Are you a single, spiritually conscious woman who is committed to magnetizing powerful, soulmate love in 2011? Are you "done with dating"? REALLY sick and tired of the singles groups and singles clubs and the superficial conversations that go nowhere? If this is you, keep reading. If you are looking to make that deep connection- but just aren't finding it, chances are you are still stuck in patterns of thinking, acting, and being that are repelling your soulmate from you. Yes, even conscious and …

Hang out and discuss JavaScript tips, tricks, hacks, and frameworks with some of the best scripters around. Show off cool stuff you've done and learn about what else is going on in the JS community. No pressure, no mandatory presentations. Come, hang out, and hear great people talk about cutting edge scripting.

Join us on our journey to our BEST SELF. NOT just a meetup, this is a MOVEMENT. A movement towards a new generation of "whole black women who are EMPOWERED in every area of their lives. Whole women make SMART decisions and know their value. We refer to ourselves as Diamonds and we are priceless! We bring out the BEST in each other! We plan events that cater to EVERY aspect of your life. We workout together, travel together, save and invest together, pray together, solve problems together. We …

Hello Gorgeous Ladies, Are you tired of being bombarded with hair commercials and magazines that tell you what you should do with your hair? Are you sick and tired of paying over $60 dollars a week to get your hair done, and it still breaks and falls out? Come explore the joy of natural hair care. I decided to go natural two months ago, I cut most of my hair off and ever since then it has gotten alot thicker and longer than it used to be. Join us and meet other gorgeous natural beauties so we ca …

What would it be like to own your home in a thriving community, close to work and school? Cohousing is housing created with the design input of the residents, according to common goals such as sustainability, community, and simply living well by sharing more. It includes individual homes supplemented by shared facilities and common areas. Management is consensus-driven and done by the residents. There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the Bay Area to date, and it’s about time to bu …

Interested in painting or drawing portraits but too shy to ask random strangers? Tired of drawing your loved ones over and over again? This group is for you. Let's get together and take turns sitting for each other. Just to be clear this is NOT a nude figure drawing session (not that I have anything against nude figure drawing). My interest is in faces specifically. I work in mixed media so it's easy for me to bring low maintenance supplies with me like colored pencils, water colors, pastels. Ho …

Come meet once a month with other like-minded cloud and API hackers. Having trouble making time to finish that side-project of yours connecting Evernote to Facebook? See how much more you can get done with other developers around. Maybe you'll even meet your next co-founder. This MeetUp will occasionally have speakers from publishers of your favorite APIs, but really it's about getting together in a shared space on a consistent basis and finishing what you've let languish.

If we leave it to the local news, Oakland’s reputation will be forever linked to the same old storylines: Art Murmur, racial tension, Brooklynization*, and crime. How can we work together to reveal the deeper story? Maybe you’ve been blogging for a while and want to meet new local people.  Maybe you want to increase your social media presence. Maybe you’re new to the area and full of stuff to say, and you need new connections to grow your audience. Or maybe you’ve always wanted to blog and just …

Dance for Healing, Dance for Joy is a meet up group for passionate, creative, heartfelt women practicing Nia Technique movement in the East Bay. Never heart of Nia?? Nia draws from DANCE, MARTIAL ARTS, and healing arts like YOGA to create safe, enjoyable movement that engages your body, mind and spirit. Done BAREFOOT to diverse and inspiring music, Nia is a transformational movement practice. Still don't get it? Well if "Dance for Healing, Dance for Joy" sounds good to you, come give it a try. N …

Local SF bay area people with a yen to start a food business could be cafe, restaurant, bakery, online food shoppe, cater. We could use a couple of people with the exerience who think to expand their current food business and yet most of us have never done this .... to bring what we know about food to Others and make a profit

This is a meetup for second-time parents. I've been there, I've done the first-time-mom's, group. We're still running strong. But what about my second child? There will be no latte-sipping on luxurious cafe couches while discussing the latest stroller colours and wondering what my hair will look like in the birthing pictures. Nope. I need a support group that can discuss sibling rivalry issues while pushing a swing, covered in peanut butter, with one eye on the sand box. We'll meet in child-frie …

This is free fit camp, a circuit training style exercise meet up for begginer and intermediate participants. It will be a combination of aerobic and anaerobic exercise. This will be done with mostly body weight exercises. This group will be meeting once a week. I am a fully certified trainer and nutrition consultant. I have a passion for exercise, improved health and wellness. My fitness philosophy is constantly evolving. I love meeting new people interested in having a good time while getting a …

This group is for people who are committed to integrating the new paradigm and to connect people who are on a similar path of understanding as well as an interest in Sacred Geometry. The Template is a series of ceremonies that reconnects bio-circuitry in the body through coded ceremony with sacred geometry. We also hold sacred geometry and sound healing meditations. We have created meet-up groups in different cities to inform those about special events and bring together and support those who ha …

Have you read the book  "Calling in 'The One': 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life" by Katherine Woodward Thomas? Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready to find 'the one'? In order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. This group is all about doing it mindfully by being actio …

