Zumba Building Bridges and Community Circles This meetup group includes Zumba Teachers, DJs, Zumba Fans and Community Circles Fans in the San Francisco Bay Area who are building and becoming a part of unique cultural groups centered around Fitness and Music. It is sponsored by Building Bridges, a California non-profit organization that supports music, arts and fitness in our schools and community. What is Zumba? Zumba a registered trademark of Zumba Fitness LLC.   Zumba teachers train and re …

I couldn't find a group for slash fans in the area, so I started one! If you like the female-friendly fandom spaces of LJ, AO3, DW, tumblr, are excited for Yuletide, etc, please join up! I'm hoping to have some low key cafe and restaurant meetups, as well as movie meetups and tv nights if people are interested. Also of interest: some people have kindly told me about the San Francisco Bay Area Slashers (SFBAS) yahoo group. They have meetings at rotating locations in the Bay Area every other month …

We are a group for single men and women who own dogs to get together, let the dogs play, and hopefully meet an interesting fellow pet owner. This is a new group so please encourage any friends to join so we can have the biggest and best chance at finding our match and having lots of dogs running around at events. Hope to see you soon. Feel free to add an event of your own as well, or to arrange a puppy play date with one of your fellow members. Thanks for joining, good luck and HAVE FUN!!! Any q …

Share a ride to hiking trails, kayaking coves, rivers and other scenic locations. This group is for people who want to use non-profit, for-profit and peer-to-peer car sharing to carpool to the great outdoors. Expect to pay $15-$20 per person for a local day trip and $40-$60 for a weekend trip,  and be cool and responsible about sharing the ride. See the Pages section for more information about car sharing. http://www.meetup.com/Car-Share-to-Wilderness-Collective/about/ Members are welcome and en …

Hello and welcome fellow Easy-Going Hikers and Bicyclists. This group is for anyone who enjoys hiking or cycling throughout the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area at an easy to moderate pace. The group invites individuals who enjoy sharing their love of the outdoors with others, and don’t care about setting new speed or distance records. All skill levels, kids and pets are welcome however please use your judgment and discretion when deciding to participate in any event. Some parks do not allow a …

Do you work in the real estate industry, currently shoot your own video/photos or want to use video/photography in your real estate business, and want to meet and share ideas with others doing the same? This is the group for you! We get together to share ideas, learn how to use our equipment and shoot better videos and photos, and have fun.

MISSION: Why Not Girl! offers adult women of all stages of life inspiration, fun and valuable experiences that empower them to try new activites and help them feel accomplished. ABOUT WHY NOT GIRL!: Founded in 2012, Why Not Girl! celebrates not only how women say Why Not! to life’s major milestones, but also the everyday adventures we take part in without blinking an eye. Why Not Girl! is currently offering events in the San Francisco Bay Area.

For whom is this group intended? This group is for people with an international or multicultural background who are active and enjoy going to some (or all!) of the following: concerts, local festivals, interesting urban walks, hikes, cooking classes, foreign and independent films, picnics, farmers’ markets and other food-related events, museums, theatre, dance events, and day trips to the coast and the redwoods. There’s more, but that’s it in a nutshell and a place to start. The Bay Area has so …

This is a group for Bay Area professional lesbians and their friends. It's one part fun get togethers, one part networking (which can be fun too) and one part whatever we make of it together.

If you love food and the outdoors, this group is for you!  The weather in the East Bay is gorgeous most of the year, so why not take advantage of it! East Bay Picnic Group organizes monthly (or more) picnics for as much of the year as possible. This group is open to anyone who enjoys being outdoors while eating their favorite foods, talking and anything else you can do at a picnic. Just bring your own picnic goodies to enjoy and share the company of like-minded folks . . . and of course, the gre …

Business and Social Networking Events for San Francisco Bay Area Entrepreneurs and Professionals to create new business and personal connections, find new clients, and identify business opportunities. Our members include successful entrepreneurs, startup founders, small business owners, business executives, technology gurus, attorneys, bankers, angel investors, real estate developers, franchise owners, local retail and restaurant owners, physicians, and other San Francisco Bay Area professionals …

