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Universe Spirit Events in the San Francisco Bay Area
You are warmly invited to review the many San Francisco Bay Area events listed below. Even if you are just here on business or vacation, come and experience one of our events.
If you are a Bay Area local or going to visit the Bay Area and you're not already on our local events email list, email us at manage@integrativespirituality.org and put "locals event list" in the subject line. We will email you all the new event schedules, salons, classes and workshops that will be regularly added to event lists below.
Welcome to Universe Spirit San Francisco
Universe Spirit events are intended to welcome and support both new and existing spiritual community members and provide expanded insight into the Universe Spirit movement on practical, embodied, and philosophical levels. Our gatherings attract seekers who have a strong desire to make a difference in the world and are passionately committed to: - realizing more of Ultimate Reality within yourself (through regular spiritual practice, psycho-spiritual exploration, and authentic participation in spiritual community);
- service, and
- the values of an integrative and integral spiritual process—where values such as collaboration, partnership, interconnectedness, sustainability, authentic leadership, inclusion of multiple viewpoints, embodied engaged spirituality, diversity, transparency, non-polarization, creativity, deep listening, accountability, both/and transcending solutions vs. either/or solutions and compassionate action, et al. are honored—on individual, societal and planetary levels.
Explore below to see the variety of events we have being offered regularly on the Creative Spirit.
Special note: When the Creative Spirit (our floating spiritual center,) is away from our Sausalito home dock traveling either in the San Francisco bay or berthed at other bay or coastal cities, our main 415-332-3201 land line does not work! To reach us directly you must use our cell line 775-338-3578 for all non-Sausalito boat locations or to gain dock entrance to any locked dock-way at the different SF bay area harbors at which we regularly do events.
For all Sausalito events, click here for directions.
For photos of some other kinds of past events we have had, click here.
If you can't make it to one of our local events, check out our online Universe Spirit courses by clicking here.
Wednesdays: Free Integral Relationship Meditation 6:30 PM
Every second or third Wednesday beginning at 6:30 pm sharp you can re-energize spiritually at one of the most naturally beautiful meditation/worship spaces in all of California. Each Wednesday and Saturday at the Creative Spirit (our floating Spiritual Center in Sausalito) we have a 30-40 minute Integrative Relationship Meditation (IRM) session followed by 20 minutes of meeting and socializing. (Our organization is the original creator of this powerful new type of meditation system.)
It’s a great way to support and re-energize your work week and keep centered in embodied consciousness and spirit.
Our new integrative relationship meditation is easy enough to be done by new meditators with just 2-3 minutes instruction. It is also exciting and different enough to make long term meditators know that they have truly experienced a positive new surge in their meditation experience and growth.
Derived from an integrated core of essential eastern and western spiritual and mystical traditions each complete relationship meditation session consists of four, 6-8 minute mini meditations followed by about 20 minutes of socialization, which takes advantage of the special relationship awareness created.
The four different meditation styles are done in a sequence that creates this unique relationship focused meditation experience. In this integral and Universe Spirit meditation experience you connect with and meet others at deep, authentic levels of pure Essence while connecting to Ultimate Reality that includes and interconnects us all. This naturally facilitates an experience in individual and group intimacy.
These free meditation experiences have been so moving to participants that the after-meditation socializing has been hard to end. And no, it is not just because floating while meditating on a boat with amazing 270 degree views of the San Francisco Bay is so nurturing and different!
So, step away from your normal day-to-day land based experiences. Take a mini-pilgrimage and come aboard to experience our (r)evolutionary Integrative Relationship Meditation at our floating temple, monastery and sanctuary.
What to Bring
Bring snacks if you want to share something after the meditation. We do have pillows, but feel free to bring your favorite meditation cushion. We also have benches for sitting meditation.
What to expect: Our creative Wednesday and Saturday meditation/worship sessions integrate and rotate traditional meditation styles (Zen, Buddhist, Christian, Sufi, and mystical,) with modern forms of meditation such as guided visualization and affirmations etc. You can expect peacefulness as the sound and motion of gentle waves caress the floating sanctuary as you meditate. You can expect a renewed and enhanced positive spiritual perspective and insight when you leave these omni-denominational spiritual meditations!
Each session is led at the beginning and at the end by one of our qualified Life and Spirit facilitators so that everyone will feel comfortable with any new meditation practices that they may not know. Time and guidance will be provided for silent contemplative worship for those individuals who also believe in a personalized form of Ultimate Reality and want to use part of this meditation/worship time for silent direct spiritual connection to that personalized form of Ultimate Reality.
After the 30-40 minute meditation/worship if you would like to stay, there will be about 20 minutes of time to socialize and have some tea on the upper fly bridge of the Creative Spirit. Here you can connect with other regular attendees, community members and visitors.
Where: For photos of our spiritual center, the mediation/worship sanctuary or for directions please go to the About Us link at the top of each page of our website and select the locations link.
If you are going to join us for a 6:30 pm Wednesday session, please email or call us before you come! Occasionally, our floating spiritual center is away from our Sausalito home port doing special events or is undergoing unexpected repairs. Feel free to bring your favorite meditation cushion. We also have benches for sitting meditation.