Cycling is a great way to enjoy the weather and sites that the Bay has to offer, stay fit, and socialize with other people who share the same interests. This group was created to capitalize on the fact that exercise and networking can be effectively done at the same time. Cycling is the new golf, only now you're not stuck with the just three people for four hours. Join us, schedule a ride, stay healthy, meet other professionals. We're looking for entrepreneurs and professionals who enjoy network …

>> FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK << This group aims to do meetups centered around anything that makes you sweat! Hiking, backpacking, mountaineering, running, bicycling, kayaking, rafting, tennis, surfing, kitesurfing, windsurfing, paddle-boarding, wake-boarding, SUP, bungee jumping, skydiving, swimming, rock climbing, bouldering, spelunking - If it can be done with a group, suggest it and let's make it happen! This group does not and will not tolerate discrimination based on race, gender, religion, age …

The intent of this group is to provide and to share objective information about how regular, every day folks can prepare for the types of scenarios one may encounter here in the Bay Area. This group is meant for people interested in learning: 1) What are the basics of Preparation, Readiness, and Disaster planning? 2) What does one need to know in order to safeguard loved ones and personal property? 3) How to make sense of all the various "survival" approaches and confusing array of products? 4) …

Resonant Harmony Attunements The Resonant Harmony Attunements are designed for two purposes: 1. To Create Community Where We are All Connected – When you share sound together, everyone's whole system shares the same vibration or frequency -- brainwaves, heart rates, and electromagnetic fields align, and we all become like family. In fact, sharing sound together is a portal to remembering the ultimate state of where we are all One -- particularly when the sound ends and we enter that divine pla …

We've been super enthralled with what the NYC Hack and Tell group has done, and we think it's high time to bring the same format to SF. If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access th …

Monthly resource for Drupal users, developers, administrators, and designers in and around near Oakland, CA.  EBDUG meets on the last Wednesday of every month (except for November and December) to discuss all things Drupal.  Particular attention is placed on helping each other scale the Drupal Cliff -- the feeling you get that you almost, but not quite, understand enough about Drupal to get the things done that you want to.  We're here to help you succeed.

OBJECTIVE: The goal of Tinkering Toms is to get creative juices flowing around photography, imaging and other art forms. Every other week we meet to share our work and open a dialogue with a variety of people from a variety of perspectives. CREATIVE ASSIGNMENTS: After each meet-up a new creative assignment will be posted. You’ll have two weeks to explore, consider, play and create a piece of art or Photography that fulfills the basic premise of the assignment. We’ll then gather to share and expl …

Shamanic journeying is amazingly simple to learn and do, yet it’s a practice with the potential to bring great healing, depth, wisdom and clarity to your life. If you’re at a transition point in your life, needing to make a next step forward and not sure how… or if you're looking to heal old wounds (or problematic patterns, habits, compulsions, addictions) that you've worked on before, but that just haven't gone away... or, if you have ever felt like there is "part of you missing," or like you'v …

Mevident (www.mevident.com) is a network of highly qualified collaborative wellness practitioners. Mevident brings its wellness benefit platform to corporate clients so that their employees will be able to access our qualified practitioners. This Meetup is a place where Mevident practitioners can create local events, meet with each other, discuss recent advancement in wellness care delivery, and build a collaborative care delivery team. Also they can promote their wellness practices in their ow …

We're a couple that have decided to open up our relationship, but neither of us have done this ever before. We're looking to meet other couples in the same or similar situation in the Bay Area for support and friendship.

nReduce is a group of tech start-up founders working on web apps, mobile apps, hardware products, and everything in between. We meet once a month at WeWork Labs to give each other feedback on everything from UX/UI, traction, growth hacks, and investor pitches. We're all about shipping product, execution, getting shit done, and kicking ass. nReduce.com is the online counterpart of our monthly meet-ups. It's a community of 1,500 start-ups all around the world who give each other feedback through v …

Are you a do-er and not just a talker and like to be part of one-of-a-kind experiences? Do you like surprising people in a good way? Ever done a Flash-mob? How about a cash mob? http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/03/02/neighbors-rally-around-food-after-tragedy-strikes-small-businesses/ Ever heard of 'Build a better block?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntwqVDzdqAU I like doing quirky and unusual things. I've started and ran the Atlanta Underground Market in Atlanta and organized the largest flash-mo …

Welcome to the meetup! We're just getting the ball rolling here. We have secured a location (http://www.connectionssf.com )  for our labs and meetups, Look here for an announcement about the first meetups in 2013, coming very soon! What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more faster Lean UX is about getting more done & better ROI for the same investment Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing resea …

This is a group that will be forming for the purpose of assembling working teams of ambitious and creative budding entrepreneurs who are interested in working together to share their skills and ideas and collectively put together at least one fundraising proposal on Kickstarter. The results of the work that is done collectively will be shared collectively. A variety of skills are required to create an effective and successful fundraising campaign and no one person embodies all of them, so lets w …