Meet, greet, draw, paint and sketch at parks, gardens, museums and cafes. Occasionally we might take a trip to San Francisco, but primarily, this will be centered in the East Bay.

Zentangle is a fun and easy to learn drawing method for creating beautiful images. This group is open to anyone interested in learning more about Zentangle and to those who are already tangling!

We host monthly figure drawing parties- with live music, beautiful models, booze, coffee, and famous naked historical figures to inspire your pencils and pens. Come make art with us and be a part of something sacreligious...

Let's get together on weekends to wander around San Francisco, sketching people and places. You don't have to be the next Paul Madonna, just someone who likes observing city life and making marks on paper.    (Note that we used to be called Urban Sketchers. Same group, just a different name.)  

A monthly meetup to share portfolios, bounce ideas around, and get to know each other as creative individuals. Bring whatever you want to share! Finished work, concepts, sketches... Also feel free to bring your sketchbook -- as this is a meetup for drawing stuff, we intend to do some drawing. xD Bring something that says something interesting about you and what your art is about -- doesn't matter if it's not sequential art. Because there tends to be a revolving door of new and old faces at these …

Dominion is a fun, easy to learn, deck building card game. Each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end. 2-5 players. The game usually takes 30-45 minutes. No gam …

Writing offers a way for people to connect to deeper, wiser aspects of ourselves – a way for us to find out, as the poet Audre Lorde said, “what we didn’t know we knew.” Almost every writer has experienced mysterious moments when the words that flow from our pens, or from our fingers on a keyboard, seem as if they come from someplace else – a place beyond our small human selves. Sometimes, when we let it happen, it’s as if the words become a little boat, a raft on which we can sail in a large …

This group is for people who are seeking to establish deep spiritual friendships both with others, and with themselves. We will commit to co-creating an atmosphere that offers deep listening, unwavering compassion -- and potentially life-altering challenge to the status quo. This ongoing group will explore and practice ways to 1) Access our deepest wisdom, and 2) More completely integrate and embody that wisdom in all aspects of our lives. In this process, we’ll draw respectfully from many …

… I created this group because I always find myself running the beautiful coastal running trail in the San Leandro Marina (although it spans to San Lorenzo, Hayward, Fremont) and just thought that running and fitness would be a lot more fun and motivating if I could meet, run and exercise with awesome people in the local community who could help each other achieve our fitness goals. It's time to stop giving ourselves excuses to NOT exercise... Here's the game plan: My plan is to challeng …

For Events visit www.eastbayopencircle.org.  (click on our Meetup "Follow us" links) The East Bay Open Circle is dedicated to supporting the practices of mindful and open-hearted awareness. We draw our inspiration from a variety of spiritual, religious, psychological, and scientific traditions which support the cultivation of direct experience, insight, and compassion. We host a number of local speakers and teachers on a regular basis, as well as other speakers invited from around the world. We …

Free Your Mind - The Open Way - GATHERINGS NEAR YOU - STAY AWARE - JOIN NOW SO WE CAN START GATHERING IN YOUR AREA NOW!! CALIFORNIA - East bay - North Bay - South Bay - San Francisco - Berkeley - Santa Cruz - San Jose - San Rafael - Marin - And ALL other surrounding Bay areas and all of California as well!! (If interested... see our Florida meetup gatherings as well!! And of course www.theopenway.org worldwide - and support our upcoming radio show for ALL to hear and share and be!!) www.theopenw …

  The purpose of this group is to spread the word about Holotropic Breathwork groups to a larger number of people, as well as share when the different groups are happening.  With this group I want to provide a space for those curious and new to the work, to experience it for the first time in a supportive and nourishing environment.   As well as those who have practiced it for some time, have a place and a community to come back to.   I have found through the years, that this work is a wonderf …

Free Your Mind - The Open Way - GATHERINGS NEAR YOU - STAY AWARE - JOIN NOW SO WE CAN START GATHERING IN YOUR AREA NOW!! CALIFORNIA - East bay - North Bay - South Bay - San Francisco - Berkeley - Santa Cruz - San Jose - San Rafael - Marin - And ALL other surrounding Bay areas and all of California as well!! (If interested... see our Florida meetup gatherings as well!! And of course www.theopenway.org worldwide - and support our upcoming radio show for ALL to hear and share and be!!) www.theopenw …

“Wherever we set foot, it was Your street.       Whatever corner we turned, it was Your name in the air. We said: ‘Surely there must be a road leading elsewhere?’       But every road we found, it led to You.” - Ismail Anqarawari, follower of Ibn Arabi and Rumi   One of Ibn Arabi's poems expresses the focus of this group: "O Marvel! A garden amidst the flames! My heart has become capable of every form. It is a pasture for Gazelles, A convent for Christian monks, A temple for idols and th …

To all the painters, and those who wish they could paint, in the Bay Area, join this group and participate in paint sessions and workshops in the spacious and sunny Studio Teobi, San Francisco. Take painting classes with former Artist Fellow of the de Young Museum Todd Thomas Brown (workshop series "The Art of Not Knowing"), and also join the painters club every Tuesday... All in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere with good music!

… Science, technology, the arts, contemporary events—all are fodder for recognizing our own essential natures and learning and practicing the Dharma.