Free: These sessions are free to the public and any donations you chose to provide to help cover tea and maintenance costs are deeply appreciated.
One Saturday Each Quarter: Our Quarterly Celebration of Life Cruise and Thanksgiving Community Potluck.
Celebration of Life Events
This is our quarterly community spiritual service, meditation, gratitude worship, fun and music celebration! All Celebration of Life events are held on the water at our floating spiritual center called the Creative Spirit and presided over by our Life and Spirit facilitators. (See our floating spiritual center photos here.) Together on board the Creative Spirit, we will celebrate the mystery of our shared spiritual lives, honor our intentions for a better world, and nourish our spirits, minds and bodies.
Our Celebration of Life event and community potluck is 5:30 – 8PM. Bring a potluck dish to share if you wish. Suggested donation: $25 to cover event costs. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Each service differs somewhat based upon what the Life and Spirit facilitator chooses to include for his educational section (spiritual education on Divinity or how to lead an effective spiritual life in the day to day world etc.,) or if they choose to use audio visual equipment in our sanctuary. Each service either starts or concludes with a meditation or gratitude/worship affirmation in our sanctuary area.
At this event community members also get a chance to share their spiritual successes and challenges and ask questions. There is also a dedicated portion of the service for the sharing of some art form by community members. In the past, we have had member artistic contributions such as music or song, theater, poetry, dance and a lot of spiritual comedy.
For Celebration of Life Events you must RSVP to manage@integrativespirituality.org to find where our floating spiritual center is docked. All events in the SF bay are subject to limited seating, weather conditions or other nautical mechanical problems. So, always RSVP first so we can contact you if there is room or an event schedule change.
Please RSVP tomanage@integrativespirituality.org if you plan on attending and/or inviting someone so that we can set up the seating-limited space accordingly.
Special Note:When the Creative Spirit (our floating spiritual center,) is away from our Sausalito home dock traveling either in the San Francisco bay or berthed at other bay or coastal cities, our main 415-332-3201 land line does not work! To reach us directly you must use our cell line 775-338-3578 for all non-Sausalito boat locations or to gain dock entrance to any locked dock-way at the different SF Bay Area harbors at which we regularly do events.
For photos of some other kinds of past events we have had, click here.
If you can't make it to one of our local events, check out our online Universe Spirit courses by clicking the online courses link at the top of every page.
Spiritual Salons:
Each month we have also have a spiritual salon at our floating spiritual center in Sausalito (see our center photos here). Each one is held from 6:30 - 8PM and is conducted by one of our Life and Spirit facilitators. Sometimes we invite a spiritual teacher/minister from some other denomination to do a presentation for our community. Evenings usually begin with a meditation.
Audio, video and film are wonderful mediums for the dissemination of thought-provoking spiritual information, messages and values; and we particularly engage this dimension of our spiritual community using short films distributed through Spiritual Cinema.
Our spiritual salons are also accommodating of educational discussions and reading group discussions. In all the work we do regarding these educational spiritual salons, we attempt to make living a spiritual life practical and accessible for our community. Each educational salon service either starts or concludes with a meditation and gratitude/worship affirmation in our sanctuary area.
For Spiritual Salon events on our calendar you must RSVP to manage@integrativespirituality.org to get directions to find where our floating spiritual center is docked. All events at locations other than Sausalito in the SF bay are subject to weather conditions or other nautical mechanical problems. So, always RSVP first so we can contact you if there is an event schedule change.
Special note: When the Creative Spirit (our floating spiritual center) is away from our Sausalito home dock traveling either in the San Francisco bay or berthed at other bay or coastal cities, our main 415-332-3201 land line does not work! To reach us directly you must use our cell line 775-338-3578 for all non-Sausalito boat locations or to gain dock entrance to any locked dock-way at the different SF bay area harbors at which we regularly do events.
Our Universe Spirit Classes: Practice & Theory, Level I Our local classes, held from 1-4PM, are designed to help individual seekers expand their own personal spirituality, through transformative direct experience with Ultimate Reality. In our first level class, we particularly help participants understand and work with the coalescence of the life-affirming and embodied panentheistic (Ultimate Reality is simultaneously both within and outside of the physical universe,) wisdom of the integral spirituality,
eco-spirituality and women’s spirituality movements. We do this in order to help individuals work on synthesizing completely new potentials for personal spiritual transformation, global wholeness and sustainability. All of our classes offer an open source, collaborative process at the cutting edge of humanity’s spiritual wisdom traditions. They are both integral and integrative, in that they include the most effective, safe and universally applicable spiritual wisdom from all of humanity’s spiritual heritage while at the same time striving to transcend the ineffective, inapplicable or pathological elements of that same spiritual heritage.
Schedule of Universe Spirit Classes:
Please email us at:manage@integrativespirituality.org to RSVP or receive more information. If you plan on attending and/or inviting someone do call (415-332-2301) or email so that we can set up the seating-limited space accordingly.
