The Running Foundation Training is a running/walking training program that is individually planned and closely supervised by your coach and the sports medical rehabilitation team at FORMA. The program will address your injuries, which have held you from running or walking, and keep you from achieving your fitness health goals. We provide each athlete with a better understanding of their injuries and what factors can be contributing to their inability to run or distance walk pain free! As a parti …

To study the many application methods and therapeutic benefits of essential oils, the group will gather to share experiences and information. Those interested in health and wellness, alternative and plant medicine should join.

Most people in the United States these days have a huge disconnect from the natural environment. From my perspective this lack of connection is one of the main reasons for illnesses, both mental and physical, in the world today. I enjoy teaching outdoor skills and I consider all of them to be pathways towards a more intimate relationship with the natural environment. This group is for all ages, races, religions, and conditions of people. Anybody can participate as much or as little as they like, …

We are all about building relationship and community in the world of alternative health/medicine. Come hang out with us and meet others like you who are passionate about healing - body, mind, spirit. Each meet up features a couple of different healers/alternative health practitioners so come and learn something new while making friends. I promise we're a friendly group!

Welcome, You are warmly invited to join us in these ancient and health promoting breathing and moving exercises. Beginners: learn qi gong for the first time. Seasoned practitioners: further cultivate, share and refine your energy. This wonderful class is a community offering from Gentle Way Acupuncture. It is my joy to share this fun, health building practice with you. No prior experience required. Anyone can learn. I am a Culver City local, acupuncturist and owner of Gentle Way Acupuncture, St …

This group is for anyone wishing to learn the craft of card reading for inner guidance as well as other indigenous healing techniques. No experience necessary! We will hold monthly workshops focusing on the Animal Medicine Card deck by David Carson and Jamie Sams where we will discuss animal symbology, various types of card spreads, and how to keep card readings helpful, positive, and productive. We will also hold workshops in hand-made healing crafts and other indigenous practices from Celtic S …

Hello All, The purpose of this group is to offer ongoing Health and Wellness education, workshops, weekly classes and community events for women.  It is my desire to offer a space of nourishment, reconnection to the self, recharging and refueling of our vital energy, so that we, as women, are empowered to be loving and generous with all those in our lives- especially ourselves. If you want to be a beacon of warmth, kindness, inspiration and positive growth for yourself, your family and your comm …

This group practices Yin Yang movement inspired by Taoist principles, the 5 elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Qi Gong. We practice Yin Yang movements developed by Paulie Zink (Founder of Yin Yang Yoga), which focus on increasing flexibility and joint mobility, core strength, awakening our innate primal movement and balancing the Yin Yang flow of the body.  We utilize circular motion, mimick the natural movements of animals, express Oneness with Nature and uniquely embody the dynamism …

We are an intertribal Native Earth and Self-honoring group of MEN, although we respect the sacred feminine , we seek to understand our male traditional roles in our various communities and nations. This is not a place for those who are looking to becoming 'SHAMANS'..This group was established to create a sacred place to share, heal and receive knowledge rooted in our Native backgrounds and personal life experience..Creating, wearing of regalia and participating in ceremony will be strongly encou …

Our Vision: To help transform health care through the integration of all aspects of well-being: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, environmental and social. We are a local networking group of holistic and integrative medicine by licensed/certified healthcare providers. We embrace integrative, complementary and alternative medicine techniques; we hold onto what is helpful in allopathic medicine, and we understand that healing includes your body, your mind, your emotions, and your spirit. Th …

If you are the parent of a child with ADD or ADHD and are looking for help in dealing with this condition, please join Dr. Kelvin deWolfe for a highly informative two afternoon seminar that can help your child to *Improve focus *Improve concentration *Manage frustration *Reduce aggressive behavior *Build self-esteem No doubt you've tried a number of approaches in managing your child's condition. Dr. deWolfe has developed a treatment plan, using Chinese Medicine, that is quite effective. Unlike …

Hazel Williams -Carter has lead groups and trained in constellation work for over 12 years. She is excited to share with you the new approach to the work and all the new creativity flowing in the field. She is a Traumacologist and Clinical Hypnotherapist is trained in Somatic Trauma /PTSD resolution and attachment, bonding and repatterning work. Her background is in shamanism and vibrational medicine and other energy psychologies she has added her own unique flavor to the Constellation field. Ha …

This group is for all interested in meditation and other related activities. Our group offers various activities that help bring wellness and balance into our lives.  Our meditation practice is Mindfulness Meditation but we are open to learning about and sharing other meditation philosophies. Our group is open to all faiths and belief systems. The purpose of this group is to share various life-tools to harness the inner peace and happiness that is within each and everyone of us. With a little co …

Welcome to this incredible community! This meetup group is devoted to guiding visionary and entrepreneurial women into their role as Healthy Feminine Leaders. Here is your invitation (if you accept): Cultivate your feminine energy and understand that the source of your power lies within. You will learn tools and techniques to heal your hormones and use your cycles as a source of your unlimited creative power. Liberate yourself from any closures around your heart that are keeping you playing sma …

