Women coming together and sharing the road to healthy eating, love and a harmonious life with soulful exercise and excursions, food tastings and meditations. Destressing, decluttering and body awareness included! We will be creating your own whole foods eating plan, address the underlying psychology of eating, look at the spiritual connection we have to food and do some self assessment exercises to get a snapshot of your current state. We will enjoy a safe platform to inquire within and explore …

The Universal life force of Love... Reiki is an ancient, powerful, and very accessible energy healing modality we can all share and receive from. Meet others interested in healing as we explore Reiki through sharing, giving, and receiving. It is open to those whom have experience in any level of Reiki as well as those who are interested in learning or experiencing Reiki for the first time. Everyone will receive during the gathering and hopefully have a wonderful experience.

If you have been wanting to make a shift, to live your life to the fullest, come join us in the journey of self healing and self empowering. Learn simple exercises and techniques to optimize your body's own energy to promote high-level wellness, peak performance, and joyful living. As we change our vibration, we change the Earth's vibration. We are a group of wellness professionals, and energy workers inspired to build an energy wellness community, by connecting the like-minded people, creati …

The Journal Workshop offers classes in the art of personal journaling, as well as on-going women's journal circles. Journal writing is one of the most powerful and accessible tools we have to heal, expand, and transform our lives.  Each class includes a presentation of carefully-crafted prompts, questions, guided imagery and other explorations designed to help even the most reluctant journal writer to express herself and experience the benefits of personal journaling. You will learn dozens of cr …

We meet regularly to explore, discuss, and share Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and general issues related to Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We will also explore topics related to SEO: social media marketing, blogging, affiliat …

Lets try world changing thoughts at our next happy hour!  Do you really want to be happier, boost your self-esteem, improve your health and perhaps as experts say ... even live longer? Here's a start, why not take full advantage of restaurant "HAPPY HOUR " time to explore how we can  work together as volunteers or professionals to further the causes we value. Did you know that our innate value system is an outstanding source of inspiration and motivation?  Our value system feeds us with positive …

Welcome. This is a place where heart-centered conscious people can engage, explore, discover, chat, and learn from one another. Whether you are just beginning to explore spirituality and your unique healing gifts or whether you have been pursuing and living an authentic holistic life for years, you are welcome here. Now is the time to heal- people everywhere are heeding the call. We have been facing very challenging times, yet it is also a promising and exciting time. We are shifting out of an O …

Welcome to Peninsula Rec & Leisure! By joining this up-and-coming group YOU get to decide how this group will mold into a fantastically fun experience for all! For now, the group will focus on hidden Happy Hours tucked in and around the peninsula. I’m a huge advocate for finding new uncharted locations for food and drink! Why? Because some of the best (and worst) places I’ve ever been to, have been off the beaten path…..and each one provides a memorable story! Why settle for what you know when y …

We mainly explore the San Francisco Bay Area’s many hiking trails, but we also keep our eyes open for other outings such as free summer concerts (Stern Grove anyone?) and the occasional jazz club... and likely more. The hikes are 6-10 miles long and are of an advanced beginner to intermediate level of difficulty. Let’s go out and enjoy the many wonderful outings in the Bay Area!

Success! It's confirmed: Our meetups will now start Wednesdays at 7:00pm (same venue). Improv, the jazz of acting, the free-flowing river of spontaneity empowers us to explore the multiple personalities and characters that each of us is, desires to be, or is curious about. At any given moment, our mood and energy level depend largely upon our perception of our current surroundings. Improv liberates us most profoundly by reintroducing us to our own imaginative capacity in a way that embraces it …

Successful Thinkers Network is a group of like minded and committed individuals who believe people will buy or use product / service from people they like, know, and trust.  Building relationship is key to the membership in helping others move their business forward.  Members share ideas and information to benefit the community and their business. The Successful Thinkers Network's mission is to help develop relationships that will enable members to find solutions to business challenges.   Attend …

New in town? Miss your fun group of friends from college? Finding it hard to meet real people in Silicon Valley? You’re not alone! JGC is just for you. Come hang out with other soon-to-be or recent grads who are all about having a good time. We’re all in our 20s and share the same interests as you. Our activities include many kinds of social and charitable events and you'll enjoy them tremendously – check out comments and pictures from past events. Our wide range of social events include bar c …

Virtual reality has the potential to profoundly impact work, play, and society as a whole. Immersive virtual experiences previously known only in the realms of science fiction are finally within reach. Who should attend? SVVR is open to anyone interested in or curious about virtual reality, including developers, hackers, futurists, gamers, entrepreneurs, investors, and dreamers. The Oculus Rift, Kinect, LEAP, and Razer Hydra are the first wave of affordable consumer VR devices. Join us to discus …