Special Note: When the Creative Spirit (our floating spiritual center,) is away from our Sausalito home dock traveling either in the San Francisco bay or berthed at other bay or coastal cities, our main 415-332-3201 land line does not work! To reach us directly you must use our cell line 775-338-3578 for all non-Sausalito boat locations or to gain dock entrance to any locked dock-way at the different SF bay area harbors at which we regularly do events.
If you can't make it to one of our local events, check out our online Universe Spirit courses by clicking here.
Special Worship Sessions for the Divine Feminine
Universe Spirit holds that a renewed envisioning of the Divine Feminine, replete with all qualities and aspects, will further assist us in realizing paradoxical oneness—what some see as a triune Godhead with aspects encompassing the transcendent, immanent and evolutionary absolute states of spiritual consciousness. This opening to a fuller acceptance of life’s challenges and the wonders of Ultimate Reality is only possible through the healing work of loving what we have disowned. This vital spiritual and psychological shadow work, we hope, will involve and continue to be informed by the women’s spirituality, eco-spirituality and integral movements.
We affirm and believe that the effective implementation of an integrative and integral spirituality will help facilitate the creation of a just, sustainable and equitable world. Universe Spirit will do this by affirmatively and actively supporting the recognition, re-assent and resacralization of the Divine Female/Divine Feminine in integral spiritual practice and life.
A spiritual reconnection to the Divine Feminine will, we believe, then organically grow to support the rebalancing of the Divine Feminine with the Divine Masculine. once the paradoxical oneness of the Divine is envisioned in this way, a more robust, inclusive expression of creativity, joy, peace and love will be possible.
We have also dedicated ourselves to also doing the work of honoring the Divine Female because She, (often also called Goddess or Divine Mother,) is currently neglected, suppressed, denied, rejected, marginalized and psychologically repressed throughout much of the world. Her denigration and the ignoring of Her qualities has been the root cause of myriad crises—environmental, spiritual, physical and social—because without a valuing of the Feminine/Female face of the Divine, humanity has in many contexts stripped itself of the potential for fullest wholeness and oneness the Divine affords. By embracing Her within the larger context of our spiritual worship, we also can embrace truly more of ourselves, each other, and our beloved Earth. Embracing Her, we also reconnect to the source of embodied wisdom; wisdom that has been denied expression given the tendency toward pathological dualities and patriarchal limitations within so many of humanity’s social structures.
To honor this Women's spirituality perspective, we will soon add additional open-to-the public Divine Feminine worship services to our calendar. These ceremonies are conducted by one of our Life and Spirit facilitators.
N.B. You must RSVP to manage@integrativespirituality.org and a link will be sent to you with dock directions and additional information. All events in the SF Bay Area are subject to seating limitations, weather conditions or other nautical mechanical problems. (See our floating spiritual center photos here.) So, always RSVP so we can contact you if there is a location or schedule change.
When the Creative Spirit (our floating spiritual center,) is away from our Sausalito home dock traveling either in the San Francisco bay or berthed at other bay or coastal cities, our main 415-332-3201 land line does not work! To reach us directly you must use our cell line 775-338-3578 for all non-Sausalito boat locations or to gain dock entrance to any locked dock-way at the different SF bay area harbors at which we regularly do events.
If you can't make it to one of our local events, check out our online spirituality courses by clicking here.
Why our San Francisco Spiritual Center is on a Boat
There are 3 main reasons why our San Francisco spiritual center is on a boat:
- This 35 year old, 62-foot classic boat (the Creative Spirit,) was both humble and practical for a new spiritual organization setting up a new mission in a new area with (r)evolutionary new spiritual ideas--particularly where real estate prices and rental costs are among the
highest in the US in Marin County. We were able to secure an equity lease on the boat from another non-profit organization at a fraction of the lease price of any other appropriate property in the area that we could find.
It is highly effective for forwarding our new mission. We can have classes or worship meditation for up to 26 people and events for up to 80. Our members and guests love to come to the end of the dock and experience the 360 degree vistas from the boat. Sea birds, seals and rising and falling tides are our constant companions. From the very beginning almost every event we have on the boat has been full to capacity. And, close by are additional reasonably priced spaces for larger classes, meditations and events as we continue to grow.
It is also effective because of its seclusion on the far end of a 100 yard long home dock
and its ability to create even more spiritual seclusion when we go out on the bay or to other bay cities for events. Being able to take the whole center to other bay area communities allows us to more easily seed the growth of other Universe Spirit communities around the bay for those individuals who could not easily make it to our Sausalito home port services. This natural marine seclusion also supports our (r)evolutionary spiritual research, our small retreats as well as the natural isolated monastic like qualities ideal for meditative worship. It reflects our organization’s spiritual values. The original field of space created by the Ultimate Reality from which all things were able to come into being and in which all things currently exist has an inherent sacredness to us beyond its essential value in that nothing could exist without it. Because of this special value, things that closely reflect its spiritual qualities also have a special sacred meaning and importance to us --- things such as the oceans of our planet.
Click here for more photos of our floating center.
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