The Reiki Training Institute is dedicated to teaching Reiki and encouraging individuals in their own unique healing process. We offer Reiki treatments, distance healing, beginners Reiki circles and practitioner Reiki circles. Join us in discovering more about: Energy Healing, Improving your Health, and Balancing Mind, Body and Spirit. Thea Parsons, founder of the Reiki Training Institute, has been a Certified Reiki Master practicing in the U.S., Europe and Asia for over a decade. She is 12th in …

Do you want to raise your children to be kind to animals?  Would your younger child enjoy playing at the playground with other kids their age, while at the same time getting to pet some friendly, sociable bunnies and talk with trained big-kid volunteers about the best ways to be kind and compassionate to pets and other animals?  Or would your older child like to talk with us about how to get started towards a career in veterinary medicine or animal welfare?  Then this is the meet-up group for yo …

Members of this group get together to talk and share their experience and knowledge of Ayurveda and Yoga. Ayurveda and Yoga are both parts of the same Indian cultural traditions which view the human as both a spiritual, thinking and embodied being which heals itself and progresses towards realization by the movements of nature.

Meet other people interested in herbs & natural healing, while you learn about the role of plants in health care. A different herb will be discussed once a month on the 2nd Friday, with new plants introduced, tasted, smelled & enjoyed, participants are given an ounce of the herbal tincture, an ounce of the herb itself, a comprehensive monograph, & other stuff as I see fit. 4th Fridays will focus on different aspects of Natural Health: Non-toxic home care, medicine making, skin & hair care, medic …

Los Angeles' Largest Cognitive Science Meetup Group! Our members include scientists, students of science, doctors, a great variety of therapists, people interested in information that can lead to answers or therapies for cognitive disorders, and folks that are just plain interested in the fascinating worlds of cognitive science and consciousness. Our mission is to offer the community the means for self-education through learning the latest scientific discoveries and ideas on brain health, the …

This meetup is a community based support and educational structure designed for people to share experiences, learn about GAPS, learn new recipes, and have questions answered by GAPS Practitioners. All GAPS clients and anybody who is interested in learning about GAPS may attend. GAPS is an acronym that was trademarked for Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride in 1988. Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride holds a Degree in Medicine and Postgraduate Degrees in both Neurology and Human …

I began Core Essence Wellness to bring into focus healing, growth and light; We all have had pitfalls and struggles in this life and are being drawn like never before to release and shed the shackles of our past, shed the weight of our conditioning through holistic and energetic approaches. We have began excavating through the rubble for our essence, our core essence; the matter in us that is pure energy, pure light and pure love. My journey as a holistic practitioner began unexpectedly when tw …

This is a mutual support and learning group for people interested learning and sharing  experiences with home based, self directed nutritional/herbal healing, detox programs and emotion/mind/body work inspired by natural health researchers and healers from all places and all times such as: Yogi Bhajan, Yamuna Zake, Dr. William Bates, Frederick Alexander, Peter Grunwald, Hippocrates, Norman Walker, Max Gerson, Johanna Budwig, Kathryn Alexander, Paul Pitchford, Donna Gates, Rosita Arvigo, Henry B …

Wild edible mushrooms? Yes we have them here in Los Angeles and in Southern California: Chanterelles, Morels, Porcinis and yes, we even have Truffles! there is nothing like them! Watch out they may be deadly! They have to be ID'd by an expert or asta la vista baby. Join us for a wild mushroom hunt as we go look for edible and medicinal mushrooms here in our backyard or in faraway places. Here is a partial list of what you can find here in LA: Chanterelle - Cantharellus cibarius Morel - Morchell …

Cellular Biologist, Author, lecturer, and 2009 Goi Peace Award winner, Dr Bruce Lipton's work reveals the results of his research conducted over many years as a cellular biologist. Much of what he discovered in the research laboratory dramatically contrasts with what we've heard from mainstream medicine. For example - You are not a victim of your genes! You create your reality via your perceptions of your environment. It's like the Law of Attraction from a scientific perspective. This is a gathe …

I began Reiki's Healing Awareness to bring to light; Reiki's healing properties, it's potential and  to offer education beyond the Reiki system and introduce modalities that compliment Reiki energy. My journey as a holistic practitioner began unexpectedly when two of my beloved animal companions; Spanky, who was a golden retriever and Bella, who was a black lab, we’re both diagnosed with two separate forms of cancer. Spanky’s cancer had spread throughout his lungs, what cancer? I was shocked; I …

Welcome to the Heart-centered Toastmasters homepage! Heart-centered Toastmasters is part of Toastmasters International, a world-wide organization that fosters development of communication and leadership skills. HCTM is unique in that we offer a spiritual, non-denominational club culture of unconditional loving and infinite positive regard in our mutually supportive, non-competitive atmosphere. Many of our members are students or graduates of USM (University of Santa Monica's Masters program in S …

Ancient Pathways is for people who realize that our gatherer-hunter past is still alive within us. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors lived directly with the land, and our ancient instincts are still present, though covered by a thin veneer of modern sophistication. Re-learning our connection with the land and the fascinating skills necessary to meet our needs: Teaches us how to satisfy our needs and builds confidence. Teaches the value of cooperation. Teaches an indigenous perspe …