Does the scent of apple pie take you back to childhood days at Grandma’s house? Maybe the smell of Nag Champa incense back to your college days, or to your belly dance studio. If you've ever been curious about the role smells play in your own life, or had an interest in essential oils and their more etheric healing properties you're in the right place! Scent plays a powerful role in our emotional state, and in addition to the physiological reactions a smell can induce (as in pheromones), it can …

Calling All Women Between 55 and 59! Welcome to Your Second Saturn Return, All You Lovely Mid-Life Mavens with Natal Saturn in Libra! And, Welcome to: "Surviving & Thriving Through Your Second Saturn Return" -- a 12 Week Educational Support Group for Women. What's a Saturn Return, you ask? It's when the transiting planet Saturn returns to the place it was on the day you were born and it is a significant karmic gateway that offers you the opportunity for wise passage into …

Welcome! We hope this group will provide a venue for people in Portland who are interested in various aspects of science and mathematics to meet. If you have some particular topic that you are interested in learning more about, or would just like to talk about, please feel free to start a discussion on the message board or suggest a meetup. Past meetups have involved topics such as relativity, quantum theory, and genetics. But the group includes people with many other interests. Be sure to …

SAFER DECISIONS IN MARRIAGE AND DATING  Also visit the organizer's website at www.glassbook.org for Dating and Risk Mitigation Tools Mission #1: CONFLICT SAFETY.  Many DV organizations for women provide lectures, support groups, and reading materials. Although they are valuable, these resources fall short by not providing an opportunity to role play newly learned skills. One does not learn to play tennis or ride a bike by simply reading a book! This Meetup group will role play, in a safe enviro …

Portland Laughter Yoga is the premiere Portland metro area Laughter Yoga resource offering Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Trainings, Laughter Clubs & Classes, corporate, celebrations, sessions for seniors, caregivers, kids and more! This Meet-up will be used to announce Laughter Clubs, Laughter Yoga classes, trainings and special events sponsored by Portland Laughter Yoga.   Right now, the main recurring Meetup is the Hawthorne Laughter Club, which meets on Sundays at 4 pm in the movement studio …

Welcome to Areté Fitness. Our purpose is simple, to achieve excellence in our bodies. The body is our canvas, it’s movement our art. We have three goals: To always grow stronger, physically and mentally. To create mobile, fluid, pain free joints and muscles. To grow into a healthy, balanced, long-lasting body. “We are what we repeatedly do. Areté (excellence), then, is not an act but a habit.”   To these ends, this group was created to help promote the benefits of kettlebell training. What is a …

This is a group for both experienced and inexperienced hikers, all of whom have the tacit fundamental desire to get outdoors for a day (or two). We have no group theory or group philosophy, yet. I have volunteered myself to start this group. This is not a service and nothing is paid for (except this page) beyond the cost of one's own expenses for these events. While I, myself, or the group may be open to any feedback, there is no complaint department, here. There are conditions for being a membe …

Parkour (l'art du déplacement English: the art of movement) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment. It is a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible. Skills such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves are employed. The goal of a practitioner of parkour, called a tra …

We are technology enthusiasts who meet for general or detailed discussions of science, math, and technological applications. The group encourages those with a personal interest in some aspect of mathematics, science, or their technological applications -- whether as an unsure beginner, an active hobbyist, or an experienced professional motivated to share their skills and ideas. Or just sit and listen to others while playing a game on your DS! The economy may be foundering for some time yet, b …

Perhaps it will not be out of place to explain here the meaning of the term 'Spirituality', which is often confused with blind faith in sacred books, a display of miracles, psychic phenomena, or Yogic powers. Spirituality is an inner experience and its alphabet begins where all philosophy and yoga practices end. It is the experience of the soul. When one says,"I am the body", it is a feeling based on the intellect and is defined as ignorance. When he says,"I am not the body, I am an awakened sou …

What are the Sacred Sisters about?   We are about women supporting women: As we are truly becoming sisters, we are getting to know each other and supporting each others dreams.  We may use something as formal as the vision board from "The Law of Attraction", a visualization during a holiday ritual, or just sharing our hopes over a meal.   We are about Ritual: A Sacred Sister enjoys using ritual to celebrate and inspire change in herself and in the world. Our rituals can be transformative, restor …

  We are women who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD or ADD) and who are interested in learning strategies, skills, and processes which can enhance our lives.  We seek companionship, support, resources, recommendations and the kind of understanding that comes from being with those who "get it" from the inside out.  Women who have ADHD, especially those of us who are diagnosed in our 30's, 40's, 50's and later, have many years experience of struggling to "pass" for normal, o …

Our vision is to live in a world of wellness. The means by which this is achieved is by enabling people to fulfill their life purpose in a balanced approach with the utmost integrity and efficacy. In order to do so, people must be at their best, with out the distraction of mental, emotional, or physical disease. When this is realized people come together in unity to achieve miraculous things that induces enlightenment, community, and an increased spiritual vibration for the world. At Anahata Wis …

Meet other local Fitness, Health, Nutrition and Life Balance buffs to trade workout tips, nutrition & diet ideas, hold each other accountable, have fun! and stay motivated! Portland is one of the most Active, Healthy, Fit and Balanced cities in the world. With our MeetUp, it is our goal to connect, netowrk, share, learn and grow our fitness, health, and life balance to the next natural, healthy, positive level! We'll examine workout routines, fitness regimines, training routines, longev …

Chanting Sanskrit Mantra is an ancient practice that goes back to time immemorial. Sanskrit Mantra is practiced by Buddhists, Hindus, Jainists, Sikhs and people of all faiths all across the planet. It is not a religion, but like meditation can be adapted to one's own practice whatever your beliefs may be. This ancient practice leads us to that place within; that heals all, calms every worry, and fills us with that Divine love we all search for. There is nothing to believe, no dogma, no person t …

An open conversation around emerging technologies which directly bridge physical and digital design, environments, and user experiences. Bring your potentials,  projects, and problems to solve and let's have some fun connecting and sharing.