Are you a European expat and now living in Silicon Valley? Do you miss Europe? Do you like to go out, meet new people, make friends, explore the area and have fun along the way? We like active EUROPEAN EXPATS who can bring energy, wicked ideas, stories to share and great sense of humor to EUEXSV! Interesting people and outgoing personalities, who are well traveled, live locally on the Peninsula, open minded, smart, positive, communicative, curious and over 21, meaning young (at heart)! If you …

Looking for professional, active women and men, mid-30s to 50s, to expand our Peninsula Friends Group. If you're interested in making new friends doing fun activities such as hiking, movies, bike rides, wine bars/wineries, dining out, potlucks, performances and/or other events, this group is for you! We have two events a month, within easy distance of mid-peninsula.. So come on out!

Calling all ages of dancers and would be dancers who would like to explore the various folk dance clubs and parties in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond. No experience or partners necessary. Dance to music from all over the world. I started dancing in college many years ago, met my husband dancing, and now would like to share my love of international dancing with others. It is a great way to stay in shape, meet others (even while traveling), and have a lot of fun! We can share tips on local …

Join this group if you are interested in exploring new activities and adventures, wine tasting, fine dining, music, happy hours, mixing and mingling, dating, going out and having some fun every once in while! Maybe we'll even do some of those type A extreme type of thrill adventures, like indoor sky-diving or something! We might join up with some other groups once in a while and make some Meetups even more of an event!!! So drop some of that stress at work and join us for a new season of fun! Pl …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. If you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

We welcome all people from all religious backgrounds, cultures, LGBTQQA, races, and of all ages. If you consider yourself spiritual and are interested in living the life of your dreams by changing the way you think about life, you are welcome here! We don't ask you to park your brain at the door. We are looking for inquisitive, inspiring, and fun people to help us create a community on the Peninsula. Center for Spiritual Living, Peninsula is a reflection of a global thriving spiritual movement d …

This is a group for women in their 30s who feel they are going through major transitions in life, i.e., career, family, new home, friendships/relationships, spirituality, etc. As a woman in my 30's, I definitely experienced this transition and I am still going through it now. It seems that the 30's is such an important stage in life when you are redefining yourself, establishing yourself and asserting who you are as an adult in the world. My purpose in creating this group is to create a space fo …

Welcome, Ladies! The Women of Menlo Park & Palo Alto meet-up group is meant to serve as a conduit for building strong friendships with women in the community. We hold events with a maximum size of 15 women, where new relationships have a chance to blossom. Join us for some fun as we explore the Peninsula and make new friends along the way.

Are you new to the Bay Area? Have you been here forever but want to learn more? Then let's meetup and figure out this bay together. Where are some of the places that make this the great place it is? What do the locals know that will give you the inside track? Are there places here, that locals have not even visited? Join us and have fun exploring, learning, visiting, hiking, eating and meeting other wonderful people from around the world. This is the group to join when you are new in town or jus …

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Wonderfest’s Mission is to inspire and nurture a deep sense of wonder about the world. Through science education programs, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning, challenge unexamined beliefs, and encourage life-long learning.  Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Beacon of Science, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. http://wonderfest.org http://facebook.com/wonderfest http://twitter.com/wonderfest http://www.youtube.com/tuckeroo11

We are a great group of people who are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and early 50s. We are friends eager to make new friends; fun friends who prefer activities, dining out and getting together for hiking and dancing. I absolutely love the variety of the activities the great Bay Area has to offer. I love to meet with new people & make friends while engaging in different activities. I'd like to help people get out, exercise and make friends. I am an advocate of healthy & conscience living while in favor …

This for a group for young people who're looking for new experiences and friends in the Bay area. Explore everything from ethnic restaurants, fitness classes, and cool events near Palo Alto, and make friends in the process :)

Want to explore technology, science, and music, film? Take free classes from https://www.udacity.com/ and https://www.coursera.org/ and collaborate with a group to discover! These classes are great help whether you are building a startup or just want to keep updated on technology and arts. Feel free to post a discussion event through the "Suggest a New Meetup" feature.

This is an experimental subset of the Bay Area Quantified Self Show&Tell meetup group. It's QS in the valley - an eclectic exploration of self-tracking - geotracking, life-logging, DNA sequencing, etc. - to gain more knowledge about yourself.  If you have a self-tracking story to share or want to come and learn and be inspired, join us! Topics include, but are not limited to: • Aging in Place Technology • Behavior change and monitoring • Caregiving of digital patients • Chemical Body Load Counts …