Welcome to the Northwest Bagua Zhang Association! Our aim is to build bridges & community between practitioners of all styles of Bagua Zhang - The Circular Art of Transformation... to share, compare, preserve improve our knowledge and ability. Please use this site to network & learn from each other by coordinating training groups, workshops, promoting your school/teacher by suggesting times/places. Step out of the shadows of isolated obscurity, prevent our art from being marginalized, sterilized …

This meetup is for community cultivators who co-create amazingly delightful and inspiring activities and events designed to develop healthy relationships, generate sustainable livelihoods, and build functional art installations.  These microfests facilitate the flow of abundance, vitality, matter, wisdom and LOVE through all who participate in them by envisioning, planning, attending, engaging, contributing, exchanging, participating cleaning up, bringing T.P., sending us warm fuzzies, or just s …

This group is intended to be a place where anyone can come and develop their awareness. We will build a group that meets to practice expanding their senses, exploring para-psychological abilities, and trusting our intuitive signals. The exercises I will bring are drawn from my experience in wilderness survival schools and native traditions, martial arts/dance/body awareness, and meditation. We will be meeting outdoors, and there will be some physicality involved, but that is minimal and our focu …

Are you a new mom who is looking to regain your prepregnancy shape? Are you looking to meet other moms in the area just like you? Are you interested in fun, FREE playgroups for your little one and great Moms events too? Then Stroller Strides and the Plum Mom's Club are for you! Stroller Strides® is the country's largest and fastest growing fitness program for new moms. The stroller workout combines a fitness walk with the stroller and body toning intervals where we use the stroller, the environm …

Do you LOVE running? A running group that focuses on long-term development for ALL individuals. Help make Seattle a more ENERGIZED running community! All abilities - From walkers to Olympic Hopefuls. There is a place for YOU! **Meet new running partners **Increase Motivation **Pick up and share running advice/tips ** Run races with your training buddies **Personalized coaching available for a small fee **In the heart of AWESOME training areas TRAIN SMART, DON'T STRAIN, FOR LONG TERM DEVELOP …

The Seattle Polyamory Meetup group is the original, all-inclusive social group for those who identify as polyamorous, who practice ethical non-monogamy, or even as poly-friendly. Everyone is welcome regardless of gender, sexual preference, race, religion, economic factors, or body ability. What is Polyamory? The most basic definition of polyamory is one of “many loves”. It can also be loosely described as non-monogamy. There are many ways of practicing polyamory, and no one way is the “right” wa …

Check out the herbal meetups at http://www.meetup.com/The-Hermits-Grove/ The Rowan Tree Church, legally incorporated as a Church with full recognition from the U.S. Government, is an extended family throughout North America. Our primary community is centered at The Hermit’s Grove, serving the Puget Sound area. We meet for Full Moons, Sabbats and Sunday Circles and work together on projects. Our legal bylaws state that: I.A. "Membership is open to any person age twelve or older who wishes to shar …

Are you a new mom who is looking to regain your pre-pregnancy shape? Are you looking to meet other moms in the area just like you? Are you interested in fun, FREE playgroups for your little one and great Moms events too? Then Stroller Strides and the LUNA Mom's Club are for you! Stroller Strides® is the country's largest and fastest growing fitness program for new moms. The stroller workout combines a fitness walk with the stroller and body toning intervals where we use the stroller, the environ …

Come laugh unconditionally! Laughter Yoga is a body/mind/spirit practice that combines gentle stretching, yoga-type breathing and playful laughter exercises. This is a real laughter workout! It was developed by a medical doctor from India, Dr. Madan Kataria in 1995. www.laughteryoga.org. We meet the 2nd Tues of the month at 7:00 pm for one hour at Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA  98103.  We are downstairs in the Blue Room of the main building. There are always new pe …

So you do Wing Chun? Or you want to learn it? I'm not a teacher, but I can help with what I do know and exchange knowledge. Are you looking for the Westernized version? This isn't the place to be. Interested in what looks and is more snake/crane-like, highly technique based, internal power based gung fu that comes straight out of Southern China before Yip Man's time? This is where your home is. This branch of Wing Chun is designed to be so emphasized in proper technique, proper power generation, …

hoop·la [hoop-lah] noun Informal. 1.bustling excitement or activity; commotion; hullabaloo; to-do. Hula Hoopers, let's unite! I know your out there. I've seen you walking around Seattle with your homemade hoops and jamming to music barefoot with a big smile on your face. No?? Well you should try it sometime. Hula hooping is no longer that silly thing you did when you were a kid. It's exercise, expression, self-empowerment, strength building, & stress reducing.  Hooping has been around for ages a …

I will be organizing Holotropic Breathwork™ (as created by Stan Grof, M.D., PhD) workshops in the Seattle and Bellingham Areas. Holotropic Breathwork is a deep and powerful means of healing that allows physical, emotional and spiritual healing experiences to take place. It is a highly experiential method that combines deep breathing, evocative music, focused bodywork, mandala drawing & group sharing. Holotropic Breathwork is based on insights from modern consciousness research, depth psychology, …

Creative Hearts “Healing Arts Center” & Nanny Training School located in the majestic Orion's Cutt spiritual community with our primary location nestled in the heart of Seattle in Capitol Hill. Upstairs 219 Broadway East Suite 33, Seattle WA, 98102 We have a saying around here.... Don't just live.. Thrive! Come Join in on our daily adult morning Yoga, Qigong, meditations or our sign your child ages-5-12 up for our weekly child "Movement, Meditation, and Compassion" meditation group on Saturday …

Enjoy the  happy-making and healing movements & meditations of Sheng Zhen Gong, the Qigong of Unconditional Love! Before explaining more about qigong and this particular system of qigong specifically, I must tell you that this qigong changed my life. I know that is a strong statement to make, but it's true. Before attending my first workshop with Master Li Junfeng in 2006, I had sort of a dark cloud hanging over me. I was self-conscious. Shy. Not one of those bubbly, glowing, happy people. And I …

Come experience the powerful healing practice of Supreme Science Qigong! Practiced by 200 million people, Qigong is the Mother of Acupuncture & Tai Chi. Use advanced breathing techniques, meditation, & movement to harness the Qi. The Qi-Energy is so tangible in this Qigong system that experts of Yoga, Meditation, and even practitioners of other styles of Qigong are AMAZED at how strong it is. I've started this group to help build a qigong community in the Seattle-area. Having experienced great …