The Bay Area Mahjong Meetup welcomes all mahjong enthusiasts in the San Francisco bay area.  Mahjong is a 4-player tile game that plays somewhat like rummy and poker.  The styles of mahjong we play include (but are not limited to) Hong Kong, Riichi, Taiwanese, and American.  If you want to play casually or competitively, or if you just want to learn, come sign up! All of the meetups here are independent - hosts are free to run their own events as they see fit. Our goal is to teach you the game a …

Welcome! Bay Area Fashion Meetup connects locals who love fashion, great style, and shopping through a wide variety of fun events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Join us to make new friends, network, experience local culture, and have FUN with like-minded people! Upcoming meetups will include: Fashion shows Bargain shopping excursions Networking happy hours DIY and crafting workshops Trunk shows Fashion Week events Clothing exchanges and much more! We will meet at least once per month. Know of …

This is a group of Board Certified Behavior Analysts and other professionals familiar with Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) from around the San Francisco Bay Area.  Any professional from an adjacent field is welcome - for example, social workers, therapists, and animal behaviorists.  ABA students are also welcome. We meet once a month to troubleshoot cases, offer and gain peer support, discuss and share experiences while having fun with a dynamic and energizing group of people. We look forward to …

Are you a Queer Femme who is looking to build community? On the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month, there's a confidential social and support group in at the Pacific Center in Berkeley for anyone who identifies, has ever identified, or is wondering about identifying as a Queer Femme, whatever that means to you. We welcome all bodies and backgrounds, styles spectrums and presentations, as long as you're 18+. Also, we are hoping to expand the peer facilitation leadership to include trans*, intersex, …

This group is for PwP and their partners in the San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in sharing experiences, training for and attending physical activity events such as local 5k races/walks, and improving overall health and well being. Learn how movement, aerobic walking, management of negative stress, and positive attitude can slow, halt, and even reverse many PD symptoms! Looking forward to many great times with you!

The "Dancing with the Stars" series has sprouted new and enduring interest in ballroom dancing; health practitioners are promoting dancing as a healthy exercise for physical fitness as well as prevention of dementia and Alzheimers.  I remember the joy at age 11 learning the 2-step (poor man's fox trot?) to "You Belong to Me" and the hesitation waltz to "Tennessee Waltz" at Francisco Jr. High in San Francisco; later the thrill of "getting it" after learning to jitterbug, and still later the mambo …

Are you interested in a fun book club with other people your age? Please come join! I noticed that most of the book clubs out there in the east bay area tended to have more members over 30 and I have always wanted a club made up of fellow book lovers within my own age range. Any women/gay guys in the east bay area between 21-29 are more than welcome (You don't have to live in Walnut Creek to come hang out with us!) whether you are a college student, in your career, or a stay at home parent. The …

We believe in doing business networking and marketing on the basis of sound committed partnership. When we obtain a business networking / marketing lead or business referral, we treat it with honor and we return the privilege with honor - Where the old fashioned business traits of integrity, loyalty, honoring promises, differences and similarities are upheld.  We focus on Business Strategy and Networking for small to medium sized businesses. This is a small to medium sized business group that up …

We are a group of San Francisco East Bay people who want to be active and eat healthy. This group is perfect for people wanting to be more fit and healthy.

The purpose of this group is to learn, build and collaborate on ecommerce and cross-channel commerce with fellow enthusiasts. We intend to explore strategy, domain concepts, business models and technologies to further the evolution of cross channel commerce. This will include social, web, mobile and enterprise commerce The meetup will host featured speaker events along with collaborative discussion, networking opportunities and community. All are welcome to attend our events.

SF Bay Area group to discuss Bitcoin mining hardware and general cryptocurreny topics. Meetings will be held in the East Bay, San Francisco, and San Jose areas.

Are you suffering on behalf of your family? Are you inspired by our ancestors, and how they are our ultimate source of support and wisdom? Family Constellations are an opportunity to discover the sources of our baffling patterns of devotional suffering, and experience their elegant and satisfying re-solution. Our Family Souls are accessible to us; they are our wellspring of love and life. But often something is not right, not properly in place. Family Constellations discovers these entanglements …