jenny McAllister
CREATED AND PERFORMED by 13th FLOOR
13th Floor Dance Theater
Jess Kandus as CAPTAIN TABITHA KNIGHT
Derek Harris as 1ST OFFICER SHIRO MORGAN
Colin Epstein as DR TYR RODRIGUEZ
Zach Fish as CHEIF ENGINEER QUINCY GOULD
Jenny McAllister as PILOT KAREN CLANCY
Uriah Findley as GOTHBOT
Sydney Bradshaw Lozier as AMANDA MAY
Lucy Tanq (Lucy Kang) as LEELA
Katharine Gripp as LEIA
and
JK47 (Andrew Warner & Nick Man) as THE DJ’s!
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** Doors open at 7:30pm. Instruction from 7:30pm**
Improve your flogging skills! Whether you’re a total novice or already confident with the whip, there’s plenty for you in this unique and very active class.
Enjoy drills on techniques to deliver powerful, effective sensations without top-fatigue. Sharpen your finesse and precision to create the desired sensual, sexual and emotional effects.
You’ll learn how to select the best flogger for your style and body type.
Bring your floggers. More the merrier! If you don’t have any, there may be a few to try out. Midori shares with you a uniquely connected “California” style of whip use.
If you want to learn to flog in high heels, or other specialized footwear, bring them.
No need to bring a target person or a practice partner.
Want to get some good floggers in advance? Check out this site for quality whips, made in the USA. http://FHP-inc.Stockroom.com/
Get further training on the subtle moves the next night at Part 2!
https://planetmidori.ticketleap.com/2019-02-26
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ABOUT MIDORI
Dan Savage calls Midori “The Super Nova of Kink”! She is an artistic visionary who has touched lives across the globe with her expertise in sexuality, personal fulfillment, and kinky adventures. Using her “head-heart-hands” methodology she facilitates tackling challenging topics and creating space where people are allowed individual self-exploration. Her incredible passion is fully on display in her transformative small group intensives, including Rope Dojo ®, ForteFemme: Women’s Dominance Weekend Intensive and Make Hot Play Happen.
For more information on her upcoming classes and events, please visit: http://www.FHP-Inc.com/classes